GeForce 313.95 Beta Driver Download & Discussion

I see that as an issue with Bethesda. Nearly all of their games are in a beta type phase and we buy to test the betas out.

 

On boot-up/ start. By time i've got to opening Chrome the driver caves and i'm greeted with a black screen.

See above.

 

same her with beta .95 and the new .96! crash and reboot directly when the driver is updated.

 

just played some skyrim after your posting and no problems for me.

 

Link here for the 313.96 installer.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-w...?ClickID=dst0sw2trzhmkthntsxbynhznyysoscnbymy

 

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That or disable Windows from installing drivers automatically "Google", otherwise Win 8 will install a 304 series driver on top of what you just installed off the internet, causing all kinds of night mares.

These drivers have been rock solid here. No issues in any games installed. First driver since the 306.97 to not have minor issues.

Will keep for now.

 

I've narrowed it down to sli for me. If sli is disabled then game starts normally. Soon as I enable sli the trouble begins. Someone mind posting the latest sli bit so I can compare and eliminate that possibility? Thanks.

 

I am on windows 7 using surround setup with 3 monitors, there is an issue with the confine taskbar to center display.

Any one using triple monitors experienced that ?

Also how are these drivers with windows 8?
Is the task bar centered with these drivers and windows 8?

 

Done trying to figure these drivers out. Back to 310.70's - Which work fine btw.

 

I actually had the same problem at first. Turned out that it was the EVGA Precision OSD which made the game crash here. So if anyone has the same problem: turn off the OSD in EVGA Precision (and perhaps MSI Afterburner has the same problem).

SLI Scaling with 2 670's in Crysis 3 is just... not there. Perhaps they really just optimized it for the 690 for now. Usage on my primary card is about 99% and on my secondary it's about 4-5%.

Other than that, great drivers so far as far as I can tell. Far Cry 3 is really smooth and I happened to be playing the Wither 2 lately, and performance seems vastly improved (even though it wasn't all that bad to begin with); from around 80-90 fps to 120-130 fps in some areas (which is very welcome since I'm a 120Hz gamer).

 

I saw in the release notes that D3D clamping is not supported on Fermi or later. I thought it used to work on these graphics cards as well but maybe I was wrong. Doubt it though, because it seems my LOD bias setting is also broken and I'm positive that worked in D3D before.

 

Thanks for the info, i tried once again and it was still the same. sli looked like it was -badly- working as gpu usage varied between 30-40% on each gpu (i use ab and g510 for real time monitoring) and fps were still under 30. But it looks like the 313.xx sets have been removed from the nv download page and do not show up in nvupdate for a good reason probably. Will wait for the next set


Edit- Nope, didn't try to compare them but should have

 

Their is something wrong with these drivers for me. I know Guildwars 2 has just had a patch but.... before the patch/driver everything ran smooth. Never dipped below 60 and judder free (310.70's). Now though the game seems to stutter and not seem smooth even though it reads 60 at all times via Afterburner.

I'm gonna go back to the 310.70 and report back as if it was this driver or the patch...


EDIT: It's not the patch! It's this driver. Btw I'm not overclocked on gfx. No stutter or un-smoothness with 310.70.

 

That really seems to be SLI related then, I just played again and it's smooth as silk (considering GW2 standards) with just one card. Or maybe it's the AO change, have both of you enabled Ambient Occlusion maybe? And did you try the new smooth VSync option? And have the SLI bits changed?

 

is this driver better than the last quadro?

 

For your GTX 690 it should be, or else NVIDIA is doing something horribly wrong.

 

Saw the 313.96 set on nvupdate and gave it a go even tho i did not see it on their website. I'm glad to say that it fixes the GW2 issues with 313.95's and performance seems to be back to normal. I'm glad cause they seem pretty good with farcry 3 as well.

 

I did not change AO ever. Any driver. I don't use VSync either driver. Yet their was stutter in this driver and not the other I mentioned.

 

LIKE I said before. Clamping worked PERFECTLY before.

Then people complained about not being able to NLOD SGSSAA in DX11.

So Nvidia 1UP'd that and made it ****ing automatic and completely broke Clamping in the process. Now the rest of us who don't need/want NLOD most of the time have to suffer.

Who knows if they will ever bother to fix it or not.:stewpid:

 

It still works, it just has a dummy control now. Setting it to Allow in NVCP and not touching anything in NV inspector still works automatically i have tested this in Serious Sam 3. Setting it anything other than Auto/0.000 will force a constant NLOD value for finer-tuning. Why would you want to CLAMP NLOD but still apply SGSSAA? its a blurry damn mess. The reason clamp is there is for compatibility with some engines not handling Negative LOD correctly. but now that you have the options to adjust it yourself, this need not apply.