Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

[vaidas3]

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

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.

is this the fix you are talking about?
its clearly written in release notes if you would like to read them.

 

[Cata]

GeForce 306.23 Driver WHQL

Release Date September 13, 2012

Release Highlights:
This is the first WHQL-certified driver from the R304 family of drivers (304.xx to 306.xx) and the first WHQL-certified GeForce driver to combine support for Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista into a single driver package.
This is the recommended driver for the upcoming blockbuster PC games Borderlands 2 with PhysX and 3D Vision technology and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria with 3D Vision and DirectX 11 support.
New in R304 Drivers:

• GPU Support
  • Adds support for GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, and GeForce GTX 650.
  • 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 – updated from latest beta
  • 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
  • World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria – rated Excellent

• 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
  • 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 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 Catalin. First post updated.

 

[RoloDman]

I never felt the need to post in this thread but i do this time. My Index score jumped 2 points and i do feel thing are working better overall. Certainly not any worse as of yet.

 

[jeepmann4x4]

I just updated Drivers to GeForce 306.23 Driver. I'm getting very bad Video playback in IE & FF. Video is flickering non-stop while trying to play in both Browsers. In FF it's flickering from the video to "green screen" and in IE it's "black screen". It's only in Browser.....videos on Youtube, Yahoo, and here. I can play videos with vlc just fine.

If I can not figure it out I'll be jumping back to old Driver.

Anyone else getting this after updating??



EDIT: I just refreshed WEI and I have gone from 7.8 to 7.5!!

 

[paulpicks21]

You don't seem to be having much luck with drivers lately Jeepman do ya! iirc you score dropped by 1 point last time and now a further 3 points!

The new drivers are working fine for me, videos just fine on youtube and yahoo.

 

[Anthony]

Hi Jeepman, I updated to them yesterday I have noticed scan lines flickering in WMC up to now. I did get a.2 boost in WEI.

I was using the beta version of that driver set and no problem whatsoever :huh: I may reinstall the beta version by the end of today!!

I guess that's the trade off for the Higher WEI Results. I'd rather it work than have Higher WEI results

Thanks for the feedback - Ant

 

[jeepmann4x4]

You don't seem to be having much luck with drivers lately Jeepman do ya! iirc you score dropped by 1 point last time and now a further 3 points!

The new drivers are working fine for me, videos just fine on youtube and yahoo.

Yup lately that is my luck..... You do recall right, it was 2 point last time but I got 1 back by switching my cards to both x16 slots instead of the x8/x16 I ran at first. Never got the other 1 back but things were running good so I let it go. (It's just a wei score)

Now this time I've dropped 3 points . So in all I've now dropped 4 points from 7.9 to 7.5.

I'm in the process of uninstalling, sweeping and re-installing the NEW Drivers to see if it was a glitch or not. So we will see in a few......


EDIT: So after the uninstall/sweep/install of the NEW Drivers...... My WEI is now back at 7.8 (see pic).


Now what I have figured out is.... Everything works fine on 1 monitor, everything works fine running SLI on 3 monitors(setting: "Activate All Displays") but if I run SLI "Nvidia Surround" I get all the video flickering?

I'm gonna let it go for now and see what happens (Tired of messing with it)

Anyone one else run Nvidia Surround?
Any ideas?

 

[taylorig]

I'm still on 285.62 driver's with my GTX 560 as when i tried the 301's in the past they caused my graphics card to reach temps of 100 degrees C when gaming. Instantly removed them and went back to these 285's and not had a single problem since.

I know it wasn't a fan profile problem because the first thing i always do is check that my EVGA Precision software is up to date and working correctly. It just seemed strange that even though the right profile was running for my card it reached such temps. Now with these 285 driver's i'm using i never see temps go over 60 degrees no matter what i do.

I'll stick to what i know works for me and my hardware and even if the newer one's did supply a little bit of an FPS boost in some games i can't say i'm all that fussed

 

[jeepmann4x4]

I gave up on the NEW 306.23 Drivers... and just went back to my trusted 301.42 Drivers... Oh well maybe next time...

 

[Wishmaster]

I'm still on 285.62 driver's

Same here . No issues at all with this version so sticking with it.

Everytime I upgrade theres always something not right. The last time it would freeze a second and the screen go black everytime the monitor came out of sleep.


But, haven't tried the newest yet, and probably won't. ATM, theres no need to.

 

[Teerex]

Could anyone check if video decoding acceleration is still working on Flash videos on Nvidia graphics? I have an Optimus sistem, and it works on Intel but falls back to software on Nvidia. It's been like that the last couple of Flash versions.

Btw., 301.42 remains the best driver for me.

 

[Teerex]

Another driver; 306.97, another ridiculous drop in WEI for me, from 6,7 to 5,1 in gaming graphics. I didn't even bother to test it in games. Back to 301.42.

 

[paulpicks21]

Another driver; 306.97, another ridiculous drop in WEI for me, from 6,7 to 5,1 in gaming graphics. I didn't even bother to test it in games. Back to 301.42.

Thanks for the link, my WEI stayed the same, will test on some games later.

 

[Teerex]

Another driver; 306.97, another ridiculous drop in WEI for me, from 6,7 to 5,1 in gaming graphics. I didn't even bother to test it in games. Back to 301.42.

Thanks for the link, my WEI stayed the same, will test on some games later.

Did you clear the old results?

The reason why it falled on its face on my system is because it failed the DX10 batch test completely, result being 0 fps. Other than that, other tests are good. Can anyone confirm that? Maybe it was an one-off glitch... but I would prefer not to reinstall drivers again before someone else checked this.

I have an Optimus system btw.

 

[paulpicks21]

No, in fact I didn't even re run the whole assessment, I just refreshed the score and it just re ran the graphics tests.

 

[Brink]

Another driver; 306.97, another ridiculous drop in WEI for me, from 6,7 to 5,1 in gaming graphics. I didn't even bother to test it in games. Back to 301.42.

Thank you Tomislav. First post updated.

 

[Mashed1316]

Hmm... Weird, I found the driver on geforce.com but not on nvidia.com

Anyway, I'll be testing it before going to class... Let's see what's going on with this release

 

[Brink]

Hmm... Weird, I found the driver on geforce.com but not on nvidia.com

Anyway, I'll be testing it before going to class... Let's see what's going on with this release

I guess they haven't fully updated the download links there yet. I had to look under 300 series or less for 306.97 to show.

 

[Indianatone]

Installed the latest driver 306.97 on my wife's computer. She has a Giga Byte GT450 and dual boots between 7 64 bit and XP. 7 was easy no issues at all. XP update was a nightmare. Had to fight with it for 3 hours to get the driver to install correctly. The install software would quit. I had to uninstall the driver from the control panel, reboot then stop the auto install of the driver by the found new hardware wizard. Boot to safe mode, use Drive Sweeper 2.1 to clean away everything and finally got the driver installed correctly. Just the basic driver, the updater and other software installer still quit and she does not use it so I quit fooling with it too. It never used to be this hard. If you are still on XP (my wife loves it...don't ask) and you are not a serious gamer, leave well alone.

Forgot to mention on my machine with a GT9800 the windows score is 5.8 and the install was fine on the 64 bit versions of 7 but hung on the 32 bit but seemed to have installed everything.