NVIDIA GeForce 301.24 Beta Drivers Add Major Gaming Features & Boost Skyrim Performance By Up To 20%

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NICE! was waiting this for ages

 

Trying now

 

so guys, we are going to turn off 4xMSAA right? I read previously that people using the 300 drivers was turning off FXAA from the game, not the MSAA, but the article kinda says turn off MSAA

 

lets see how much this helps my GARBAGE 9400M

Holy crap, these drivers are awesome. before i struggling with skyrim at 800x600 on LOW. now i can run it somewhat smoothly (20-40 fps) on medium at 1280x800 with a GeForce 9400M.

Talk about major improvements.

 

interadasting...

 

Seeing is believing

 

Hmm... is this engineered towards mostly Skyrim? My computer still struggles with SC2 on medium... only <20 fps. But on Skyrim it's around 20 fps on medium o.o that doesn't sound right. Perhaps the DX9 from Skyrim makes that possible?

 

Are you able to run 3DMark06?:

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lol i scored 2175 3DMarks


SO GOOD

 

I lol'd at this post.

And on topic.... MORE FPS IN SKYRIM!?

ME WANT (P.S. Nvidia I <3 you!)

 

Well, it helped my 9400M come to life. How in the world and I running Skyrim at medium at playable FPS?

 

The FXAA injector is extremely good, much better quality than what was available, and done at the driver level so no chance of a false positive hacking ban.

The adaptive VSync is also pretty awesome.

This is some serious value added stuff and is really what sets Nvidia apart. Since Skyrim released they have almost doubled performance through drivers, and now they add some really incredible new features. Awesome stuff.

 

are there any "recommended" tweaks i should make to the settings to fully utilize these drivers or are the new features automatically there?

 

The performance is just there, you need to enable FXAA or Adaptive VSync in the driver program profiles.

I would recommend trying FXAA on the games you play, just enable it in the driver and then turn off all AA in-game. I feel like the Nvidia stuff gives quality close to 8X MSAA with almost no performance hit.

 

Yoda, so you have all AA turned off in BF3?

 

thanks. i'll try that.

 

BF3 already has Nvidia FXAA, so you can't force it at driver level. I have all deferred AA turned off, the other option for AA in BF3 is the Nvidia FXAA which I have on high.

In a game like AC:Revelation though I do have all AA turned off with just the Nvidia FXAA forced and it looks the same as my old 8X MSAA setting.

 

BF3 has nvidia FXAA builtin??? no surprise 580m do wonders compared to 6990m..

 

i just tried the FXAA with Divinity 2 and it was absolutely horrid. FPS went down to single digits.

 

You turned off all other AA in-game? If you don't then you will be stacking AA which will kill performance.

Could also just be a glitch, it is a beta after all. I found that the adaptive VSync doesn't work with GTA4 or any of the expansion packs, it makes the loading times take like 3 minutes when normally it takes 15 seconds. However, I tried the FXAA on GTA4 and that works great with a minimal performance hit.

 

I was just going to replay Skyrim again! Thanks for the find! + Rep.

 

i turned the AA to 1. it was the lowest setting. there was also some other AA stuff, but i wasn't sure about the different types.

 

I have never played that game, but when you turn on the Nvidia FXAA you want to turn all types of AA all the way off in-game, or you will just be worse off than without FXAA.

 

Yoda, man I have a direct question as I really don't have time to try them out nowadays What settings are you using in BF3, do you use FXAA from drivers?

 

Nah, like I said, you can't use the FXAA in the drivers with games which already implement Nvidia FXAA. The option is grayed out.

BF3 is one of those games, in-game there are 2 types of AA, one just has options like High and Low, while the other is like 2XMSAA, 4XMSAA, etc. I turn the MSAA all the way off, and put the other on High, since that is already using Nvidia FXAA.

 

i went back and tried to mess with FXAA again, and finally got it working!

in Divinity 2, i was averaging about 30FPS @ extreme settings, 1080p, and 4X AA. after i turned off all in-game AA and got FXAA working (not sure if 100% properly yet), i was averaging about 40FPS. i couldn't tell u which one had the better picture quality, but the 4X AA and FXAA looked to be about the same image quality.

 

Yea, in the games I have tried I can't really tell the difference, even between 8X MSAA and the Nvidia FXAA, but the FXAA is quite a bit faster. The biggest difference I have found is in Starcraft 2. If I force 4X MSAA in Starcraft 2 my FPS drops a lot in big battles, like sub 30 fps. With the Nvidia FXAA I always sit around 60 with no problematic drops.

 

nvidia FXAA also does wonders to dota2!

 

Giving me some serious hope with this whole FXAA feature I never knew about! I was slaving away at 30-40 on high with 4xAA on skyrim, and I'm really hoping this changes.. ( Now that I always have AA on, jagged edges bug me... I feel so spoiled )

 

So you guys mean that with FXAA, there's no need for 2xMSAA?

 

let's say no need for 4xMSAA

 

As posted in the M14X sub-forum, this driver update is not SWTOR-friendly.

Tried it tonight and I couldn't stop lagging in warzone's (battlegrounds). Had a significant performance loss overall.

Every time there was multiple players on my screen and I was healing them, I would have to face the opposite way so I wouldn't lag.

Prior to this driver update, I was using an older driver and the performance was excellent.

Seems this driver fixes/betters games and breaks others

 

are u using the new FXAA or adaptive vsync?

 

Major improvements indeed, my desktop 570 just owned my old Skyrim FPS count, steady 15 - 20 FPS boost, well done nVidia

P.S. just updated my drivers today
EDIT: Bulletstorm FPS increased too!

 

Doesn't Skyrim use OpenGL?

 

then, we don't have to upgrade GPU's?

 

I'm not noticing the FXAA at all in skyrim, still looks like there's no AA.. Am I doing something wrong? I went to the nVidia control thing and selected skyrimlauncher.exe and turned FXAA on. It looks jagged, but my FPS is still better because there's no regular AA.

 

20% boost in Skyrim with these drivers???

Is that true?

 

Help?

 

You can turn FXAA on in Skyrim through the launcher options or the Skyrimprefs.ini in the Documents/my games/skyrim folder.

FXAA is grayed out for me too in the Control Panel for Skyrim, probably because the game has it's own FXAA setting.

 

I can't find the value for it in skrimprefs.ini, all I see is iMultiSampling. I don't think that is it.

 

bFXAAEnabled=0 to 1

This is the value you want.

If it's not in there, add it to the lines.

 

AA is always off/lowest and vsync is also off.

I tried toying with the settings a little, but got the same results.

Went from 45FPS~ on high settings (35~ during heavy combat) to 35FPS~ high settings (20~ during heavy combat) with this new driver

Any other ideas? The latest driver is giving an improvement to the majority of my games, but what it's doing to swtor is unbearable.

 

how about just turning off adaptive vsync and FXAA just for SWOTR? how does the new driver perform right out of the box for SWOTR? u can always go back and turn FXAA and/or adaptive vsync for each individual programs/games if u want.

 

SWTOR is one of the worst optimized games ever. It puts quite a bit of stress on CPU, and even with wicked GPU's it still seems laggy. I don't know what the hell they did to that game...

 

Bioware is suffering from what I call - EA syndrome. It's a shame because it isn't a genetic disease so they could have prevented it