Nvidia Big Bang II

[Martin987]

NVIDIA will launch a new version of its ForceWare graphics drivers in September, and its unusual name is causing some ripples. GPUCafe claims to have information on what the new update will include, and if they're right, it will be quite an update indeed.

The new release, properly called ForceWare release 180, is being referred to in NVIDIA documentation as "Big Bang 2." This name evokes an earlier driver launch, Big Bang, which first allowed multi-GPU support on the GeForce 6000 series. The name implies that this driver release will be similarly huge, and the declared feature list is pretty compelling. GPUCafe says ForceWare release 180 will bring the following features:

Multimonitor support for SLI
Display Port support
OpenGL 3.0
Hardware video transcoding
GPU PhysX support
Performance optimizations

http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.ars/2008/08/01/nvidia-forceware-180-big-bang-ii?

Looks like it will be a good release, especially if it improves performance more as well, and I know multimonitor SLi support will makes lots of people happy.

[Andy1911]

so will this mean i will be able to switch between the 2 monitors i use without having to alt tab out of my game?

[Martin987]

so will this mean i will be able to switch between the 2 monitors i use without having to alt tab out of my game?

No. This driver will be bringing multimonitor support for people that have SLi, currently it doesn't work.

[Andy1911]

oh :( is there any way to use my second monitor without having to alt tab?

[wiemos]

what doe you exactly mean andy i use 3 monitors here... but not have sli

[Andy1911]

i have bf2142 running full screen on my primary monitor and if i wan to type in the shouty i click on the shouty and my game minimises

[wiemos]

jep thats normal because your leaving the game then acctually... i got to do the same when got an msn message or so.... i think you cant avoid that