777 Studios has not evaluated these drivers and so if you try them and have any problems at all, please roll back to the drivers officially recommended by 777 studios before contacting them about any issues.

I have downloaded and installed the new V285.62 drivers and I flew one Career Mission and one Quick Mission using Shaders set to Maximum. I did not encounter a single flashing texture or any other graphical issues at any altitude. I didn't notice any significant change in FPS. Possibly a very slight drop in FPS but that was probably due to having the Shaders set to Maximum. I usually just run on Medium settings for those.

Try them at your own risk if you wish. I am merely putting out my limited experiences with them as a preliminary user-based report. Your experiences can and probably will vary based on hardware configuration and software settings.

Hellshade

Thanks for your initial heads up on these. I've also tried them and like them so far! I've used them only for a short time with Shogun 2, CoD, and of course RoF. I haven't noticed a single issue so far, if this continues they look to be keepers!

I've used them for a couple of days now and, at least in my personal experience, not a single graphical issue even when Shaders are set to Maximum. Your experience may of course vary but for myself, these things are great.

I agree, Hellshade, these seem to be quite good and I plan on keeping them.

Sounds good. I have yet to try them. Any issues with the Parallax Mappin while on the ground?

Jason

Odd tint to the grass going from green to red when close-in, otherwise OK at altitudes > 100m, IMO looks good Jason.

- navair2

Sorry, Jason, just saw this (been busy getting ready for our big storm (we're supposed to get up to 15" of snow today...) and with my limited testing of these drivers I haven't noticed any issues with the mapping. Will do more testing this weekend and confirm.

Sadly, I must report that without making any changes to my driver settings, with Shaders set to maximum, the strange colored (neon blue / green) ground textures have returned when at very low altitudes. Not sure why it went a few days without it, but for some reason tonight they returned. Setting Shaders to High removes the color issue. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Hellshade

I'm not seeing any strange neon colored textures at ground level. Is it all textures this is happening with?

I don't use multi or super sampling though.

Also, enabling "Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimzation" has gotten rid of the black lines with the parallax mapping on the ground.

Now, only since Version 1.022, I am getting bright green, orange, red and sometimes blue grass at very low altitudes. It also seems to be only when looking in a particular direction. And, sometimes it is solid color that covers everything on the bottom third of the monitor, sometimes just a tint to the grass.


Core i5-2500K @ 3.3GHz, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Memory, GTX550 Ti 1GB w/ GeForce 285.62 driver, 24" 1920x1200 monitor, Logitech X-540 5.1 Surround, Logitech G940 + MSFFB2, TrackIR 5, Windows 7 Home Premum 64 Bit