Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

[Cata]

New NVIDIA Drivers

GeForce 304.48 Driver BETA
Release Date June 18, 2012

Release Highlights:

This is the first beta driver from the R304 family of drivers.

New in R304 Drivers:

• Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

• GeForce GTX 680:
  • Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
  • Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
  • Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)
  GeForce GTX 560:
  • Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
  • Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
  • Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
  • Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

• Key Fixes
  • Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
  • Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
  • Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

• NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
  • Spec Ops: The Line
  • PlanetSide 2
  • F1 2011 – updated profile
  • Final Fantasy XIV – updated profile
  • Saints Row: The Third – updated profile
  • Torchlight II
  • Tribes: Ascend

• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare – rated Poor
  • Borderlands 2 – updated profile with new convergence settings
  • Depth Hunter – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
  • Mass Effect 3 – updated in-game compatibility message and profile to be more compatible with community 3D mods
  • Max Payne 3 – updated rating to Excellent and updated in-game compatibility message to inform users to use DirectX 11, disable MSAA and use SSA0.
  • Street Fighter X Tekken – rated 3D Vision Ready
  • Tiger Woods PGA 12: The Masters – rated Good
  • Tribes: Ascend – rated Fair
  • The Walking Dead – rating Good

• Other Profile Updates
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support The Secret World
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
  • Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

• NVIDIA Surround
  • Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall.

• NVIDIA CUDA
  • Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 Preview or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at CUDA Toolkit | NVIDIA Developer Zone

Additional Details

• Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.17.0.
• Supports OpenGL 4.2
• 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.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Cata. First post updated.

 

[MadSupra354]

You've made a mistake spelling NVIDIA on the Beta and WHQL parts. You've spelt it NIVIDIA!

 

[Gornot]

:roflmao:

 

[Brink]

LOL, oops.

 

[A Guy]

And hey! That Roldex watch you sold me...

A Guy

 

[Gornot]

Maybe it's just a glitch? Try tweaking your wrist xD

 

[A Guy]

Nvidia PhysX 9.12.0613

Nvidia has released the 9.12.0613 PhysX drivers. These are newer than the PhysX version included in the latest 304.48 Beta GeForce graphics drivers.

Includes the latest PhysX runtime builds to support all released PhysX content.
Changes & fixed issues in this release
Performance updates for various applications including Batman Arkham City, Alice 2 and other 2.8.4 applications.
Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series, 100-series, 200-series, 300-series, 400-series, 500-series, and 600-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory.
Note: Some applications may have higher minimum requirements.
Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in many games and demos, some of which are highlighted in PowerPack downloads here.
Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on GeForce for SDK versions 2.7.1, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.3 and 2.8.4 (requires graphics driver v300 or later).
Supports control of your GPU PhysX configuration from the NVIDIA display driver control panel.
AGEIA PhysX processors users should use and install older PhysX system software such as version 8.09.04. Note – AGEIA PPU acceleration support for 2.8.1 SDK or earlier, and Windows Vista and Windows XP only.

NVIDIA DRIVERS 9.12.0613

A Guy

 

[Cata]

New NVIDIA Drivers

GeForce 304.79 Driver BETA
Release Date July 3, 2012

Release Highlights:
This is the second beta driver from the R304 family of drivers and the first GeForce driver to combine support for Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista into a single driver.
New in 304.79 Drivers:

• Adds support for NVIDIA TXAA
  • NVIDIA TXAA is new film-style anti-aliasing technique designed specifically to reduce temporal aliasing (crawling and flickering in motion) through a combination of hardware AA, custom CG film style AA resolve, and a temporal filter.
  • The Secret World is the first game to support TXAA (support will be enabled in an upcoming patch)..
  • TXAA is supported on GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs.
  • Learn more about TXAA on GeForce.com.

• New SLI Support

Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:

• • The Secret World - added
  • End of Nations - added
  • Nexuiz (also provided earlier via NVIDIA Update)
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier (also provided earlier via NVIDIA Update)
  • Tornado Force - added
  • Tribes: Ascend - updated

• Key Fixes
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with Civilization V and GeForce 400/500 series GPUs
  • Fixed instances of flickering or missing mouse cursor when hardware cursor is enabled (reported with Aion, World of Warcraft, Eve Online and others).
  • Fixed instances of very low frame rates in Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX11).
  • Fixed an issue that caused a PC reboot instead of a PC shut down.
  • Fixed an issue that led to a black screen after driver installation.
  • Power management mode settings now persist across driver overinstalls.

New in R304 Drivers (Introduced previously with 304.48 drivers):

• Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

• GeForce GTX 680:
  • Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
  • Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
  • Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)
  GeForce GTX 560:
  • Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
  • Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
  • Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
  • Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

• Key Fixes
  • Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
  • Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
  • Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

• NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
  • Spec Ops: The Line
  • PlanetSide 2
  • F1 2011 – updated profile
  • Final Fantasy XIV – updated profile
  • Saints Row: The Third – updated profile
  • Torchlight II
  • Tribes: Ascend

• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare – rated Poor
  • Borderlands 2 – updated profile with new convergence settings
  • Depth Hunter – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
  • Mass Effect 3 – updated in-game compatibility message and profile to be more compatible with community 3D mods
  • Max Payne 3 – updated rating to Excellent and updated in-game compatibility message to inform users to use DirectX 11, disable MSAA and use SSA0.
  • Street Fighter X Tekken – rated 3D Vision Ready
  • Tiger Woods PGA 12: The Masters – rated Good
  • Tribes: Ascend – rated Fair
  • The Walking Dead – rating Good

• Other Profile Updates
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
  • Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

• NVIDIA Surround
  • Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall.

• NVIDIA CUDA
  • Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 Preview or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

Additional Details

• Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.17.0.
• Supports OpenGL 4.2
• 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.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Cata. First post updated.

 

[cyclic]

The way it's pronounced it makes more sense to be Nividia !

 

[smarteyeball]

There's something wrong with those 304.79 drivers.

I only got round to playing some SLI based games with them and copped a lot of appcrashes and a few bsods. Back to 301.42 and things are more stable.

Personally I'd skip them if you are running a 6xx series SLI setup.

 

[A Guy]

Nvidia GeForce 305.68

Nvidia has released the 305.68 WHQL certified graphics driver. This driver is only for the new GeForce GTX 660 Ti card under Windows XP, Vista and 7. It adds support for TXAA, has the latest SLI and 3D Vision profiles, and also contains the 9.12.0604 PhysX drivers

Drivers | GeForce

A Guy

 

[vaidas3]

New BETA driver
GeForce 306.02 Driver BETA (32bit)
GeForce 306.02 Driver BETA (64bit)
Release Date 2012.08.27

Release Highlights
This is a beta driver from the R304 family of drivers (304.xx to 306.xx).


New in R304 Drivers:

• GPU Support
  • Supports the new GeForce GTX 660 Ti GPU.
  • Legacy Support Notification: GeForce 6-series and GeForce 7-series GPUs will be moved to legacy support after GeForce R304 drivers. GeForce R310 drivers (the next major family of drivers) will not support these products.

• Adds support for NVIDIA TXAA
  • NVIDIA TXAA is new film-style anti-aliasing technique designed specifically to reduce temporal aliasing (crawling and flickering in motion) through a combination of hardware AA, custom CG film style AA resolve, and a temporal filter.
  • The Secret World is the first game to support TXAA. Read about it on GeForce.com.
  • TXAA is supported on GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs.
  • Learn more about TXAA on GeForce.com.

• Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

• GeForce GTX 680:
  • Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
  • Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
  • Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)
  GeForce GTX 560:
  • Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
  • Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
  • Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
  • Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

• NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare – added
  • Borderlands 2 – added
  • Darksiders 2 – added
  • End of Nations - added
  • F1 2011 – updated
  • F1 2012 – added
  • Final Fantasy XIV – updated
  • Nexuiz - added
  • Orcs Must Die! 2 – added
  • PlanetSide 2 - updated
  • Saints Row: The Third – updated
  • Shogun 2: Total War – updated
  • Sleeping Dogs – added
  • Spec Ops: The Line - added
  • The Secret World - updated
  • Torchlight II - added
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier - added
  • Tornado Force - added
  • Tribes: Ascend – updated

• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare – rated Not Recommended
  • A New Dawn – rated Fair
  • All Zombies Must Die! Scorepocalypse – rated Good
  • ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead – rated Fair
  • Bang Bang Racing – rated Excellent
  • Borderlands 2 – updated profile with new convergence settings
  • Brave – rated 3D Vision Ready
  • Devil May Cry 4- rated Fair
  • Depth Hunter – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
  • Dishonored – rated Good
  • End of Nations – rated Good
  • London 2012 The Official Video Game – rated Fair
  • Mad Doc Jr.'s Doom Rails – rated Excellent
  • Mass Effect 3 – updated in-game compatibility message and profile to be more compatible with community 3D mods
  • Max Payne 3 – updated rating to Excellent and updated in-game compatibility message to inform users to use DirectX 11, disable MSAA and use SSA0.
  • Raiderz – rated Fair
  • Roller Coaster Rampage – rated 3D Vision Ready
  • SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator – rated Fair
  • Street Fighter X Tekken – rated 3D Vision Ready
  • Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends – rated Good
  • Tiger Woods PGA 12: The Masters – rated Good
  • Tribes: Ascend – rated Fair
  • The Secret World – rated Good
  • The Walking Dead – rating Good

• Other Profile Updates
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support Counter-strike: Global Offensive
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support MechWarrior Online
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Guild Wars 2
  • Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

• NVIDIA Surround
  • Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall.

• NVIDIA CUDA
  • Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 Preview or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

• Key Fixes
  • Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
  • Fixes an issue where some manufacturer's factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
  • Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

Additional Details

• Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604.
• 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.

 

[Anthony]

Thanks for the links vaidas, I'm going to test these

 

[Brink]

Thank you Vaidas. First post updated.

 

[Mashed1316]

Installed now, seems stable... Crysis 2, FIFA '12, Virtua Tennis 4 (haha sorry, don't have new games installed) but everything seems solid

 

[chrysalis]

Installed now, seems stable... Crysis 2, FIFA '12, Virtua Tennis 4 (haha sorry, don't have new games installed) but everything seems solid

new games or not many will appreciate your feedback

 

[Hamnat]

Installed yesterday and played a little of Mass Effect 3: Leviathan expansion and checked into the auction house on Diable 3 and no problems with the betas so far.

 

[PwnFrnzy]

Has the underclock glitch been fixed? Got hit with it last time I updated and am reluctant to update again.