NVIDIA GeForce 290.36 Beta Drivers Released – Ambient Occlusion For Skyrim & MW3

By Nathan Kirsch

NVIDIA released 290.36 beta drivers this morning and we are told that these are the first public beta drivers for the Release 290 family of drivers. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. These drivers have a ton of SLI, 3D Vision and PhysX updates, but also add NVIDIA Ambient Occlusion support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. As you can see a ton of fixes are included with this beta driver, so be sure to download it here. NVIDIA has also released Verde 290.36 drivers for notebook gamers as well that you can download here.

NVIDIA Ambient Occlusion

Bug Fixes in 290.36 Beta Drivers:

  • Fixes random flickering as Windows boot logo is loading or fading away.
  • Fixes corruption in Crysis 2 with SLI and lower quality shadow settings.
  • Fixes ability to set Surround resolutions to 5760×1080 using custom resolutions.
  • Fixes some random instances of triangular artifacts when playing Battlefield 3.
  • Fixes corruption and flickering of some objects in Battlefield 3 in the New York single-player level when anti-aliasing is enabled.
  • Fixes corruption seen in Settlers 7 with the NVIDIA 275.33 drivers.
  • Fixes playback of videos or live TV using Window Media Center resulting in a black screen.
  • Fixes the issue where 1920×1080 @60Hz PC resolution mode switched down to @59Hz.
  • Fixes mouse cursor flickering and shaking in Crysis 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Deus Ex and Civilization V when SLI is enabled when using 3DTV Play.

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