Found this nifty article over at ZDNet. Grab the new drivers here.
EA and Crytek have announced that that Crysis Wars, the multiplayer aspect of the recently released Warhead package, will be available for free from Friday, October 10th through Sunday, October 12th. Check out MyCrysis for more information.
You can now pickup a copy of Crysis Warhead through your Steam Account. Along with the release of Warhead, Valve has also announced that the original Crysis is also be available to players world wide. For more, check out Steam's Official Website.
Crytek and Valve today announced an agreement to bring Crysis Warhead and Crysis to Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world. Order Here...
G4 has posted some new footage of actual in-game play from Crysis Warhead. The video, which lasts about 4:30, shows a variety of the game's features including the highly publicized graphics and new in-game audio . Check out the full video over at the G4 Website. 
There has been a whole slew of new Crysis Warhead screenshots posted today by our friends over at Kotaku. The shots are confirmed to be from Warhead, seeing that Crytek managed to stick Psycho's (the expansion's protagonist) in half of them to ensure authenticity. There are a total of 12 shots, so be sure to check them out. 
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This week in an interview with PCGH, Bernd Diemer, the producer of Crysis Warhead, confirmed that the "very High" settings are renamed to "Enthusiast" and will be available for DirectX 9 as well. This means players using DirectX 10 or DirectX9 will be able to use the high graphics settings. PCGH will be releasing the full interview with Bernd Diemer later in the week, and we will let you know once it becomes available.
With 2008 already half over, PCGHX has put together a list of games that will be released this year which have the potential to beat out Crysis in terms of graphics quality. The editors ranked these games solely on graphics and not necessarily overall game play, which is apparent considering even Turok The Dinosaur Hunter was listed as a potential "Crysis Killer".
Crytek has officially announced the production of "Crysis Warhead". With a statement by Yerli, we have a little insight on what's to be. You will be playing as Psycho but everything will be taking place at the same time as the first Crysis, but you will be on the other side of the island where you learn what really happened to Psycho. Via: StrategyInformer
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NVIDIA aren’t shy about boasting about these drivers. The release highlights make some bold claims:
Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin’s Creed
Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict
In some quick tests I carried out on my GTX 260/QX9770/8GB RAM/Vista Ultimate 64-bit system I (which sees daily use and isn’t optimized for gaming) I saw some impressive improvements:
3DMark Vantage up 7%
Crysis Warhead up 7%
Far Cry 2 up 18%
World of Conflict up 11%
As well as an overall performance increase, I also feel that graphics are smoother and the odd hesitation that I used to feel in some parts of Crysis Warhead and Far Cry 2 (both running at highest graphics quality) is gone.
Not bad results for a driver update.
NVIDIA have also added some new features:
Enables NVIDIA SLI technology on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards with the following GPUs: GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX+, and GeForce 9800 GTX.
Enables NVIDIA SLI Multi-monitor support, giving you the ability to use two monitors with your GeForce graphics cards in SLI mode. Now you can easily switch between multi-monitor desktop mode and full screen 3D gaming mode.
Enables NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects."