GeForce driver optimized for Linux can double frame rate

October 31, 2012-Santa Clara-nvidia® (nvidia) in California, USA is delighted with the release of the latest nvidia®geforce® driver R310. This driver enables users who play games on the Linux operating system to achieve double performance (1) and significantly shorten game loading time.

The new geforce®r310 driver is nvidia® (nvidia), http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/29929.html ">valve and other game developers in nearly a year of development results, Designed to provide the best Linux PC gaming experience for geforce® users and showcase the great potential of the world's largest open source operating system. You can download the new R310 driver from www.geforce.cn, and the driver is fully tested on Linux Steam, Linux Steam is a branch of Valve's popular Steam gaming platform, Officially open to gamers today.

Doug Lombardi, vice president of Valve Marketing, said: "In this release, nvidia® (NVIDIA) has successfully upgraded the overall game performance of Linux systems." To provide unmatched solutions to Linux gamers, nvidia® (NVIDIA) works with us and other studios to develop R310 drivers and to occupy an undisputed leadership position in development. ”

The R310 driver supports the latest GEFORCE®GTX 600 series GPU, which sets a new standard for desktop and notebook PC gaming experiences with its revolutionary performance, many game technology features, and an incredibly energy-efficient design. The previous generation GEFORCE®GPU included the 8800 GT and the higher models. For those who still use these GPU, we encourage them to download these new drivers.

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For more information on how the GEFORCE®GTX GPU dramatically changes the face of the Linux platform gaming experience, please visit www.geforce.cn. For more nvidia® (NVIDIA) news, company and product information, videos, images, and other information, please visit the nvidia® News Center, Nvidia®flickr page with photos of all geforce® products.

(1) Compare the performance of 304.51 drivers and 310.14 drivers in the Beta version of the Survival Road 2 (left for Dead 2), which is 142.7fps and 301.4fps. All tests are done on the same system, and the system is configured with Intel core i7-3930k CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8GB memory, GEFORCE®GTX 680, and Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits.