GeForce 295.51 Driver released

gnome833 · *Last edited by gnome833; 01-31-2012 at 10:15.*

Download:

GeForce Forceware 295.51 Vista - 7 - 64-bit

GeForce Forceware 295.51 Vista - 7 - 32-bit

GeForce Forceware 295.51 XP 32-bit

Windows XP 64-bit

Release Highlights
This is the first beta release from the R295 family of drivers. For more information, read the 295.51 driver article on GeForce.com. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.

New in 295.51

NVIDIA SLI

Adds SLI profiles for :
•7554
•Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
•Oil Rush
•Red Faction: Armageddon
•3D Vision

Adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3D monitors
Adds or updates 3D Vision profiles for:
•The Adventures of Tintin – rated Good
•Afterfall: Insanity – rated Fair
•Black Prophecy – rated Not Recommended
•Chaos Online – rated Fair
•Da Vinci Online – rated Fair
•DotA 2 – rating upgraded to Fair
•Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale – rated Fair
•Ferrari Project – rated Not Recommended
•The First Templar – rated Fair
•Fractal – rated Excellent
•FreeStyle 2 – rated Good
•The Haunted Halls Reach – rated Excellent
•King Arthur II – DQ
•Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – rated Fair
•Kong Fu Ying Xiong – rated Fair
•Love Beat – rated Good
•Marvel Super Hero Squad Online – rated Good
•Microsoft Flight – rated Fair
•Perpetuum – rated Fair
•Post Apocalyptic Mayhem – rated Fair
•Prototype 2 – rated Fair
•Q.U.B.E. – rated Excellent
•Quan Qiu Shi Ming – rated Excellent
•rFactor 2 (mod mode) – rated Good
•Saints Row: The Third – Rated Not Recommended
•Shadow Company: Left for Dead – rated Not Recommended
•Special Force – Rated Good
•Tera – rated Good
•Top Gun: Hard Lock – rated Not Recommended
•Tropico 4 – rated Good
•Worms Blast – rated Good

NVIDIA PhysX
•Updates PhysX System Software to 9.11.1111

HD Audio
•Updates HD Audio to version 1.3.12.0

Key Bug Fixes and Enhancements
•Fixes instances where the GeForce GTX 590 fan unnecessarily increased to 100%.
•Fixes instances of driver timeouts while simultaneously watching multiple videos.
•Adds edit/delete option for custom resolutions.

WhiteLightning · 01-31-2012, 10:13 | posts: 20,403 | Location: Netherlands

physx update aswell !

IMaysky · 01-31-2012, 10:19 | posts: 40

not available

HarryRag · 01-31-2012, 10:23 | posts: 117 | Location: Behind my Keyboard

File not found.

Rusty_ · 01-31-2012, 10:27 | posts: 29

go guinea pigs, test this!

gnome833 · 01-31-2012, 10:31 | posts: 30 | Location: Las Vegas

Yeah, I guess links aren't active yet. Hopefully soon!

MfA · **Memory**: 4GB DDR2 1000MHz 5-5-5-15

Quote:

•Adds edit/delete option for custom resolutions.

weeee

gnome833 · 01-31-2012, 10:46 | posts: 30 | Location: Las Vegas

Links appear to be active now.

Darren Hodgson · 01-31-2012, 10:53 | posts: 9,670 | Location: England

Downloading now, thanks for the link. Looks like this is the fixed TDR driver that NVIDIA have been promising people with that problem for a while now. Let's hope it fixes it for good (though I've never experienced this issue myself).

So is this a completely new branch then or a continuation of the previous 290.53 set?

Aveon · *Last edited by Aveon; 01-31-2012 at 11:10.*

It's working now. downloaded 25% already .

BTW the release notes link is still dead.

kcuestag · 01-31-2012, 10:55 | posts: 539 | Location: Spain

Thank you Nvidia for the so promised WHQL driver within January, bunch of liars.

MfA · **Memory**: 4GB DDR2 1000MHz 5-5-5-15

installing gonna try 3840x2160

YetYhunter · 01-31-2012, 11:03 | posts: 1,022 | Location: Romania

so many '' 1's ,, in physx version;

MfA · **Memory**: 4GB DDR2 1000MHz 5-5-5-15

great job nvidia you made image quality nazis happy

release notes online too

TFL Replica · 01-31-2012, 11:10 | posts: 357

Downloading. Hope this will dethrone 275.33.

CDJay · 01-31-2012, 11:13 | posts: 36

Quote:

Originally Posted by MfA

great job nvidia you made image quality nazis happy

What display are you using?

CDJay

MfA · **Memory**: 4GB DDR2 1000MHz 5-5-5-15

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDJay

What display are you using?

CDJay

Samsung 2333T c-PVA 1080p native.. 4K was great with 275.33 driver but somehow new drivers broke it.. glad to see nvidia fix the problem

h4nni · 01-31-2012, 11:27 | posts: 17

still no fix for SLI in F1 2011..

styka · 01-31-2012, 11:35 | posts: 286 | Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Quote:

Originally Posted by MfA

great job nvidia you made image quality nazis happy

release notes online too

wth, how are you able to use that high of a res ?????

RoadKillNL · 01-31-2012, 11:35 | posts: 2,544 | Location: The Netherlands

Quote:

Originally Posted by h4nni

still no fix for SLI in F1 2011..

Perhaps it's not an nVidia issue and Codemaster should fix their games.

MfA · **Memory**: 4GB DDR2 1000MHz 5-5-5-15

Quote:

Originally Posted by styka

wth, how are you able to use that high of a res ?????

Let's take a ride to Downsampling Land

Y1ROK · 01-31-2012, 11:46 | posts: 84 | Location: Russia

Installed.
Skyrim - textures looks awful now.
BattleForge - flickering and then blackscreen and driver crash in 10 sec.
Witcher - driver crash.
Dragon Age 2 - driver crash.

Nice work devs...

Back to 275.33.

Spets · 01-31-2012, 11:55 | posts: 1,429

Quote:

Originally Posted by Y1ROK

Installed.
Skyrim - textures looks awful now.
BattleForge - flickering and then blackscreen and driver crash in 10 sec.
Witcher - driver crash.
Dragon Age 2 - driver crash.

Nice work devs...

Back to 275.33.

How did you manage to test 4 games that fast O_O

RoadKillNL · 01-31-2012, 11:56 | posts: 2,544 | Location: The Netherlands

Quote:

Originally Posted by Y1ROK

Installed.
Skyrim - textures looks awful now.
BattleForge - flickering and then blackscreen and driver crash in 10 sec.
Witcher - driver crash.
Dragon Age 2 - driver crash.

Nice work devs...

Back to 275.33.

No issues at all with Skyrim Textures here. Did you install the Drivers correctly?

harkinsteven · 01-31-2012, 11:56 | posts: 1,522 | Location: Ireland

These seem like good drivers to me but unfortunately they still dont have FXAA support like the 295.18. Using Nvidia inspector doesnt seem to work to enable it anymore and the injector doesnt work with SWTOR without a certain hack.
If the driver is able to use FXAA in older version why not just implement it.