NVIDIA releases 310.70 drivers

[EarthDog]

NVIDIA has released their new drivers (beta). This one includes the performance increase for Far Cry 3 as well as other general improvements for the 680 and 660.

Release notes:

GeForce R310 Drivers:

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 306.97 WHQL drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
GeForce GTX 680:
Up to 38% in Far Cry 3
Up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Up to 16% in Battlefield 3
Up to 18% in Assassin's Creed III
Up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Up to 6% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Up to 6% in StarCraft II
Up to 6% in Dragon Age II
Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
GeForce GTX 660:
Up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Up to 10% in Battlefield 3
Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Up to 6% in Far Cry 3
Up to 5% in Dragon Age II
Up to 5% in Assassin's Creed III
Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 4% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter


NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:

Far Cry 3 – updated SLI profile
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 – updated SLI profile
Dirt: Showdown – updated SLI profile
Dota 2 - updated SLI profile
Dou Zhan Shen – updated SLI profile
F1 2012 - added SLI profile
FIFA 13 – added SLI profile
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad – updated SLI profile
Hawken – added SLI profile
Hitman: Absolution – added SLI profile
Natural Selection 2 – added SLI profile
Primal Carnage – added SLI profile

http://www.geforce.com/drivers

 

[bmwbaxter]

You the new release guy lately?

 

[EarthDog]

When Im not reviewing.. and work is stable.. I get bored.

 

[bmwbaxter]

Well keep up the good work

 

[JeremyCT]

Well keep up the good work

x2. I'm DLing FC3 from Ubisoft's servers as we speak. I didn't even think to check for a driver update.

 

[JeremyCT]

FWIW - 310.70 is a beta driver, not WHQL as the original post says.

 

[EarthDog]

Its not beta (look at the beta list, it doesnt say beta)...Its not WHQL either.

Adjusted the first post.

 

[MattNo5ss]

I was going to download them, but they show as beta on NVIDIA's page. I try to stick with WHQL since I'm rarely playing the latest games.

 

[EarthDog]

LOL, they JUST tagged it as beta!

At 1:40PM (Eastern) it was still in limbo,

 

[bmwbaxter]

LOL, they JUST tagged it as beta!

At 1:40PM (Eastern) it was still in limbo,

You were just too fast for nvidia.

 

[stereo555]

Geez , I just put the 10.64's in ...

Guess I'll download these too , although the 10.64 beta's have been fine thus far .

 

[eskimochaos]

What's the time period, typically, between normal and beta?

 

[JeremyCT]

What's the time period, typically, between normal and beta?

"When it's ready." nVidia doesn't have a set release schedule for those types of things. When they have it, they release it. It's really tough to predict. The only real exception is when a big AAA title like Far Cry 3 launches. That'll nearly guarantee a beta release sometime near launch day.

 

[False Christian]

There's no point in anyone downloading these drivers UNLESS you wanna play Farcry 3 and that's it.

 

[dtrunk]

I was having issues with the 306.97 crashing in BF3; updated to these 310.70 and everything seems fine.

 

[stereo555]

Geez , I just put the 10.64's in ...

Guess I'll download these too , although the 10.64 beta's have been fine thus far .

Well Ive uninstalled the 64's as the driver would crash in FC3 apon leaving the game (besides that they worked fine for other games) .

Ive installed the 70's , and so far so good in FC3 (except on one AA setting) , but other games seem to be ok thus far .

 

[wingman99]

I was having issues with the 306.97 crashing in BF3; updated to these 310.70 and everything seems fine.

Same here the 310.70 work fine with BF3

 

[Anonaru]

NVIDIA has released their new drivers (beta). This one includes the performance increase for Far Cry 3 as well as other general improvements for the 680 and 660.

Release notes:



http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Mmm, I see a few games in this lineup. A new profile for FC3 will be nice too
Downloading when I get home, good show sir

Edit: Weird with you guys crashing in BF3.. Didn't have any such issue, must have been lucky haha

 

[rogbur22]

I just looked and these drivers 310.70 is now an official WHQL driver. Enjoy

http://www.geforce.com/

 

[stereo555]

Hmm , the 310.70 WHQL driver is 168mb's vs the betas were 209mb .