pcper.com - 10/22/2008
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With the release of Far Cry 2 today, NVIDIA posted a new beta driver (Vista x64 linked) with the designation of 180.42. You might have heard a bit about something called the "Big Bang II" driver in recent weeks that indicated that release 180 of the NVIDIA GeForce drivers would be introducing ...
gamingheaven.net - 10/23/2008
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Far Cry was one of my favourite first
person shooter games of all time, so when I...
heard that a new team were making the ' follow-up' , my heart sank. Ubisoft Montreal are responsible for the sequel and it shares absolutely nothing in common with the ...
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Far Cry 2 (PC)
techarp.com - 10/22/2008
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After losing their own Battle Of The Midway
Islands against the ATI Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon...
HD 4850 graphics cards and suffering reliability issues with their GPUs, NVIDIA went from being seemingly invincible to virtually fighting for their ...
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NVIDIA's Big Bang 2
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A full insight to NVIDIAs next Big Bang
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... and PC Perspective have covered the upcoming driver in detail. They've learned that there are four major features coming; the aforementioned multi-display mode even when in SLi, significant performance increases across a wide range of gaming titles, the ability to assign a GPU purely to PhysX computations and last but not least, the enabling of SLi support for Intels upcoming X58 motherboards for Core i7. PC Perspective also posted some charts supplied by NVIDIA which compares performance across various popular gaming titles between the 178.xx drivers and 180s; it's a ...
NVIDIA Release 180 Drivers: Big Bang II, Far Cry 2, Multi-monitor
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... With the release of Far Cry 2 today,Nvidia posted a new beta driver with the designation of 180.42. You might have heard a bit about something called the "Big Bang II" driver in recent weeks that indicated that release 180 of the NVIDIA GeForce drivers would be introducing some new and interesting features. Well with 180 sort of in the wild, what is the truth?
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NVIDIA Release 180 Drivers: Big Bang II, Far Cry 2 :: Posted by THRASHER2
The Mother Board —
... in regards to multi-monitor support. As a
person who is permanently attached to having more than one display, the need
for more robust and friendly options is must. For me, as a user of three
monitors, I still don't find SLI to be a viable option as it requires a
third graphics card outside the SLI window and is really a pain. If two
monitors is your bag, you will likely find the 'Big Bang II' release to be
the answer to your multiple monitor woes."
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nvidia.com 10/21/2008 — Beta driver for GeForce 200-series, 9-series, and 8800-series desktop GPUs (refer to the products supported tab for more detail). Recommended for the best experience on Far Cry 2 : “Since we first began working on Far Cry 2 in early 2005, we have used ...
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Paul Taylor the Inquirer , Wednesday 22 October 2008. 22:50:00 Daily Rounduppery Plays well with others THERE’S A LOT of stuff on the web today. Starting off with Guru3D’s enactment of the Far Cry 2 performance review with no less than 17 ...
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