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