NVIDIA 260 Series Driver Update - New Features & Performance Improvements Linus Tech Tips
NVIDIA 260 Series Driver Update - New Features & Performance Improvements Linus Tech Tips
2010-09-17
so I thought I'd take a moment to talk
about invidious new series of graphics
drivers you can see it says here it's
version 2 60.5 to this is actually a
beta release but the new series is the
260 series they've made a whole bunch of
changes so you can see the initial
installation screen is actually
completely different so you go ahead and
click install you've got some options
here's customs so you can actually
choose which aspects you want to install
it used to be that you had to install
your 3d vision driver separately now
it's actually included in the in the
geforce graphics driver so you can just
say okay i don't want an HD audio driver
oh and this is interesting i'll talk a
little bit more about this after physics
3d vision you can actually use this
option to perform a clean install so
it'll just remove everything else that
you previously had a new system and then
reinstall this over top in a way that
should really reduce interference from
old graphics driver revisions so that's
a pretty cool feature it's like mech so
it'll go ahead and install that removing
all the old stuff and then it will
install the new stuffs other sects few
big changes first of all it adds
supports for support add support to add
support for the GTS 450 which you can
see is here on my test bench ggs 450
there it is if the camera will ever
focus and oh it's a beta so it comes up
with that warning and they've also
improved performance on a lot of the
GeForce 400 series cards and a ton of
games you can I mean you can check out
this page on nvidia com if you want this
is one of the coolest ones though it
actually adds HD audio output via HDMI
to some GPUs so you can see the full
list here and upgrades the HD audio
driver so that's a neat feature that
Nvidia didn't have full support for in
the past it also supports to playing
back blu-ray 3d discs when connected to
an hdmi 1.4 3d TV that is also very cool
alright we've already kind of covered
this they changed the nvidia surround
setup so that means the the guide i did
a while back won't be valid anymore but
hopefully all they've done is make it
easier so i don't have to do a new
guide added some more 3d vision ready
displays and some more 3d profiles
upgraded the physics software and I
think that's most of the interesting
stuff is just the audio bits here so
you're just going to move so you can
read that if you don't feel like
visiting nvidia com as well as the
improvements to gain performance so see
that's done installing yep it's done
installing so I'm going to go ahead and
restart the system and then I'll be back
with my acoustic and noise acoustic and
noise acoustic and cooling performance
of the reference cooler versus the
cyclone cooler so that's a separate
video I'm working on right now and I
just had to install the drivers to get
that running
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