NVIDIA DRIVERS 266.58 WHQL ARE OUT!

[Zantal]

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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.

 

[EarthDog]

If only the latest drivers werent crapping out my card... Im getting random black screens for no reason (stock clocks and voltages) with the last set or two of drivers.

257.21 FTW?

 

[Zantal]

If only the latest drivers werent crapping out my card... Im getting random black screens for no reason (stock clocks and voltages) with the last set or two of drivers.

257.21 FTW?

just bad luck =( report it to NV

The beta drivers were also stable.

 

[EarthDog]

I did that. No idea on teh issues. Go back to 257.21, no problems. Not saying anyone else will have this issue, just that I had it.

 

[stratcatprowlin]

Thanks for the heads up EarthDog.I installed them and they work very well on my 9500GT.I did use driver sweeper before though.

 

[EarthDog]

This is the first time I have had any issues with any of their drivers. I thought it was OCP kicking in but a jump back to those listed above worked out for me. Im glad these are working out for everyone else!!

 

[mxthunder]

Installed these drivers with my new 580. Crysis performance is worse than with my 480 at the same clocks. Interesting. Otherwise, they seem to be good drivers.

 

[Saaby900t]

These drivers don't work on my Geforce 210. And it took 2 times to get them to work on my Gt240. arrgh.

 

[Tyrael]

yep, huge performance decrease on my gtx 460

 

[Zantal]

Installed these drivers with my new 580. Crysis performance is worse than with my 480 at the same clocks. Interesting. Otherwise, they seem to be good drivers.

yep, huge performance decrease on my gtx 460

Before posting anything with value = HUGE please do the following.

run some benchmarks with old drivers, in perfect conditions, this means no Background program running.

3 runs should be ok to get consistent data.

after that do the same with newer drivers.

But do not come in here saying X < Y without testing it out first.

This said, whenever i will have some time i will do before and after on my current setup. but so far, very stable and didn't notice any Fps loss (which is rare to happen anyway)

stay tuned . . . =)

 

[mxthunder]

I spent over 4 hours benchmarking last night, under all different circumstances, different benchmarks, etc. I summed it up in the above line lol.

 

[Kowalski3500]

I spent over 4 hours benchmarking last night, under all different circumstances, different benchmarks, etc. I summed it up in the above line lol.

Any chance that the drivers default to different IQ settings? Perhaps an IQ got bumped from Performance or Quality up to the next notch (Quality, or High Quality respectively). I do remember getting some pretty different scores back in the day changing IQ and vSync settings on old 3dmark01 with an Mx420

 

[zexmarquies01]

FINIALLY!!!

These drivers fixed the many problems I was having in Bad Company 2!

On the beta drivers, and on 260.99, I kept getting tons of artifacts, textures would screw up, would get lines everywhere, colors would be screwed up, and all kinds of GFX screw ups. Instead of dust in the air, I'd get pixelated static.

The only way I could minimize this was to run my GTX 260 at stock. But I'd still get the GFX screw ups occationally, and they'd get worse over time. If I tried to overclock the video card even the slightest, I'd get artifacts, glitches, and straight out crashes.

Installed these drivers, and now the game runs perfectly. Have the video card overclocked to 860/1720, and 2100 on memory. I know I can go a bit higher, but I'm making sure it stays good and stable first. But now the game is running great. Not a single GFX error since I installed them, and I can go back to having my video card overclocked without the game crashing!

I is happy!

 

[kidquick]

I just got my new EVGA 470 in yesterday..updated drivers after install and am getting Unstable machine trying to fold it and also slight artifacts runnning evga oc scanner....all stock..

So I hope it's a driver issue....will revert back tonight and try again.

 

[False Christian]

These drivers are better but I am getting the BSOD sometimes when watching You Tube videos and the like.

 

[EarthDog]

I just got my new EVGA 470 in yesterday..updated drivers after install and am getting Unstable machine trying to fold it and also slight artifacts runnning evga oc scanner....all stock..

So I hope it's a driver issue....will revert back tonight and try again.

Try making a more agressive fan profile or turning it up. AUTO fan sucks.

 

[Theivan]

the drivers worked perfect for me, No BSOD yet. even got a lil boost in a few becnhmarks. about 80 points average better on 3dmark06. and about 30 on the FFXIV benchmark.

 

[EarthDog]

80 points in 06 is margin of error really, especially only running it once.

 

[Theivan]

thats an average over 5 runs. ran 5. got an anverage. ran 5 after the update got an average. it was 76 points higher. in 06.

notice in my 1st post i said .. "about 80 points average better on 3dmark06"

 

[kidquick]

Try making a more agressive fan profile or turning it up. AUTO fan sucks.

Thanks..Had fan on full...drivers didn't help..but I have a new one on the way from evga!