Geforce owners!!! Get your new drivers!

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Geforce owners!!! Get your new drivers!

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Nividia released some new drivers.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

They claim performance increases and new PhysX support on 8800 series and above.

Claimed increases:
Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin's Creed
Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict

Anandtech Article on the new driver performance and features:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3462
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Unfortuantely my current problems are more related to stability than speed. But I'll give 'em a try.
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Hrmm.. Dunno how this will affect my lowly 7950 GT... But I'm all for more frames!
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Read the Anandtech article. Turns out that performance in some games, such as Oblivion, is actually reduced.
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