**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[F1aw1ess]

Anyone getting flickers in games on 331.40s? Im running 780 SLI and its been happening quite a bit in various games

Turn on Triple Buffering in the NVidia Control Panel

 

[Finners]

I'd try a clean reinstall.

Another re-start seems to have resolved my problems

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I know it's been asked recently, but how are people finding the new official drivers?
Planning on switching my graphics cards between PCs (and adding some more ) and was wondering which are the best official drivers to use?

 

[Sampsy]

Geforce 331.58 driver is out

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/68547/en-uk

GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN:

Up to 11% in Dirt: Showdown
Up to 9% in Metro: Last Light
Up to 8% in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 13% in Sniper Elite V2
SLI Technology
Batman: Arkham Origins – updated profile
Battlefield 4 – updated profile
Shadow Warrior – added DX9 profile
War of the Vikings – added DX11 profile
Dragon Sword - updated DX9 profile
GRID 2 - updated DX11 profile
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - updated profile
Gaming Technology
Civilization 5 – added HBAO+;
SHIELD
Enables GeForce to SHIELD streaming (Beta). Learn more here.
4K Displays
Adds support for 4K Surround

 

[MoRT489]

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/68499

What does it mean by "Game Ready Driver" as opposed to a normal WHQL release?

 

[Suarez7]

What does it mean by "Game Ready Driver" as opposed to a normal WHQL release?

Think it's something to do with being ready for BF4.

 

[opethdisciple]

They are game ready drivers for Batman Origins.

But it doesnt mean anything... they are WHQL drivers.

 

[Pulseammo]

Just tried the 331.58 and got a BSOD on my 460, sadly still no fixes for whatever problem the 320s introduced for this card.

The description for Event ID 14 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\Video5
!051d(2528)

 

[Adamthegreat984]

Just tried the 331.58 and got a BSOD on my 460, sadly still no fixes for whatever problem the 320s introduced for this card.

Using a 1gb gtx460 myself and im still on 314.22, anything higher just gets me driver not responding and bsod error

 

[opethdisciple]

Just found this. Which at least official confirms that Kepler based GPU's support the Dx11.2 features found in Win 8.1.

I only just installed Win 8.1 yesterday... and supposedly I quite like it. It's a little quirky and the metro interface does seem a little bit disjointed but on the whole it's not that much different to Win 7.

 

[russ9898]

Using a 1gb gtx460 myself and im still on 314.22, anything higher just gets me driver not responding and bsod error

I too am having the same problem on my 460. Makes the system really unstable and will frequently lock up leaving me no option but to use the reset button as I can't even load task manager

 

[Neil79]

The new GeForce 331.65 beta driver with Geforce Experience 1.7 and Shadowplay.

• PhysX-Systemsoftware PhysX_9.13.0725
• HD-Audiotreiber 06/16/2013,1.3.26.4
• GeForce Experience 1.7
• DriverVer 10/23/2013, 9.18.13.3165

• Driver 331.65 is r331_00-146, DriverVer = 10/23/2013, 9.18.13.3165
• Driver 331.58 is r331_54-5, DriverVer = 10/15/2013, 9.18.13.3158
• Driver 331.44 is r331_42-3, DriverVer = 10/08/2013, 9.18.13.3147
• Driver 331.40 is r331_00-96, DriverVer = 09/27/2013, 9.18.13.3140
• Driver 327.24 is r326_01-60, DriverVer = 09/12/2013
• Driver 327.23 is r325_00-230, DriverVer = 09/12/2013, 9.18.13.2723

Shadow Play Pic

http://www.abload.de/img/shadowplaymlo21.png


Beta Link
http://uploaded.net/file/9ji7h46h


Shadow Play ( ADDON FOR OLDER DRIVERS )
http://ul.to/g3v7wgo0

As of yet not on Nvidia site Older branch but new driver

 

[Neil79]

SHADOWPLAY IS AMAZING!!! i recorded playing AO with full maxed out physxx high txaa 1080p game ran 80+fps while recording it went down only 1-2fps, so smooth i think it got ability to record 120fps as well, cause when i viewed the video it indeed seem to have the smoothness of 120hz with 100+fps.

Wow .. it works really well! I'm impressed! Is there any way to make the recording indicator visible only when it is recording? I don't want that grey circle to be there all the time.

Works better than expected!!

 

[Suarez7]

Will definitely be giving this a try for shadowplay.

 

[Neil79]

MIRROR : http://www.mediafire.com/?zhcp4mgwb7ob5gj

 

[Cosimo]

The "official" 331.65 drivers:

32 bit:

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/68798/en-us

64 bit:

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/68799/en-us

Release Summary

This 331.65 Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty: Ghosts. These Game Ready drivers will also provide performance enhancements in a wide variety of different games.

In addition, the new 331.65 Game Ready driver is bundled with GeForce Experience v1.7 which includes support for two highly-anticipated new technologies. NVIDIA GameStream™ provides end users with the ability to stream PC games from their GeForce GTX-equipped PC directly to a SHIELD device. This update also introduces the Beta version of GeForce ShadowPlay™, an innovated new game capture tool with exceptional features and performance.

New in GeForce R331 Drivers

•Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 327.23 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:


GeForce GTX 690/770/780/TITAN:

•Up to 12% in Battlefield 4
•Up to 19% in Sniper Elite V2
•Up to 13% in Dirt: Showdown
•Up to 9% in Metro: Last Light
•Up to 9% in Sleeping Dogs
•Up to 8% in Max Payne 3
•Up to 6% in F1 2012

•SLI Technology

•Batman: Arkham Origins – updated profile
•Battlefield 4 – updated profile
•Shadow Warrior – added DX9 profile
•War of the Vikings – added DX11 profile
•Dragon Sword - updated DX9 profile
•GRID 2 - updated DX11 profile
•Euro Truck Simulator 2 - updated profile

•3D Vision •Shadow Warrior – “Excellent”
•Call of Duty: Ghosts – “Fair”
•The Wolf Among Us – “Good”

•Gaming Technology •Enables GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
•Civilization 5 – added HBAO+

•SHIELD •Enables NVIDIA GameStream™ technology

•4K Displays •Adds support for 4K Surround

Additional Details

•Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.0725.
•Installs HD Audio v1.3.26.4
•Installs GeForce Experience v9.3.16.0
•Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
•Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
•Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
•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, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.

 

[Swinbag]

Really looking forward to giving ShadowPlay a go!

 

[Boomstick777]

The "official" 331.65 drivers:

32 bit:

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/68798/en-us

64 bit:

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/68799/en-us

*Will update OP*

 

[Boomstick777]

New drivers are very good.

 

[oldestgregg]

New drivers are very good.

+1 internets to that sir. Improvements right across the board for me,although to be fair the last ones were smooth as well for 780 sli. Batman seems a lot smoother and the GPU usage in Afterburner isnt as up and down anymore. Colour me impressed