Although Nvidia’s corporate PR and hardware engineering
department have proven unsuccessful in launching its highly anticipated next
generation 40nm high-end desktop GPUs, the company’s desktop driver engineering
team has continued its daily testing and improvement procedures in the labs to
provide users with the latest and greatest in performance enhancements. Yesterday,
the team silently released a new set of beta drivers in the Geforce 195 family for
Geforce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs.
Geforce 195.81 beta has a driver date of December 10, 2009 and is completely identical to the 195.62
WHQL driver released before it. However, it adds a few noteworthy features and
addresses several of the usual bug fixes. In particular, the drivers add new
SLI and multi-GPU profiles for the Avatar Demo, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon
Rising Demo and Wings of Prey, beating EVGA to the race with its routinely
available SLI Enhancement Patches. In addition, the drivers fix 3D Vision
display detection for CRT and DLP displays.
Most importantly, however, the drivers include several bug
fixes to support Adobe’s latest Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 release, which can be
downloaded here.
Geforce 195.81 beta – Windows 7 / Vista 64-bit
Geforce 195.81 beta – Windows 7 / Vista 32-bit