NVIDIA GeForce 301.24 Beta Drivers

[---TK---]

Beta drivers are just drivers without the whql tag. They can be better, same, or worse than whql drivers. You have to try them for yourself. Ymmv as to which driver is best for your individual system. This beta is slightly better than the last whql I tested.

[Mufflore]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

Beta drivers are just drivers without the whql tag.

See the previous post.

[---TK---]

No thanks man.

[D4rKy21]

Tested this driver with The Witcher 2, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Metro 2033 al work fine only not with Crysis 2 i get flikkering textures and a bit stuttering anyone else got the same problem with crysis 2 and sli or without it ? in overal great driver and good IQ only crysis 2 dont work so well with this driver thats al.

[NeoandGeo]

I haven't tried Crysis 2 yet, but BF3 works great with this set.

[tsunami231]

cause people on nvidia forums dont want to asnwer this i will ask it again here.

Do these drivers actual have optimizing in it for swtor? cause I have quote from manualg saying they already optimized drivers for swtor and dont plan to do anymore, which is why I updated to 296.10. only to find out that was a bs lie cause game ran same fps as it did with 275.33.

Also the FXAA does it function in swtor?

[connta]

fxaa functions in everything that uses shaders... and thats just about everything.

[tsunami231]

ok so does that mean you tried it in swtor? fxaa injector was supposed to work in all apps too but to get to work in swtor you had to modify the client.

[korn666]

Adaptive V-Sync or framerate target ??? what do u guys use?

[johnuhtron]

Originally Posted by TechFreaK

In short, you're running out of vram.

Play with no aa or 2xaa, max 4xaa or lower textures.

Hi techfreak thanks for the reply,

as i am running nvidia surround it downgrades to 2x AA anyway but on crysis i was running with no AA, previous drivers had an average of 40 fps in surround at 5760 x 1080 and did not lag when turning left or right, even dark messiah running at stupendous fps lags when i turn left or right with these 301 drivers. A very strange problem indeed, i doubt its system performance despite the symptoms suggesting a lack of Vram.

I did try what you said anyway with no change with the problem, any other suggestions welcome though.

Cheers. John.

[TechFreaK]

Originally Posted by johnuhtron

Hi techfreak thanks for the reply,

as i am running nvidia surround it downgrades to 2x AA anyway but on crysis i was running with no AA, previous drivers had an average of 40 fps in surround at 5760 x 1080 and did not lag when turning left or right, even dark messiah running at stupendous fps lags when i turn left or right with these 301 drivers. A very strange problem indeed, i doubt its system performance despite the symptoms suggesting a lack of Vram.

I did try what you said anyway with no change with the problem, any other suggestions welcome though.

Cheers. John.

Hi again,

hm then it could something with texture streaming or the way it handles them with 301.xx driver and that somehow causes this vram leakage effect at high resolutions.

Here is a good tip to save some vram, if you're not using it already

right-click on all those games and by compatibility tab check disable visual themes and disable desktop composition. Or even simpler when you play switch to classic theme..

And you could to try Dark Messiah in windowsXP sp3 compatibility mode, maybe will run better.

[styka]

Originally Posted by Anthrax27

When the F*CK are they going to fix the 30fps (during animations and sometimes during replays) bug in FIFA 12?

just go to the profile and set maximum performance for fifa 12.. the issue is just it downlocks to 405 on animations and replays.

[EpicLoss]

Originally Posted by styka

just go to the profile and set maximum performance for fifa 12.. the issue is just it downlocks to 405 on animations and replays.

i always set max aa and max performance for fifa 12 through nvidia control panel and i dont see any downclocks during play

[RagDoll_Effect]

@TK and Samtroy, Mufflore is a good friend of mine, and I will back him up on this one. Beta drivers are not Whql certified, whether it's because microsoft decides that they have bugs or not, they are still considered beta... It's true that they can be as good or even better than whql ceritified ones doesn't change the fact that beta means still in testing phase which is what Mufflore is saying.

regards,
RagDoll.

[Damien_Azreal]

Just installed these. So far, seem really good. No issues or problems.

And the FXAA setting works great with Borderlands and Ghost Busters.

[FortAwesome]

Originally Posted by korn666

Adaptive V-Sync or framerate target ??? what do u guys use?

Currently using:

Max Pre-rendered frames: 0
V-sync: forced on
Triple-buffering via d3d overrider
FPS max = 58

[Anthrax27]

Originally Posted by styka

just go to the profile and set maximum performance for fifa 12.. the issue is just it downlocks to 405 on animations and replays.

Wow that fixed it for me thanks

[korn666]

Originally Posted by FortAwesome

Currently using:

Max Pre-rendered frames: 0
V-sync: forced on
Triple-buffering via d3d overrider
FPS max = 58

thanks for the tips buddy!

[FortAwesome]

Originally Posted by korn666

thanks for the tips buddy!

you're welcome!
I read that triple buffering doesn't play nice with pre-rendered frames so that's why I made max pre-rendered frames 0; also capped FPS @ 58 on my 60hz monitor to help with mouse lag.

[cyberfredxxx]

no sli profile for the last ridge racer
and no improve in this driver for this game :/
(the game stutter in full screen , must be play in windows mode :/ )

[macdaddy]

^^ nothing wrong here with ridge racer

[Boblebad]

Tried these and I found it unbearable to play swtor. Setting anything above "very low" on the Shader-settings (ingame) gave me severe FPS-issues.
I uninstalled the drivers, reverted back to 296.10 and the game is running smoothly as ever with everything on max settings again.

I didn't really try any other games.

[sanpats]

Originally Posted by Boblebad

Tried these and I found it unbearable to play swtor. Setting anything above "very low" on the Shader-settings (ingame) gave me severe FPS-issues.
I uninstalled the drivers, reverted back to 296.10 and the game is running smoothly as ever with everything on max settings again.

I didn't really try any other games.

That's weird. I've been playing SWTOR almost a week with this driver and it's working fine. FXAA is nice for the game and Adaptive V-Sync help reduce unnecessary load that come from the game unoptimized code. I play everything high except AA and V-Sync which I force from NVCP.

Mine is mobile-GPU though, GTX 570M o/c to the clock speed much above desktop GTX 460 stock.

[Axaion]

Originally Posted by FortAwesome

Currently using:

Max Pre-rendered frames: 0
V-sync: forced on
Triple-buffering via d3d overrider
FPS max = 58

How the hell? the lowest max prerendered i can set my GTX 560 Ti to with this driver is 1.

[IcE]

Originally Posted by Axaion

How the hell? the lowest max prerendered i can set my GTX 560 Ti to with this driver is 1.

Nvidia inspector reports "Let the application decide" as "0" when that's not possible anymore. Nvidia removed the zero option.