NVIDIA GeForce Display Driver 285.58 for XP64/2003 x64

This is the first WHQL-certified 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 Version 285.58

- Improved compatibility and performance for Battlefield 3:
- Improved compatibility and performance for RAGE.
- Fixes reports of occasional driver timeouts while browsing the web.

New in R285 Drivers

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 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
- Up to 13% in Metro 2033 with SLI
- Up to 8% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat with SLI
- Up to 5% in StarCraft 2

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 5% in Crysis 2 DX11 with SLI
- 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 2

NVIDIA PhysX

- Updates PhysX System Software to version 9.11.06.21.

NVIDIA SLI

- Added or updated SLI profiles for Battlefield 3, Dead Island, Diablo III, Dragon Age 2, Need for Speed: The Run, and Saints Row: The Third.

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 Details

- Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.

*Note: The following SLI features are only supported on Windows Vista and Windows 7: Quad SLI technology, 3-way SLI technology, Hybrid SLI, and SLI multi-monitor support.