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Nvidia Announces That The SHIELD Tablet Will Receive Android 5.0 This Month
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Nvidia Announces That The SHIELD Tablet Will Receive Android 5.0 This Month

Earlier this year NVIDIA released the SHIELD Tablet which utilized their Cortex-A15 based Tegra K1 chip. In our review we felt it offered a good value proposition, and stood out as a very capable tablet for gamers. Today Nvidia has put a sneak peak at Android 5.0 Lollipop running on the SHIELD Tablet on their Youtube channel. Along with the video, they have announced that the SHIELD Tablet will receive the update to Android Lollipop by the end of November, which means that it will be receiving the update not long after Nexus and Google Play Edition devices, despite being neither. NVIDIA’s preview video has been embedded below so SHIELD Tablet users can get a sneak peak at what will be arriving on their tablets in the near future.

 

@NVIDIA is being cheeky again. In case anyone was wondering whether Lollipop is coming to SHIELD Tablet, yes, it is.. pic.twitter.com/Ewnq608FyY

— AnandTech (@anandtech) October 30, 2014

NVIDIA 344.60 Game Ready Drivers Available
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NVIDIA 344.60 Game Ready Drivers Available

Sorry for the spate of NVIDIA posts, but this is the last one for now. Today, NVIDIA also released their 344.60 Game Ready driver for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. As usual, these drivers include all of the previous optimizations from the 344 series, building off of the previous 344.48 driver released just two weeks back (which included DSR support for Fermi and Kepler GPUs). Unlike the last release, the only noteworthy change mentioned in the release notes (PDF) this time appears to be Call of Duty support/optimizations (including an SLI profile), though with a 57 page document I may have missed something.

You can grab the drivers at the usual place, or if you’re running GeForce Experience that will allow you to update directly. Note also that searching for Windows 64-bit desktop drivers for GTX 980 (and perhaps other GPUs) is currently coming up with 344.48 as the latest release, so here’s a direct link to the Windows 7/8/8.1 64-bit drivers. Notebook drivers are also available for all recent notebooks (GeForce 400M and later), if you need them.

NVIDIA 344.60 Game Ready Drivers Available
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NVIDIA 344.60 Game Ready Drivers Available

Sorry for the spate of NVIDIA posts, but this is the last one for now. Today, NVIDIA also released their 344.60 Game Ready driver for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. As usual, these drivers include all of the previous optimizations from the 344 series, building off of the previous 344.48 driver released just two weeks back (which included DSR support for Fermi and Kepler GPUs). Unlike the last release, the only noteworthy change mentioned in the release notes (PDF) this time appears to be Call of Duty support/optimizations (including an SLI profile), though with a 57 page document I may have missed something.

You can grab the drivers at the usual place, or if you’re running GeForce Experience that will allow you to update directly. Note also that searching for Windows 64-bit desktop drivers for GTX 980 (and perhaps other GPUs) is currently coming up with 344.48 as the latest release, so here’s a direct link to the Windows 7/8/8.1 64-bit drivers. Notebook drivers are also available for all recent notebooks (GeForce 400M and later), if you need them.

NVIDIA Free To Play 2014 Fall Bundle
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NVIDIA Free To Play 2014 Fall Bundle

Going along with their Ubisoft Bundle for high-end GPUs, NVIDIA also announced an updated Fall 2014 Free To Play gaming bundle that applies to their “mainstream” GPUs. As with previous Free To Play bundles, you get $150 worth of in-game currency for use in three recent F2P games ($50 per game). The F2P bundle is for new buyers of GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 desktop GPUs, and it is also available for purchases of notebooks with GTX 880M, 870M, 860M, and 850M GPUs.

The three games are War Thunder, Strife, and Infinite Crisis, and at least two of the games make use of one or more of NVIDIA’s GameWorks libraries – to be specific, War Thunder includes support for WaveWorks and Destruction, and Strife uses PhysX, Particles, and HairWorks. (There’s no mention of any NVIDIA technologies for Infinite Crisis.)

Of course Free To Play game currency as part of a bundle is often viewed as less desirable than a full game – the business idea with F2P is to basically get you hooked so you end up spending money. Still, for those that are interested in any/all of the above titles, the in-game credits can prove useful. The bundle gives you 1000 Strife “Gems”, 10000 War Thunder “Golden Eagles”, and 5000 Infinite Crisis “Crisis Coins” to get you started.

All three games are already available in various forms. Strife is in open beta and targets the popular MOBA segment. Along with the usual MOBA aspects, Strife heroes also have access to pets that accompany you and level along with your hero. Infinite Crisis is another MOBA, with characters from the DC Legends universe (e.g. Batman, Joker, Green Lantern, Superman, etc.) War Thunder goes a different route and is a WWII combat simulation focusing on aerial, vehicular, and fleet battles.

NVIDIA Free To Play 2014 Fall Bundle
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NVIDIA Free To Play 2014 Fall Bundle

Going along with their Ubisoft Bundle for high-end GPUs, NVIDIA also announced an updated Fall 2014 Free To Play gaming bundle that applies to their “mainstream” GPUs. As with previous Free To Play bundles, you get $150 worth of in-game currency for use in three recent F2P games ($50 per game). The F2P bundle is for new buyers of GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 desktop GPUs, and it is also available for purchases of notebooks with GTX 880M, 870M, 860M, and 850M GPUs.

The three games are War Thunder, Strife, and Infinite Crisis, and at least two of the games make use of one or more of NVIDIA’s GameWorks libraries – to be specific, War Thunder includes support for WaveWorks and Destruction, and Strife uses PhysX, Particles, and HairWorks. (There’s no mention of any NVIDIA technologies for Infinite Crisis.)

Of course Free To Play game currency as part of a bundle is often viewed as less desirable than a full game – the business idea with F2P is to basically get you hooked so you end up spending money. Still, for those that are interested in any/all of the above titles, the in-game credits can prove useful. The bundle gives you 1000 Strife “Gems”, 10000 War Thunder “Golden Eagles”, and 5000 Infinite Crisis “Crisis Coins” to get you started.

All three games are already available in various forms. Strife is in open beta and targets the popular MOBA segment. Along with the usual MOBA aspects, Strife heroes also have access to pets that accompany you and level along with your hero. Infinite Crisis is another MOBA, with characters from the DC Legends universe (e.g. Batman, Joker, Green Lantern, Superman, etc.) War Thunder goes a different route and is a WWII combat simulation focusing on aerial, vehicular, and fleet battles.