Nvidia GeForce 295.51 - BETA

[Neil79]

http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/41048

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windo...op-win7-winvista-64bit-international-beta.exe

Windows 7 64-bit
Windows 7 32-bit
Windows XP 64-bit
Windows XP 32-bit

Release Highlights
This is the first beta release from the R295 family of drivers. For more information, read the 295.51 driver article on GeForce.com. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.

New in 295.51

NVIDIA SLI

Adds SLI profiles for :
•7554
•Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
•Oil Rush
•Red Faction: Armageddon
•3D Vision

Adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3D monitors
Adds or updates 3D Vision profiles for:
•The Adventures of Tintin – rated Good
•Afterfall: Insanity – rated Fair
•Black Prophecy – rated Not Recommended
•Chaos Online – rated Fair
•Da Vinci Online – rated Fair
•DotA 2 – rating upgraded to Fair
•Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale – rated Fair
•Ferrari Project – rated Not Recommended
•The First Templar – rated Fair
•Fractal – rated Excellent
•FreeStyle 2 – rated Good
•The Haunted Halls Reach – rated Excellent
•King Arthur II – DQ
•Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – rated Fair
•Kong Fu Ying Xiong – rated Fair
•Love Beat – rated Good
•Marvel Super Hero Squad Online – rated Good
•Microsoft Flight – rated Fair
•Perpetuum – rated Fair
•Post Apocalyptic Mayhem – rated Fair
•Prototype 2 – rated Fair
•Q.U.B.E. – rated Excellent
•Quan Qiu Shi Ming – rated Excellent
•rFactor 2 (mod mode) – rated Good
•Saints Row: The Third – Rated Not Recommended
•Shadow Company: Left for Dead – rated Not Recommended
•Special Force – Rated Good
•Tera – rated Good
•Top Gun: Hard Lock – rated Not Recommended
•Tropico 4 – rated Good
•Worms Blast – rated Good

NVIDIA PhysX
•Updates PhysX System Software to 9.11.1111

HD Audio
•Updates HD Audio to version 1.3.12.0

Key Bug Fixes and Enhancements
•Fixes instances where the GeForce GTX 590 fan unnecessarily increased to 100%.
•Fixes instances of driver timeouts while simultaneously watching multiple videos.
•Adds edit/delete option for custom resolutions.

 

[thezakarum]

Cheers for the update.

 

[Deception]

Cheers, will try this tonight.

 

[stulid]

 

[shadow_boxer]

Thanks. Was wondering when they'd release new drivers. Not had WHQL drivers for a long time?

 

[James J]

Thanks. Was wondering when they'd release new drivers. Not had WHQL drivers for a long time?

4 months. They still aren't due yet either according to manualG from Nvidia. Theres a few sets the public can't get their hands on though which I have sat on my hard drive from january (290.66 and 290.18) but they are a TDR test fix driver and a CUDA driver, the later being WHQL but not exactly designed for games lol.

They are taking the TDR issue seriously so probably don't wanna give out WHQL drivers with that issue still there, which is understandable.

 

[thezakarum]

They are taking the TDR issue seriously so probably don't wanna give out WHQL drivers with that issue still there, which is understandable.

Whats the TDR issue?

 

[Amos91]

Whats the TDR issue?

Basically when the display drivers keep crashing and being recovered.

 

[Borsch]

Is it true that if you use beta drivers and your card dies, then the warranty is void?

 

[JonnyGLC]

Is it true that if you use beta drivers and your card dies, then the warranty is void?

Absolutely not.

 

[thezakarum]

Basically when the display drivers keep crashing and being recovered.

Oh right, funny that. I haven't had one of those for ages.

The only recent crash was when I was watching a youtube video while playing skyrim, not sure if the crashes are related but apparantly the video time out has been fixed in this update.

Plus I'm looking forward to playing Reckoning with SLI working straight off the bat.

 

[Purgatory]

Thanks, installed and working fine so far (not like I had any problems with previous version anyway).

 

[blky]

ive had the driver fail happen a couple times, and thought it was quite weird, but i could never repeat it so i let it slip by. good to know theres something being done about it

 

[RavenXXX2]

I don't think my 8800gt will get much use out of these.

 

[dangermouse425]

Thanks, will be updating this evening!

 

[Rroff]

Oh right, funny that. I haven't had one of those for ages.

The only recent crash was when I was watching a youtube video while playing skyrim, not sure if the crashes are related but apparantly the video time out has been fixed in this update.

Plus I'm looking forward to playing Reckoning with SLI working straight off the bat.

The TDR issue is only really a problem for a limited selection of GTX460 cards with certain motherboards and some GTX560 cards (may be related to motherboard compatibility but I don't think anyones 100% got down to the root of the problem) you _shouldn't_ see the issue with GTX470s.

As mentioned above nVidia seem to be holding off on a WHQL release until the TDR issues are ironed out.

 

[Deception]

Is it true that if you use beta drivers and your card dies, then the warranty is void?

lol wut? I've never known a BETA driver to kill a graphics card.

 

[RavenXXX2]

lol wut? I've never known a BETA driver to kill a graphics card.

Maybe not beta but WHQL drivers from Nvidia can.

 

[Deception]

Maybe not beta but WHQL drivers from Nvidia can.

wow, I stand corrected!

 

[Cosimo]

Downloading now. Cheers