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Nvidia Releases 181.71 Windows 7 Drivers

08:40 - Tuesday 3 March 2009 by Ryan Lord - source: Tom's Hardware US

Nvidia shows once again that it's on the ball with the Windows 7 beta, as the company just released new 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 beta drivers.

The drivers offer international support for Geforce 8, 9, and 200-series DirectX 10 GPUs, and for GeForce 6 and 7-series DirectX 9 GPUs. As stated, the update comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, with both being WDDM compliant. Based off the 181 driver series, this weeks release is listed as version 181.71.

Release highlights are as follows:

Installs WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series DirectX 10 GPUs.
Installs WDDM v1.0 for GeForce 6 and 7-series DirectX 9 GPUs.
Supports Direct3D, Direct2D, and DirectWrite.
Supports Nvidia CUDA - Compute Unified Device Architecture.
Supports Nvidia PhysX (this driver package automatically installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203 for all GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series GPUs).
Supports Nvidia SLI on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL applications.

If you're interested in giving these bad boys a shot you can grab the 32-bit version here, or the 64-bit version here.