GeForce 285.27 Driver 285.27

This is the first beta release from the Release 285 family of drivers. You can read more about this family of drivers on GeForce.com.

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 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 II (Check out the finals of the GeForce StarCraft II Pro/Am Tournament)
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 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.

NVIDIA 3D Vision

• The 3D Vision Controller (USB) driver is included in this driver package. Users are no longer required to install the 3D Vision CD driver or a separate 3D Vision Controller driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article.
• Adds support for viewing 3DVisionLive.com and YouTube 3D with NVIDIA SLI PCs. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information on 3D Vision Window Mode.
• Window mode is now the default viewing option for the 3D Vision Photo Viewer.
• Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
• Aion
• Diablo 3
• Dead Rising 2: Off The Record
• Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) 2
• From Dust
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
• Last Remnant Benchmark
• Men of War Assault Squad
• Stock Car
• Update the following 3D Vision game profiles:
• Dirt 3 – updated rating to Excellent

Other

• Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.
• Supports playing back Blu-ray 3D discs when connecting your GPU to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV. Playback requires compatible software application from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Roxio, or Corel. For GPU and system requirements, visit the NVIDIA Blu-ray 3D website.
• 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.
• Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.