The GeForce 314.07 WHQL driver is now available and is classified as "essential" for Crysis 3
Nvidia has released the 314.07 WHQL driver for its GeForce series of graphics cards and is viewed by the company as being "an essential update for gamers jumping into Crysis 3" as it increases performance on single and multiple-GPUs by a maximum of 65% and features an "excellent" 3D Vision profile for the game. Other improvements include a 27% gain in Assassin's Creed III, 19% in Civilization V, 14% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, 14% in DiRT 3, 11% in Just Cause 2, 10% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, 10% in F1 2012, 10% in Far Cry 3 and improved SLI performance in DMC: Devil May Cry and the F2P shooter, Warframe.
The GeForce 314.07 WHQL drivers are available from the GeForce.com homepage for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
While I can understand your woes with multi-monitor issues if that's true, how is this throwing GTX 500 owners under the bus? Most of Nvidia's recent driver releases help those cards in addition to the GTX 600 series and even if they hadn't, it's not like new drivers don't at least support the older cards. There's only so much performance optimization that can be edged out of an architecture. They have their limits.
(or will there be a case where it may actually lower performance with certain game and card combinations)
Your rigs fine,. but don't brag...
That seems like it'd take a long time because of the huge workload. I can say that I'm not aware of any situation where it lowered performance on older cards. I can say that performance gains are probably not going to be proportional from the 600 series to the lower series because they're not even proportional for different cards in the 600 series, but I can say as much as they'd be there.
There's a difference between bragging and adding another perspective to a post that was made earlier.
I wasn't trying to.. I was just backing my comment above where he said multi monitor people get "thrown under the bus". Sorry if that was unclear.
Try looking at drivers strait from Gigabyte. Nvidia's divers are generics and although they usually work, there can be some discrepancies between the cards they're designed for (reference cards) and non-reference cards.
You might want to consider going to the forums for direct help if none of the drivers are working.
while it may be a little time consuming it seems like it will be useful for those of us with older gen cards that are still able to handle todays games, it will show us if we should get excited about a driver update (if compatibility with games is not an issue.
Doesnt look like it. My gts 250 has been pushing near 60 fps on medium-ish settings ever since a few updates ago, so I am currently satisfied. Everything else for improvements needs to be done on anet's part, and they are currently working on it from all the news I've seen.
You have admit to yourself, however, that LA and WvW (in large zerg fights) will always struggle. There is just too much processing going on.
Thanks Captain Obvious, but Nvidia is ignoring the problem right now. It's affecting a lot of people. I guess this is a learning experience, don't install drivers until you know they're stable. I've done all sorts of registry cleans, driver wipes, anti-virus and malware scans (which did in fact pick up something malicious within an Nvidia registry).