If there’s one thing NVIDIA has been known for over the last several years, it’s being late to the game with drivers. However, NVIDIA has been working hard this week to announce several new drivers, which gamers have been waiting for.

Earlier this week, NVIDIA announced the drivers to enable PhysX on its eight series and higher GPUs that gamers have been anticipating since NVIDIA bought PhysX. NVIDIA has now announced that it is first to ship OpenGL 3.0 drivers, just two days after the OpenGL 3.0 standard was announced.

The drivers supporting OpenGL 3.0 are still in beta, but NVIDIA says they are available to download now for both Windows XP and Windows Vista. NVIDIA says it will be releasing production drivers using the OpenGL 3.0 specification as part of its regular driver development program. There is no word on when non-beta drivers supporting OpenGL 3.0 will be available.

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