Nvidia Driver Updates

[Wolar]

Here is the quicksheet info from geforce experience:

GeForce 331.58 Driver

Release Summary
This Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in Batman: Arkham Origins and Battlefield 4. GeForce Game Ready drivers also provide performance increases for a variety of different games.

New in GeForce R331 Drivers

• Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 13% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 327.23 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:
GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN:
• Up to 11% in Dirt: Showdown
• Up to 9% in Metro: Last Light
• Up to 8% in Sleeping Dogs
• Up to 13% in Sniper Elite V2
• SLI Technology
• Batman: Arkham Origins – updated profile
• Battlefield 4 – updated profile
• Shadow Warrior – added DX9 profile
• War of the Vikings – added DX11 profile
• Dragon Sword - updated DX9 profile
• GRID 2 - updated DX11 profile
• Euro Truck Simulator 2 - updated profile
• Gaming Technology
• Civilization 5 – added HBAO+;
• SHIELD
• Enables GeForce to SHIELD streaming (Beta). Learn more here.
• 4K Displays
• Adds support for 4K Surround

Additional Details
• Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.0725.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.26.4
• Installs GeForce Experience v8.3.23.1
• Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
• Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
• 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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GeForce 331.82 Driver

Release Summary

This 331.82 Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience in Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag and Need for Speed: Rivals. These Game Ready drivers will also provide performance enhancements in a wide variety of different games. When running at 4K resolutions, SLI performance increases by as much as 50% in key titles like Metro: Last Light, Crysis 3, and Battlefield 4.
In addition, the new 331.65 Game Ready driver is bundled with GeForce Experience v1.7.1 which includes support for two highly-anticipated new technologies. NVIDIA GameStream™ provides end users with the ability to stream PC games from their GeForce GTX-equipped PC directly to a SHIELD device. This update also introduces the Beta version of GeForce ShadowPlay™, an innovated new game capture tool with exceptional features and performance.

New in GeForce R331 Drivers

• Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 50% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 331.65 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration.

Here is one example of measured gains:
GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN/780Ti:
• Up to 50% in Metro: Last Light
• Up to 26% in Crysis 3
• Up to 18% in Battlefield 4
• SLI Technology
• Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag – updated profile
• Path of Exile – added profile
• Natural Selection – updated profile
• 3D Vision
• Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag – "Good"
• Gaming Technology
• Enables GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
• Call of Duty: Ghosts – added TXAA support (disabled FXAA)
• SHIELD
• Enables NVIDIA GameStream™ technology

Additional Details

• Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.0725.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.26.4
• GeForce Experience 1.7.1 (v9.3.21.0)
• Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

• Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
• 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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GeForce 332.21 Driver

This new 332.21 WHQL driver introduces a variety of new SLI profiles and ensures maximum performance and system stability across all titles.

As always, this driver is also bundled with GeForce Experience (v1.8.1) which provides the easiest way to keep your drivers up to date an your games optimized. In addition, this version supports the latest new features and Beta functionality. This includes the Beta version of GeForce ShadowPlay™ and ShadowPlay Twitch Streaming. Leveraging the dedciate hardware inside GeForce GTX GPUs, this new capture and streaming tool offers exceptional features and performance. Also included in the latest version of GeForce Experience is support for NVIDIA GameStream™. Combined with a SHIELD device, this allows games on a GeForce GTX-equipped PC to be wirelessly streamed to another room so they can be enjoyed on the couch, in bed, or nearly anywhere in the house.

New in GeForce 332.21 WHQL drivers
• SLI Technology
• Assetto Corsa – created profile
• Eve Online – created DX11 profile
• Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare – created profile
• Thief – created profile
• Gaming Technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ Twitch Streaming
• SHIELD
• Supports NVIDIA GameStream™ technology
• 3D Vision
• Injustice: Gods Among Us – “Excellent”
• Path of Exile – “Good”

Additional Details
• Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.0725.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.30.1
• Installs GeForce Experience 1.8.1
• Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

• Supports OpenGL 4.4 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
• 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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GeForce 334.67 Driver (BETA)

This new 334.67 Beta driver introduces a variety of new SLI and 3D Vision profiles and ensures maximum performance and system stability across all titles.

As always, this driver is also bundled with GeForce Experience (v1.8.2) which provides the easiest way to keep your drivers up to date an your games optimized. In addition, this version supports the latest new features and Beta functionality. This includes the Beta version of GeForce ShadowPlay™ and ShadowPlay Twitch Streaming. Leveraging the dedciate hardware inside GeForce GTX GPUs, this new capture and streaming tool offers exceptional features and performance. Also included in the latest version of GeForce Experience is support for NVIDIA GameStream™. Combined with a SHIELD device, this allows games on a GeForce GTX-equipped PC to be wirelessly streamed to another room so they can be enjoyed on the couch, in bed, or nearly anywhere in the house.

With this latest version of GeForce Experience, several highly-requested features are being introduced to Shadowplay. Features ranging from quality customizations (resolution, capture frame rate, capture bitrate) to support for microphone recordings and 5.1 audio are now supported and provide gamers with a variety of new tools to customize their streams and recordings.

New in GeForce 334.67 Beta drivers
• SLI Technology
• HeartStone: Heroes of Warcraft – created profile
• Gas Guzzlers – created profile
• Gaming Technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ Twitch Streaming
• SHIELD
• Supports NVIDIA GameStream™ technology
• 3D Vision
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – rating now “Excellent”
• Bioshock Infinite – rating now “Excellent”
• Hitman: Absolution – rating now “Excellent”
• Assassin’s Creed III – rating now “Excellent”
• Sniper Elite V2 – rating now “Excellent”
• Battlefield 4 – rating now “Good”
• Splinter Cell: Blacklist – rating now “Good”
• Saints Row 4 – rating now “Good”
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted – rating now “Good”
• Far Cry 3 – rating now “Good”
• Total War: Shogun 2 – rating now “Good”
• Warframe – laser sight and shadows fixed

Additional Details
• Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.1220
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.30.1
• Installs GeForce Experience 1.8.2
• Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
• Supports OpenGL 4.4 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
• 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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GeForce 334.89 Driver

New in GeForce 334.89 WHQL drivers

• Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. the previous WHQL-certified drivers (332.21). Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration.

Here are some examples of measured gains: GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN/780Ti:
• Up to 19% in F1 2013
• Up to 18% in Sleeping Dogs
• Up to 16% in Hitman Absolution
• Up to 15% in Company of Heroes 2
• Up to 10% in Assassin’s Creed 3
• Up to 7% in BioShock Infinite
• Up to 6% in Sniper Elite V2
• Up to 5% in Total War: Rome 2

SLI Technology
• Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD – created profile
• Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry – created profile
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut – created profile
• The Crew – created profile

Gaming Technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ Twitch Streaming

SHIELD
• Supports NVIDIA GameStream™ technology

3D Vision
• Shadow Warrior – rating now “Excellent”
• The Stanley Parable – rated “Excellent”
• Walking Dead 2 – rated “Good”
• World Rally Championship 4 – rated “Good”
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – rated “Good”
• Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon – rated “Fair”

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GeForce 335.23 Driver

New in GeForce 335.23 WHQL drivers

This 335.23 Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience for Titanfall.

Performance
• Enhanced GPU clock offset options for GeForce GTX 750Ti / GTX 750

SLI Technology
• Diablo III – updated DX9 profile
• Bound by Flame – updated profile
• DOTA 2 – updated profile
• Need for Speed Rivals – updated DX11 profile
• Watch Dogs – updated profile

Gaming Technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ Twitch Streaming

SHIELD
• Supports NVIDIA GameStream™ technology

3D Vision
• Titanfall – rated “Good”
• Thief – rating now “Good”
• Call of Duty: Ghosts – in-depth laser sight added


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GeForce 337.50 Driver (BETA)

New in GeForce 337.50 Beta drivers
• Performance - Introduces key DirectX optimizations which result in reduced game-loading times and significant performance increases across a wide variety of games. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here are some examples of measured gains versus the previous 335.23 WHQL driver:

GeForce GTX 700 Series (Single GPU):
• Up to 64% in Total War: Rome II
• Up to 25% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Up to 23% in Sleeping Dogs
• Up to 21% in Star Swarm
• Up to 15% in Batman: Arkham Origins
• Up to 10% in Metro: Last Light
• Up to 8% in Hitman Absolution
• Up to 7% in Sniper Elite V2
• Up to 6% in Tomb Raider
• Up to 6% in F1 2013

GeForce GTX 700 Series (SLI):
• Up to 71% in Total War: Rome II
• Up to 53% in Sniper Elite V2
• Up to 45% in Aliens vs. Predator
• Up to 31% in Sleeping Dogs
• Up to 20% in CoD: Black Ops 2
• Up to 10% in Hitman Absolution
• Up to 9% in F1 2013
• Up to 7% in Far Cry 3
• Up to 6% in Metro: Last Light
• Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham Origins

SLI Technology
• Total War: Rome II – added profile
• War Thunder – added profile
• Watch Dogs – updated profile
• Diablo III – updated profile

Gaming Technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ Twitch Streaming

SHIELD
• Supports NVIDIA GameStream™ technology

3D Vision
• Supports new “3D Compatibility Mode” for 3D Vision that enables us to improve the 3D experience for many key DirectX 10 and 11 games.
• 3D Vision Profiles
• Path of Exile – rated “Good”
• KickBeat – rating now “Excellent”

3D Compatiblity Mode Profiles
• Assassin’s Creed Liberation – previously “Not Recommended”, now rated as “Excellent”
• Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army – previously “Good”, now rated as “Excellent”
• Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 – previously “Good”, now rated as “Excellent
• Strike Suit Zero – previously “Not Recommended”, now rated as “Good”
• Watchdogs – rated as “Good”

GeForce 337.88 Driver

New in GeForce 337.88 Game Ready WHQL drivers

• Game Ready - This 337.88 Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience for Watch Dogs.
• Performance – Introduces key DirectX optimizations which result in reduced game-loading times and significant performance increases across a wide variety of games compared with the previous 335.23 WHQL. Significant CPU overhead reductions in the driver result in performance gains that will often favor CPU-bottlenecked situations. Per usual, results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings.

Sample titles with performance gains of 10% or more since 335.23 WHQL*

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• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• F1 2013
• Hitman Absolution
• Sniper v2
• DiRT 3
• Just Cause 2
• Team Fortress 2

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• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• Sleeping Dogs
• Hitman Absolution
• Thief
• World of Tanks
• Just Cause 2
• Team Fortress 2
• StarSwarm

System Configuration Used:
GeForce GTX 780Ti SLI, 335.23 WHQL, 337.88 WHQL, Intel Core i7 4770K, 16GB, Win8.1 x64
• 4K Displays – 337.88 WHQL offers full support for both MST and SST 4K displays

SLI Technology
• Watch Dogs – updated profile
• Wildstar – added profile
• Windborne – added profile
• Sniper Elite 3 – added profile
• Smite – added profile
• Icarus – added profile
• Daylight – added profile
• Dark Souls II – added profile
• Call of Duty: Online – added profile
• Bound by Flame – updated profile
• World of Tanks – updated profile
• Everquest: Landmark – updated profile
• Planetside 2 – updated profile
• Gaming Technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
• Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ Twitch Streaming

SHIELD
• Supports NVIDIA GameStream™ technology
• 3D Vision
• Supports new “3D Compatibility Mode” for 3D Vision that enables us to improve the 3D experience for many key DirectX 10 and 11 games.

3D Vision Profiles
• Goat Simulator – rated “Excellent”
• MXGP – rated “Good”
• Call of Duty:Online – rated “Good”
• Dark Souls II – rated “Good”
• DayZ – rated “Good”
• Halo: Spartan Assault – rated “Good”
• Loadout – rated “Fair”

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GeForce 340.52 Driver

New in GeForce Game Ready Drivers

The new GeForce Game Ready driver, release 340.52 WHQL, allows GeForce owners to continue to have the ultimate gaming experience. With this release, GeForce gamers can take advantage of GameStream technology to stream their favorite PC games to the new SHIELD tablet or SHIELD portable. In addition, this Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience for Metro: Redux and Final Fantasy XIV (China).

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for Metro: Redux and Final Fantasy XIV (China)

SHIELD
Supports NVIDIA GameStream™ technology for the new SHIELD tablet and SHIELD portable

Gaming Technology
Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology and GeForce ShadowPlay™ Twitch Streaming

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GeForce 344.11 Driver

New in GeForce Game Ready Drivers

The new GeForce Game Ready driver, release 344.11 WHQL, allows GeForce owners to continue to have the ultimate gaming experience. This driver is aligned with today’s launch of the world’s most advanced GPUs—the GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970. With support for NVIDIA G-SYNC Surround displays, gaming has never been more realistic and immersive. In addition, this Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience for the latest new blockbuster titles including Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, The Evil Within, F1 2014, and Alien: Isolation.

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, The Evil Within, F1 2014, and Alien: Isolation

New GeForce GPUs
Supports the new GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 GPUs, based upon the second-generation Maxwell architecture

Gaming Technology
Supports G-SYNC technology and NVIDIA G-SYNC Surround configurations

[Nihahs]

With my 770 Phantom I can't see any massive performance increasing.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

Asus 770 - can't see any noticeable difference. Nvidia apparently said that they couldn't do anything more for Rome 2 a month back.

[Mortarion]

770 4GB, no difference here either

[Jochem Hraback]

Win seven 64 bits for eVGA 680 gtx classified + eVGA x58 sli, i7 960@3.20Ghz, 12 Go DDr3 and all is working like charm. Don't worry and install it


PS: I notice a better fps. Don't know if is it due to the new drivers or the last patch or the both

[Wolar]

So.. ..a negligible change at best. Sad, but perhaps that is to be expected. By the way, last time I heard anything from Nvidia about R2 was that:
"We continue to work with the developer to make Rome II SLI-friendly. Once they patch the game we can make a profile."
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...war-rome-ii/13

And that was in late September, not a peep since then as far as I can tell.

[alQamar]

tested it, no improvements in performance using the new driver (forest benchmark)

but the HBAO+ looks nice on Civ 5 - you will likely see the difference in a direct comparison of two screenshots, without that probably it is unnoticable.

[Wolar]

One thing is clear.. ..Nvidia really needs to step up to the plate.

[S.P.Q.R. Praetorian]

Here is my current setup: FX-8350, ASUS 7870 Ghz Edition, 8GB RAM. Most of my settings are on VH, some on high. With the 13.9 stable drivers I was averaging ~55 FPS in the Forest benchmark. I had ran it quite a few times and it only went up or down from 55 by a couple frames. I ran with the 13.11 beta 6 drivers and now I am averaging ~69 FPS give or take a couple for each test. AMD did us a solid. Very good and a huge thumbs up from me. Can't wait to see what it will do with a second 7870 in CF.

[carbide]

Thanks for the feedback Praetorian, I have a 7870 aswell and great to hear about the performance increase. Will get the beta installed here shortly.

[S.P.Q.R. Praetorian]

No problem man. I was skeptical of the performance increase since AMD drivers tend to suck and this is coming from a fanboi. I haven't run a big battle with it yet but I am sure it will still lag. 8350 is definitely not a bottleneck for the forest benchmarks and smaller battles so it was a true test of how good the drivers do for the GPU. By my tests and from I have heard of several others running 7870 cards down to the 6000 series increase ~25%. On the flipside feedback I have seen for the 7950 and 7970 hasn't been as positive. Oddly, it only seems to increase for most of those guys by a couple frames. I saw some feedback on other forums where users with 6000 and IIRC 5000 series cards saw double digit FPS increases.

[S.P.Q.R. Praetorian]

Just ran a normal battle with 4000 men with the new driver. I don't want to reinstall the old one but I ran the test and with the new one it was markedly smoother until I was zooming into a cluster of units at which point it becomes CPU dependent. I spent quite a bit of time in cinematic mode. Attached is the graphics settings I have been using since I started playing the game.


Rome2
Frames: 25031 - Time: 478002ms - Avg: 52.366 - Min: 14 - Max: 96

Frametimes average at 19 ms which is pretty good for AMD cards. Microstutter becomes obvious at 30ms and over. I normally run with v sync on but for benchmarks I turn it off.

[alQamar]

No performance improvement on a GTX 670 at maxed out settings (above extreme preset)

Reference Forest benchmark - 30.x fps min 7 max 46. Patch 5

[alQamar]

Just ran a normal battle with 4000 men with the new driver. I don't want to reinstall the old one but I ran the test and with the new one it was markedly smoother until I was zooming into a cluster of units at which point it becomes CPU dependent. I spent quite a bit of time in cinematic mode. Attached is the graphics settings I have been using since I started playing the game.


Rome2
Frames: 25031 - Time: 478002ms - Avg: 52.366 - Min: 14 - Max: 96

Frametimes average at 19 ms which is pretty good for AMD cards. Microstutter becomes obvious at 30ms and over. I normally run with v sync on but for benchmarks I turn it off.

Why not running maxed out as well? Those settings are ridiculous for your card and Shogun will give you 80fps+ maxed out

[S.P.Q.R. Praetorian]

That is an ignorant comment. Shogun 2 is actually decently optimized and this game runs like garbage. You might like running at 30 FPS but for me the little extra difference in graphics is not worth the hit. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, 30 FPS compared to 60 feels choppy and I won't play with choppy. Maybe when I crossfire I will be able to max but until then it is just fine where its at.

[alQamar]

My post is not ignorant but it is poor to see a card of your choice needs so low settings to have reasonable framerates.

It seems you are not much in the topic. Crossfire would not enable you to play maxed out.

No one wants to play choppy that's why are upset having excellent hardware and Rome 2 cannot handle it (not otherwise)

[S.P.Q.R. Praetorian]

My apologies for the misunderstanding. I thought that it was a jab directed at my card. It is sad to see the TW series going down the toilet so fast. The graphics have barely improved from Shogun yet this runs like total garbage. It comes down to a matter of whether or not this will scale well in CF. Many other modern games scale 70-100% with the 7870 so I am hoping that this will be able to do as well. The graphic settings right now don't look all that great and I am sick and effing tired of the zombie faces.

[alQamar]

No problem . ; )

[Wolar]

So.. ..Anyone see any news from Nvidia, any light at the end of the tunnel?

[alQamar]

today a new driver has been release but nvidia still officially say it is not their turn to improve performance.