GeForce 304.48 Beta Driver

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This is the first beta driver from the R304 family of drivers.

New in R304 Drivers:

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 680:

Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)

GeForce GTX 560:

Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

Key Fixes

Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.
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http://www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-geforce-30448-drivers-download/


You win:


SolidBladez said:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-32bit-304.48-beta-driver.html -32
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-304.48-beta-driver.html -64

I win?
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I like how straightforward nvidia has made updating drivers. It used be you had to use driver cleaners and dig for beta drivers under a tertiary page. Happy they addressed vsync stutter too.
 
Good. Not sure why, but my driver kept crashing yesterday. I was really hoping it was the drivers and not the card. And that was the first time, other than when I was trying to find my Max OC. Hopefully this fixes whatever the issue was
 
Seriously, [H]? You've banned linking to ??

Go to www. geforce .com and you can download the drivers directly.
 
Was hoping these would show up soon. I didn't really like running off the leaked laptop drivers.
 
Finally we get some performance increase on the GTX 680. :D

geforce-304-48-beta-gtx-680-performance.png


Detail Settings & Results:


•Batman: Arkham City: 2560x1600, Very High detail level, Tessellation High, PhysX Off, FXAA Very High. Performance increased by 17.6% (17.1% with Tessellation and PhysX disabled, 9.7% with PhysX High, and 7.5% with both Tessellation High and PhysX High enabled simultaneously).
•Dragon Age 2: 2560x1600, max settings, 4xMSAA anti-aliasing. Performance increased by 12.4%.
•Lost Planet 2: 1920x1080, DirectX 11, max settings, 4xMSAA anti-aliasing. Performance increased by 4%.
•S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat: 2560x1600, DirectX 11, Extreme settings, 4xMSAA anti-aliasing. Performance increased by 9.6%, and by 9.8% when anti-aliasing was disabled.

Using a second GTX 680 in SLI, we measured gains of up to 5.8% in Batman: Arkham City, 15% in Dragon Age 2, and 6.4% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.
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New in R304 Drivers:

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 680:
Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)

GeForce GTX 560:
Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

Key Fixes
Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

http://www./whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-304-48-beta-drivers-released/
 
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Sounds tasty, will try when I get home (although I don't really play any of those games in the list, lol).
 
Finally some 650m drivers. I have a feeling that I have Apple to thank for this.

edit: No go on m14x r2. Required a modified inf to install and then bluescreened on boot.
 
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It looks like these finally bring support for mobile Kepler chips. I've got my fingers crossed.
 
the framerate option has disappeared from precision with these drivers so I cant even check the framerate now without using fraps. :confused:

 
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3D 11 bench score runs smooth and increased by 98 pts. to 9400
now if Boarderlands runs as smoothly as the 301.72 laptop drivers could render
 
The folks at NVIDIA have released a new GeForce 304.48 beta driver today for those of you that own one or more GeForce video cards. In addition to performance improvements in various games, the new drivers offer the following:

Key Fixes

  • Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
  • Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
  • Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

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

  • Spec Ops: The Line
  • PlanetSide 2
  • F1 2011 – updated profile
  • Final Fantasy XIV – updated profile
  • Saints Row: The Third – updated profile
  • Torchlight II
  • Tribes: Ascend

NVIDIA 3D Vision

  • Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:◦Alan Wake's American Nightmare – rated Poor◦Borderlands 2 – updated profile with new convergence settings◦Depth Hunter – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready◦Mass Effect 3 – updated in-game compatibility message and profile to be more compatible with community 3D mods◦Max Payne 3 – updated rating to Excellent and updated in-game compatibility message to inform users to use DirectX 11, disable MSAA and use SSA0.◦Street Fighter X Tekken – rated 3D Vision Ready◦Tiger Woods PGA 12: The Masters – rated Good◦Tribes: Ascend – rated Fair
  • The Walking Dead – rating Good•Other Profile Updates
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support The Secret World
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
  • Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

NVIDIA Surround

  • Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall.

  • Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604.
  • Installs HD Audio v1.3.17.0.
  • Supports OpenGL 4.2
  • 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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cannondale06 said:
the framerate option has disappeared from precision with these drivers so I cant even check the framerate now without using fraps. :confused:

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Um... the framerate option is showing in your picture? Or am I missing something?
 
Rizen said:
Um... the framerate option is showing in your picture? Or am I missing something?
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the check mark beside it is grayed out and you cant select it.


EDIT: I restarted the computer and it now works so go figure.
 
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Yeah, can't you just checkmark framerate? That's how it always looks with a fresh Afterburner or Precision install. Maybe the driver change reset a few options within the applications?

EDIT: Ok, well that blows then! (Posted just after you made your remark apparently)
 
I wonder when they are going to put the framerate limiter option in the Control Panel rather than requiring you to get all up in the driver's asshole with nV Inspector.

I guess, to be fair, I just use it globally anyway so it's a "set it and forget it" type thing.
 
Very cool. Glad that Vsync bug is finally getting ironed out. Ditto for performance boosts in Arkham City.
At first I giggled about Dragon Age II, but then again, that game runs like ass at high settings even on a monster of a machine. Luckily there probably aren't many people left playing it.
 
Oh, here's hoping that this driver will allow me to overclock my Zotac 580GTX factory overclocked card! Up until now, I've had to slow it to default 772MHz or the card would go to 2D speeds when a 3D app launched. Really looking forward to using my card's full potential again. :)
 
"Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs."

"Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall."

It's the little things :D

-SR
 
SLI profiles for games that aren't even out for months yet. This is one reason I'll stick with nVidia rather than AMD.
 
Cobalt35 said:
SLI profiles for games that aren't even out for months yet. This is one reason I'll stick with nVidia rather than AMD.
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When most of these games are The way it's meant to be played a.k.a funded by nvidia and amd doesn't have access to these games. Then the coding is made to run better on nvidia and gimp the way amd runs code... i believe it's more than normal that amd doesn't have support for those games.
 
MavericK96 said:
:rolleyes:
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(Don't discount it entirely. What was that title that rendered invisible water under entire levels which Radeon cards didn't do very well with at the time?)

Anyways, gonna load this driver up as soon as I get home today. Sounds like it could be a golden beta driver.
 
these did not fix ANYTHING for me. it does not matter whether I use vsync, adaptive vsync, or a framerate cap because it still will NOT stay at 60fps. even standing still it continuously drops to 59 every few seconds in every game just like it did before. this did not happen on my gtx570.
 
cannondale06 said:
these did not fix ANYTHING for me. it does not matter whether I use vsync, adaptive vsync, or a framerate cap because it still will NOT stay at 60fps. even standing still it continuously drops to 59 every few seconds in every game just like it did before. this did not happen on my gtx570.
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Probably because your 670 is dropping a notch or two at 70C ... :D
 
xorbe said:
Probably because your 670 is dropping a notch or two at 70C ... :D
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lol, no.

I just got off the phone with newegg and they are going to give a full refund and even send me a pre paid shipping label. this is an inexcusable problem for these new cards and I am not going to be out 420 bucks to put up with issue like this.
 
Yeah, they haven't addressed a single issue that I've noticed since launch. There is the easily documented issue with vsync being broken in 3d. There is the performance issues in some games like GTA4 or Serious Sam 3 or most games in 3d.

I have run into the vsync issue but not in many games so it hasn't really been much of an issue to me thankfully. I'm annoyed by the other issues though.
 
xorbe said:
(Don't discount it entirely. What was that title that rendered invisible water under entire levels which Radeon cards didn't do very well with at the time?)
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That was Crysis 2, and it had nothing to do with TWIMTBP and everything to do with retarded developers.

I have yet to see any recent example of nVidia "cheating" with code in TWIMTBP games.
 
maboblivion said:
When most of these games are The way it's meant to be played a.k.a funded by nvidia and amd doesn't have access to these games. Then the coding is made to run better on nvidia and gimp the way amd runs code... i believe it's more than normal that amd doesn't have support for those games.
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funded by nvidia is pushing it. a million dollar game getting thousands to put a logo on the box is not really funding
 
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