New GeForce Divers Out 295.73

Drivers - GeForce



Release Highlights
As part of the NVIDIA Verde Notebook Driver Program, this is a reference driver that can be installed on supported NVIDIA notebook GPUs. However, please note that your notebook original equipment manufacturer (OEM) provides certified drivers for your specific notebook on their website. NVIDIA recommends that you check with your notebook OEM about recommended software updates for your notebook. OEMs may not provide technical support for issues that arise from the use of this driver.

Before downloading this driver:
Please check to make sure that your notebook has a supported GPU (refer to the Products Supported tab below).
It is recommended that you backup your current system configuration. Click here for instructions.
If you own a Dell Inspiron 1420, Dell XPS M1330, Dell XPS M1530, or Dell Latitude D630/D630c it is highly recommended that you first install this Dell software update.
RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS :
This is the first WHQL-certified driver from the R295 family of drivers. It is the recommended upgrade for all NVIDIA notebook users, especially those playing the latest hot PC games like Battlefield 3, Diablo III, Mass Effect 3, or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These drivers come packed with GeForce-exclusive performance and quality enhancements and are now Microsoft WHQL-certified. Read the full GeForce 295.73 driver article on GeForce.com.

Product Support
This driver supports the following NVIDIA notebook GPUs (please refer to the Products Supported tab for exceptions):

ION notebook GPUs.
GeForce 8M, 9M, 100M, 200M, 300M, 400M, and 500M-series notebook GPUs.
Quadro 5010M, 5000M, 4000M 3000M, 2000M and 1000M notebook GPUs.
Quadro NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).
Quadro FX-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).
NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).
R295 Highlight Summary
New features and performance since last WHQL-certified driver

Game-changing performance boost of up to 45% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, “the fastest selling title in Steam’s history”
Up to 2x performance Mass Effect 3 with SLI technology.
GeForce-exclusive quality enhancements with ambient occlusion support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Diablo III, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
New 3D Vision and SLI profiles for over 50 titles.
New PhysX software for the best experience in top PhysX titles like Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City.
R295 Highlight Details

Performance

Increases performance by up to 45% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (measured with GeForce GTX 560 at 1080p Ultra settings in indoor scenes vs. 285.62).
Updates the NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to a higher performance profile.
Boosts Mass Effect 3 SLI performance to up to 2x.
Ambient Occlusion

Adds ambient occlusion support for Diablo III. See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.
Updates the ambient occlusion support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to a higher performance profile (also in 290 beta drivers). See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.
Adds ambient occlusion support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (also in 290 beta drivers). See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.
NVIDIA SLI

Adds or updates SLI profiles for:
Mass Effect 3
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
The Darkness II
F1 2011
Oil Rush
Red Faction: Armageddon
7554
Trine 2
WRC 2: FIA World Rally Championship 2011
Afterfall: InSanity.
ArcheAge
Core Blaze
NVIDIA 3D Vision

Adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3D monitors.
Added new 3D Vision laser sight /crosshair options to better match Skyrim crosshairs.
Adds or updates 3D Vision profiles for:
The Adventures of Tintin – rated Good
Afterfall: Insanity – rated Fair
ANNO 2070 - rated Not Recommended
Apache: Air Assault – rated Fair
Black Prophecy – rated Not Recommended
Chaos Online – rated Fair
Choplifter HD - rated Good
Cities XL 2012 - rated Good
Da Vinci Online – rated Fair
Dino D-Day - rated Good
DotA 2 – rating upgraded to Fair
Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale – rated Fair
Edge - rated Excellent
Ferrari Project – rated Not Recommended
The First Templar – rated Fair
Fractal – rated Excellent
FreeStyle 2 – rated Good
The Haunted Halls Reach – rated Excellent
Insane 2 - rated Excellent
King Arthur II – rated Not Recommended
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – rated Fair
Kong Fu Ying Xiong – rated Fair
Love Beat – rated Good
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online – rated Good
Microsoft Flight – rated Fair
Perpetuum – rated Fair
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem – rated Fair
Prototype 2 – rated Fair
Q.U.B.E. – rated Excellent
Quan Qiu Shi Ming – rated Excellent
Red Bull X-Fighters - rated Excellent
rFactor 2 (mod mode) – rated Good and updated convergence
Risen 2: Dark Waters - rated Fair
Saints Row: The Third – Rated Not Recommended
Shadow Company: Left for Dead – rated Not Recommended
Special Force – Rated Good
Tera – rated Good
Top Gun: Hard Lock – rated Not Recommended
Tropico 4 – rated Good
Worms Blast – rated Good
If you are using 3D Vision with the 3D Vision USB emitter, please read this FAQ for more details on installation.
NVIDIA PhysX

Updates PhysX System Software to 9.12.0209 for improved compatibility with Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City.
HD Audio

Updates HD Audio to version 1.3.12.0.
Battlefield 3

Fixes instances of texture corruption/artifacts in Battlefield 3 when memory constrained (typically 1GB or less graphics cards running Ultra settings and high resolutions).
Other Details

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.

Supported Products
GeForce 500M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce GTX 580M, GeForce GTX 570M, GeForce GTX 560M, GeForce GT 555M, GeForce GT 550M, GeForce GT 540M, GeForce GT 525M, GeForce GT 520M, GeForce GT 520MX

GeForce 400M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce GTX 485M, GeForce GTX 480M, GeForce GTX 470M, GeForce GTX 460M, GeForce GT 445M, GeForce GT 435M, GeForce GT 425M, GeForce GT 420M, GeForce GT 415M, GeForce 410M

GeForce 300M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce GTS 360M, GeForce GTS 350M, GeForce GT 335M, GeForce GT 330M, GeForce GT 325M, GeForce GT 320M, GeForce 320M, GeForce 315M, GeForce 310M, GeForce 305M

GeForce 200M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce GTX 285M, GeForce GTX 280M, GeForce GTX 260M, GeForce GTS 260M, GeForce GTS 250M, GeForce GT 240M, GeForce GT 230M, GeForce GT 220M, GeForce G210M

GeForce 100M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce GTS 160M, GeForce GT 130M, GeForce GT 120M, GeForce G 110M, GeForce G 105M, GeForce G 103M, GeForce G 102M

GeForce 9M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce 9800M GTX, GeForce 9800M GTS, GeForce 9800M GT, GeForce 9800M GS, GeForce 9700M GTS, GeForce 9700M GT, GeForce 9650M GT, GeForce 9650M GS, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 9600M GS, GeForce 9500M GS, GeForce 9500M G, GeForce 9400M G, GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9300M GS, GeForce 9300M G, GeForce 9200M GS, GeForce 9100M G

GeForce 8M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce 8800M GTX, GeForce 8800M GTS, GeForce 8800M GS, GeForce 8700M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GS, GeForce 8400M GT, GeForce 8400M GS, GeForce 8400M G, GeForce 8200M G, GeForce 8200M

 

The notebook drivers seem to work so far pretty good for me. And it seems they fixed the memory leak problem that the latest beta had.

Also for some reason only with latest beta and this WHQL release hardware acceleration seems to be working ok with firefox. Previously it worked only in version 275.33 and below.

 

Great, will definitely update when I get home. The last beta release, while the most stable overall, has crashed twice for me, resulting in a hard restart once. I've never had this issue before. Hopefully this will fix it. And performance increase in games is always welcome.

 

Good performance boost in Skyrim! Though it decreased my benchmark scores ._.

 

Just had a TDR with it -_-', lowered my OC from 796/1546/1592 to 790/1546/1580 (GTX460M), future will tell if that's OC or drivers fault.

 

it has lowered my 3DMark06 point as well. i couldn't find any difference between this one and previous beta one.

 

Nothing changed for me performance wise (that i could notice), but Firefox does not crash anymore after playing streams or video on webpages. Before it would always leave the plugin-container opened in background for a while and showing crash after.

In games like BF3, MW3 and some others no visible problems with my OC (900core 1600memory).

 

Correction on the performance front, my OC'd 560m went from 7.3 to 7.4 WEI (windows experience score)

 

Any other experience ?

Seems like i'm gonna need driver sweeper , the new WHQL says " no correct hardware detected for this driver " -_-

 

last one week already I m using generally all benchmarks score goes down and actually for the game side I couldnt get any clear performance inreasing,,,

today I had sudden purple screen issues in such area on the screen became purple like to much overclocked memory sign and recovered itself,,,

I think 290.53 is still best later on 275.33 and 285.62.

and how the all bench. goes down dont know.
Current situation 295.73 driver and overclocked GPU. 855/1710/1625 0.962volt with modified bios.

I will check some additional game but it seems it will be better to return back 290.53

 

I am not extreme gamer, but i like NFS. My favourite game starting freezing since i installed this version of nvidia. Just all of a sudent while playing, game gets frozen. I dont knw if it was fault with the game or with the driver...is there anyone having this problem?

 

Hey guys.
Sorry for the n00b'ish question. I`m currently running version 285.62. Do I need to uninstall this (Safe Mode, Driver Sweeper, etc) or just install 295.73 on it.

Regards

 

Choose custom install and tick the option for a clean install.

 

For me the "Clean install" works every time.

Yes, you have to set the preferences in driver back, but on the other hand never had random driver related issues that bugs so many people.

 

Thanks guys.

 

I'm having some kind of framerate drop in League of Legend ... not that much ( i mean , i go from constant 60 to 45 for 1 sec when 2 or 3 ulti at the same time for ex ) with some very little freeze i never experienced before , i'm thinking of revert back to old drivers.