Download Drivers NVIDIA Forceware 257.15 BETA for Windows 7 - Vista - XP

Posted on May 25, 2010 Nerd

NVIDIA_GEFORCE_257_15_FORCEWARE_DOWNLOAD
Issued by the first release of the NVIDIA Forceware 257.15 BETA for video cards of last generation of the family 256.

An important update that as well as improve the performance of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 Video Card, a valid support to implement 'innovative technology of choice by Blue-Ray Vision 3D application.

Among the changes necessary to report the new panel configuration, which improves the management of NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards in the system triple SLI, specifically assigning the processing related to physics, or operation of the 3D pipeline, according to the preferences of management ' user.

Do not forget some novelty in the way anti-aliasing (again for triple NVIDIA SLI configurations) able to reach a level equal to 96x if the system has 3 video cards GeForce GTX 400 family.

The Beta release of Forceware Drivers available for Windows Vista / Seven 32-Bit and 64, and Windows XP 32-Bit and 64.

Click on the link below to download the driver for your operating system.

Forceware 257.15 BETA for Windows XP 32bit
Forceware 257.15 BETA for Windows XP 64bit
Forceware 257.15 BETA for Windows Vista / 7 32bit
Forceware 257.15 BETA for Windows Vista / 7 64bit

The following release notes:
This is the first driver release from the Release 256 family of drivers (versions 256.xx to 259.xx). This driver package Supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. Learn more about Release 256 drivers here.

New in Version 257.15

Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0222.
Adds support for OpenGL 4.0 for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs.
Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1 includes significant Which Increases performance for double precision math operations. See CUDA Zone for more details.
Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel setup page for SLI and PhysX for ultimate control over multi-gpu configurations.
Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel feature for ultimate control over CUDA GPUs, Allowing the user to choose Which Effectively Each CUDA GPU will power application.
Includes Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.
Users without U.S. English operating systems can select Their language and download the International driver here.

Additional Information:

Installs HD Audio driver version 1.0.9.1 (for supported GPUs).
Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, 'which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal That Supports up to SD output here.
Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenGL 3.2 for GeForce 8-series and later 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.

* Note: The following SLI features are only supported on Windows Vista and Windows 7: Quad SLI technology using GeForce 9800 GX2 or GeForce GTX 295, 3-way SLI technology, Hybrid SLI, and SLI multi-monitor support.

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