nVidia 337.50 (Mantle Killer) Driver released

Apparently, this driver's performance increase only applies to DirectX 11 titles. Unfortunately, DCS requires DirectX 9. Will have to wait for EDGE :-)

I might be wrong though: "CPU overhead reductions apply globally, benefitting the majority of DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and DirectX 11 games"

Here is an english article:

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-337-50-beta-performance-driver

This only makes the wait for EDGE more painful... :cry:

The Massive Performance gain is for DX11, but there are global changes that help DX9 and 10 as well.

The driver didn't install - maybe because I have 64 bit Windows :-(

The driver didn't install - maybe because I have 64 bit Windows :-(

Try the 64-bit one: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/74636

:D

I have them installed and will be flying in 30min :)

no difference for me and that was to be expected on a CPU bound SIM. :)

no difference for me and that was to be expected on a CPU bound SIM. :)

Also, you're not running a 700-series GPU, if your sig is up-to-date. :)

Specs are current.

limited to 700 series? :(

Yeah mainly 700 and up, some people are reporting loss in 600 series but have not heard anything about the 500...

I flew around a bit and it never dipped below 60FPS and it did seem to look better. Also my settings are below

Textures - High

Scenes - High

Civ Traffic - Off

Water - High

Visib Range - High

Heat Blur - Off (thought I had it on..)

Shadows - High

Res - 1920x1080

Res. Cockpit displays - 512

MSAA - 8x

HDR - Normal

Clutter - 510m

Trees - 6000m

Preload - 150000m

Tree shadows - On

Vsync - On

Full screen - On

Cockpit Shadows - On

TSSAA - On

Running the benchmark.miz found here http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=108231 ( I had to pull the plane up so that the others could not take off) I am averaging 52FPS where as with my old 6950 2GB I was getting 8 FPS single card and 10FPS crossfire with 14.1 drivers.... amazing

Thought EDGE was upgrading to DX10 from DX9, didn't think it was supporting DX11

This is only for DX11 stuff, so not DCS. It's also not only on 700 series, they always just list the latest GPUs. Both 700 and 600 are based on Kepler, so any improvements should apply to older series as well.

running bad ass!!!

Try the 64-bit one: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/74636

:D

Thanks - I thought they only rolled out the 32bit version :-)

no good on the old school stuff like the 570's crashes my system and doesn't fully install. time for an upgrade I think

no good on the old school stuff like the 570's crashes my system and doesn't fully install. time for an upgrade I think

i installed fine, 570 as well.

This is only for DX11 stuff, so not DCS. It's also not only on 700 series, they always just list the latest GPUs. Both 700 and 600 are based on Kepler, so any improvements should apply to older series as well.

Since it releases some cpu cycles it also helps people like me running older cpu's. The tests are showing increases in DX9 and DX10 applications with older cpu's. To me DCS runs much smoother and has better image quality.:thumbup:

This is only for DX11 stuff, so not DCS. It's also not only on 700 series, they always just list the latest GPUs. Both 700 and 600 are based on Kepler, so any improvements should apply to older series as well.

There are Global DX9, 10, 11 Optimizations in the 337.50 Driver.

Thought EDGE was upgrading to DX10 from DX9, didn't think it was supporting DX11

DirectX 11

Too bad no performance increase for Arma 3

But then again, that engine is so old, nothing can save that one anymore.

Is it really confirmed that the performance increase is only for the 700 series? I mainly ask because the 600 and 700 series mostly consist of similar chips.

A GTX 770 is basically a rebranded GTX 680, both run on a GK104 GPU, albeit different revisions. But the performance difference is minimal. So does have nVidia the new benefits locked down to the cards calling themselves 7xx in their device IDs?

Is it really confirmed that the performance increase is only for the 700 series? I mainly ask because the 600 and 700 series mostly consist of similar chips.

 

A GTX 770 is basically a rebranded GTX 680, both run on a GK104 GPU, albeit different revisions. But the performance difference is minimal. So does have nVidia the new benefits locked down to the cards calling themselves 7xx in their device IDs?

You can test it on your 680, then load up BIOS from 770 and test again for results.

Is it really confirmed that the performance increase is only for the 700 series?

Nope... You can check the geforce driver forum. There are plenty of comments from apparently knowledgeable people (nvidia engineers?) stating that 600 series will also benefit because, as you have said, they are basically the same chip as most 700 gpus. For example, 680 should benefit to approximately the same degree as 770.