New in Version 285.62

• This is the recommended driver for Battlefield 3. It contains several performance and compatibility enhancements for the final release of the game.
• This is also the recommended and enhanced driver for Batman: Arkham City and RAGE.
• Contains a fix for the driver timeouts reported with the R285 beta drivers.

New in Release 285.27:

Performance

Increases performance for GeForce 400 and 500-series GPUs in several PC games vs. v280.26 WHQL drivers. The following are some examples of improvements measured on Windows 7. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 580 Performance Improvements

Up to 5% in Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Up to 7% in Civilization V with SLI
Up to 5% in Crysis 2 DX11 with SLI
Up to 7% in F1 2010 with SLI
Up to 5% in Lost Planet 2 with SLI
Up to 5% in Mafia 2 with SLI

NVIDIA has released the first beta in the Release 280 series. Major improvements and updates in the driver include:

NVIDIA SLI on AMD Chipesets - Enables SLI configurations on SLI-certified motherboards based on the AMD chipsets: 990FX, 990X and 970.

NVIDIA 3D Vision Controller - With the Release 280 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller is now included with all GPU driver installations. Users no longer need to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver.