{"id":3822,"date":"2009-02-11T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/49bfbeecd719bc7831e79e68530683ab"},"modified":"2009-02-11T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:49:06","slug":"nvidia-geforce-forceware-18205-whql-release-canidate-driver-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3822","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA GeForce Forceware 182.05 WHQL Release Canidate Driver Posted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA has posted new beta WHQL-candidate drivers for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200-series desktop GPUs up on their site today. This driver offers improvements in numerous popular PC game titles like Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, F.E.A.R. 2, Half-Life 2, and Race Driver: GRID. Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/index.aspx?lang=en-us\">grab the update<\/a> if you think you need it and <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.legitreviews.com\/about19966.html\">let us know in the forums<\/a> if it helps or hurts performance. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>New in  Release 182.05:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recommended  for the best experience in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzone.com\/object\/nzone_fear2_home.html\">F.E.A.R. 2: Project  Origin<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Boosts  performance in numerous 3D applications. The following are some examples of  improvements measured with Release 182.05 WHQL drivers vs. Release 181.22 WHQL  drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and  game settings): <\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 8%  performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA. <\/li>\n<li>Up  to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.<\/li>\n<li>Up to 9%  performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA. <\/li>\n<li>Up to 11%  performance increase  in Left 4 Dead at high  resolution with AA. <\/li>\n<li>Up to 10%  performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Includes  full support for OpenGL 3.0 on GeForce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.<\/li>\n<li>Automatically  installs the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/physx_system_software.html\">PhysX System  Software<\/a> version 9.09.0203.<\/li>\n<li>Additional  information on specific bug fixes can be found in the release documentation  notes.<\/li>\n<li>Users  without US English operating systems can select their language and download the  International driver <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/index.aspx\">here<\/a><\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA has posted new beta WHQL-candidate drivers for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200-series desktop GPUs up on their site today. This driver offers improvements in numerous popular PC game titles like Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, F.E.A.R. 2, Half-Life 2, and Race Driver: GRID. Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/index.aspx?lang=en-us\">grab the update<\/a> if you think you need it and <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.legitreviews.com\/about19966.html\">let us know in the forums<\/a> if it helps or hurts performance. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>New in  Release 182.05:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recommended  for the best experience in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzone.com\/object\/nzone_fear2_home.html\" target=\"_blank\">F.E.A.R. 2: Project  Origin<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Boosts  performance in numerous 3D applications. The following are some examples of  improvements measured with Release 182.05 WHQL drivers vs. Release 181.22 WHQL  drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and  game settings): <\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 8%  performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA. <\/li>\n<li>Up  to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.<\/li>\n<li>Up to 9%  performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA. <\/li>\n<li>Up to 11%  performance increase  in Left 4 Dead at high  resolution with AA. <\/li>\n<li>Up to 10%  performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Includes  full support for OpenGL 3.0 on GeForce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.<\/li>\n<li>Automatically  installs the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/physx_system_software.html\">PhysX System  Software<\/a> version 9.09.0203.<\/li>\n<li>Additional  information on specific bug fixes can be found in the release documentation  notes.<\/li>\n<li>Users  without US English operating systems can select their language and download the  International driver <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/index.aspx\">here<\/a><\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}