NVIDIA GeForce 301.24 Beta Drivers

tried installing before i left for work this afternoon and it messed up my drivers. I thought with nvidia i didn't have to uninstall the old ones before i installed the new drivers. I eneded up uninstalling the old drivers but then my system couldn't detect my gtx 580. I'll have to see what's going on when i get in tonight.
 
Haven't had a chance to test out gaming performance, but damn, the desktop features when using Surround are awesome! Centered taskbar, and windows expand to fill only a single monitor. Very impressed so far!!
 
Anyone else getting issues with these new drivers and Mists Beta?
 
MavericK96 said:
Do you know anything about whether or not there is input lag associated with Adaptive VSync when not forcing Triple Buffering?
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The delay in input response (or rather the delay in displaying the result of an input) is the result of input being polled/accumulated at the beginning of each tick and the length of time required for the rest of the tick to complete. With adaptive sync, this wouldn't change. If we poll input within 0.5ms of each tick, on a 60 Hz display, we need to wait 16.2ms + X for the results of that input to be reflected on the display (where the value of X is dependent on the model of the display), even if the render took 8ms.

When a frame can't complete in time for the next synchronized swap, the card will simply end up swapping the partial frame in the back buffer, so the total latency between input polling and rasterization doesn't change compared to frames which are synchronized to the display. Assuming we still poll within 0.5ms, we're still waiting 16.2ms + X for the result of that input to be displayed (in this case, partially displayed).

Below the refresh rate, latency will be as normal, as if vsync was disabled. Above it, latency will be identical to what you'd experience with vsync enabled.
 
Elios said:
thats pretty cool wonder why they just did all that now
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Once they did the development work for the 680, it was probably pretty easy to port it back. Probably not worth spending the developing effort for just the older cards though.
 
Not sure what's going on, but after a few hours, their performance went completely to hell. All of my games dropped to 5-10fps regardless of settings, Windows gave me a popup warning to disable Aero due to lack of system performance, and the problems persisted even after a restart. Reverted one system back to 296.1 and will do the other tomorrow. FXAA and Adaptive VSync have some serious potential, but hopefully NV can sort out their driver issues.
 
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well to me so far these drivers are shit. I made no changes anywhere and my previous driver in bf3 gave me 74.9 fps. Now im rockin 7.6fps. Time to rollback.:mad:
 
Medion said:
Not sure what's going on, but after a few hours, their performance went completely to hell. All of my games dropped to 5-10fps regardless of settings, Windows gave me a popup warning to disable Aero due to lack of system performance, and the problems persisted even after a restart. Reverted one system back to 296.1 and will do the other tomorrow. FXAA and Adaptive VSync have some serious potential, but hopefully NV can sort out their driver issues.
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I've started getting the Aero pop-up a lot lately, even with the 301.10 drivers. Not sure why. No performance issues for me though, just the drop back to desktop and the pop-up.
 
yeah, i gotta change back. i keep getting an all green screen when I load up any games.
 
Yeah with the 680 card, I started getting the Aero pop-up a lot. My 570 never did that.
 
Just downloaded, uninstalled old, ran driver sweeper, and installed these drivers for my 580 SLI Surround rig.

Nvidia Control Panel > Span Displays in Surround: nvlddmkm.sys BSOD (multiple tries)

Charming.
 
FXAA works fine on my GTX 260, but doesn't exactly play too nicely with text. It doesn't mutilate it, but it definitely damages it. It happily applies over the Steam overlay and MSI Afterburner. Quality wise it's decent, nice in GTA 4.

I didn't notice any real performance difference, so at least it's still quite fast.
 
These drivers suck for my GTX 560 ti 448. They work but the performance is way down on benchmarks.
 
They work well on gtx 580 but seems to make the whole game more blurry .....not just the edges. Don't have a problem with desktop or email. Ill keep fxaa off for now.
 
Will there be an FXAA setting that looks closer to 8x? Or does 4x MSAA look better than "8x" AA?

Currently I use 8x for all of my games, anything lower has too many jaggies for me.
 
I have installed the new 301.24 beta drivers, but when i tried playing Battlefield 3 or any other game my card would not enter 3D clocks and the games run at about 7fps. I have posted about this in the 301.24 beta thread at Guru3D and two users have the same problem. The one thing we have in common is we have a Single GTX580, so could anyone with a single GTX580 test the new drivers and see if it happens to you please it would be much appreciated. I reinstalled 296.10 and all is well again. I guess i'll wait for wqhl 300 drivers and by then hopefully the bugs will be worked out if i cant find a fix for the beta till then.

Thank you in advance.
 
^single gtx580 here, no such issue, card enters 3d clocks as it should. turned on adaptive vsync w/ bf3 and played a match and quite enjoyed it. it ran beautifully smooth (haha funny combo of words) and it didn't feel as though any input lag existed. i've never turned on vsync any other time so i assumed i'd notice any little bit of input lag, but nadda.
 
First install went pretty badly, then I remembered I forgot to close afterburner like a chump. Worked fine the second time. Don't really seem to change much up on the 680 side of things.
 
Since the 3XX drivers came out to support GTX 680 I have tried them all and the performance is not as good as prior drivers for my GTX 560 ti 448.


In particular something that I have found odd about the new drivers is that my GTX 560 ti 448 can clock faster but the performance is less.


Seems to me that the new drivers have alot of power control and performance features going on in the back ground.


I don't really care if my gpu will go faster if the performance doesn't scale.
 
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Flogger23m said:
Will there be an FXAA setting that looks closer to 8x? Or does 4x MSAA look better than "8x" AA?

Currently I use 8x for all of my games, anything lower has too many jaggies for me.
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Use 2x or 4x MSAA in tandem with FXAA.
 
I did some minor testing on my 480's in SLI in Nvidia surround portrait. So far they where holding up and I could load up some games and play. 285 where that last drivers I could use, after 285 it would crash on any game due to a network/sata/usb3.0 driver glitch. I will do more testing tonight.
 
Played a few hours of BF3 multi-player the last two nights and absolutely dominated in TDM with some friends (2:1 up to 10:1 K:D ratios somehow which is unusual for me -- could just be how badass the L85A1 with RDS+foregrip+laser sight is now).

Loving adaptive vsync, I'm finding it gives an overall "smoother" experience with better image quality and I am able to see enemies and target them faster than I am without vsync on (I can't play pure vsync on, not enough performance from this setup).

I cannot wait to build an IB+680 system so I can crank the detail up and turn on 4X MSAA. Jaggies are bad right now with no AA.
 
xorbe said:
Yeah with the 680 card, I started getting the Aero pop-up a lot. My 570 never did that.
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Yeah, I really think these are geared more towards the previous gen cards. Sticking with 301.10 for now as they haven't given me any issues.
 
I would like to say having the option for FXAA is REALLY FUCKING BADASS For Star wars the old republic.

That is all
 
I haven't had any sign of the instability/crash problems with youtube, web browsing, and other streaming video that some of us have been experiencing with the past few driver releases. *knock on wood*
 
grambo said:
I cannot wait to build an IB+680 system so I can crank the detail up and turn on 4X MSAA. Jaggies are bad right now with no AA.
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I dislike FXAA, but not enough to forgo AA entirely!
Or even better, the SMAA injector.
 
magoo said:
Wow......

in addition to the VSync thing, they also added some cool Surround features for all cards.......•NVIDIA Surround Technology – Adds the following new Surround capabilities. Visit to learn more.
◦Add in a fourth accessory display 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 ‘peak’ 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).
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this made me jump on it. no issues so far after a few hours with civ 5 in surround
 
spaceman said:
Just intalled and MSI afterburner is reporting that I am using 4904504mb of vram on gpu2. Cool!

Anyone want a 560 4904504mb? $700!
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its a glitch, just close afterburner and re-open it. it happens with all the overclocking/monitoring tools.

its always funny seeing my 8800GT's with 9865846MB of ram.. its the exact same number every time which is why i can remember it. :D
 
Installed those on my gtx 580 and its everything works fine.
So far no TDR bug but it hasnt been long enough to be sure (I get the TDR bug about once a week)
I dont like FXAA, blurry text is not for me and a 580 has enough power to use other AA modes anyway.
Adaptive v-sync seems nice but I need to test it some more
 
I like these drivers. Adaptive v-synch has made my BF3 experience so much smoother and better. I am also able to go up from SSAO to HBAO now. These perform great. I still need more testing but I also don't get that fucking "Display driver has stopped responding" error anymore during BF3.

One weird thing is that my nvidia performance tools that I use to change my cards clock speed worked in every driver release but this one. It is installed and everything, the area just doesn't show up in the driver CP.
 
Blue Falcon said:
I haven't had any sign of the instability/crash problems with youtube, web browsing, and other streaming video that some of us have been experiencing with the past few driver releases. *knock on wood*
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I've had a few TDRs on these (2 the first night, 2 last night), oh well, I somewhat assume my 5 year old PSU/motherboard/overclock could make power management more funky than on a modern system and I am so close to building a new PC.

If I buy a $500 GTX 680 and get TDR bugs on a brand new Z77 platform with a high end PSU, I will rage.
 
These drivers screwed up my system.

Probably partly my fault because I mixed and matched so many different drivers over the last few weeks. Physx Corrupted. 3d corrupted.

Also think I might have gotten a gpu gimp bug from an Unreal Tournament 3 server. I have been playing that game alot and I have been winning alot. Might have pissed off some boss player that couldn't handle me winning.



Going to do fresh install and be extra careful with the drivers and where I play.
 
Installed these drivers last night, working great so far.

Adaptive VSync is interesting...seems to work pretty well although if you look for it you can still find tearing sometimes. I didn't notice much, if any, input lag, so that's good.
 
I had to switch back to analog... adaptive vsync wasn't working well thru HDMI. Unreal. It's like buttah.

BF3, Crysis Warhead... never saw such smoothness. It's like a whole new system.
 
I don't know what it is about the 301.xx drivers but all 3 I've tried (301.10, 301.24, 301.25) create stuttering in BF3 and Batman: AC when used with my GTX 680. They must've been coded on a Friday or by a different team...very annoying.

The 300.83 package runs everything smooth as it should. Hope whatever beta or WHQL released next is based off of the 300.xx and not the 301.xx.
 
These drivers are AWESOME for BF3. With adaptive V-Sync, these drivers are putting out the best image quality I have seen from BF3 so far. They resolved a lot of IC issues in my opinion.
 
FYI, these new drivers bork Tribes Ascend. It won't launch from the launcher.
 
BatJoe said:
Working fine here on HDMI @ 1080p
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hmm... for some reason 24 fps is "vsynced" through my HDMI connection with big time input lag as a bonus. It's 12 fps. for adaptive half-refresh rate. :confused: I don't really care because this analog connection looks fantastic with these drivers, but I would like to solve the mystery.

If anyone has any ideas, please volunteer them.

*edit* I might have found the answer on a forum: "1080p via HDMI is limited to 24fps, If you drop down to 720p you'll be able to get 60fps" If this is true, I don't know how you're getting it BatJoe.
 
spacing guild said:
*edit* I might have found the answer on a forum: "1080p via HDMI is limited to 24fps, If you drop down to 720p you'll be able to get 60fps" .
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That's not true at all. Maybe for old versions of HDMI, but anything that is going to be supported now can do 1080p/60 just fine.
 
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