GeForce ForceWare 186.08 XP, Vista and 7

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/04/2009 07:13 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

NVIDIA issued a new driver today.

GeForce/ION Driver Release 186 BETA
Version: 186.08
Release Date: May 06, 2009
Operating System: XP, Windows 7 or Windows Vista (32/64-bit)
Language: U.S. English
File Size: 111 MB

Release Highlights:

This is a beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.

This driver supports all of the new GPU-accelerated DirectX APIs in Windows 7: DirectX Compute, Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXVA-HD.

New in Release 186.08

Numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
Installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

New in Release 185/186 drivers:

Adds support for Ambient Occlusion

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