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GeForce 306.02 Beta Drivers

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The new NVIDIA GeForce 306.02 beta drivers are now available to download. Recommended for players of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Darksiders 2, Guild Wars 2, and MechWarrior Online, the GeForce 306.02 beta drivers add realistic ambient occlusion shadowing to each of the listed games, in addition to adding NVIDIA Control Panel MSAA and CSAA anti-aliasing support to Darksiders 2.

SLI users will find a range of performance enhancing profiles for titles such as Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Darksiders 2, Orcs Must Die! 2, Planetside 2, Shogun 2: Total War, Sleeping Dogs, and The Secret World. SLI users will also be interested to know that profiles for Borderlands 2 and F1 2012 have been implemented ahead of their respective release dates. On the 3D Vision front we have new and updated profiles for A New Dawn, the yet-to-be-released, highly-anticipated Dishonored, End of Nations, The Secret World, and many more.

For the complete release notes, scroll down.
NVIDIA Control Panel Game Enhancements

Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support and Multisample Anti-Aliasing support to Darksiders 2.
Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to Guild Wars 2.
Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to MechWarrior Online.

New & Updated SLI Profiles

Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Borderlands 2
Darksiders 2
F1 2012
Orcs Must Die! 2
PlanetSide 2 (Updated)
Shogun 2: Total War (Updated)
Sleeping Dogs (Please note that we are currently evaluating SLI bit 0x0C4010F5, which may result in higher performance for users)
The Secret World (Updated)

New & Updated 3D Vision Profiles

A New Dawn – Rated Fair
Alan Wake's American Nightmare – Rated Not Recommended
All Zombies Must Die! Scorepocalypse – Rated Good
ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead – Rated Fair
Bang Bang Racing – Rated Excellent
Brave – Rated 3D Vision Ready
Devil May Cry 4 - Rated Fair
Dishonored – Rated Good
End of Nations – Rated Good
London 2012 The Official Video Game – Rated Fair
Mad Doc Jr.'s Doom Rails – Rated Excellent
Raiderz – Rated Fair
Roller Coaster Rampage – Rated 3D Vision Ready
SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator – Rated Fair
Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends – Rated Good
The Secret World – Rated Good

NVIDIA Surround

Surround settings now persist after new driver install.

Fixed Single-GPU Issues

Windows Vista & Windows 7

3D Surround, 4-way SLI: The NVIDIA Control Panel -> Configure Displays for Surround user-assistance screen does not show the correct GPUs to connect the displays on a 4-way SLI system.
GeForce 400 series: After installing the VGA driver and then choosing the ‘restart later’ option, the display goes blank when subsequently installing the NVIDIA driver.
GeForce GT 650M: "No compatible hardware found" error occurs when installing the driver.
GeForce GTS 400 series: Rendering is not visible with some DirectX 9 applications when Shader model 3.0 is used.
GeForce GTX 200 series: Mount & Blade Warband - Stuttering occurs during game-play.
GeForce GTX 500 series, 3D Vision: Crysis 2 & DiRT Showdown - Residual images appear throughout the game if 3D Vision is enabled.
GeForce GTX 600 series: Titan Quest - Gameplay is jerky and stutters with V-Sync enabled.

Windows 8

GeForce GTX 500 series, 3D Vision: Crysis 2 & Dirt Showdown - Residual images appear throughout the game if 3D Vision is enabled.
Optimus Notebook: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to dxgkrnl.sys when attempting to uninstall the driver using the Windows Device manager.
SLI, Surround: Intel x59 or x79 - With Surround enabled, a blue-screen crash (0xA: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) may occur when enabling or disabling SLI or Surround modes. When re-installing the NVIDIA driver after uninstalling it, the driver may fail to install.
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http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/47631
 
OP forgot to copy and paste these details ^^ -

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
GeForce GTX 680:
Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)
GeForce GTX 560:
Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2
 
DF1986 said:
OP forgot to copy and paste these details ^^ -

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
GeForce GTX 680:
Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)
GeForce GTX 560:
Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2
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Those are the 304.79 release notes.
 
Great!, thanks op :)

Although these drivers are BETA, they are very very close to the final WHQL driver which we will be releasing in a few days. We wanted to get these drivers out to users sooner for those who have been requesting updated drivers to use with newer graphics cards or games. Once you have had an opportunity to test these drivers, we ask that if you encounter any issues, please take a moment to fill out our driver feedback form. Please provide as much information as you can to assist us in reproducing your issue:

http://surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?...f07694a40f8ac6

Regards,
Manuel
www.nvidia.com
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Broken Hope said:
Yeah but if you read the release notes, those are changes since the 301.42 WHQL drivers, those exact same gains are also listed under the 304.79 drivers, it's not changes since the last beta to the current beta.
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Well at least its a newer driver and may make things a tad shinier :p
 
Just tried them.

About 4% slower in Unigine Heaven 3

About 1% slower in 3dmark11

Back to 301.42 for me.

Hope everyone else has better luck.
 
Broken Hope said:
Never understood people giving up bug fixes and performance increases in games due to a few benchmarks being slightly slower.
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Maybe Kaapstad does not have any bugs in the games he plays? I will stick with my current drivers because everything is sweet as. Thanks for the info though :)
 
gregster said:
Maybe Kaapstad does not have any bugs in the games he plays? I will stick with my current drivers because everything is sweet as. Thanks for the info though :)
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Maybe that's the case, but I see it often, new drivers will come out, someone will mention that performance is down a tiny amount in a few benchmarks and revert back to older drivers. It's not like you can play benchmarks.
 
Broken Hope said:
Never understood people giving up bug fixes and performance increases in games due to a few benchmarks being slightly slower.
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I don't have any bugs in my games that the newest drivers can fix.

A problem I do get with 4 gpu setups is newer drivers sometimes introduce problems.

A problem I had yesterday for example. Using 2 x HD 5970s in quadfire I was running 3dmark11 with the latest drivers 12.8 I think it was. The only problem was there was no scaling at all between 2 and 4 GPUs. To sort the problem I downloaded catalyst 10.4 drivers which restored the scaling.

Sometimes I find when newer drivers come along they introduce problems for me not cure them.
 
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