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Following a recent BETA release of the new GeForce 190.38 drivers for graphics cards and ION-based products, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker has released today the WHQL-certified version of the aforementioned drivers. As you can expect from the majority of NVIDIA graphics drivers, the new release adds support for new applications, improves performance and delivers a series of fixes to known bugs.

The new GeForce/ION driver release has been WHQL certified and provides support for all of NVIDIA's latest GPUs, ranging from the old GeForce 6-series to the more recent 200-series desktop GPUs and the new ION GPUs. As with the BETA release, the WHQL version adds support for OpenGL 3.1 API and the new CUDA 2.3, providing users with improved performance in GPU Computing applications. In addition, NVIDIA also included several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes.

The company's new GeForce 190.38 WHQL-certified release delivers an improvement over the features offered by previous ones. These drivers provide users with support for SLI technology and the PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428, as well as enable them to set the PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card, improving performance over a single-GPU solution. The driver pack also includes the GeForce Plus Power Pack #3, providing users with a number of applications that are optimized for the GeForce GPUs.

For those looking to upgrade to the new WHQL-certified GeForce 190.38 graphics drivers we have put up the following links, offering support for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the most popular Windows operating systems, including XP, Vista and 7.

NVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver Release 190.38-WHQL for Windows XP 32-bit
NVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver Release 190.38-WHQL for Windows XP 64-bit
NVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver Release 190.38-WHQL for Windows Vista/7 32-bit
NVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver Release 190.38-WHQL for Windows Vista/7 64-bit

They did good on this release. Control Panel is a bit snappier(bout time). I do wonder if the Digital Vibrance setting is bugged or Nvidia's way of saying "it is what it is"..It's defaulting to 50 but looks like 0. When every driver previous to this one defaulted to 0. Other than that, I have no complaints


Edit: After looking a bit more, I find the vibrance complaint I had was a bit overloaded. Granted, a TV has the setting and it would go black and white if it was turned down, but I don't see how one would want that on a monitor lol

Speaking for myself only...I hope these fare better than the last drivers! I had a near complete meltdown with the 186.xx's
and my 9600GSO.
As far as I can see this is the 3rd set of new driver's since march and the second in just a month, seems kind of off to me!?!
Anyone else have any problems with the last driver release?

i've been rocking out with CUDA 181.20 drivers since they were released, the drivers afterward all gave me bluescreens when i'd go to fullscreen mode, im good where im at unless newer drivers give significantly more performance in folding/gaming/synthetics

skier wrote:i've been rocking out with CUDA 181.20 drivers since they were released, the drivers afterward all gave me bluescreens when i'd go to fullscreen mode, im good where im at unless newer drivers give significantly more performance in folding/gaming/synthetics

I'm still using 178.13's, when I tried the 181.xx series I would get hard crashes when GPU Folding and trying to use any video playback software(ie: VLC, WMP..etc...)

I will probably try the 190.38's over the weekend, if time permits!

So far these have been rock solid for me.