NVIDIA 260.99 WHQL drivers released

by Pete Mason on 25 October 2010, 17:19

Tags: ForceWare Drivers, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Keeping up with its usual rapid pace for driver releases, NVIDIA has posted a second entry in the 260-series of drivers in seven days. While this package doesn't quite have as many changes as the last one, version 260.99 does deliver a handful of additions and performance tweaks.

The major improvements will be seen in Civilisation V in SLI systems, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIV and F1 2010 running in DirectX 11 mode. SLI profiles for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and Fallout: New Vegas are also included, which should give improved performance in those games once they are released.

In addition, there are new 3D game profiles for Call of Duty: Black Ops and Tom Clancy's HawX 2 for anyone running the kit for stereoscopic gaming. The installation process for driver components on 3D systems has also been modified, meaning that future updates should be a lot smoother.

Otherwise, the changes are fairly minor and just update various packages and components to the latest versions. The latest WHQL drivers can be downloaded directly from NVIDIA, and a full list of changes can be found below.

 

New in Release 260.99

  • Increases performance vs. v260.89 drivers in the following PC games: Civilization V (SLI), Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIV and F1 2010 (DX11).
  • Adds SLI profiles for the following PC games:
    • Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
    • Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
    • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Improves compatibility for Fallout 3: New Vegas with antialiasing enabled.
  • Improves Alt-Tab compatibility for several PC games.
  • Added the following 3D Vision game profiles: Call of Duty: Black Ops and Tom Clancy's HawX 2.
  • With Release 260 drivers, the installation process for 3D Vision has changed. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information on the changes.

Additional Information

  • Installs HD Audio driver to version 1.1.9.0.
  • Includes PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514.
  • Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
  • Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1.
  • Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output.
  • Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
  • Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
  • Supports OpenGL 4.1 for GeForce 400 series GPUs.
  • Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
  • Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.


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Be good if i could run F1 2010 in DX11 to begin with.

But also +1 for the rapid driver development.
Terbinator
Be good if i could run F1 2010 in DX11 to begin with.

But also +1 for the rapid driver development.

LOL. I thought I'd missed something there too.

We might even see fixed ‘DX12’ support in the next drivers :P
Hoping the control panel will work on this one…ended up uninstalling the last one because I just couldnt get the control centre to launch :/
Tarinder
LOL. I thought I'd missed something there too.

We might even see fixed ‘DX12’ support in the next drivers :P

I guess a positive is the F1 2010 DX11 patch must be close to release then if they've released updated drivers for the DX11 support.
The most significant thing:

“Improves compatibility for Fallout 3: New Vegas with antialiasing enabled.”

FO NV fixes much needed :(