Nvidia Releases GeForce 320.14 Beta Drivers
The GeForce 320.14 Beta Drivers are Nvidia's "Game Ready" drivers for Metro: Last Light, and also feature performance increases and updated SLI profiles for a range of titles.
Nvidia has launched the GeForce 320.14 Beta Drivers that provide up to 10 percent better performance in Metro: Last Light and improvements of up to 20 percent for a range of other titles when compared to the GeForce 314.22 WHQL drivers.
Though results will vary, depending on your system's configuration, Nvidia has provided the following "measured gains" for a GTX 660 in both a solo and SLI configurations.
| Title | GTX 660 | GTX 660 SLI |
|---|---|---|
| Battlefield 3 | - | Up to 6% |
| Dirt: Showdown | Up to 20% | Up to 17% |
| Deus Ex: Human Revolutions | Up to 6% | Up to 6% |
| F1 2012 | Up to 5% | Up to 5% |
| Far Cry 3 | Up to 6% | Up to 6% |
| Metro 2033 | Up to 6% | - |
| StarCraft II | Up to 8% | Up to 7% |
| Tomb Raider | Up to 18% | Up to 18% |
Finally, the drivers included added or updated SLI profiles for a range of titles that include Alien Fear, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Dead Island: Riptide, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Grid 2, Resident Evil 6 and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.
The GeForce 320.14 Beta Drivers are available for download from Nvidia's GeForce website for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
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Tarun Iyer was a contributor for Tom's Hardware who wrote news covering a wide range of technology topics, including processors, graphics cards, cooling systems, and computer peripherals. He also covered tech trends such as the development of adaptive all-in-one PCs.
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razor512 hopefully this beta driver works properly.Reply
version 320.00 beta had fan control issues on the GTX 400 series cards. (caused high temperatures and throttling) -
kuro sanji I have the same problem with beta driver, it makes the performance down, before updating to version 320 betaReply -
SchizoFrog Finding issues is the point of releasing BETA drivers. If you don't want issues then stick with the WHQL releases.Reply -
JJ1217 Meh, Nvidia's Beta drivers have been a hit and miss. Like I understand as Schizo said its to find out issues, but some beta releases are a flat out joke.Reply
The last 3 months of WHQL releases from Nvidia haven't been perfect either... AMD is really stepping up their driver department. -
dextermat lol nothing for planteside 2... I guess it still has problems...Reply
Nice though fix not the fact I could not install my 9800 gt on previous driver!