* Adds support for a new ‘Quality’ mode for NVIDIA’s Ambient Occlusion control panel feature. * Adds support for new extreme Antialiasing modes for 3-way SLI PCs, including up to SLI48x AA for GeForce 200 series GPUs and up to SLI96x AA for GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs. * Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1 which includes significant performance increases for double precision math operations. * Adds support for OpenGL 4.0 for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs.
* Upgrades PhysX System Software to version.
O Up to 19% with Transparency AA (1920x1200 4xTrSS – measured in Crysis) O Up to 5% in 3DMark Vantage (Performance and Extreme Presets) O Up to 9% in Unigine: Tropics (2560x1600 no AA/AF – OpenGL) O Up to 6% in The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena (2560x1600 no AA/AF) O Up to 110% in Stone Giant with SLI (2650x1600 – Tessellation on, DoF on) O Up to 8% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1920x1200 no AA/AF – Day) O Up to 40% in Metro 2033 with SLI ((1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on) O Up to 7% in Metro 2033 (1920x1200 no AA/16xAF – Tessellation on) O Up to 25% in Just Cause 2 (2560x1600 no AA/AF - Concrete Jungle) O Up to 24% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (1920x1200 no AA/AF) O Up to 4% in Crysis: Warhead (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Enthusiast setting) O Up to 5% in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF) O Up to 5% in BattleForge (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Very High settings) O Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham Asylum (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF PhysX=High) Predator (1920x1200 noAA/AF – Tessellation on)
Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration: The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured with GeForce GTX 480. * Increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games. Learn more about the hardware and software requirements here. * Adds support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology.
Learn more about Release 256 drivers here. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. This is the first driver release from the Release 256 family of drivers (versions 256.xx to 259.xx). Tested and BF BC 2 load times are fixed in DX11