New Nvidia Drivers Improve Performance in RAGE, BF3
New drivers provided by Nvidia are optimized for RAGE, Battlefield 3 and the new Batman title, Arkham City.
Monday Nvidia announced the release of its new GeForce 285.62 WHQL drivers that reportedly offer performance improvements in Battlefield 3, RAGE and Batman: Arkham City. The new drivers also bundle together all the enhancements and updates contained within the 285.27 and 285.38 beta releases, in addition to new SLI and 3D Vision profiles for many of today’s most popular games.
"For Battlefield 3 we’ve improved performance by up to 11-percent since the release of the GeForce 285.38 beta drivers, have included several compatibility enhancements, a new and improved SLI profile, and a 3D Vision profile," the company said. "Similarly, RAGE has received enhancements since the release of the same drivers, and Batman: Arkham City compatibility has been implemented."
In addition to a long list of improvements, Nvidia said that the driver timeouts experienced with the R285 beta drivers have been fixed, and that World of Warcraft players using an SLI system will no longer experience a flickering death. On Optimus notebooks, a Halo 2 crash has been rectified, as has an audio error that occurred when switching between 1080p and 480p resolutions.
"Updates contained within the earlier beta drivers have been carried over, such as the many performance improvements made to games --between the release of the 280.26 WHQL drivers and today’s 285.62 WHQL drivers-- when running on our entire range of 500-Series graphics cards," Nvidia said.
Gamers using a GeForce GTX 580 should see a 13-percent performance boost in Metro 2033, 8-percent in STALKER: Call of Pripyat, 7-percent in Civilization V, 5-percent in Crysis 2 with the DirectX 11 Ultra Update enabled, and more. GeForce GTX 560 users should see a 11-percent performance jump in STALKER but a mere 7-percent boost in Metro 2033.
To see Nvidia's long list of performance gains, head here.
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It's too late for Rage now, after that *disastrous* release. But I'm for anything that makes BF3 look even shmexier/perform better.
@1080p, DX11 everything on, no physX.....that's like ? 3fps
Metro 33 gets performance increase by 10% each month since its release. It must be running at 1 000 000 fps by now! What a game!!!!
Misleading headlines.
i wish amd also released driver updates that didn't screw up gaming.
lets hope they have web acceleration for battle field 3
We are much more interested in minimum performance gain in fps.
What about the most popular cards, such as, GTX 460?
Please provide useful information when you were to announce such a performance improvement, nVidia.
Not bad i'm some what proud of Nvidia for fixing a issue in a game that people don't really talk about anymore.(halo 2)
1st month = metro 2033 25fps
2nd month ( +10% perfomance ) = metro 2033 27fps
3rd month ( +10% perfomance ) = metro 29-30fps
and so on....
Only a day after AMD!
It would be great if tomshardware could do a test of the newer drivers using a GTX 560, GTX 460, GTX 260, and GTX 9800
The focus of the test will be to see if performance boost listed for newer cards will also translate to performance boost for older cards.
This information currently is non existent or very hard to find.
their servers were down last night...must have been overloaded by so many ppl wanting to play BF3...(like me)...
@1080p, DX11 everything on, no physX.....that's like ? 3fps
stop hating because I remember when you wanted to swap your HD 6950 for a GTX 560
a few months ago...
try running a game with the 'eye-candy' PhysX enabled with that Radeon card.
watch those frames drop then...
me personally run SLi GTX 460 Hawks @ 3840 x 1024 landscape resolution.
wicked...
stop hating because I remeber when you wanted to swap your HD 6950 for a GTX 560a few months ago...try running a game with the 'eye-candy' PhysX enabled with that Radeon card.watch those frames drop then...me personally run SLi GTX 460 Hawks @ 3840 x 1024 landscape resolution.wicked...
well, if you could find me someone to buy my 6950 in Malaysia at about maybe 750MYR, I would be more than willing to run a 7300GS until 28nm GPUs come out
well, if you could find me someone to buy my 6950 in Malaysia at about maybe 750MYR, I would be more than willing to run a 7300GS until 28nm GPUs come out
Wish I would have went with an Nvidia card now
ATI is good, but there is no question Nvidia has better drivers. The ATI driver interface looks like something from the early 90's. Everything is hidden under some clunky menu, if it even works.
Not hating on ATI, but as a guy who used Nvidia for close to 10 years and then switched, I think Nvidia has superior driver software.
World of Warcraft players using an SLI system will no longer experience a flickering death.
It's nice that issues were addressed, but why would anyone enable SLI for WoW it's about as taxing on a graphics subsystem as Tetris?
My machine went from not being able to play Rage in 3 screen mode at 5760x1080 (i7 3.8Ghz, 3 23" 120hz monitors, GTX590), without screen flashing, texture popping and eventually crashing with abysmal frame rates, to now with new driver at full resolution, no flashing, no texture popping and incredibly fast with no lag whatsoever and what looks like very high texture mode. Now that is what I expected in the beginning.
To bad I already finished the game at a measly 1920x1080 and I am no longer interested in it.
their servers were down last night...must have been overloaded by so many ppl wanting to play BF3...(like me)...
Yeah, I couldn't get on this morning either..
Single player is pretty cool though.. Want to try coop
It's nice that issues were addressed, but why would anyone enable SLI for WoW it's about as taxing on a graphics subsystem as Tetris?
I think you have not played WoW for quite some time. The new patches and zones (and I mean relatively new, not even latest expansion new), do tax the graphical system at high resolutions, longest view ranges and so on.
nVidia drivers 280.26 were quite an improvement over 275.33.
I want to compare them with these myself.
13-percent performance boost in Metro 2033, Metro Sucked, now the openness of STALKER was nice.
RAGE should be fun but after it hits the bargain bin. Will pay full price for SkyRim if it does not have issues at release like RAGE had.
This is misinformation nvidia posted 580 sli and 560 sli. Tom's is messing things up. About that 8150 review, fix it, the motherboard they used is broke with bullbozer. Also use real ram, 300$ chip 200+$ motherboard and you skimp 20$ on ram. I call fraud!!!!!
This is misinformation nvidia posted 580 sli and 560 sli. Tom's is messing things up. About that 8150 review, fix it, the motherboard they used is broke with bullbozer. Also use real ram, 300$ chip 200+$ motherboard and you skimp 20$ on ram. I call fraud!!!!!
1.
2. ram is cheap and the ram they used was good.
3. your post reeks of trollbait.
4. if anyone messed up it was either amd or global foundries or both.
went from driver 280.62 to 285.62 all my issues i was having got worse. driver goes on responsive still. dragon age 2 does not like it at all. had no graphics problems on DA2 before other then unresponsive BS which just happens anytime but had seemed to gone away, now characters bleeding texture. very unhappy with my first nvidia product a 560 Ti never had so many driver issues with my amd 4850 it replaced.
went from driver 280.62 to 285.62 all my issues i was having got worse. driver goes on responsive still. dragon age 2 does not like it at all. had no graphics problems on DA2 before other then unresponsive BS which just happens anytime but had seemed to gone away, now characters bleeding texture. very unhappy with my first nvidia product a 560 Ti never had so many driver issues with my amd 4850 it replaced.
you need to run drive sweeper and sweep clean your system from all nVidia drivers.
then fresh install the latest set of drivers.
or
reinstall the latest set of drivers and then select custom install,
then check the option for clean install.
that should fix your problem..
I'm running 280.26 still and have NO issues.
booo no fix on the 570gtx's QQ
can anyone please tell me how to fix nvidia drivers?
i tried to install latest and it crashed 1/2 thru... so i uninstalled and rebooted and now i cant even install old drivers!?
ive used revo uninstaller pro and tried several uninstalls, reboots, everything but am losing my mind!
cant get ANY nvidia drivers to install AT ALL
GTX 560ti Vista 64
can anyone please tell me how to fix nvidia drivers?
i tried to install latest and it crashed 1/2 thru... so i uninstalled and rebooted and now i cant even install old drivers!?
ive used revo uninstaller pro and tried several uninstalls, reboots, everything but am losing my mind!
cant get ANY nvidia drivers to install AT ALL
GTX 560ti Vista 64
http://phyxion.net/item/driver-sweeper.html