Monday, October 25th 2010
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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 260.99 WHQL Driver Suite
NVIDIA released its latest version of GeForce software. Version 260.99 installs WHQL-signed drivers for all NVIDIA ION and GeForce GPUs since GeForce 6-series, installs NVIDIA PhysX system software, and drivers for the on-chip HDMI audio device for some GPUs. This version packs increases performance for certain games, fixes certain game-specific bugs, and adds a fresh set of SLI profiles. To begin with, overall performance improvements are brought to Civilization V (SLI), Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIV and F1 2010 (DirectX 11) compared to GeForce 260.89; SLI profiles (bits of software that optimize the driver to let games make use of multiple GPUs) are added for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and Fallout: New Vegas; it improves anti-aliasing compatibility for Fallout: New Vegas. For more details, refer to the Release Notes document (for Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP)
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 260.99 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 260.99 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit
35 Comments on NVIDIA Releases GeForce 260.99 WHQL Driver Suite
Though I know sometimes it asks for restart and sometimes it doesn't, even when I've been installing the same driver. I know the previous 260.89 drivers asked me to restart on my server but not on my main machine. I'm sure several factors go into weither it asks to restart or not. Most likely it will ask to restart if something is using the 3D driver and it can't de-initialize the old driver. Come to think of it, I think I still had F@H going on the server but not on my desktop, I wonder if that was why I had to restart it. A quick driver sweeper usually clears that up in the few instances it happened to me.