Nvidia GeForce 302.80

[Neil79]

GeForce 302.80 Windows 8 WHQL 32-bit
GeForce 302.80 Windows 8 WHQL 64-bit


Windows 8 drivers, but work on Windows 7 according to reports

Also on Nvidia US website

This is a preview GeForce driver to be used only with the Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview. This driver should not be used with Windows Vista or Windows 7.
This driver offers full support for the new Windows 8 display driver model WDDM 1.2.

 

[Neil79]

Working fine here

Didn't install physx as it's an older release than what i have

 

[MoRT489]

Neil how r u always first with the nvidia drivers

 

[TAC4U]

Performance is still lower than the Windows 7 drivers. In DiRT Showdown I average over 85fps in Windows 7 (301.42), yet only 80fps in Windows 8 (302.80) - that's at 2560x1600, 8xCSAA and GI disabled. Performance in Alan Wake seems to be very good but I came across some graphical issues. I'll get around to trying other games later but I've already hit my limit of activations for Crysis 2, which means I have to deal with EA support every time I activate it - mucho annoying.

Conclusion: Hit and miss.

 

[Broken Hope]

These have been confirmed as having the Stutter bug fix, though they haven't been tested at all on Windows 7.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=231663&st=0&p=1421203&#entry1421203

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=231663&st=0&p=1421239&#entry1421239

 

[ljt]

These have been confirmed as having the Stutter bug fix, though they haven't been tested at all on Windows 7.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=231663&st=0&p=1421203&#entry1421203

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=231663&st=0&p=1421239&#entry1421239

I've installed them on win 7 64bit. They have reduced the frequency of the stutter but not got rid of it completely for me.

The official Win7 drivers are due out in a week or two and will be 304.xx versions so I will reserve my judgement until I try them, but for now the Win8 302.80's so far seem better than the 301.42's for stuttering

 

[Neil79]

but for now the Win8 302.80's so far seem better than the 301.42's for stuttering

Agreed!

Tested and working on Windows 7 here

 

[Kribby2006]

Sounds promising, sent my 670 back but would like to buy another if they've sorted it

 

[V F]

I'll get around to trying other games later but I've already hit my limit of activations for Crysis 2, which means I have to deal with EA support every time I activate it - mucho annoying.

This happened from changing drivers?

 

[TAC4U]

This happened from changing drivers?

I'm dual-booting and haven't activated Crysis 2 on my Windows 8 install. Annoyingly I lost an activation simply changing my graphics card from AMD to nVidia, which is just ridiculous. Activation limits should reset after a certain period or at least be tied to overall system hardware like Microsoft does, as Win7 and Office always activate without issue despite having installed them dozens of times each.

EA is such a horrible, horrible company.

 

[eyetrip]

Only had a brief play with these on my new 670 windforces in a few short rounds of BF3, and all seemed fine. Tried with vsync and without and didn't notice any stuttering, micro or otherwise.

Heaven score was 3500 or 3700, or somewhere around there. Was only using it to check temps.

Only thing I noticed was that top card is not boosting as high as the bottom card, even before temps get up.

Not sure am all too keen on this boost stuff, but oh well.

 

[Deception]

Thanks yet again Neil! Getting quite a collecting of drivers here