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GeForce 195.39 beta brings OpenCL 1.0 support, over 200 bug fixes

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  1. Matthew TechSpot Editor, Community Manager

    Nvidia has released GeForce 195.39 beta drivers, its first to support the OpenCL 1.0 specification. The version also brings over 200 bug fixes, support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 (which will be released in the coming weeks), and SLI support for various titles including Borderlands, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, G-Force, FIFA Soccer 2010, League of Legends: Clash of Fates, NHL 2009, Order of War, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Race On, and Star Trek: D-A-C, along with a boost in SLI performance for Champions Online and Dragon-Age: Origins.

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    Matthew, Oct 30, 2009
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  2. Deso Newcomer, in training

    Where can I download this? I went to Nvidia's site and the drivers there are still 191.07
    Deso, Oct 30, 2009
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  3. Matthew TechSpot Editor, Community Manager

    Take a look at the end of the article, Deso.
    Matthew, Oct 30, 2009
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  4. Julio Franco TechSpot Editor

    Nvidia doesn't list beta drivers on their main site, but on nzone.com. We bring them to you when they are relevant enough, and like Matt pointed out you have the download links for the various Windows versions at the bottom of the post.
    Julio Franco, Oct 30, 2009
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  5. Deso Newcomer, in training

    @ Matthew, oh those doesn't show up as blue hyper links on my screen for some reason, I think someone messed with my displays colors, thanks
    Deso, Oct 30, 2009
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  6. skitzo_zac TechSpot Chancellor

    It's good to see Nvidia making such progress with their drivers. Open CL support is great, just a pitty we have yet to have anything to take advantage of it yet.

    Improved CUDA performance is welcome by me too, hopefully improve my folding@home scores with the GPU client.

    Apart from that I don't think they will manage to squeeze much more performance from my aging 8800GTS 640MB.
    skitzo_zac, Oct 30, 2009
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  7. alberthuang Newcomer, in training

    It's good to see that Nvidia is working hard on their products.

    OpenCL is a great feature. For those who don't know what OpenCL is,
    it is basically a way to do calculations on the GPU. Things that the CPU
    normally does can be passed on to the GPU.

    The only problem is that very few, if any, applications make use of OpenCL.
    OpenCL should be used soon for 3D modeling programs, which can speed
    up the rendering process dramatically.
    alberthuang, Oct 31, 2009
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  8. kaonis92 Newcomer, in training

    It's good to see that Nvidia now supports OpenCL. I hope AMD will do the same in the upcoming 9.11 drivers!
    kaonis92, Oct 31, 2009
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  9. BrownPaper Newcomer, in training

    The Cat 9.11 beta drivers have OpenCL support. It has been out for a month already. Hopefully the official Cats have OpenCL support though.
    BrownPaper, Oct 31, 2009
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  10. Per Hansson TechSpot Server Guru

    190.89 was the first driver to support OpenCL
    Per Hansson, Oct 31, 2009
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  11. ken777 Newcomer, in training

    Looks like the notebook drivers have finally caught up to the desktop ones. They were stuck at 186.xx for a long time, but looks like 195.xx is available for notebooks too.
    ken777, Oct 31, 2009
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    red1776, Oct 31, 2009
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  13. Shalimar Newcomer, in training

    Nice progress from the green team.. however they really need to work on removing the bloat from their driver packages. Anyone else remember when you could grab the latest nvidia drivers and the whole package would be 5mb or less? Honestly the bloat factor is very sad indeed.
    Shalimar, Oct 31, 2009
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  14. lynxon Newcomer, in training

    .... And as always, I'm still left out with my laptop drivers...
    lynxon, Oct 31, 2009
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  15. Guest

    Does it solve the Nvidia 9650M GT issue? Has anyone tried it?

    Thanks!
    Guest, Oct 31, 2009
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  16. Per Hansson TechSpot Server Guru

    Per Hansson, Oct 31, 2009
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  17. Timonius TechSpot Enthusiast

    how about fixing the fallout 3 bsod problem? or is that going to 'passed back' to bethesda?
    Timonius, Oct 31, 2009
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  18. JieMan Newcomer, in training

    Its nice to see some support for Open-cl , I think as the industry moves forward this is huge.
    I really am hoping that the development of Open-cl isn't stifled because of proprietary solutions in effect right now like NVIDIA PhysX or Amd's STREAM .. more so PhysX as its getting pretty big right now. But to be fair to ATI I would love to see this flourish to the point where it is " THE " standard.
    I am thinking its time that Futermark started making a bench with this standard.
    It won't be long till its in effect , the proof is in thees drivers.
    JieMan, Oct 31, 2009
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  19. Xclusiveitalian TechSpot Enthusiast

    Iv actually had so many problems with 191.07 that i had to restore back to an older driver, I really hope this fixes those problems, tho since it's a beta id understand but it's always worth a shot
    Xclusiveitalian, Oct 31, 2009
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  20. anonemus Newcomer, in training

    Yikes. WinXP version is only for 8-series and above. I really have to upgrade...or should I just stick to my current card as the family PC is just used for websurfing and Office applications mainly nowadays...
    anonemus, Oct 31, 2009
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