Nvidia 314.22 March 25th WHQL release

[Quirkitized]

as per title

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/59641#

 

Release Summary

This is the GeForce Game Ready driver for BioShock Infinite, delivering up to 41% faster performance.

 

Instantly apply optimal game settings for BioShock Infinite with GeForce Experience.

 

New in GeForce 314.22 Drivers

 

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 314.07 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here are a few examples:

GeForce GTX 680:

Up to 41% faster in BioShock Infinite

Up to 60% faster in Tomb Raider

Up to 23% faster in Sniper Elite V2

Up to 13% faster in Sleeping Dogs

GeForce GTX 680 SLI:

Up to 21% faster in Sniper Elite V2

Up to 14% faster in Sleeping Dogs

Up to 10% faster in StarCraft II

Up to 15% faster in Civilization V

NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles (since GeForce 314.14 drivers):

Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army – Added DX11 SLI profile

Dungeons and Dragons: Neverwinter – Added DX9 SLI profile

BioShock Infinite – Added AO profile

NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds the following profiles (since GeForce 314.14 drivers):

MUD - rated Good

Brutal Legend - rated Good

Tomb Raider - updated rating to Good

NVIDIA CUDA

Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

Additional Details

 

Installs PhysX System Software 9.12.1031.

Installs HD Audio v1.3.23.1

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.

Edited March 26, 2013 by Quirkitized

[Taproot]

Will i notice anything with a 560 ti i wonder...?

[Steel Jaw]

Nothing mentioned about DCS again. Grrrr.

[SkateZilla]

I've been pushing AMD, but the truth is.. unless it's a TOP TEIR Game, they dont have time for it.

[Mustang]

I've been pushing AMD, but the truth is.. unless it's a TOP TEIR Game, they dont have time for it.

 

Yep throw some money AMD or NVidia's way and they might consider it :)

[JG14_Smil]

Nvidia users are Scare-D-Cats. :)

 

Us AMD guys would have had several testers reporting already.

[cichlidfan]

Nvidia users are Scare-D-Cats. :)

 

Us AMD guys would have had several testers reporting already.

 

Nvidia users already have drivers that work just fine so only a small group are worried about beta drivers. ;)

[Ghanja]

Installed them on my 560 Ti and no issues so far except a strange texture shimmering on the ground (brushes). I am still trying to find the right settings for DCS World (for nVidia inspector).

[Sorin]

Installed it and it works, no problems detected but no increase in performance either. Win 8 x64 GTX680.

[Slayer]

Installed them on my 560 Ti and no issues so far except a strange texture shimmering on the ground (brushes). I am still trying to find the right settings for DCS World (for nVidia inspector).

 

A lot of the old Nvidia info here on these forums is incorrect

 

Here's how you get rid of ground/bushes shimmering:

 

Nvidia Control Panel or you can use NVI if you want~

 

- Do NOT use any AF setting at all - Leave on application controlled it WILL shimmer if you turn it on then no other settings will help.

 

- Leave the default AA settings and control them in game ( I use 16xQ)

 

- Antialiasing Transparency - 8x(supersample) (This will really help eliminate shimmering a lot)

 

- TSSAA (in game setting) can help reduce it a bit as well but for some people the performance hit is too high on newer Nvidia cards seems to work ok.

 

If your hardware can hack it the very best setting to kill shimmering is to use Nvidia Inspector and set Antialias- Transparency supersampling to: 8x Sparse grid supersampling , this gives the very best picture but is hard on my system even with a Titan.....but I'm using 3 screens so you might be able to use this.

 

Edit: The best mission you can test this on is with the "P-51 cold start Viziani" lots of ground clutter there, just look over your left shoulder.

Edited March 30, 2013 by Slayer