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[Bad Karma 308]

Free performance gain, if you don't mind beta software.

f you like to live on the edge by installing pre-release software, risks be damned, and own an Nvidia-based graphics card, today's your lucky today. Nvidia just released new 320.00 beta drivers for GeForce graphics cards, and if you install them, the GPU maker says you can enjoy performance gains up to 20 percent. Most of the gains won't be quite as high, though several titles receive a shot in the arm from the new drivers.

The examples Nvidia shared all pertain to GeForce GTX 660 graphics cards and include the following gains for single card setups:

• Up to 20 percent in Dirt: Showdown
  
• Up to 18 percent in Tomb Raider
  
• Up to 8 percent in StarCraft II
  
• Up to 6 percent in Sniper Elite V2
  
• Up to 6 percent in Metro 2033
  
• Up to 6 percent in Far Cry 3
  
• Up to 6 percent in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  
• Up to 5 percent in F1 2012

Nvidia also added several new SLI profiles, including ones for Alien Fear, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Dead Island: Riptide, Dragon Sword, and a bunch more.

[matux]

Wake me when there is a SLI profile for this game.

Also, just tested this, no increase at all for GTX 550TI, Smoke and Particle effects still drop it down to 25-35 fps when close up to mechs from an idle at 50 fps on alpine in training grounds.

Edited by matux, 24 April 2013 - 04:42 AM.

[ArmageddonKnight]

Bit of advice from me to u readers

Find a stable high performing set of drivers and stick with them untill a set of drivers are released with better performance and absolutly 0 bugs. And most importantly, make sure said drivers have been tested to hell and back by other people before u use them.

I currently run 306.97 still and am perfectly happy with them.

[Catamount]

It looks like it's more like a 5% increase across a broad range of titles (20% in like, one), but still, that's pretty good.

[frag85]

ArmageddonKnight, on 24 April 2013 - 07:17 AM, said:

Bit of advice from me to u readers

Find a stable high performing set of drivers and stick with them untill a set of drivers are released with better performance and absolutly 0 bugs. And most importantly, make sure said drivers have been tested to hell and back by other people before u use them.

I currently run 306.97 still and am perfectly happy with them.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

On my older GTX275 video cards the best drivers were in the 200 series drivers. 266.xx-285.xx drivers had higher, smoother frame rates No bugs or microstutter. I only ran the 285.xx drivers when I played BF3 and then went back to 275.xx.

I recently upgraded to a new Z77 board and the old drivers do not work properly with the new motherboard. Now I HAVE to run the newer 301.xx and newer drivers which don't run as smooth and introduce a whole host of bugs that kept me away from them. Unless you are running the latest and greatest high end video cards, all you are doing is stepping sideways, and possibly backwards with upgrading your video drivers. The only real exception is if the new drivers fix a new game for you. There are other exceptions, but they are few and far between in my experience. Pretty much all the drivers released recently are only for the 600 series cards.

Edited by frag85, 24 April 2013 - 11:57 AM.

[Kageru Ikazuchi]

Until MW:O is offically "released", I would avoid beta drivers. Since nVidia is sponsoring MW:O, the driver support should be a bit better than AMD/ATI, but unless you just like submitting bug reports and support requests, I'm happy only testing one product at a time.

[matux]

Kageru Ikazuchi, on 24 April 2013 - 11:27 PM, said:

Until MW:O is offically "released", I would avoid beta drivers. Since nVidia is sponsoring MW:O, the driver support should be a bit better than AMD/ATI, but unless you just like submitting bug reports and support requests, I'm happy only testing one product at a time.

I've run with the latest beta drivers for most of closed/open beta for my nvidia cards (with very little issues), the stability of the game has little to do with card drivers, the game client itself is a major factor to "bugs" please stop talking out your arse about "drivers causings bugs" Drivers that have issues dont work at all, which was proven 2 patches ago.. The person two posts above confirms that its not old drivers either.

The game is released right now, if you're paying.. you're playing, you have a product.

End of story

[LethalRose]

Anyone notice a performance boost in MWO with these drivers?

[Gremlich Johns]

I'll wait....

[Durant Carlyle]

Went from the 314.22 WHQL to the 320.00 Beta. No noticeable difference in performance -- nothing good to report, but also nothing bad...

Specs:
i7-3770K 3.5GHz CPU
16GB 1600 RAM
GTX 680 GPU
256GB SSD
2560x1440 Very High settings
Win7 Pro 64-bit