NVIDIA GeForce 310.70 Beta Drivers Available

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• Termie - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - link

  Actually, it looks from the release notes that the only performance change in 310.70 is in Far Cry 3. That being said, there are numerous bugs fixed over 310.64, including a BF3 multiplayer crash that I have experienced numerous times since installing 310.64, so this is a worthwhile update for more than just Far Cry 3.

• Sufo - Monday, December 10, 2012 - link

  Oh wow... that's great news. I thought it might be more than coincidence that bug occurred around the time of the update. The drivers had been working so nicely I guess I didn't want to believe it was their fault. I'll be updating to these as soon as I get home.

• aguilpa1 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - link

  I downloaded and installed this for Farcry 3 and GTX590. I have 3 1920x1080 screens for a total of 5760x1080 widescreen format. While the widescreen modes work fine in F3, the game is to taxing even with 590 at that resolution in very high and ultra modes. There is also a bug where if you switch from widescreen to single monitor the FOV stays stuck at widescreen and your view becomes a very compressed version of a wide angle on a single screen. If you switch the FOV or stop/start the game or change resolutions doesn't fix it. It always seems new games no matter how new and modern screw the widescreen gamers. I blame the whole console mentality that games are developed for the lowest common denominator but the industry is always pushing for multiple monitors and widescreen gaming even in 3D but the game developers don't or can't seem to make it happen.

• CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - link

  Wait a minute, let's give credit where credit is due, to utterly shame amd and their pathetic driver releases:
  
  GeForce GTX 680:
  Up to 38% in Far Cry 3
  Up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
  Up to 16% in Battlefield 3
  Up to 18% in Assassin's Creed III
  Up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  Up to 6% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
  Up to 6% in StarCraft II
  Up to 6% in Dragon Age II
  Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
  Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
  
  GeForce GTX 660:
  Up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
  Up to 10% in Battlefield 3
  Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  Up to 6% in Far Cry 3
  Up to 5% in Dragon Age II
  Up to 5% in Assassin's Creed III
  Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City
  Up to 4% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
  
  Other Profile Updates
  Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Counter-strike: Global Offensive
  Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Cross Fire
  Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Darksides 2
  Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Dragon Nest
  Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Guild Wars 2
  Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Mechwarrrior Online
  Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Meng San Guo
  
  LOL -
  I hate shading in games ( amd fanboy emulation), and PhysX too
  
  NVIDIA SSAA
  Added negative LOD adjustments for NVIDIA’s full-screen sparse grid supersampling mode to improve image sharpness.
  
  ( don't expect a comparison to amd crap with SSAA )
  
  Oh look they tell the truth on their 3D, not claiming it's all wonderful, but BEING HELPFUL TO THEIR FANS
  
  NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
  007 Legends - rated Fair
  Assassin's Creed III - rated Not Recommended
  Bloody Good Time - rated Good
  Bullet Run - rated Fair
  Bunch of Heroes - rated Good
  CABAL2 - rated Good
  Call of Duty Black Ops 2 - rated Good
  Carrier Command: Gaea Mission - rated 3D Vision Ready
  Dark Souls - rated Fair
  Dishonored - rated Fair
  Euro Truck Simulator 2 - rated Excellent
  FIFA 13 - rated Good
  Hawken - rated 3D Vision Ready
  Hitman: Absolution - rated Fair
  I Am Alive - rated Fair
  Lucius - rated Fair
  Mabinogi Heroes - rated Fair
  Medal of Honor: Warfighter - rated Fair
  Metro: Last Light - rated Good
  MLB 2K12 - rated Fair
  NBA 2K12 - rated Good
  NBA 2K13 - rated Good
  Need for Speed: Most Wanted - rated Fair
  Of Orcs and Men - rated Fair
  Painkiller: Hell & Damnation - rated Fair
  Planetside 2 - rated Not Recommended
  Prepar3D - rated Good
  Sniper Elite V2 - rated Poor
  Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - rated Poor
  The Amazing Spider-Man - rated Not Recommended
  Tiny Troopers - rated Fair
  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD - rated Good
  Total War Battles: SHOGUN - rated Good
  Unmechanical - rated Good
  War of the Roses rated Fair
  World Rally Championship 3 rated Good
  XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair
  
  THANK YOU FOR BEING THE HONEST GAMING CARD COMPANY NVIDIA, unlike your nearing bankruptcy fanboy rage competition, who sucks at 3D.

• JarredWalton - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - link

  Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is what, nearly four years old now? I at one point tried using it as a game for benchmarking, but eventually dropped it. Also, it's OpenGL accelerated so I could see how optimizations might still be forthcoming. Crazy!

• enki - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - link

  Wish they would fix audio over HDMI. My computer plugs into my receiver which plugs into the TV, sometimes when turning off the receiver and TV the computer decides it can't output audio through HDMI anymore

• Marlin1975 - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - link

  Yea my GTX460 also does the same thing sometimes that requires a re-boot to fix.

• enki - Thursday, December 6, 2012 - link

  Going into the control panel and disabling audio over HDMI and then re-enabling it usually fixes it but is really annoying to do since the computer just runs Media Center to watch recorded TV

• Jhatfie - Friday, December 7, 2012 - link

  Actually, my HD7850 has this same exact problem in my HTPC. Just switched over to a GTX660 in hopes that the issue would go away because it annoyed me so much. So far the issue has not come back, but I have only had the 660 for a couple days.