Tuesday, July 21st 2009
NVIDIA GeForce 190.38 WHQL Drivers Released
NVIDIA's GeForce 190.38 driver suite which arrived in beta form about a week ago, received its official status with WHQL-certification. The driver, like its beta version, introduces a list of changes as described in the release notes documents for for Windows 7, Vista, and XP, including a new release of the PhysX system software, version 9.09.0428. It supports the entire range of NVIDIA GPUs from GeForce 6 series and upwards, and NVIDIA ION, ION LE platforms. Important changes over the previous 186 series drivers include:
- Support for the OpenGL 3.1 API
- CUDA 2.3 support for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details
- A new user-controlled power management setting for GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards. This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application
- Includes several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes