Galera, há tempos as ATI Radeon têm à sua disposição as extensões OpenGL 3.0, mas só agora as nVidias Geforce tiveram suporte a tais extensões. Esse driver aproveita a base deixada pelo “BigBang2”, que foi o Forceware 180 (que de fato melhoraram um bocado o desempenho das placas de vídeo Geforce), e adiciona o suporte ao OpenGL 3.0, usado principalmente por aplicações profissionais, como CAD e 3DSMax, além de alguns filtros do Photoshop.
A descrição, em inglês, do driver:
The driver has full support for OpenGL 3.0 and version 1.3 of the OpenGL shading language (GLSL).
The drivers work on Geforce 8 or newer graphics cards along with a number of Quadro professional offerings. According to Nvidia, these drivers allow developers to “immediately begin using these drivers to build OpenGL 3.0 functionality into their software to give end-users new, superior graphics reproduction and visualization features.”
We have a discussion thread open on this driver right here.
You need one of the following graphics cards to get access to the OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 functionality:
Desktop
- Quadro FX 370, 570, 1700, 3700, 4600, 4700×2, 4800, 5600, 5800, Quadro VX200, Quadro CX
- GeForce 8000 series or higher; GeForce GTX 260, 280
Notebook
- Quadro FX 360M, 370M, 570M, 770M, 1600M, 1700M, 2700M, 3600M, 3700M
- GeForce 8000 series or higher
This driver implements all of GLSL 1.30 and all of OpenGL 3.0 and exposes the following new extensions:
OpenGL 2.1 extensions:
- ARB_vertex_array_object
- ARB_framebuffer_object
- ARB_half_float_vertex
OpenGL 3.0 extensions:
- WGL_create_context
- GLX_create_context
- ARB_draw_instanced
- ARB_geometry_shader4
- ARB_texture_buffer_object
Download:
Geforce ForceWare 181.00 Win XP 32-bit download from Guru3D.com
Geforce ForceWare 181.00 Vista 32-bit download from Guru3D.com
Geforce ForceWare 181.00 Vista 64-bit download from Guru3D.com