NVIDIA 301.42 WHQL's are available. Presumably they don't fix the V-Sync stutter issue some 600 users experience, the release notes don't say.

Link to win 7 64 bit driver below.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvi ... river.html

Thanks for that. It looks like an important release that improves performance in 400/500 series (they even fix 3D Vision in Heaven 3.0 benchmark )

To D/L the .pdf release notes
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/3 ... -notes.pdf

i'll put together my new system today and tomorrow. i am not sure that i will get to these drivers in a timely fashion. i may use my old i7-920/x58 platform to do the benching - other than that, it will take me too long to do a performance analysis on a new Z77 MB.
From the highlights [quote>>>>>>>

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 296.10 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 570/580:
Up to 23% in Just Cause 2 with SLI
Up to 21% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Up to 17% in StarCraft II with SLI
Up to 14% in Far Cry 2 with SLI
Up to 9% in Bulletstorm
Up to 7% in Civilization V
Up to 6% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution with SLI
Up to 6% in Dragon Age 2 with SLI
Up to 5% in Metro 2033 with SLI
Up to 5% in Total War: Shogun 2

GeForce GTX 560/560 Ti:
Up to 20% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Up to 15% in Just Cause 2 with SLI
Up to 13% in Far Cry 2 with SLI
Up to 12% in Bulletstorm
Up to 11% in Civilization V
Up to 10% in StarCraft II with SLI
Up to 9% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 4% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution with SLI
Up to 4% in Dragon Age 2 with SLI
Up to 4% in Metro 2033 with SLI
Up to 4% in Total War: Shogun 2

NVIDIA FXAA Technology – shader-based anti-aliasing technology available from the NVIDIA Control Panel that enables ultra-fast anti-aliasing in hundreds of PC games. FXAA delivers similar quality to 4x multi-sample antialiasing (MSAA) but is up to 60% faster, enabling substantially higher performance in games. FXAA is supported on all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Note: This feature is disabled for games that already have built-in support for FXAA. Visit GeForce.com to learn more.

NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync – dynamically enables vertical sync based on your current frame rates for the smoothest gaming experience. Adaptive VSync is supported on all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Visit GeForce.com to learn more.

NVIDIA Frame Rate Target – dynamically adjusts frame rate to a user specified target. Support for this feature is enabled via third party applications via NVAPI. Visit GeForce.com to learn more.

NVIDIA Surround Technology – Adds the following new Surround capabilities.Visit GeForce.com to learn more.
Add in a fourth accessory display with GeForce GTX 600-series to get access to your email, web, or other applications while you game.
Maximize an application to a single physical display when in Surround mode (enabled by default).
Confine the Windows Taskbar to the center display (enabled by default).
Enable bezel peeking – a feature which enables users to temporarily peek behind the monitor bezels using a hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + B). This feature is designed to be used in conjunction with bezel corrected resolutions.
Add or remove resolutions from the list of Surround resolutions (only those selected will be available to applications).
Full center display acceleration for single wide display modes (center display must be connected to the master GPU).

NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
Alan Wake
Call of Juarez: The Cartel
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link
Left 4 Dead
Orcs Must Die!
Portal 2
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Risen 2: Dark Waters
The Darkness II
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Crusader Kings II
Max Payne 3
Sniper Elite V2
Street Fighter X Tekken

NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
All Zombies Must Die! – rated Fair
Ghosts 'n Goblins Online – rated Good
Oil Rush – rated 3D Vision Ready
Postal III – rated Good
Rayman Origins – rated Good
SevenCore – rated Fair
Stacking – rated Good
Unigine Heaven Benchmark v3.0 – rated 3D Vision Ready
Wargame: European Escalation – rated Good
Warp – rated Good
Wings of Prey – rated Fair
Krater – rated Poor
Adam's Venture Episode 1- rated Poor
Blacklight: Retribution – rated Poor
The Darkness II – updated in-game recommended settings
Depth Hunter – updated profile
Dirt: Showdown – rated Good
Passion Leads Army Benchmark – rated 3D Vision Ready
Resident Evil: Operating Raccoon City – Rated Fair
rFactor 2 – changed rating to 3D Vision Ready
Trackmania 2: Canyon – rated Fair
Unigine 3.0 Heaven Benchmark – updated profile
World of Tanks – changed rating to Excellent.

Yeah, they are good drivers. Have been running the beta's of them since release, glad to see GTX 670 officially supported since I suspect you'll have to prise these drivers out of my cold, dead hands to get me to change them. They work very well for Skyrim.

i didn't realize that you can actually hold video drivers with your hands, let alone require a pry bar to remove them from your grasp.


i have been running 301.24 and 301.33 betas. Of course, i am always glad to upgrade to the latest WHQLs.

As soon as i finish taking hundreds of pics and get a little more progress done on my GTC Wrap up, i'll move my i7-3770K to its new home in a full tower PC. i have a bit more testing to do with NH-DH14 before i put Ivy under water.

Then i am back to benching.

Oops, had a dyslexic moment, my current drivers are the 301.24 beta's. As I said they are very good, being very close to launch drivers. Ruby The DoubleCross demo renders (almost) properly with these (you still need 3DAnalyze though), 3DC seems to be working, where most other nvidia drivers disable it and Ruby is all polygon faced and flat texture shaded.

It will be interesting to see if the demo continues to render properly with 301.42

i hear you brother!!!!!!

that is funny



i needed a laugh

The proper release notes for this driver can be found here:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/3 ... -notes.pdf

If you have a nvidia card, you ***HAVE*** to install these drivers, they are beyond awesome!

Renders ATi's Ruby the Double Cross demo correctly, along with 3DMark99Max, XLR8R, Aquamark & Gothic 1.

The speed and fluidity of the animation is amazing too, as well as texture clarity.

I didn't think I'd ever see performance on Gothic 1 fixed, let alone see Aquamark run to its proper potential again, but these drivers let it happen.

I'm quite gob-smacked, haven't tried anything new yet, whatever nvidia did in these drivers should have been done years back!

Forget 301.24, these are the drivers you'll have to try (and fail at) prising out of my cold dead hands! It's like I've already upgraded to GTX 670's ( except that won't happen until at least 1 June).

Fortunately we don't have to pry them out of anyone's hands


i'm looking forward to benching them. i am still buried in pages of the GTC wrap up. ONCE that is out of the way, i will get back to my usual work.

71 fps in Crysis 1 Island GPU bench.

Everything set the same as last time I posted Crysis 1 results for SickBeast.



Frigging awesome.

I think apoppin needs to do a comprehensive retest of all his nvidia cards and post the results. Everything you think you know about them performance wise is now (very) wrong.