Also nVIDIA has released the latest updates on their GeForce drivers, a new WHQL certified version in which the main objective is the fixing of some bugs that were found on Windows 7. The new drivers 186.18 are basically an update of the 186.08 that fix a few bugs with Windows 7, and in fact, these drivers integrate the PhysX v9.09.0428 which is the same of the previous release, the same goes for the Ambient Occlusion support and CUDA 2.2.

The drivers support all GeForce cards from the series 6 on and are optmized for ION platforms with the chipset GeForce 9400. They also take advantage of the hardware acceleration through the GPU in the video encoding also with cores with less than 32 shaders, but such feature was already introduced on the 185 version.

Despite nVidia’s work was concentrated on bug fixing, there are also performance enhancements with some titles such as Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Crysis, Fallout 3 and Mirror’s Edge.

The drivers can be downloaded on nVidia’s driver download page.