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#3577559 - 05/22/12 04:54 PM OT: New Nvidia 301.42 WHQL Drivers
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I haven't tested them yet. Downloading now. Just an FYI for whoever is interested.

Official Info below:

This is the first WHQL-certified unified driver from the R300 family of drivers (versions 300.00 to 301.99).

GeForce R300 drivers are packed with new industry-leading, GeForce-exclusive features as well as some really nice performance increases in top games.

New in R300 Drivers:

New GPU Support:
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GTX 670
GeForce GT 600-series GPUs
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.
Other Details

Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0213.
Installs HD Audio v1.3.16.0.
Supports OpenGL 4.2
Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600-series.
Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
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 and AMD motherboards.
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#3577605 - 05/22/12 05:52 PM Re: OT: New Nvidia 301.42 WHQL Drivers [Re: Hellshade]
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Thanks: Right on cue as usual Hellshade.

I tried the earlier beta and had problems controlling fan speed, so I went back to the 296.*

I'll hold until more discussion hits the various sites.

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#3577810 - 05/22/12 11:26 PM Re: OT: New Nvidia 301.42 WHQL Drivers [Re: Hellshade]
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Thanks Hellshade. Just got an O/C GTX 670 but currently with beta drivers so these are good timing.
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#3578102 - 05/23/12 11:38 AM Re: OT: New Nvidia 301.42 WHQL Drivers [Re: Hellshade]
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Thanks,
but i take it they won't work for the Nvidia 280 GTX cards ?

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#3578112 - 05/23/12 11:52 AM Re: OT: New Nvidia 301.42 WHQL Drivers [Re: Hellshade]
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Catfish, the updated drivers are for all GEForce cards, including the 280 GTX.

Remember everyone: updating graphics drivers means you need to rerun CFS3Config to set your graphics settings or OFF will delete your ConfigOverrides.xml and no longer be able to start.

OFFset, included along with OFFbase in the OFFice download, can back up and restore your OFF Manager and CFS3Config settings to make it easy to bring back your previous graphics settings after a driver update or whatever. See the OFFset.readme.txt file for more info.
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#3578225 - 05/23/12 02:11 PM Re: OT: New Nvidia 301.42 WHQL Drivers [Re: Hellshade]
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Hello Lothar_ofthe .. etc. wink ,
thanks, i will try it out instantly -
Greetings,
Catfish


Edited by Catfish (05/23/12 02:12 PM)

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