Official GTX 275 support

This morning, Nvidia released its official Geforce 182.50 WHQL drivers dated March 27th. As expected, this release brings official support for the newly released Geforce GTX 275 and is also certified for Geforce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.

Unlike the 185.63 beta released yesterday, these drivers are still in the Geforce 182 family and do not include support for “officially supported” upcoming features like Ambient Occlusion.

According to the release notes, several bug fixes for SLI have been addressed, including stuttering issues with the Resident Evil 5 Blu-ray film running on a Geforce 9600GT and the game Football Manager 09 not running properly when SLI is enabled. More interestingly, the release also addresses a F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin issue of residual corruption from a previously launched application while running on GTX 295 Quad-SLI.

On another note, Nvidia claims the following examples of improvement over previously released 181.22 WHQL drivers:

Up to 8% performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA. Up to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. Up to 9% performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA. Up to 11% performance increase in Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA. Up to 10% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.

Moreover, the drivers include full OpenGL 3.0 support and are bundled with PhysX 9.09.0203 WHQL system software.

Geforce 182.50 WHQL Vista 64-bit

Geforce 182.50 WHQL XP 64-bit

Geforce 182.50 WHQL XP 32-bit