This driver is identical to the GeForce 275.50 WHQL-certified release except for the following changes:
New in Release 275.50
Enables SLI technology on SLI-certified motherboards with AMD chipsets: 990FX, 990X, and 970.
Improves 3D Vision performance with Duke Nukem Forever with 3-way SLI and Quad SLI technology.
NVIDIA 3D Vision
Interesting post from Caveman Jim over at Rage3D regarding total power draw from modern (and affordable) IPS monitors plus his Radeon 5830, versus two older 4:3 panels and an older video card:
"We go look it up, and a single 2007FP burns 75W, it's an 16ms Ultrasharp with IPS and old ass backlight. The P2310H burns 22W, and is a TN 5ms panel with dual CCFL. Not even LED backlight. Idle power on the 2007FP is 2W, on the P2310h 0.42W.
We've had a week or so of slow news, and we've been offline in various amounts since Thursday. We are back online and better than ever! A core group of folks have worked for the past seven months to migrate and transform the old site (based on phpBB3 and MediaWiki) into a unified Drupal install.
Information should be much easier to find, and search now works site-wide. There are still some issues we're working out, but the team is very happy that we can finally share all of our hard work.
Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Graphics Cards For The Money, so if your in the market for an upgrade, and have a fair idea of what your budget is, you should check this article out.
Forum member HaYDeN has teased some images from an upcoming Eyefinity/Surround fix for Mass Effect. He even talks about a "universal patch" for UT3-based titles. That would be nice indeed.
Forum member Ceogar had a playtest on BF3 and spoke with DICE, and they confirmed Eyefinity/Surround support in BF3. Support is planned to be the same as Bad Company 2, which was excellent.
AMD & HardOCP are sponsoring an effect in Dallas Texas on July 16th. Come join us for our first WSGF Meet-Up and get sneak peeks at AMD's Bulldozer platform, as well as hands on with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Hit this forum thread for more details.
This release brought a mix of video playback improvements and performance enhancements. There were several new features:
AMD Steady Video & Image Stabilization for YouTube - Reduces shakiness and instability in videos.
Decode Acceleration of MPEG-4 video - Accelerated processing of MP4 video.
Performance Improvements - Gains of 5% - 10% in Crysis, F1 2010, Far Cry 2, HAWX and Unique OpenGL for Radeon HD 6000 products.
Duke Nukem is a sci-fi FPS most known for a decade-long development cycle. The game offers "old school" FPS gameplay and Duke's trademark macho/rude humor. It is a sequel to Duke Nukem 3D from 1996.
Diabolik: The Original Sin is an adventure game based on the Italian comic series, "Diabolik". The game maintains a comic themed style, to match it's source material. It features fast-paced combat with stealth gameplay.
