NVIDIA GeForce Display Driver 285.27 Beta for XP

This is the first beta release from the Release 285 family of drivers. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.

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:

- Up to 5% in Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Up to 7% in Civilization V 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
- Up to 13% in Metro 2033 with SLI
- Up to 8% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat with SLI
- Up to 5% in StarCraft II

GeForce GTX 560:

- Up to 4% in Bulletstorm
- Up to 5% in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 with SLI
- Up to 6% in Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Up to 7% in Dragon Age 2 with SLI
- Up to 7% in F1 2010 with SLI
- Up to 5% in Just Cause 2 with SLI
- Up to 5% in Lost Planet 2 with SLI
- Up to 4% in Mafia 2 with SLI
- Up to 7% in Metro 2033 with SLI
- Up to 11% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat with SLI
- Up to 7% in StarCraft II

NVIDIA PhysX:

- Updates PhysX System Software to version 9.11.06.21.

HD Audio:

- Updates HD Audio driver to version 1.2.24.0.

OpenGL:

- Adds support for OpenGL 4.2 for GeForce 400 series and 500 series GPUs.

Other:

- Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
- Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
- Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Creative Suite 5 including Photoshop CS5.
- Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash.
- Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.