Nvidia Releases GeForce 331.58 WHQL Drivers
It's that time, again!
Nvidia today announced the release of its GeForce 331.58 WHQL driver. Nvidia is calling this an essential update for all GeForce GTX users, as it's the Game Ready update for Batman: Arkham Origins and Battlefield 4, two major games of the upcoming season. Nvidia also promises increased performance in DiRT Showdown (up to 11 percent), Metro: Last Light (up to 9 percent), Sleeping Dogs (up to 8 percent) and Sniper Elite V2 (up to 13 percent).
Check all the details below:
Release Summary
This Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in Batman: Arkham Origins and Battlefield 4. GeForce Game Ready drivers also provide performance increases for a variety of different games.
New in GeForce R331 Drivers
- Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 13% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 327.23 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:
GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN:
- Up to 11% in Dirt: Showdown
- Up to 9% in Metro: Last Light
- Up to 8% in Sleeping Dogs
- Up to 13% in Sniper Elite V2
- SLI Technology
- Batman: Arkham Origins – updated profile
- Battlefield 4 – updated profile
- Shadow Warrior – added DX9 profile
- War of the Vikings – added DX11 profile
- Dragon Sword - updated DX9 profile
- GRID 2 - updated DX11 profile
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 - updated profile
- Gaming Technology
- Civilization 5 – added HBAO+;
- SHIELD
- Enables GeForce to SHIELD streaming (Beta). Learn more here.
- 4K Displays
- Adds support for 4K Surround
Additional Details
- Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.0725.
- Installs HD Audio v1.3.26.4
- Installs GeForce Experience v8.3.23.1
- Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
- Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
- Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
- Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
- Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.
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Where my ShadowPlay at!?
Where my ShadowPlay at!?
it will launch on October 28 as beta. honestly i don't know where tom's got that 21st date. i watch the stream for TWIMTBP event at Montreal and during presentation JHH clearly mention 28 october launch date for shadow play.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-shadowplay-beta-available-october-28
it will launch on October 28 as beta. honestly i don't know where tom's got that 21st date. i watch the stream for TWIMTBP event at Montreal and during presentation JHH clearly mention 28 october launch date for shadow play.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-shadowplay-beta-available-october-28
Ah. Good to know. Thanks.
314.22 runs rock solid though, looks like I will be sticking with it till I get my next card, maybe I will consider AMD next time but probably not, I only buy NVIDIA and love there cards but I wish they would fix their drivers.
Indeed, support for older cards and games seems to be an area that
degrades with each new release. There are lots of people still running
with GTX 460s, 560s, 580s, etc. Should they bother with these updates?
As mr grim & John Bauer said, I had issues with drivers after 314.22
aswell, so atm I'm sticking with 314.22, or in some cases 310.90 since
there's a Quadro release of the same number (ideal for multi-GPU setups).
Ian.
Presumably the problems mainly concern those using pre-600 series cards.
Ian.
My 580s ran great after the 680s came out; SLI and all. I got my 680s a month after they hit the market.
That remains to be seen. /hugs his R9.
That was a long time ago and is all AMD fans have, so sad.
I like they way that you didn't mention that they also replaced any cards that failed, one way of getting a new card for free.