March 4, 2009
Nvidia Releases Graphics Drivers for Windows 7
The world leader in graphic technologies and the inventor of the GPU, Nvidia released of its first drivers specially designed for GeForce card for Windows 7 Beta Operating System.Nvidia says that , Windows 7 will be the first Windows Operating System to fully integrate and take advantage of the GPU for both graphics and parallel computing.
The new Nvidia GeForce drivers for Windows 7 comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, they Support the new Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.1 which is a tweaked graphics driver architecture of standard Windows 7 that debuted with Vista and has promises the improvement in both 2D and 3D applications, including 3D Windows Aero desktop.
Some features of the Nvidia GF drivers version 181.71:
- Installs WDDM v1.0 for GeForce 6 and 7-series DirectX 9 GPUs.
- Installs WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series DirectX 10 GPUs
- Supports NVIDIA CUDA – Compute Unified Device Architecture.
- Supports Direct3D, Direct2D, and DirectWrite.
- Supports NVIDIA SLI on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL applications.
- Supports NVIDIA PhysX (this driver package automatically installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203 for all GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series GPUs).
Download v181.71 Nvidia graphics driver for Windows 7 Beta (32-bit) and v181.71 Nvidia graphics driver for Windows 7 Beta (64-bit).
Nvidia is expected to release regular driver updates for Windows 7 at http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_7.html.

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