NVIDIA R257.21 WHQL Display Drivers Available

NVIDIA Rel256 display drivers

R257.21 + GTX 480 + GPU Caps Viewer
R257.21 + GTX 480 + GPU Caps Viewer


R257.21 is the first public WHQL version of the R256 branch. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. You can download this new display driver here:


Main features of R257.21:

  • Adds support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology.
  • Increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games.
  • Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0223.
  • Adds support for OpenGL 4.0 for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs.
  • Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1 which includes significant performance increases for double precision math operations.
  • Adds support for new extreme Antialiasing modes for 3-way SLI PCs, including up to SLI48x AA for GeForce 200 series GPUs and up to SLI96x AA for GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs.
  • Adds support for a new Quality mode for NVIDIA’s Ambient Occlusion control panel feature.
  • Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel setup page for SLI and PhysX for ultimate control over multi-gpu configurations.
  • Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel feature for ultimate control over CUDA GPUs, allowing the user to effectively choose which GPU will power each CUDA application.
  • Includes numerous bug fixes.