NVIDIA 185.68 Beta Available Now

(TSC)Bender · Rated NC-17 Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 162

That was fast, just installed the 185.66 beta yesterday, thanks for the heads up.

Also of note for the 185.xx series drivers is the introduction of Ambient Occlusion. Great improvements on lighting effects (especially in outdoor environments), at a pretty hefty performance hit. Source engine games already run great so I usually keep the setting on for those. Supported games at the link below

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_ambientocclusion_home.html

motanacu · Rated NC-17 Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 104

Great improvements overall...too bad i have only 8 series Sad

zachig · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 313

(TSC)Bender · Rated NC-17 Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 162

You can get a modified INF to get it to work with 8 series and below.

The 185.66 beta's I got from the Nvidia site officially support my 8 series card so that may be worth checking out, if only to mess around with the Ambient Occlusion. Also been noticing a small performance increase over the 182.08 drivers, though that may be a placebo effect. Pretty certain Left 4 Dead runs better though, have Ambient Occlusion on and it runs about the same as the previous driver.