NVIDIA 260 Series Driver Update - New Features & Performance Improvements Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so I thought I'd take a moment to talk about NVIDIA's new series of Graphics
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drivers you can see it says here it's version 26.5 2 this is actually a Beta
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release but the new series is the 260
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series they've made a whole bunch of changes so you can see the initial
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installation screen is actually completely different so you go ahead and
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click install you've got some options
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here's custom so you can actually uh choose which aspects you want to install
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it used to be that you had to install your 3D visionri driver separately now
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it's actually included in the uh in the GeForce graphics driver so you can just
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say okay I don't want an HD audio driver oh and this is interesting I'll talk a
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little bit more about this after uh physx 3D Vision you can actually use
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this option to perform a clean install so it'll just remove everything else
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that you previously had on your system and then reinstall this over top in a
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way that should uh really reduce uh interference from old graphics driver
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revisions so that's a pretty cool feature let's click next so it'll go
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ahead and install that removing all the old stuff and then it'll install the new
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stuff so there's like few big changes first of all it adds supports for
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support add supports add support for the GTS 450 which you can see is here on my
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test bench GTS 450 there it is if the camera will ever
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focus and oh it's a beta so it comes up
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with that warning and they've also improved performance on a lot of the
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GeForce 400 series cards and a ton of games you can I mean you can check out
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this page on NVIDIA.com if you want this is one of the coolest ones though it
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actually adds HD audio output via HDMI
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to some gpus so you can see the fullest
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here and upgrades the HD audio driver so
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that's a neat feature that NVIDIA didn't have full support for in the past it
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also supports playing back Blu-ray 3D discs
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when connected to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV that
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is also very cool all right we've already kind of covered this they
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changed the around setup so that means the uh the guide I did a while back
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won't be valid anymore but hopefully all they've done is make it easier so I
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don't have to do a new guide added some more 3D Vision ready
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displays and some more 3D
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profiles upgraded the physx software and
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I think that's most of the interesting stuff is just the audio bits here so I'm
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just going to move so you can read that if you don't feel like visiting NVIDIA.com as well as the improvements
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to game performance so let's see if that's done
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installing yep it's done installing so I'm going to go ahead and restart the
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system and then I'll be back with uh my
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acoustic and noise acoustic and noise
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acoustic and cooling performance of the reference cooler versus the Cyclone
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cooler so that's a separate video I'm working on right now and I just had to install the drivers to uh get that
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running