nV Drivers thread.

[Nvidialist]

This Driver has implemented Automatic LOD-Bias Adjustments for SGSSAA under all DX-APIs.

[Mangler]

The part about 4/5 gamers not optimizing the game settings was pretty depressing.

That means that they will end up playing many games with a low preset.

[koralis]

This Driver has implemented Automatic LOD-Bias Adjustments for SGSSAA under all DX-APIs.

Sweet. Any idea if the did the same with TXAA x2?

[SIrPauly]

This Driver has implemented Automatic LOD-Bias Adjustments for SGSSAA under all DX-APIs.

Indeed. Thanks, for the posters that did take the time to sign the petition and vocal about having this flexibility!

[demo]

Latest beta makes SC2 crash in 3D, error is repeatable.

[koralis]

Latest beta driver crashes in TSW with some regularity. Stick to 306.97

[badboy]

Latest beta driver crashes in TSW with some regularity. Stick to 306.97

Thanks for the heads up!

[GravY]

DIII just crashed with these drivers.. will be rolling back..


Im beginning to regret moving back to Nvidia.. nothing but issues so far.

[RicH(SAD)]

Was playing Payday yesterday and I had 2-3 driver crashes. Definitely something wrong with the new beta drivers.

[Hapatingjaky]

I played diablo 3 with my bro and his fiancé last night for 3 hours, never had a single problem, even in other titles, TRI-SLI bug in WoW is fixed, it actually scales now.

[SIrPauly]

GeForce 310.54 Beta Drivers: An Essential Upgrade For All Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 & Assassin’s Creed III Players

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-310-54-beta-drivers-released

[lumpyhed]

Hawken is 3D ready

[KAC]

GeForce 310.54 Beta Drivers: An Essential Upgrade For All Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 & Assassin’s Creed III Players

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/art...ivers-released

Thanks for heads up.

[Dungeoncrawler]

GeForce 310.54 Beta Drivers: An Essential Upgrade For All Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 & Assassin’s Creed III Players

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/art...ivers-released

Thanks

[bill dennison]

GeForce 310.54 Beta Drivers: An Essential Upgrade For All Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 & Assassin’s Creed III Players

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/art...ivers-released

doesn't work as well with guild wars 2 going back to 306.97

[jimjobob]

why is windows update suddenly trying to force me to update my graphics drivers?

[Dem2k]

Another Set out, 310.61

The new GeForce 310.61 beta drivers are now available to download. Otherwise identical to last week's 310.54 beta driver, 310.61 beta improves compatibility in Hitman: Absolution and Planetside 2, and supports a new Black Ops II SLI profile that's available through NVIDIA update.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-310-61-beta-drivers-released

[KAC]

Finally a BLOPS2 profile. I was stuck at 120 fps vsync and now I can get 120 fps vsync.

[Dem2k]

And, another beta 310.64

The new GeForce 310.64 beta drivers are now available to download. Featuring the same performance boosts as the 310.54 and 310.61 beta drivers, today's release gets your system ready for Far Cry 3, which launches in Europe tomorrow, and next Tuesday in North America.

In addition to maximizing compatibility in the new, performance-intensive first-person shooter, the 310.64 beta drivers improve performance by up to 37.6% in the configurations we've tested. Furthermore, the previously-released SLI profile is also included, allowing multi-GPU users to maximize performance the moment the game launches.

Using the most popular gaming resolution, 1920x1080, we maxed out Far Cry 3's many graphics options, selected SSAO Ambient Occlusion (an excellent balance between performance and fidelity), set the game's version of Transparency Supersampling to "Standard", and enabled 8xMSAA to eliminate those pesky jaggies. As you can see below, today's 310.64 beta driver boosted performance significantly, helping the GTX 670 and GTX 680 achieve playable frame rates at this demanding detail level. Please note that we expect improvements of varying degrees to be seen on any system utilizing a GeForce GTX 400, 500, or 600 series GPU, but due to time constraints we were unable to run comprehensive, in-depth tests ahead of the driver's release.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-310-64-beta-drivers-released

[acroig]

And, another beta 310.64

[Dungeoncrawler]

WHQL-Candidate 310.70 Released

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=371875

[KAC]

Not trying out these drivers. Very happy with the 310.64 thus far. They totally rock my testicles in Farcry 3 and Ass Creed 3 and CODBLOPS2.

[Ozilon]

Not trying out these drivers. Very happy with the 310.64 thus far. They totally rock my testicles in Farcry 3 and Ass Creed 3 and CODBLOPS2.

310.64 sucked for me on FC3 & AC3. .70 rocks!

[KAC]

310.64 sucked for me on FC3 & AC3. .70 rocks!

Are the .70s newer? Changelog?

[t3hl33td4rg0n]

Are the .70s newer? Changelog?

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-310-70-drivers-released

[Dungeoncrawler]

Geforce 310.70 WHQL

http://www.geforce.com/

[bill dennison]

Geforce 310.70 WHQL

http://www.geforce.com/

I this the same as the 310.70 beta ?

[Sazar]

I this the same as the 310.70 beta ?

Looks like it. The WHQL designation helps with some apps in Windows 8 that don't run if you use beta, so updating. But the change-log and all other information seems to indicate it's the same.

-edit-

I could be mistaken, but it looks like the updater and Physx versions are newer.

[Dungeoncrawler]

Mentioned something about updated far cry 3 profile added also.

Following 310.70 WHQL's creation we updated our Far Cry 3 SLI profile to incorporate new 'bits' that prevent frame rate stuttering observed on some systems with the previous profile.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-310-70-whql-drivers-released

edit - both far cry 3 and skyrim seem to be running better with these drivers.

[Mangler]

The decal bug still happens with the new bit.

[Dungeoncrawler]

The decal bug still happens with the new bit.

What exactly is the decal bug?

[Seyiji]

Looks like it. The WHQL designation helps with some apps in Windows 8 that don't run if you use beta, so updating. But the change-log and all other information seems to indicate it's the same.

-edit-

I could be mistaken, but it looks like the updater and Physx versions are newer.

Updater looks newer but the PhysX version is still the same as it has been for a few (beta) releases now. Installed them anyway cause I'm OCD

[Mangler]

What exactly is the decal bug?

When decals appear on characters/animals, the frame rate tanks.

It still happens with the newest bit.

[H001iGAN]

also the SLI compatibility for dx9 is still wrong, where cetrtain objects in the geme disable SLI scaling alltogether, combined crysis 2 and farcry3 bits work perfect. reported it to NV a while ago, even told the them good bit.

[demo]

also the SLI compatibility for dx9 is still wrong, where cetrtain objects in the geme disable SLI scaling alltogether, combined crysis 2 and farcry3 bits work perfect. reported it to NV a while ago, even told the them good bit.

What do you mean by combined crysis 2 and farcry 3 bits? What is the best flag/value to use for DX11?

[H001iGAN]

I had an issue where around trial of the rakyat areas the SLI in DX9 would stop working completely 0% scaling, at least on 580sli, don't know if 680 is affected.
did some experimenting with combining bits together from other games and stumbled upon a working bit, that works just as good as the default bit, but also gets rid of the scaling problem around the rakyat trials (orange rock area)
default fc3 dx9 bit = 0x02402C05
default crysis 2 dx9 bit = 0x02506405
custom dx9 bit = 0x02502C05

[demo]

Interesting, I've never tried combining bits before. Do you have any idea what each digit means? Or you just randomly tried 4 digits from each??

No DX11 bits But actually, its running very well anyway, was just hoping there was a well known or best flag to use.

[Lazy8s]

Anyone else using the verde drivers with Win8?

What a mess - constant driver not responding errors while browsing. Setting adaptive power to "prefer max. performance" fixed about 75% of the problem, but I still get at least 2 driver crashes per 1 hour session.

[bill dennison]

Anyone else using the verde drivers with Win8?

What a mess - constant driver not responding errors while browsing. Setting adaptive power to "prefer max. performance" fixed about 75% of the problem, but I still get at least 2 driver crashes per 1 hour session.

is this with 310.70 WHQL
i'm not getting any of that, but my 680 is factory overclocked

[Lazy8s]

is this with 310.70 WHQL
i'm not getting any of that, but my 680 is factory overclocked

Yep, that's the set I'm using now. I think I may have found the rest of the fix. Hardware rendering while browsing needs to be disabled - hasn't crashed yet.

EDIT:
-disable hardware rendering in FF and IE.
-Set adaptive power to prefer maximum.
-Set Physx to GPU instead of automatic.

If any one of those isn't done, I get random driver crashes with every win8 driver released so far. Hope this helps anyone else dealing with this issue.

Enjoying a crash free experience now.