Forceware 169.09 Beta

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Available from Nvidia

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/betadrivers.aspx?lang=en-us

 

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SLI is still as poor as before, that will require a patch from Crytek to fix not just a driver boost. However these seem more stable under SLI than the previous 169's since they don't keep giving the "driver recovered" message in DX10 games.

Performance in Crysis for me is still pretty poor at anything over 1600, not a hope of running it smoothly at 2560 for me yet until the patch is released.

However, UT3 engine games seem to have gained a lot as has WiC.

 

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Well according to Guru3D these drivers are supposed to enable SLI in Crysis but I'm seeing none of the gains that the release notes claim... In fact I get the exact same fps with SLI enabled as I do disabled at 1680x1050,1920x1200 and 2560x1600. My other games are working better in SLI though so I know its at least working.

And the good news on ForceWare 169.09 is .. drumroll ... it supports SLI for Crysis.

Beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
Recommended driver for Crysis.
Several game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
This driver:

Adds SLI support for Crysis
Fixes a water reflection bug in Crysis
Adds Control Panel anisotropic filtering support for Crysis
With this driver, SLI will deliver 40-50% speedup over a single GPU for Crysis. In addition, Crytek will release a patch in the next week or two that will improve SLI performance further.

Download:

 

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Actually further to my previous comment about SLI I stand partly corrected. Using the 32bit exe SLI is definitely an improvement, I get 15-25fps @ 1920x1200 very high everything, however under 64bit using the same settings I get 10-15fps, same with a single card.