GeForce Forceware 295.73 WHQL Download and Discussion

[RoadKillNL]

Originally Posted by nick0323

"In December, the 290.53 beta driver introduced our first performance optimizations, helping improve frame rates by about 19% in Skyrim’s many shadowy dungeons, and 2.8% in its wide-open outdoor environments."

Nope, improvement outside is only 2.8% and hasn't been improved much further than that.

Funny thing is that there wern't really any performance issues inside, yet they tweak it with 19% while the outside performance needs a massive tweak.

[Dranzerk]

Terrible BF3 drivers! Sort of..it enabled No-clip mode in BF3. I am not kidding, i can see through walls. It would be awesome accept the colors are all messed up.

I guess nvidia was like "screw all these hacks, lets just give them out for free".
Fail nvidia.

[Kolt]

Originally Posted by Dranzerk

Terrible BF3 drivers! Sort of..it enabled No-clip mode in BF3. I am not kidding, i can see through walls. It would be awesome accept the colors are all messed up.

I guess nvidia was like "screw all these hacks, lets just give them out for free".
Fail nvidia.

The previous betas actually did that for me in BF3 and Skyrim sometimes. Haven't seen it on these... yet.

[sava700]

I'm downloading now...going to fully reinstall Win7 64bit Pro and test against current Beta's - which is exactly what Nvidia does guys. They don't test these things in real world conditions under every circumstance such as the other applications and trash you have loaded on the PC's you use every day so the results are going to be different for everyone and not everything may work. I suggest if you really want to test you must re-install the OS and start from scratch with very limited amount of anything else if at all going on the system. Far too many times have I seen even the junk toolbar crap or something else loaded that effects another part of the system including video to the video drivers response.

[Dranzerk]

Originally Posted by sava700

I'm downloading now...going to fully reinstall Win7 64bit Pro and test against current Beta's - which is exactly what Nvidia does guys. They don't test these things in real world conditions under every circumstance such as the other applications and trash you have loaded on the PC's you use every day so the results are going to be different for everyone and not everything may work. I suggest if you really want to test you must re-install the OS and start from scratch with very limited amount of anything else if at all going on the system. Far too many times have I seen even the junk toolbar crap or something else loaded that effects another part of the system including video to the video drivers response.

Terrible advice, I have never,ever, had to do that. Nor should you.

[bcham]

Originally Posted by Dranzerk

Terrible advice, I have never,ever, had to do that. Nor should you.

i agree

[Redemption80]

Originally Posted by SerotoNiN

Oh nVidia, one day they'll get it right.

Still no frame limiter ...

I don't know why people are shocked there is no Alan Wake profile, that won't see light of day for 3 or 4 months.

The framerate limiter has been in the last few drivers, you just need to use Nvidia Inspector to enable it.

People are surprised there is no Alan Wake profile as that is one thing Nvidia are usually good at, I’ve saw profiles months before the game is out, sometimes over a year in the case of Max Payne 3 and Aliens Colonial Marines, so for Alan Wake to not have one, especially as its needed for most people who use SLI, so must be a little annoying.

Driver wise, sounds as good as it’s going to get when it comes to Skyrim, so might buy it at the weekend and see if I can get into it.

[wasteomind]

Originally Posted by Y1ROK

No AA in Reckoning with this drivers. Roll back to 295.51 and AA is back.

Are you talking AA via the in game post processing or AA forced via drivers?

[kitch9]

Originally Posted by sava700

I'm downloading now...going to fully reinstall Win7 64bit Pro and test against current Beta's - which is exactly what Nvidia does guys. They don't test these things in real world conditions under every circumstance such as the other applications and trash you have loaded on the PC's you use every day so the results are going to be different for everyone and not everything may work. I suggest if you really want to test you must re-install the OS and start from scratch with very limited amount of anything else if at all going on the system. Far too many times have I seen even the junk toolbar crap or something else loaded that effects another part of the system including video to the video drivers response.

Are you mental?

[GanjaStar]

These drivers are horible in alan wake. at first i thought my framerate tanked cause of the new episode being more demanding. mouse felt really slugish and framereta was noticeably lower. then i rolled back to the good old 290.53 and the game is responsive again.

Its either the driver itself, or the framerate limiter in inspector made it slower, because i did import the Alan wake profile i made wthi 290 drivers into the 295 drivers.

[Mineria]

Originally Posted by pakko

Check your clock speed while on idle on desktop.. u are full 3D instead of going down to 2D mode.. With fermi they said that 120Hz need the full 3d clocks in the past so for 120Hz is "normal" BUT with 29x.xx driver i have this problem with 100 Hz and 110 Hz.. can u check it?

Basically the is no power saving at all.. do u like it? I don't.. because i have to pay the bills, not nvidia

Goes into 2D mode for me every time when I close down a game, but that is with 120Hz.
If there is an issue (with 100 and 110Hz monitors?), is it reported and known by Nvidia?

[NiColaoS]

The bug they fixed for 1GB cards did extremely good job on me. Now a good patch from DICE and we're set.

On Kharg Island if Ultra Textures, I had serious problem... Entire buildings were dissapearing/reappearing. On many maps small texture flickering on many places... Even on High Textures, fewer problems though.

Now I run the game with Textures, Shadows, Terrain and Decoration on Ultra and it's smooth. With certain settings I couldn't afford even 2x MSAA, now I can much better ( not on Ultra all those I mentioned above ).

Truly great drivers.

[Dantenero72]

Hey!
Since the 290.XY they all screw up my screen in DX11 games! Like 30cm of the screen is sled to the right,so there is a 30cm thick black border on the left and cant see the whole screen(so basically the screen isnt in the center). If i auto adjust with on my monitor then it drop it back to the center,but the image became so blurry that hurt my eyes. And if then i exit the game,then the desktop screen is sled to the LEFT. And also if I change the refresh rate from 60 to 59.95 or 59.85(WTF? these numbers)then happens the same,back to the center but blurry image -.-" My monitor is a Asus VW221D http://computermonitors.productwiki.com/asus-vw221d/. And as i said all the 290.xy and above drivers does the same,only the BETA!!!285.79 and older has no such effects!(well it has bad performance and has artifacts in BF3)

[CPC_RedDawn]

Originally Posted by Dranzerk

Terrible advice, I have never,ever, had to do that. Nor should you.

Whilst I agree it is pretty silly advice. He does have a point, Nvidia do not test their drivers on a 2 year install of Windows, nor do they test them with overclocked cards. Like the release notes say they give 45% increase in Skyrim, I bet that is with all their tweaks from their tweakguide applied too and with no mods installed. So for most people 45% is a far away dream. Plus I bet thats tested with a GTX580, maybe even tested with 2 of them in SLI.

Anyway, Ive just brought Beyond Good and Evil and the original Far Cry from steam so I am gonna blast through them now as I have some time off work. Nothing better than wasting my time on one of the most underrated games in history (BGE this is) Lets see of these drivers increase performance in these games!!! LOL

[Zboe]

Not only can I activate SLI but with this set I didn't have to close Waterfox, or my Logitech software to do it like I have had to for months worth of releases now. And I'm glad they got memory leak fixed. I haven't ran a game yet but I'm already liking these.

-edit-

Just want to point out that I didn't do any Driver sweeper crap or remove/restart anything, just installed right over the top of the previous drivers. Worked like a charm.

[Y1ROK]

Originally Posted by wasteomind

Are you talking AA via the in game post processing or AA forced via drivers?

Via drivers.

[FrenchKiss]

Video play back was jammed with previous beta, now it's working perfect.
Games are fine, SLI working solid. Keepers.

[wasteomind]

Originally Posted by Y1ROK

Via drivers.

What flag are you using?

[GPU]

Originally Posted by Zboe

Not only can I activate SLI but with this set I didn't have to close Waterfox, or my Logitech software to do it like I have had to for months worth of releases now. And I'm glad they got memory leak fixed. I haven't ran a game yet but I'm already liking these.

-edit-

Just want to point out that I didn't do any Driver sweeper crap or remove/restart anything, just installed right over the top of the previous drivers. Worked like a charm.

-I still had to shut down Lcore . exe in task manager to set sli ,same as always.

[Y1ROK]

Originally Posted by wasteomind

What flag are you using?

With 295.51 i dont need any flags, i just turn it on in ccontrol panal and it works. With 295.73 - not works.

PS. Battleforge still not work with dx11, its started with 295.51 and still the same.

[Blaire]

Originally Posted by Y1ROK

With 295.51 i dont need any flags, i just turn it on in ccontrol panal and it works. With 295.73 - not works.

295.73 has Behavior Flags that prevents AA Override. You can disable this for example by NV Inspector, then Override works again.

[wasteomind]

Originally Posted by Y1ROK

With 295.51 i dont need any flags, i just turn it on in ccontrol panal and it works. With 295.73 - not works.

PS. Battleforge still not work with dx11, its started with 295.51 and still the same.

Are you sure it was actually applying any AA? I did some pretty extensive testing with AA in this game and found I couldn't get any AA without setting a performance killing flag. Make sure post processing is disabled when you are checking since it runs some kind of FXAA like post AA.

[Kinleyb]

Nice! Can't wait to get off work to test these!

[Y1ROK]

Originally Posted by wasteomind

Are you sure it was actually applying any AA? I did some pretty extensive testing with AA in this game and found I couldn't get any AA without setting a performance killing flag. Make sure post processing is disabled when you are checking since it runs some kind of FXAA like post AA.

Here is example. Same settings in drivers, no injector.

[Noisiv]

newbie you're not reading, or do not understand?

Originally Posted by Blaire

295.73 has Behavior Flags that prevents AA Override. You can disable this for example by NV Inspector, then Override works again.