NVIDIA R258.96 BETA Display Drivers Available with One New OpenGL Extension

NVIDIA Rel 256 graphics drivers

GTX 480 + R258.96 + GPU Caps Viewer


Update (2010.07.20)
WHQL versions have been released:

This is the “official” beta graphics driver for the brand new GeForce GTX 460. This supports also all previous GeForce (GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs). R258.96 automatically install PhysX 9.10.0224 runtimes. R258.96 is an OpenGL 4.0 driver.

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In the OpenGL side, R258.96 exposes 233 extensions for a GTX 480 under Win7 64-bit. Compared to R257.15, R256.96 re-adds this extension which, actually, is not a new extension:

  • WGL_NVX_DX_interop

WGL_NVX_DX_interop can be used for an OpenGL video player with the video decoding performed by DirectX.

This extension was already included in ForceWare 196.21 and has been removed from ForceWare 197.45 😀

OpenGL extensions exposed by previous NVIDIA drivers are available HERE. A more detailed description of each extension can be found HERE.

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  2. Pratik

    I am using my graphic card NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 256mb AGP 2x PCI. My driver cd was broken last month i.e. Nvidia Driver ver.162.5. I tried almost all drivers…. but still got nothing… Please help sugest any options on sonu3162003@yahoo.com

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