NVIDIA Forceware 257.15 Beta Graphics Driver Released

Today NVIDIA delivered their first Release 256 beta Forceware graphics driver to the general public, which is branded version 257.15. The new driver incorporates several new features, including support for 3D Blu-ray playback, new visual quality modes (including up to 96xAA for GeForce GTX 400 3-Way SLI users), new multi-GPU setup controls, and full support for CUDA 3.1 and OpenGL 4.0.

With this release, now all driver releases now support notebooks, because Release 256 aligns the Verde Notebook Drivers with our desktop drivers. This driver brings some great new features as well as some nice performance improvements for GeForce GTX 400 Series customers. New features include:

• Blu-ray 3D
• New Visual Quality Modes
• New Multi-GPU Setup Controls
• CUDA 3.1
• OpenGL 4.0

Gamers will also be happy to hear that today's Release 256 driver also includes performance enhancements for GeForce GTX 400 series cards in many of today's leading titles. Please use this driver for any upcoming GeForce-based graphics board reviews.

For more details on today's driver release, please see Chris Daniel's blog post at the following link: https://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2010/05/introducing-the-new-256-driver-release.html

You can find the new drivers here (https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx) or click on the direct links for Windows 7 drivers below:

• Windows 7 64-bit desktop link: https://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-257.15-beta.html
• Windows 7 32-bit desktop link: https://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-32bit-257.15-beta.html
• Windows 7 64-bit notebook link: https://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-winvista-win7-64bit-257.15-beta.html
• Windows 7 32-bit notebook link: https://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-winvista-win7-257.15-beta.html

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