Release Highlights
This is the recommended driver for the best experience in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Assassin's Creed III, providing up to 26% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and up to 18% faster performance in Assassin’s Creed III, as well as smooth, shimmer-free graphics with TXAA antialiasing in both games.
New in R310 Drivers:
•Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 306.97 WHQL drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
GeForce GTX 680:
◦Up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
◦Up to 16% in Battlefield 3
◦Up to 18% in Assassin's Creed III
◦Up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
◦Up to 6% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
◦Up to 6% in StarCraft II
◦Up to 6% in Dragon Age II
◦Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
◦Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
GeForce GTX 660:
◦Up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
◦Up to 10% in Battlefield 3
◦Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
◦Up to 5% in Dragon Age II
◦Up to 5% in Assassin's Creed III
◦Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City
◦Up to 4% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
•NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:◦Dirt: Showdown – updated SLI profile
◦Dota 2 - updated SLI profile
◦Dou Zhan Shen – updated SLI profile
◦F1 2012 - added SLI profile
◦FIFA 13 – added SLI profile
◦Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad – updated SLI profile
◦Hawken – added SLI profile
◦Hitman: Absolution – added SLI profile
◦Natural Selection 2 – added SLI profile
◦Primal Carnage – added SLI profile
•NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles (new in 310.33):
◦Assassin's Creed III rated Not Recommended
◦Bloody Good Time rated Good
◦Bullet Run rated Fair
◦Call of Duty Black Ops 2 rated Good
◦Carrier Command: Gaea Mission rated 3D Vision Ready
◦Dark Souls rated Fair
◦Dishonored rated Fair
◦FIFA 13 rated Good
◦Hitman: Absolution rated Fair
◦I Am Alive rated Fair
◦MLB 2K12 rated Fair
◦NBA 2K12 rated Good
◦Need for Speed: Most Wanted rated Fair
◦Sniper Elite V2 rated Poor
◦Tiny Troopers rated Fair
◦Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD rated Good
◦Total War Battles: SHOGUN rated Good
◦XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair
•NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles (new in 310.54):
◦007 Legends rated Fair
◦The Amazing Spider-Man rated Not Recommended
◦Bunch of Heroes rated Good
◦CABAL2 rated Good
◦Euro Truck Simulator 2 rated Excellent
◦Hawken rated 3D Vision Ready
◦Lucius rated Fair
◦Mabinogi Heroes rated Fair
◦Medal of Honor: Warfighter rated Fair
◦Metro: Last Light rated Good
◦NBA 2K13 rated Good
◦Novlum Demes Editor rated Excellent
◦Of Orcs and Men rated Fair
◦Painkiller: Hell & Damnation rated Fair
◦Planetside 2 rated Not Recommended
◦Prepar3D rated Good
◦Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 rated Poor
◦Unmechanical rated Good
◦War of the Roses rated Fair
◦World Rally Championship 3 rated Good
•Other Profile Updates
◦Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Counter-strike: Global Offensive
◦Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Cross Fire
◦Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Darksides 2
◦Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Dragon Nest
◦Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Guild Wars 2
◦Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Mechwarrrior Online
◦Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Meng San Guo
•NVIDIA CUDA
◦Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at
http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit •NVIDIA SSAA
◦Added negative LOD adjustments for NVIDIA’s full-screen sparse grid supersampling mode to improve image sharpness.
Additional Details
•Installs PhysX System Software 9.12.1031. This version fixes a bug that caused some applications including Unreal Tournament III, Trine, and Metro 2033 not to launch.
•Installs HD Audio v1.3.18.0.
•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.
