Nvidia Verde Notebook Display Driver 260.89 WHQL

This driver supports the following NVIDIA notebook GPUs (please refer to the Products Supported tab for exceptions):

- ION notebook GPUs.
- GeForce 8M, 9M, 100M, 200M, 300M-series, and 400M notebook GPUs.
- Quadro 5000M
- Quadro NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).
- Quadro FX-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).

New in Version 260.89

Blu-ray 3D
- Adds support for playing back Blu-ray 3D discs when connecting your GPU to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV. Playback requires compatible software application from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Roxio, or Corel. For more information, NVIDIA Blu-ray 3D website.

HD Audio
- Adds high definition 24-bit, 96 and 192 KHz multi-channel audio sampling rate support for compatible Blu-ray movies with GeForce GTX 480M, GTS 360M, GTS 350M, GT 335M, GT 330M, GT 325M, 310M, 305M, GTS 260M, GTS 250M, GT 240M, GT 230M, and G210M* GPUs.
- Upgrades HD Audio driver to version 1.1.9.0.
*Note: A Blu-ray movie player software update may be required to enable these new features; check with your movie players software manufacturers or NVIDIA website for more details. These features are only supported on Windows 7.

Installation

- New driver installer with enhanced user interface and new Express and Custom installation options.
   - Express – fast and easy one-click installation
   - Custom – customized installation
                + Option to perform a clean installation (completely removes older drivers from your system prior to installing the new driver).
                + Option to choose which driver components (ie. PhysX or 3D Vision) to install.
   - Improved installation time for multi-GPU PCs.

NVIDIA 3D Vision
- With Release 260 drivers, the installation process for 3D Vision has changed. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information on the changes.
- Adds NVIDIA 3D Vision streaming support for Firefox 4 and Google Chrome web browsers.
- Adds support for Sony’s 3D Sweep Panorama picture format added to NVIDIA 3D Photo Viewer (Sony digital cameras that can capture 3D Sweep Panorama pictures include NEX-5/NEX-3, Alpha a560/a580 and Cyber-shot DSC-WX5/DSC-TX9/DSC-T99 models).
- Adds support for new 3D Vision Desktop LCD monitors: BenQ X2410 and NEC F23W2A
- Adds support for new 3D Vision projectors: Sanyo PDG-DWL2500 and ViewSonic PJD6251
- Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
   - Arcania: Gothic 4
   - Fallout: New Vegas
   - FIFA 11
   - Formula 1 Racing
   - Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark
   - Guild Wars 2
   - Kane & Lynch 2 – Dog Days
   - Lead and Gold
   - Lego Harry Potter
   - Live For Speed
   - Lost Planet 2
   - Moonbase Alpha
   - Serious Sam HD – The Second Encounter
   - Shrek Forever After
   - Singularity
   - Vitua Tennis 2009
   - Virtua Tennis 3
- Update the following 3D Vision game profiles
   - Drakensang: The Dark Eye – updated in-game compatibility text
   - Mafia II – updated profile to properly for 3D Vision-Rating
   - StarCraft II – fixed profile to properly recognize the retail game executable name and match the 3D Vision rating of “Good”
   - Super Commander – fixed HUD elements
   - TRINE – new profiles fixes that allow the game to be rated “3D Vision-Ready” when used with the TRINE patch v1.08, available via Steam.

Other Improvements
- Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514.
- Improves compatibility for older PC games (DirectX 7 to DirectX 9) running on Windows 7 (examples: Gothic, Gothic II, Falcon 4.0: Allied Force, Links 2003, Independence War II - Edge of Chaos, and X2: Wolverine\'s Revenge).
- Adds drag and drop display arrangement support to the “Set up multiple displays” page.
- Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.

Additional Information:

- Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop CS5.
- Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1.
- Supports the new version of MotionDSP\'s video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output.
- Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7.
- Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language).
- Supports OpenGL 3.3.
- Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL.