New Nvidia Drivers Soon????

[TW]Sponge · 10 Sep 2010 at 21:20

ahhh at last an answer!!! cheers gibbo sounds good!

Neil79 · 10 Sep 2010 at 22:10

sponge999 said:
ahhh at last an answer!!! cheers gibbo sounds good!

Most of us knew that already

, but thanks anyway Gibbo

Cosimo · 10 Sep 2010 at 23:10

I've seen that the drivers are under an NDA and will be made public at 09:00 EST.

Neil79 · 10 Sep 2010 at 23:15

simulatorman said:
I've seen that the drivers are under an NDA and will be made public at 09:00 EST.

**** the NDA , something i've never followed

Neil79 · 12 Sep 2010 at 14:25

oops n/m

Neil79 · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:29

some info

Performance improvements with the GeForce 260.52

* Starcraft 2 SLI - 19 percent
* Crysis Warhead SLI (DX10) - 12 percent
* Far Cry 2 (DX10) - 13 percent
* H.A.W.X. SLI (DX10) - 12 percent
* 3DMark Vantage Performance Preset SLI - 9 percent
* Alien vs. Predator DX11 - 9 percent
* Alien vs. Predator SLI (DX11) - 7 percent
* Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DX11) - 15 percent
* Colin McRae Dirt 2 (DX11) - 11 percent
* Metro 2033 (DX11) - 7 percent
* Stalker - Call of Pripyat (DX11) - 12 percent
* Stalker - Call of Pripyat SLI (DX11) - 11 percent
* Riddick: Dark Athena - 22 percent
* Riddick: Dark Athena SLI - 29 percent

Sem · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:36

where are the official drivers
heard they would be out monday 9am EST

Cosimo · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:43

Sem said:
where are the official drivers
heard they would be out monday 9am EST

It's not yet 09:00 EST = 15:00 BST

Sem · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:49

opps forgot about BST

normally think of EST as 5 hours behind

RavenXXX2 · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:51

I suggest when the new drivers are out we start a dedicated thread, if Neil could do the honors and provide the relevant links.

Neil79 · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:10

RavenXXX2 said:
I suggest when the new drivers are out we start a dedicated thread, if Neil could do the owners and provide the relevant links.

If i see them first , then sure

RavenXXX2 · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:14

Wasn't expecting much in the way of game performance boosts but looks good going by reports. lol please excuse my dodgy spelling error.

deuse · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:37

ForceWare 260.61 are on Guru3D XP 32-win 7 64\32 bit

"NVIDIA just outted a new ForceWare driver, supporting pretty much any GeForce, Quadro and Tesla graphics cards.
Right now we do not have a specific changelog available but will post this as soon as possible"

EDIT= the XP drivers installed then restarted XP with out asking?
I did see a option for LED color but that disapeard after I clicked on it lol.

Just found out these are tesla drivers [supports desktop gpus too]

Gerard · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:50

So much for the bc2 performance bump, dx11 only which visually looks identical to dx10. :rolleyes:

Stanners · 13 Sep 2010 at 16:28

Gerard said:
So much for the bc2 performance bump, dx11 only which visually looks identical to dx10.

I would rather have the performance jump in DX11 on a DX11 card, Are you saying you want a DX10 increase on a DX11 title while using a DX11 card ?

Or do you mean for the older 280's,260's etc.

Gerard · 13 Sep 2010 at 16:32

Stanners said:
I would rather have the performance jump in DX11 on a DX11 card, Are you saying you want a DX10 increase on a DX11 title while using a DX11 card ?

The only dx11 bodge in feature they added to bc2 was slightly smoother shadow edges. Ive not bought a dx11 card yet but all the talk about increased bc2 performance never said anything about a dx11 bump only =/.

The low gpu usage affects all render modes of bc2, why they seem to have "fixed" it for dx11 only is anyones guess.

Stonedofmoo · 13 Sep 2010 at 16:45

I see since this morning they've added the GTS450 to the download list on nvidia. Still no sign of these mystical drivers however.

Stanners · 13 Sep 2010 at 17:02

Gerard said:
The only dx11 bodge in feature they added to bc2 was slightly smoother shadow edges. Ive not bought a dx11 card yet but all the talk about increased bc2 performance never said anything about a dx11 bump only =/.

The low gpu usage affects all render modes of bc2, why they seem to have "fixed" it for dx11 only is anyones guess.

Yeah very strange, i thought it was on a 280 they had tried the gpu usage fix!

Bit out of order if it is only for the 4 series.

varkanoid · 13 Sep 2010 at 17:13

Just checked and still no driver release.

Gerard · 13 Sep 2010 at 18:25

Stanners said:
Yeah very strange, i thought it was on a 280 they had tried the gpu usage fix!

Bit out of order if it is only for the 4 series.

Indeed, im only going by the release notes and ive not tried the leaked betas from the weekend but id assume it would be a listed fix.