NVIDIA GeForce 260.99 WHQL Driver Released

NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.99 WHQL

New in Release 260.99

• Increases performance vs. v260.89 drivers in the following PC games: Civilization V (SLI), Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIV, and Formula 1 Racing (DX11).
• Adds SLI profiles for the following PC games:
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Improves compatibility for Fallout 3: New Vegas with antialiasing enabled.
• Improves Alt-Tab compatibility for several PC games.

 

Cool! I'll try this

 

sweeet thanks

 

Thanks a lot

 

Hmm, I just reinstalled Fallout 3, so I'll bother to install.

 

These Drivers eliminated the stuttering and reduced performance I suffered in GTA IV when I used the previous 260.89 WHQL.

Edit: I have just noticed improved and much smoother performance in Red Faction 2 Guerilla warfare and Saints Row 2. Temperatures are also 1-2 C lower idle although that could be a coincidence.

 

I have been using the 260.89 drivers, no complaints with those, will give this one a try and see how it fares.

 

really? interesting because i was having something like this on my gts 360 when playing, will try it when i get home.

 

With GTA IV, a few Nvidia Drivers have always caused a lot of stuttering while others had no such problems. I have no idea why only this game seems to be affected like that. Usually stuttering is caused by the CPU being maxed out to 100% with no free CPU time though, particularly if you have a Dual Core.

 

i have a core i7 so it shouldn't be the cpu im pretty sure. Downloading now.

 

If it is a Core i7 Dual it could be that, otherwise probably a Driver or resolution issue.

 

Eh, had the same problem as the driver that was released last week in where it didn't work very well with Video Decoding.

Back to 259.

 

So in general are people seeing better performance in starcraft II with 260.89 or 260.99 also at what resolutions? Because for a lot of people optimization at 2500x makes no difference if the 1400x900 runs slower

anyone?

 

For me so far its a good jump from 260.89m althought these drivers are more than an hotfix.
F1 2010 and all my games clearly improved performance.

 

I do see an improvement in Fallout 3. I was able to bump it up to 8x AA, and install an HD texture pack, with no performance loss.

 

do you mean while using DXVA to play HD content?

 

I tried this 260.89 and 260.99 the driver almost killed my Old faithful 8800GTS 512mb ........Use only if u have more recent cards ........Dont ever try this at older cards.....

NVidia seems to have missed this warning.....

 

^what do you mean by KILLED

 

I wonder as well...

 

FYI: These drivers cleared up some performance issues with Borderlands w/ 260M GTX.

The game is overall much smoother.

 

Hmm I might reinstall it then. I used to have some really annoying stuttering.

 

After updating to these drivers, I can now play MW2 on the highest setting, native res(1280x800) (w/o AA) on my 2010 Macbook Pro 13.

 

With the 260 beta drivers, I ran everything fairly smoothly on my desktop with sli gtx 460s.

With 260.89 I was getting stuttering in Dirt 2 at the LA Marina track.

Installing 260.99 now. Hopefully stuttering is fixed.

 

No, CoreAVC using CUDA acceleration (cause DXVA never worked for me in the first place). 260.89 and .99 made it play anything 1080p like it was just using the CPU to decode for me, which would slow down after 5-6 seconds of anything that used more than 75% of the GPU.

 

I have not tried this out yet, but I've only head positive things about this version. Can't wait to test it out!

 

Before installing this update, i had no issues with my GPU but after installing this my same game (Dragon age ) run smooth in low settings no prob ...but crashed just 2 hours after installing the driver in game play ......and showed error 43 ........almost lost that lap .....

 

well my advise is to use MPC home cinema for DXVA.i have been using it for quite a long time and it works flawlessly with every driver i have used.

 

I use Windows Media Player, and I'm going to end this here before it turns into a Codec Pack/Media Player fight.

Besides, I didn't notice that much of a difference in framerate in TF2 between the 3 different drivers anyway.

 

This is a great driver for my Toshiba X305 Q701 with 9700m GTS, also I love that we don't need to uninstall, reboot, driver sweeper, reboot, install, reboot, it's just download, click on icon and it'll do it's stuff and you're upgraded.

 

I have a Nvidia 9600M GT GPU. I'm currently running v258.96

Should I upgrade?

 

I think you should.. and worst case, you can always reroll back to 258.96

 

I lol'ed
(10. Char.)

 

Yeah i'm trying to decode that post as well.

 

Good performance - 10,974 in 3dm06 test compared to 10,714 at 258.xx . Stable temperature . No problem with Dragon Age