NVIDIA is releasing today (03.01.2009) the first in a series of laptop graphics drivers which is compatible with almost all recent notebooks. The new driver promises a lot: bug fixes, improvements in performance, CUDA and PhysX support. In this review, you will find out how the new graphics driver performed when it was used to run different NVIDIA graphics cards and play the latest games on them.
For the first time, NVIDIA wants to offer all (GeForce) laptop users the option to download graphics cards' drivers directly from the NVIDIA homepage. Till now this was only possible for a few models. From now on, however, every 3 months a new graphics card driver, for all notebooks, will be available on the NVIDIA site for download. In this way, laptops will be constantly updated with the latest improvements in performance and bug fixes.
Till date, this was the greatest criticism of laptop gamers, as the only way to get new graphics card drivers was to either rely on the kindness of the laptop producers, or to get modded desktop drivers (which do not have any guarantee) from sites like
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
http://www.notebookcheck.net/New-gra...s.13483.0.html