Nvidia Releases X58/SLI ForceWare

Did you hear that? Nvidia has just released its ForceWare 180.48 drivers, aka ‘Big Bang II’. The new ForceWare set is required to enable SLI on ‘some’ new and upcoming Intel X58 Express based boards.
We covered a bit regarding the ‘Big Bang II’ release, and beta release a while back, and they have just become available on the Nvidia website this morning. The WHQL-certified driver packages are available for Windows Vista(x86), Windows Vista(x64), Windows XP(x86), and Windows XP(x64).
As covered in previous articles here on Tom’s Hardware, the new 180.48 ForceWare release comes with several new features, including but not limited to, multiple game performance increases, multi-display support for SLI configurations, options to dedicate an entire GPU to PhysX processing, and of course SLI for some Intel X58 Express boards.
Here is a short list of some games and rough performance increases:


ForceWare 180.48 Game Performance Increase
Increase Game / Application

Up to 10% 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
Up to 13% Assassin’s Creed
Up to 13% BioShock
Up to 15% Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Up to 10% Crysis Warhead
Up to 25% Devil May Cry 4
Up to 38% Far Cry 2
Up to 18% Race Driver: GRID
Up to 80% Lost Planet: Colonies
Up to 18% World of Conflict




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