The GeForce 285.58 and 285.62 WHQL drivers have been completed
GeForce 285.58 can be installed on Windows XP and GeForce 285.62 can be installed on Windows Vista or Windows 7.
The new GeForce WHQL drivers are designed for NVIDIA GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 series graphics cards and ION systems. The drivers include PhysX v9.11.06.21 and HD Audio 1.2.24.0. Based on the list of changes, compatibility and performance have been improved in Battlefield 3 and RAGE, and programmers have resolved an issue that causes driver timeouts while browsing. Thanks to the updated SLI profile, the following games are now able to take advantage of the potential of multi-card systems: Battlefield 3, Dead Island, Diablo III, Dragon Age 2, Need for Speed: The Run and Saints Row: The Third. The new drivers already officially support OpenGL 4.2 for the 400 and 500 series video cards.
NVIDIA presented some results on expected performance improvements:
GeForce GTX 580:
- Up to 5% acceleration in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
- Up to 7% acceleration during Civilization V in SLI mode.
- Up to 5% acceleration in Crysis 2 DX11 release in SLI mode.
- Up to 7% acceleration during F1 2010 in SLI mode.
- Up to 5% acceleration on Lost Planet 2 in SLI mode.
- Up to 5% acceleration in Mafia 2 in SLI mode.
- Up to 13% acceleration at Metro 2033 in SLI mode.
- Up to 8% acceleration for STALKER: Call of Pripyat in SLI mode.
- Up to 5% acceleration on StarCraft 2.
GeForce GTX 560:
- Up to 4% acceleration in Bulletstorm.
- Up to 5% acceleration on Battlefield: Bad Company 2, SLI configurations.
- Up to 6% acceleration at Call of Duty: Black Ops.
- Up to 5% acceleration on Crysis 2 during DX11 for SLI systems.
- Up to 7% acceleration on Dragon Age 2 in SLI mode.
- Up to 7% acceleration during F1 2010 in SLI mode.
- Up to 5% acceleration in Just Cause 2 in SLI mode.
- Up to 5% acceleration for Lost Planet 2 in SLI mode.
- Up to 4% acceleration during Mafia 2 in SLI mode.
- Up to 7% acceleration while running Metro 2033 in SLI mode.
- Up to 11% acceleration during STALKER: Call of Pripyat in SLI mode.
- Up to 7% acceleration on StarCraft 2.
GeForce 285.58 and 285.62 WHQL certified drivers can be downloaded from NVIDIA server. List of changes ide can be viewed by clicking.
Source: NVIDIA
