GeForce 185.20 Released - Now With Ambient Occlusion

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XFastest are the first to release the new GeForce 185.20 drivers, including a new version of Folding@home for NVIDIA GPUs.

http://www.xfastest.com/viewthread.p...extra=page%3D1

Links are now up:

Folding@home_GPU_v620nv

ForceWare 185.20 XP (32-bit)

ForceWare 185.20 XP (64-bit )

ForceWare 185.20 Vista (32-bit )

^ These drivers are confirmed working for Windows 7 Ultimate build 7000 as well.

ForceWare 185.20 Vista (64-bit )

Interestingly enough, these new drivers contain a new Ambient Occlusion setting in the Nvidia Control Panel:

ambientocclusionxo1.png

Don't forget to read the description of Ambient Occlusion at the bottom ^.

Hardware-Infos.com has its own review up of the drivers now. Please check it out:

http://www.hardware-infos.com/tests.php?test=52

hardwareinfosgeforce185or2.jpg

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ForceWare 185.20 XP (32-bit)

ForceWare 185.20 XP (64-bit )

ForceWare 185.20 Vista (32-bit )

ForceWare 185.20 Vista (64-bit )

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Elliot B.

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OMG thankyou thankyou, i will be definetly downloading this, i love beta drivers :)

Calm down mate, or the guy next to you will get a squirt in the face if you're not careful!

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Elliot B.

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Don't forget to read the description of Ambient Occlusion at the bottom.

Bit hard to in German :p

This may be interesting to some of you.

I'll await for WHQL version I think, unless I am given a reason otherwise.

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^ These drivers are confirmed working for Windows 7 Ultimate build 7000 as well.

"working" is not enough for Win7... Do they use the new WDDM 1.1 (Win7 display driver model) or WDDM 1.0 (Vista display driver model)?

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Elliot B.

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I wonder if this improves performance in GTA4 even though I know a lot of the game is CPU restricted.

My C2D E6750 is holding my GTX 260 back, so frustrating :(

I think these made my performance in left 4 dead worse :\

Possible, they're beta drivers.

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Yusuf M. Veteran

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I think these made my performance in left 4 dead worse :\

Did you enable the ambient occlusion feature? If so, that's why you're experiencing decreased performance. It puts more stress on the GPU.

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Elliot B.

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Did you enable the ambient occlusion feature? If so, that's why you're experiencing decreased performance. It puts more stress on the GPU.

Surely not if the game etc. isn't utilizing the feature?

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Elliot B.

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No I have it disabled because I didn't notice any difference in graphics with it on.

I don't believe any games etc. will take advantage of it on the consumer-side just yet.

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