NVIDIA Kicks Off Regular Windows 8 Driver Updates
BY Chris Daniel
On Mar 13, 2012 in Gaming, Software
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Two weeks after the release of Microsoft‘s Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we have released our first driver update for NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro GPUs. This release, part of our partnership to support NVIDIA GPU-based systems, represents the start of regular NVIDIA driver updates for Windows 8. These drivers, version 296.17, are available for both GeForce....
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