CoD:WW Performance Boost from Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

[JoMaMaz]

For those Nvidia video card and WinXP owners out there, listen up. The new beta drivers that came out can give up to an 11% increase in CoD:WW. Read below:

This driver supports GeForce 9-series, 100-series, and 200-series desktop GPUs.

New in Release 185.66:

o Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
o Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details.
o Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
o Up to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at War
o Up to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
o Up to 22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
o Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled

It would be nice if this boost was for Vista also. This is definitely worth trying the beta drivers if you use WinXP and you play CoD:WW.

Thanks to Whiskey for the news!

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[Piemaaan!]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

Ati 4850 :<

[Corkum]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

amd 4870 >

[RangerXML]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

Does not support 8800GTX, booo!

Meh, easy hackable drivers.

[Unclean009]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

Who said the support is only for XP? The same thing was listed on the vista x64 drivers...

GTX 280!

[Repulse]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

Will have to give this driver a try when I get back tomorrow!

[imported_Recon]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

Oh so am I able to use it? I have Vista..

[imported_Whiskey]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

Oh so am I able to use it? I have Vista..

Hard to say. When using the Advanced Driver Search app on the Nvidia site: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us, and putting in Vista, it still shows up. But when you look at the actual driver notes, it says "Operating System: Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition".

[imported_Recon]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

Hm, I might have to contact them about this..

[JoMaMaz]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

If you can use them for Vista, sveet, let me know b/c I'm at work right now. But yeah, as Whiskey said, the 'official' usage is for XP.

[imported_Recon]

Re: CoD:WW Performance Boost from Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Beta Drivers

Oh ok, that's alright then