NVidia 285.79 BETA Drivers Released

NVIDIA DRIVERS 285.79 BETA

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RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS :
New in Version 285.79

Includes several bug fixes and performance improvements for Battlefield 3.
Fixes cases of irregular performance (stuttering) primarily seen on DirectX 10 GPUs. The fix improves the performance of both DX10 and DX11 GPUs.
Fixes shadow map corruption seen with DirectX 10 GPUs.
Fixes cases of black corruption lines/triangles with DirectX 10 GPUs.
Fixes black screen during playback using Windows Media Center.
Added or updated SLI profiles for the following games:
Aion v3.0
Anno 2070
Assassins Creed: Revelations
Bastion
Need for Speed: The Run
Payday: The Heist
The Adventures of Tintin
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
Added or updated the following 3D Vision game profiles:
Airline Tycoon 2 – rated Fair
Assassin's Creed: Revelations – rated Good
Batman: Arkham City – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – rated Excellent
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – rated Excellent
FIFA 12 – rated Good
Hard Reset – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
inMomentum – rated Fair
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Smash Cars – rated Fair
Two Worlds 2: Castle Defense – rated Good
Zombie Driver – rated Excellent
Other Details

Includes HD Audio driver 1.2.24.0.
Includes PhysX System Software 9.11.06.21.
You can read more about this driver on GeForce.com.

Summary of what affects us:
Includes several bug fixes and performance improvements for Battlefield 3.

• Fixes cases of irregular performance (stuttering) primarily seen on DirectX 10 GPUs. The fix improves the performance of both DX10 and DX11 GPUs.
• Fixes shadow map corruption seen with DirectX 10 GPUs.

• Fixes cases of black corruption lines/triangles with DirectX 10 GPUs.
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• Fixes black screen during playback using Windows Media Center.
• Includes HD Audio driver 1.2.24.0.
• Includes PhysX System Software 9.11.06.21.

 

Downloading now. Hopefully Skyrim will run a little smoother outdoors.

 

I noticed about 2-3 extra frames in BF3 and its a lot smoother.

 

What were you on before? Seems some people are saying 280.26 is still the best, can you confirm either way?

 

I never played on 280.26 but I can definitely say these new BETA drivers are a lot smoother and more stable on my R3. Not much stuttering at all.

 

This BETA driver is useless for those who wish to play L.A. Noire.
I have no idea what Nvidia were thinking, not making a graphic driver for Nvidia Optimus that is compatible to the game.
I am sitting with the game installed but only being able to play with my integrated graphic card.

 

Whats wrong mohaa7???

And I had no luck with these drivers. For some weird reason my gpu throttles down with these. Oh well.

 

If you read my post you can tell there is some kind of problem with running the game called L.A. Noire.
Nvidia Optimus cannot run the game.

 

"Fixes cases of irregular performance (stuttering)"

yeah, this driver definitely improved on/fixed this! I'm comparing with the 285.62 drivers.

 

I tested this one and I can tell that it still gives less fps than the 280.26, at least they have gave me less fps when I tested, but I did it just one time and I need some confirmation because of it, it could be less smooth because of some weird reason, who knows, so maybe I'm wrong.

Can another person do the test? Looks like only me did this test...

 

Downloaded 285.79 now, testing should be done by the end of the day.

 

I can't really tell if there's a FPS difference in Skyrim, or any other game for that matter. I'm starting to think that all these driver updates will have little to no effect on the GT335m

 

You won't see much of a difference between 275.33. They stopped updating things for the 300 series gpus.

 

Any point in R1 owners dling?

 

Nice, good to know o/.

 

With the 280.26, I was getting an average of 20 FPS, dipping to around 16 and getting as high as 23. In a jet, strangely, FPS jumped to around 40 though.

With the 285.79, I got around 28 FPS, dipping to around 23, and getting as high as 32. Didn't get to test jets, but I would assume it would be able to at least match the 280.26.

I'm running on custom settings as follows:
( settings chosen with advice from this helpful article)
Textures: ultra
Shadows: medium
Effects: low
Mesh: high
Terrain: low
Terrain Decoration: low
AA: none
AA Post: high
Motion Blur: off
AF: x16
AO: SSAO

545/1301/901
CPU @ 167 Mhz and TS

 

^
That's great improvement!!!

 

Wow dude, huge improvement! But and about the stuttering? Did you sense it? Thx for the info, I'll probably install the beta driver right now.

And just a question: is the HD Audio better than the X-Fi audio with 3D enhancement? I was wondering...

 

I didn't even sense much stuttering with the 280.26. If anything, the lower frames (or my internet) were making it choppy.

No idea about the audio, sorry!

 

Thanks for the comparison ZeroCell, that was a huge improvement.

16x AF is pretty solid. Does lowering it give any sort of gain in fps?

 

So I guess ZeroCell's results were probably due to the placebo effect?

 

There are some possibilities of unintended improvements for 300 series.
Nvidia nowadays focus mostly on 400 series and 500 series.
300 series have long been ignored since 275.33 with that huge improvement.
It is possible that ZeroCell might have exaggerated the FPS.
People just want to feel that the updated graphic drivers to work much better than previous ones.

 

Thanks Mohaa This is what I should've have stated.

 

Go ahead and try it for yourself. Test with the same settings and whatnot. Got some more testing done today on Operation Firestorm:

About the same as before, around 28 FPS. Dipped to 20 for a moment during explosions with tanks, though it stayed consistently from 24-30 FPS the whole time. Jets jumped to 36 FPS during takeoff, and back to around 28-30 while flying around the map.

@Rypac: Lowering AF gives about 2-3 more frames per setting drop.

 

While that is true, these drivers are optimised for bf3, so therefore the improvements should affect every card running the game. There is a difference between these drivers and the revision before it for the 335m (about 5 fps for me).

 

what is the driver more stable to gt335m?