Category: other notebook news
By: Matthias Bauer
Nvidia updates notebook drivers
Nvidia wants to provide new drivers for their mobile graphic chips and they want to release at least one update in every quarter.
There are not many driver updates for mobile graphic chips so far, but Nvidia wants to change this fact. Currently, the notebook graphics drivers are a few month or a few years old and they don't get updated very often. The notebook manufacturers are responsible are for this drivers.
There are possibilities to get newer drivers. One is to modify a desktop driver with special software, but the modified driver does not support all features of the notebook GPU.
The manufacturer Nvidia wants to change this fact and they released a new driver version for their mobile graphic cards. This driver is made for GeForce 8M and Quadro NVS series. Nvidia released the version 179.28 Beta and the driver also supports PhysX and CUDA with mobile GPUs.
Nvidia wants its driver also to support older graphic chips and they'll include features in the upcoming updates.
We already reviewed the new driver on our German section and will translate the review in the following days. So stay tuned for more information.
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