Download Driver For Nvidia GeForce 185.68 Beta

Nvidia has new drivers for the GeForce 9, 100 and 200 video cards released. The drivers have version number 185.68 and are still in beta stage. Compared to the previous GeForce beta driver, there are no new features added or bug fixes. According to the release highlights, version 185.68 has been tweaked for the PC game The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena:

New in Release 185.68:

• Optimized performance for the PC game The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

New in Release 185:

• Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
• Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. see www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details.
• 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):
  • Up to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at War
  • Up to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
  • Up to 22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
  • Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
  • Up to 14% performance increase in Far cry 2
  • Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled
• Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
• Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.
• Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

Existing Support:

• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL, including SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
• Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0.
• Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects. Learn more here. Note: GPU PhysX is supported on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory. This driver package automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203.
• Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.