NVIDIA 290.53 beta driver released

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Enjoy!

 

25% boost for Skyrim?

I'm installing these now. I will report if they improve the Geforce 335m

 

If anyone playing SWTOR installs these, can you report back the improvements?

 

swtor definitely improved.
pvp doesn't really drop below 20 now and usually around 30

 

the 25% increase with Skyrim, does that include the 335m?

 

I'm not sure, I played Skyrim for about an hour with these drivers and was getting 30+ FPS in Riften where I usually get 25... Whether this is because of the drivers or not, it's hard to say.

I'd download them and see for yourself. You may get more significant improvement.

 

I will test these tomorrow as well!

 

*sigh* if only there was some kind of benchmark tool...

 

if it increased the performance in arkham city that would be good! but i doubt it will make bf3 playable at all.

EDIT: Nope, no good oh well!

 

Why can't you play bf3???

 

I just installed them. Haven't tested them out on many games though.

 

im uninstalling them now, it caused me my first ever BSOD while playing skyrim

 

cos no matter what settings i put it too it doesn't give me good framerates.

 

Did you try custom CFG with console commands ? Really helps.

 

I'm using 290.xx drivers and can't get bf3 playable on my R1, no more than 20-23 in intensiv battle. Does yours is playable ? What is you config ? Can you upload you CFG file or tell us what you add in it ?

Thank you !

 

was about to ask the same thing. Just why? I play BF 3 on my pretty m11x r2 smoothly, just turn of the AA sampling. Everything here is at the maximum setting.

Anyway, thanks for this news dude, I'm downloading this great driver nowww! 25% on Skyrim? oO o/! Merry Christmas to all of you.

 

I was able to play and finish it with combination of medium and low.
I had to get used to some stuttering though whenever I'm inside a building.
I heard it was the game problem.

 

I'm doing it too. This driver is freezing my m11x without even give me a BSOD, and so I need to reset it by force. I can't even come close to a group of guards at Riften or it immediately freezes.

 

My drivers seem to be working properly, however I'm not really noticing a boost in SWTOR to answer a previous question. I was averaging about 20 fps in bg's with the last drivers, and i'm getting about the same now. However, unless it was just by luck, today I was able to run around in the fleet with a bit higher fps (not much higher, but still).

 

Didn't even try on my R1.

However , i played it on a friends laptop with slightly better perf , was playable.

Here's the file i use even on my G74 to have smoother gameplay :

Render.DrawFps 1
RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 1
WorldRender.FxaaEnable 0
WorldRender.SpotLightShadowmapResolution 256
WorldRender.TransparencyShadowmapsEnable 0
RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 1
RenderDevice.Dx11Enable 0
GameTime.MaxVariableFPS 60
WoldRender.DxDeferredCsPathEnable 1

That works cause i use Vsync , put TripleBuff to 0 if you have it off.
ForceRenderAhdead depends goes from -1 to 10 i think , depends on how your CPU is lower to GPU or Gpu to CPU. Just mess with that value to see if you get a boost somehow.

Just create a file called user.cfg and put it on root BF3 folder ( care of hidden file extension , not to have User.cfg.txt )

Just check thoses commands after you're ingame , sometimes some of them didn't register ... don't ask me why.

You can also check all of thoses commands separate to see if you have a boost. There's a command i never used for number of pre-render frame , just google it if you want hardcore tweak , but all of theses cumulated give me at least 15 fps boost , i'm close to constant 60 FPS on my G74 ( only on small map or without too long distance view )

http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/Guides/battlefield-3-tweak-guide
This could also help a bit.

 

These drivers work great for League of Legends and DOTA 2.

Maxed out on each game (other than shadows of course).

 

love dota 2 and LoL haha so far these drivers have been kicking butt!

 

Dont suppose they have admitted to/fixed the Max.Maya issues? You know, with them attempting to use the excuse that these programs are only for their Quadro cards (BS, AMD cards work just great).

 

I tried using the 290.53 driver, LoL freezes the computer as soon as the map loads. Or BSOD.
I tried 285.62 and LoL, as soon as map loads, computer BSOD.

Both drivers sometimes allows the game to last for 5 minutes then BSOD. But for those 5 minutes I was getting 60fps. All settings maxed but shadows, ;-;


Any advice on what to do to get this stable?

 

I was getting the same thing, I haven't tried the 290.53 on LoL yet. But I was getting the same problem with 285.62. I'll report back with my results after testing 290.53

 

These don't work for Trine or Payday: The Heist. Sorry, can't give feedback on MMORPGs.

 

Works wonders for LoL blue screens im happy! btw i think you should whitelist the pvp.net patcher as well as the pvp.net client

 

I the 290.53 beta driver won't download properly. I have the M11xr2 i7 640um 8gb. The actual driver is installing but nothing else will install. Does anyone know how to fix this.

 

If I instal this driver, will I loose the fn+f6 functionality?

Edit: I'm on a r1 btw

 

What do you mean nothing else will? you dont need 3d power. or the nvidia updates.

 

i had the same issue in the same place in Skyrim after a few minutes of playing. I'm back on 285.62 which is working fine and has been for a couple of hours of play so far.

 

read above and see if its still nice :].

 

i have no problems running skyrim with these drivers.

 

How do I whitelist the patcher and client? Though I do not have disconnect issues.

 

All I did for LoL is add Cdrive>riotgames>leagueoflegends> Rads>Projects> LolGameclient>Releases> 00.xxx.xxx> Deploy and you will find the application in this folder. I get 100fps in summoners rift as low as 60 in team fights. average 70's. dominion is 55-65.

 

it works in R1? in discrete mode.

 

No reason why it shouldn't. Pretty much all of the nvidia drivers have worked on the R1 in discrete mode.

 

I did not know that file existed.
I white-listed it on nvidia control panel and windows firewall. And the BSOD have stopped, thank you for the suggestion.

 

Your welcome. Yeah if you want to find .exe's you can ctrl+alt+delete task manager go to processes right click and open file location.

 

hopefully this will fix the odd issue of the faded colors occasionally on the screen (sorry I have not been to active in this forum what so ever)

please steer me in the right direction if it's something else

 

I don't know if it's the driver or me monkeying around with MSI Afterburner but Starcraft II just woke up on my M11xr2!!!!!! I used to get lag warnings ALL THE TIME in low graphics but now I am running ultra 2v2 and haven't seen it dip past 30 FPS and it holds a pretty solid 45 FPS.


As for SWTOR... still no luck. The really strange part about that game is that my GPU and my CPU never get about 50-60% UNLESS I am watching a dialogue part in which the graphics immediately get better and my GPU goes under full load..... why can't they just do that the rest of the time

 

^ Lol? i never get warnings in starcraft 2, i always get above 60 fps in 1v1 at all times. running at ultra textures, high every things except shadows and shaders turned off/low

 

Aww, no support for the 335M

 

Are you OCing your CPU or GPU when playing SC2 because i am trying to fix my SC2 issues because I lag with the setting on low and when playing 1v1...

 

Just Oc'd my cpu using Throttlestop, 166MHz. I mean you have to if you want things playable. GPU is stock using the 260.99 driver, that's old. I get higher fps with the 290.65 beta driver but it crashes LoL all the time, my m11x gets too hot compared to the 260.99 driver.

Just turn off shadows in sc2, and you'll be playing at 40+ fps easily

whitelist sc2 btw

 

What are your temps like?

 

They're always low 70's with SC2, but some games make it run 80 max

 

Thanks for the Info