nV Drivers thread.

[narciso]

Originally Posted by caveman-jim

263.06 for 580 now available for download on EVGA.com

http://www.evga.com/support/drivers/

Select 'Graphics' then 500 series, then your OS, to download.

Actually is 263.09

[caveman-jim]

So it is,

New in Release 263.09:

Official WHQL release Driver for GTX 580

• Installs HD Audio driver to version 1.1.9.0.
• Includes PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514.
• Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Supports OpenGL 4.1 for GeForce 400 series and later GPUs.

[narciso]

New 263.14 driver released! Support for all cards available.

Gainward link: http://www.gainward.com/main/download.php?vgapro=452

[SIrPauly]

http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/01/intr...he+NVIDIA+Blog)

[SIrPauly]

Certified 266.58 is at nVidia's site:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

This is the first release from the Release 265 family of drivers (versions 265.xx to 269.xx). You can read more about this family of drivers on GeForce.com.

This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.

New in Release 266.58

GPU Support

Supports the newly released GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce GTX 570 GPUs.
Performance

Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. the latest Release 260 drivers. The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured on Windows 7. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
GeForce GTX 580:
Up to 7% in Battlefield Bad Company 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 12% in Battleforge (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF Very High)
Up to 11% in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 7% in Dirt 2 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 7% in Far Cry 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 5% in Just Cause 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF Dark Tower)
Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 9% in Stone Giant (SLI 1920x1200, DOF on)
Up to 8% in Unigine Heaven v2.1 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Improves performance in Final Fantasy XI on GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs.
Visual Quality

Adds ambient occlusion support for one of the most popular games of the year: Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. Ambient occlusion improves the quality of lighting, shadows, and depth perception in many parts of the game. Learn more on GeForce.com.
NVIDIA 3D Vision

With Release 260 and 265 drivers, the installation process for 3D Vision has changed. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information on the changes.
Adds support for 3DVisionLive.com Beta 2:
Adds supports for 3D photo sharing and viewing
Adds new 3D video clips to the website
Improved scaling quality with video streaming content from 3DVisionLive.com over previous 266.35 Beta driver
Adds 3D Vision Window Mode support for the following games and applications:
Games
Aion
Crazy Racing Kart Rider
Crossfire
Dragon Nest
EverQuest 2
Guild Wars 2
NED
PopKart
QQ Dance QQ
QQ Xian Xia
Tian Long Ba Bu
World of Warcraft – Burning Crusade
World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King
Xun Xian
Zhu Xian 2
Google Earth
Improvements to 3DVisionLive
Adds support for new 3D Vision Desktop LCD monitors: Acer GN245HQ, Acer HN274H, Hannstar HS233, I-O Data 3D231XBR, Lenovo L2363dwA, Planar SA2311W
Adds support for new 3D Vision projectors: Acer X1261P, Sanyo PDG-DXL2000
Adds support for new 3D Vision All-in-On PC: ASUS ET2400XVT
Adds support for new DLP HDTVs: Mitsubishi WD-83838, WD-83738, WD-73838, WD-73837, WD-73738, WD-73638, WD-73C10, WD-65838, WD-65738, WD-65638, WD-65C10, WD-60738, WD-60638, WD-60C10, L75-A91.
Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
Arcania: Gothic 4
Crazy Racing Kart Rider 크레이지레이싱 카트라이더
Crossfire 穿越火线
Darksiders
DC Universe Online
Dragon Nest
Front Mission Evolved
Guild Wars 2
Hank Haney's World Golf
Lineage 2
Medal of Honor (2010) Multiplayer
Medal of Honor (2010) Single Player
NED
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
NVIDIA Demo: Aliens vs. Triangles
NVIDIA Demo Endless City
PopKart 跑跑卡丁车
QQ Dance QQ 炫舞
QQ Xian Xia Zhuan QQ 仙侠传
Tian Long Ba Bu 天龙八部
TRON: Evolution
Vizerra (fullscreen version)
World Rally Championship 2010
Xun Xian 寻仙
Update the following 3D Vision game profiles
Lost Planet 2 – rating is now changed to Fair
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2- rating has been changed to 3D Vision Ready
NVIDIA Surround

Improved performance for 3-way and 4-way SLI configurations
Updated 3D Vision Surround and NVIDIA Surround game support list. Please visit the 3D Vision Surround web page for a full list of supported games.
NVIDIA SLI

Adds SLI profiles for the following PC games:
Alien vs. Triangles Demo
Endless City Demo
Lionheart: Kings Crusade
Moscow Racer: Legends of USSR
Rift: Planes of Telara
Shaun White Skateboarding
Enhances SLI profiles for the following PC games:
Age of Conan
Arcania: Gothic 4
Civilization V - DX11
Lost Planet 2
World Of Warcraft
Other

Installs HD Audio driver version 1.1.13.1
Installs PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514
Supports playing back Blu-ray 3D discs when connecting your GPU to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV. Playback requires compatible software application from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Roxio, or Corel. For GPU and system requirements, visit the NVIDIA Blu-ray 3D website.
Supports lossless DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD audio bitstreaming support for compatible Blu-ray movies with GeForce GTX 460, GTS 450, and GT 430 GPUs.
Supports high definition 24-bit, 96 and 192 KHz multi-channel audio sampling rate support for compatible Blu-ray movies with GeForce 400 and 500 series, GT 240, GT 220 and 210 GPUs.
Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here.
Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenGL 4.1 on GeForce 400 series and later GPUs.
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 X58-based motherboards.
Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

[Ego]

So this is basically the 266.35 set with the WHQL badge ?
Not to keen on these drivers, I get frequent black screens and freezes especially in conjunction with high AA settings.

[ShaidarHaran]

Originally Posted by Ego

So this is basically the 266.35 set with the WHQL badge ?
Not to keen on these drivers, I get frequent black screens and freezes especially in conjunction with high AA settings.

You have problems *with these drivers*, or with the 266.35's which you presume to be the same?

[Serotonin]

Originally Posted by ShaidarHaran

You have problems *with these drivers*, or with the 266.35's which you presume to be the same?

Another quality post

[Ego]

I'm not "presuming" anything, I was just asking a question, hence the question mark at the end of the sentence.
If it's the same set of drivers (which is obviously unconfirmed but plausible since the release notes are identical) I'll just wait for the next revision.
And yes, my problems are with the .35 set.

[Hapatingjaky]

These drivers a very much different then the 266.35. They fix the AA bug, and a slew of other bugs, aswell as some performance increases. Thread over at Guru3d and Nvidia Forums seems pretty positive. Some are already saying that this is the best driver release yet.

Won't hold my breath though, installed them here on my notebook and I am awaiting the usual crash unless I am running a 3D App, and I have yet to test Nvidia Surround Stuttering that appeared in the 265.xx driver and up.

[ShaidarHaran]

Originally Posted by Ego

I'm not "presuming" anything, I was just asking a question, hence the question mark at the end of the sentence.
If it's the same set of drivers (which is obviously unconfirmed but plausible since the release notes are identical) I'll just wait for the next revision.
And yes, my problems are with the .35 set.

Funny you would correct me for not seeing your question mark, what's that thing at the end of my first post? A QUESTION MARK.

[moshpit]

Wait, wasn't this the thread for linking to threads about driver releases, not about driver releases themselves? I actually started a seperate thread about 266.58 because I didn't know this thread has changed from it's OP purpose and was now where new drivers are being announced. That doesn't make much sense, actually. How about we keep making new threads for new drivers and link to them here, like Acroig tried to do originally?

[Ego]

Back on topic, the AA bug seems to be fixed in the newest revision. I've played Just Cause 2 for about an hour with no problems; on the .35 set I couldn't get past 10 minutes if the AA value was higher than 4x.


Shaidar, my bad
You have a very...uhm, direct way of saying things, so the first thing that came to mind was it was my turn to have acid spat in my face
My bad again.

[ShaidarHaran]

Originally Posted by Ego

Back on topic, the AA bug seems to be fixed in the newest revision. I've played Just Cause 2 for about an hour with no problems; on the .35 set I couldn't get past 10 minutes if the AA value was higher than 4x.

Thank you for confirming and reporting! I look forward to trying out these new drivers myself.

Originally Posted by Ego

Shaidar, my bad
You have a very...uhm, direct way of saying things, so the first thing that came to mind was it was my turn to have acid spat in my face
My bad again.

No worries bro, I am direct as you said and it is hard to interpret tone, I often react the same way.

[SIrPauly]

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=857959

266.77 WHQL drivers -- only for 5XX series so far.

[moshpit]

Originally Posted by SIrPauly

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=857959

266.77 WHQL drivers -- only for 5XX series so far.

I don't think they're any different then 266.58 WHQL except to put GTX 560, 570 and 580 all under a single WHQL driver. Don't think there's any actual improvements.

[caveman-jim]

Originally Posted by SIrPauly

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=857959

266.77 WHQL drivers -- only for 5XX series so far.

Gone, for some reason.

[SIrPauly]

I downloaded before they took away the link but I believe they have been uploaded. They're not only for the 5XX series because they installed certified for my GTX 470.

[Hapatingjaky]

267.05 Quadro Drivers:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Window...glish-whql.exe

Modded INF:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2kqzsxam7wl984h

Stolen from Guru3D I'm linking only Windows 7 64BIT because really why would anyone use anything else?

[GanjaStar]

267.24 beta drivers

It adds 3D Vision support for Bulletstorm, SLI support for Homefront, improves compatibility with Dragon Age II, and fixes an issue preventing Nvidia Control Panel access on the Windows Desktop.

[Serotonin]

So let me get this straight, they added sli support for homefront, a game not out yet, but still haven't added sli support for bulletstorm, a game that's been out.

[Ego]

While I appreciate the Bulletstorm support, I sure hope there's more profiles in that driver; TDU 2 comes to mind.

[SIrPauly]

Originally Posted by GanjaStar

267.24 beta drivers

It adds 3D Vision support for Bulletstorm, SLI support for Homefront, improves compatibility with Dragon Age II, and fixes an issue preventing Nvidia Control Panel access on the Windows Desktop.

Thanks!

[GanjaStar]

Originally Posted by Ego

While I appreciate the Bulletstorm support, I sure hope there's more profiles in that driver; TDU 2 comes to mind.

its not there. still have to manually add testdrive2.exe.

[Ego]

Yeah, but that doesn't help with the locked convergence setting

[GanjaStar]

Originally Posted by Ego

Yeah, but that doesn't help with the locked convergence setting

inspector tool doesn't have the ability to unlock those settings?

[Ego]

Not that I can see. AFAIK, there's no 3d stereo option in NV Inspector.

[GanjaStar]

that sucks, you should problaby request that feature from the guy

anyways

NVIDIA SLI and Multi-GPU Profile Update

It updates support for the following applications:
Crysis 2 demo (Updated 2pm PST, March 1)

[SIrPauly]

Originally Posted by Ego

Not that I can see. AFAIK, there's no 3d stereo option in NV Inspector.

There are some Stereo 3d registry settings in the elevated aspect of inspector.

[Ego]

There's some new betas out on Guru 3D: 267.46

The release notes are identical to the previous betas.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=2691


Haven't tried them, but if can anyone test if there's any improvement in Dragon Age 2 DX11 it would be great