Nvidia v270.51 Beta released, discussion here

Just came out today,
NVIDIA DRIVERS 270.51 BETA

 

Still no r3 gtx 460m (native) support

 

New in Release 270.51

GPU Support
•Adds support for the newly released GeForce GT 555M, GeForce GT 550M, GeForce GT 540M, GeForce GT 525M, and GeForce GT 520M GPUs.

Performance
•Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. v266.58 WHQL drivers.

NVIDIA Update
•This is a new feature in Release 270 and later drivers. NVIDIA Update keeps your PC up-to-date with the latest GeForce drivers by notifying you when a new driver is available and directing you to the driver on Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies. When you install a Release 270 or later GeForce driver from Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies, you will be presented with the option to install NVIDIA Update. Click here to learn more about NVIDIA Update.

NVIDIA 3D Vision
•With Release 270 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller driver is now included with all GPU driver installations. This driver package includes v270.47 3D Vision Controller driver. Users are no longer required to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver or CD driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article for more information.
•Now supports 3D Vision window mode on 3D Vision notebooks, with the following features:
◦Adds support for HDMI 1.4 3D TVs when using 3DTV Play software, including DirectX 9 games, Google Earth, and 3DVisionLive.com.
◦3D Vision window mode now works with Windows Aero enabled
◦New NVIDIA Control Panel option to toggle 3D Vision window mode on or off.
•Improved performance using the in-game crosshair for Half-life 2, Left4Dead, and Left4Dead2
•Adds support for new 3D Vision Desktop LCD monitors: Tongfang LM2230W
•Adds support for new 3D Vision projectors: Acer X1261P, Acer X1261-3D, DepthQ HDs3D-1, NEC NP-V300X, Sanyo PDG-DXL2000
•Adds support for new 3D Vision Notebooks: ASUS G53SW, ASUS G73SW, ASUS VX7, Clevo P170HM3, Toshiba Satellite P770 / P775 /T572, Toshiba Dynabook T572, Toshiba Qosmio X770 / X775Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
◦Alice Madness Returns
◦Crysis 2 (including multi-player demo)
◦Dead Space 2
◦DeathSpank
◦Dragon Age II
◦Duke Nukem Forever
◦Dungeon Defenders
◦Dungeon Siege III
◦Fable III
◦Faxion Online
◦F.3.A.R.
◦Final Fantasy XIV
◦Homefront (DirectX 9 and DirectX 10)
◦Lego Universe
◦Need for Speed World
◦Portal 2
◦Richard Burns Rally
◦Rift
◦Section 8: Prejudice
◦Shift 2 Unleashed
◦Shogun 2: Total War
◦Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures
◦Test Drive Unlimited 2
◦The Sims Medieval
•Updated the following 3D Vision game profiles
◦MX vs. ATV Reflex
◦Monster Hunter Frontier Benchmark

CUDA
•Adds support for applications using CUDA 4.0 features such as Unified Virtual Addressing (UVA) and GPUDirect™ v2.0.

Other
•Installs HD Audio driver version 1.2.22.1
•Installs PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514
•Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
•Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
•Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here.
•Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
•Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
•Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
•Supports OpenGL 4.1 on GeForce 400 series and later GPUs.
•Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

 

If there hasn't been native support in the 3 releases since the R3 was released that means it probably won't ever show up in Nvidia drivers, really sucks cause that means Dell has told them not to include it in the drivers. What a joke.

 

It's up to laptop manufacturers to release compatible drivers for their systems. It has always been like that

 

The Verde program exists specifically to provide OEM drivers.

 

Most of the laptops Dell/AW makes have been oficially supported even though they may not always work the best, the issue comes when Dell tells them to not even put the id strings and other required info in the driver package to prevent anyone from using that driver that doesn't know how to mod the .inf files. Basically it looks to me as though Dell is trying to turn AW into Asus rather than ultra performance top of the line rigs with no compromises.

 

Yes but the cards have a Dell vBIOS and if Dell won't give the id strings and settings nVidia can't provide you with a R3 driver.
It's wrong pointing at them (nVIDIA).

L.EDIT: yes basically what Dane said, that is the reason we don't see it supported in the latest Verde releases.

 

Yea, but just about anyone with a set of eyes should be able to get the drivers to install if they really want to.
Use exam diff and examine the two files.