【低調使用注意】GeForce/ION Driver Release 256

Nvidia於2010/5/21日時，於官方網站流出了256.76Beta for Unix Base的Driver；隨後的12小時候，該連結被網站移除。官方並沒有說明原因是什麼─但，差不多時間，網路上也出現了256.76 for Windows的測試，宣稱有不小幅度的增幅。
這次，絕對沒有芭樂，版本號比效能更為爆炸幅度增進的257.15 Beta也終於出沒了─而且本驅動是全系列可用，沒有做特殊的區別；有興趣的不妨試驗看看。

服用前請注意：本驅動對於GF100有比較顯著的效能提升，其他則是順便打包的。

主要更新為下：
Adds support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology.
Increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games. The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured with GeForce GTX 480. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
Up to 14% in Aliens vs. Predator (1920x1200 noAA/AF – Tessellation on)
Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham Asylum (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF PhysX=High)
Up to 5% in BattleForge (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Very High settings)
Up to 5% in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 4% in Crysis: Warhead (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Enthusiast setting)
Up to 24% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (1920x1200 no AA/AF)
Up to 9% in Far Cry 2 (2560x1600 8xAA/16xAF)
Up to 25% in Just Cause 2 (2560x1600 no AA/AF - Concrete Jungle)
Up to 7% in Metro 2033 (1920x1200 no AA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
Up to 40% in Metro 2033 with SLI ((1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
Up to 8% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1920x1200 no AA/AF – Day)
Up to 110% in Stone Giant with SLI (2650x1600 – Tessellation on, DoF on)
Up to 6% in The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena (2560x1600 no AA/AF)
Up to 9% in Unigine: Tropics (2560x1600 no AA/AF – OpenGL)
Up to 5% in 3DMark Vantage (Performance and Extreme Presets)
Up to 19% with Transparency AA (1920x1200 4xTrSS – measured in Crysis)
Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0222.
Adds support for OpenGL 4.0 for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs.
Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1 which includes significant performance increases for double precision math operations. See CUDA Zone for more details.
Adds support for new extreme Antialiasing modes for 3-way SLI PCs, including up to SLI48x AA for GeForce 200 series GPUs and up to SLI96x AA for GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs.
Adds support for a new ‘Quality’ mode for NVIDIA’s Ambient Occlusion control panel feature.
Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel setup page for SLI and PhysX for ultimate control over multi-gpu configurations.
Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel feature for ultimate control over CUDA GPUs, allowing the user to effectively choose which GPU will power each CUDA application.
3D Vision customers can download the v257.15 3D Vision drivers here.
Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.

次要更新如下：
Installs HD Audio driver version 1.0.9.1 (for supported GPUs).
Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here.
Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenGL 3.2 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 X58-based motherboards.
Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

目前於我的GTX480、8800GTS 640MB、GTS250上運作穩定，以下是下載位置，請自行剪下貼上瀏覽器：
@ Windows 7/Vista
For X64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-257.15-beta.html
For X86: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-32bit-257.15-beta.html
@Windows XP
For X86: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-257.15-beta.html
For X64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64-257.15-beta.html

以上都是英文版，請各位服用時注意。如有使用上障礙可於官方網站上搜尋其他語文版本(但通常檔案大小較大)，感謝！