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Download GeForce 310.70 WHQL Candidate Driver
GeForce 310.70 drivers are now available to download. The culmination of our recent beta releases, these WHQL-candidate drivers improve performance by up to 37% in the year's most popular games, add TXAA support to Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Assassin's Creed III, make Sparse Grid Supersampling easier to use, get your system ready for the latest releases, including Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution and Planetside 2, and resolve key issues, like shadow flickering in Assassin's Creed III.
In October's GeForce 310.33 beta driver we improved performance by up to 15% in nine games, and this time we’re improving performance by up to 37% in twenty-one games. Leading the charge in 310.70 is a 37% boost for Far Cry 3, followed by a 26% boost for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, an 18% boost for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, a 17% boost for Assassin’s Creed III, and a 12% boost for Battlefield 3.
Please note that performance improvements benefit all GeForce GTX graphics cards, though obviously to varying degrees. We would of course love to show how our optimizations benefit the entire range of GeForce GTX GPUs, but sadly this is unfeasible given the number of benchmarks required. For example, for each GPU and game you test include a before and after benchmark to show the level of improvement, then multiply the number of tests by the number of resolutions, three, and then again by the number of different detail levels and anti-aliasing modes tested. Then, finally, to verify the results, run everything again to ensure there were no anomalies. With so many GPUs in our lineup, even focusing exclusively on the most popular models would prove impossible in the time between a driver being finalized, and released.
Download and we have a discussion thread open on these drivers right here.
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#4493546 Posted on: 01/04/2013 11:30 PM
I noticed the same exact problem. Sound popping and crackling due to this. Older drivers were fine.
I have yet to see anyone from NVIDIA confirm they know this is happening even after members posted on the NVIDIA forums.
Lets hope they do indeed fix this or its a deal breaker for staying with NVIDIA for a lot of people im sure.
i know when i got the 690 i was like !@@#?$#@$#@?$@#!!!!!! tell me there is something wrong with it. but i see it effects 680's as well. card is fairly new so hopefully things will mature abit
I noticed the same exact problem. Sound popping and crackling due to this. Older drivers were fine.
I have yet to see anyone from NVIDIA confirm they know this is happening even after members posted on the NVIDIA forums.
Lets hope they do indeed fix this or its a deal breaker for staying with NVIDIA for a lot of people im sure.
i know when i got the 690 i was like !@@#?$#@$#@?$@#!!!!!! tell me there is something wrong with it. but i see it effects 680's as well. card is fairly new so hopefully things will mature abit
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#4493722 Posted on: 01/05/2013 07:56 AM
Windows 8 annoys the f*** out of me - constantly being forced to jump in and out of metro from the tiles to the desktop all the time is just a badly designed OS.
Why they decided to slap a failing phone OS on top of a successful desktop OS i have no idea. Even apple (hate them so much) had enough sense to make 2 seperate operating systems - one for handheld and one for desktop.
Microsoft are failing so hard right now. Windows 8 adoption rate is lower than Vista was when it was released. Microsoft should have had Windows 8 RT for touchscreen tablets and phones and just left desktops and non-touchscreen laptops with an OS more akin to Windows 7 layout.
Sod drivers for such a crappy OS. I hope Windows 8 dies very quickly just like Windows ME.
To those saying you are forced to used Metro in Win 8. Try Start8, it works wonders. You don't have to ever look at metro again. It bypasses it on boot straight to desktop. You get all the speed from Win8 with a Win7 desktop.
It's worth 5 bucks, I'd never use Win8 without it, and trust me I tried to before I got Start8. I haven't had an issue with drivers or anything. In fact I haven't seen any issues reported due to using Start8. It's a FULLY functional startbar, not crippled in any way.
Windows 8 annoys the f*** out of me - constantly being forced to jump in and out of metro from the tiles to the desktop all the time is just a badly designed OS.
Why they decided to slap a failing phone OS on top of a successful desktop OS i have no idea. Even apple (hate them so much) had enough sense to make 2 seperate operating systems - one for handheld and one for desktop.
Microsoft are failing so hard right now. Windows 8 adoption rate is lower than Vista was when it was released. Microsoft should have had Windows 8 RT for touchscreen tablets and phones and just left desktops and non-touchscreen laptops with an OS more akin to Windows 7 layout.
Sod drivers for such a crappy OS. I hope Windows 8 dies very quickly just like Windows ME.
To those saying you are forced to used Metro in Win 8. Try Start8, it works wonders. You don't have to ever look at metro again. It bypasses it on boot straight to desktop. You get all the speed from Win8 with a Win7 desktop.
It's worth 5 bucks, I'd never use Win8 without it, and trust me I tried to before I got Start8. I haven't had an issue with drivers or anything. In fact I haven't seen any issues reported due to using Start8. It's a FULLY functional startbar, not crippled in any way.
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#4493802 Posted on: 01/05/2013 11:28 AM
To those saying you are forced to used Metro in Win 8. Try Start8, it works wonders. You don't have to ever look at metro again. It bypasses it on boot straight to desktop. You get all the speed from Win8 with a Win7 desktop.
It's worth 5 bucks, I'd never use Win8 without it, and trust me I tried to before I got Start8. I haven't had an issue with drivers or anything. In fact I haven't seen any issues reported due to using Start8. It's a FULLY functional startbar, not crippled in any way.
OR get Classic Start Menu from http://ninite.com/ (check under Utilities section)
its FREE !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVtWAPq3Y0
To those saying you are forced to used Metro in Win 8. Try Start8, it works wonders. You don't have to ever look at metro again. It bypasses it on boot straight to desktop. You get all the speed from Win8 with a Win7 desktop.
It's worth 5 bucks, I'd never use Win8 without it, and trust me I tried to before I got Start8. I haven't had an issue with drivers or anything. In fact I haven't seen any issues reported due to using Start8. It's a FULLY functional startbar, not crippled in any way.
OR get Classic Start Menu from http://ninite.com/ (check under Utilities section)
its FREE !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVtWAPq3Y0
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#4494066 Posted on: 01/05/2013 07:38 PM
OR get Classic Start Menu from http://ninite.com/ (check under Utilities section)
its FREE !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVtWAPq3Y0
Yes this can work too, but I find Start8 much more streamline personally. Win8 is a great experience, and I truly hope MS learns from this. The fact that even Stardock would release a program to bring the superbar/startbar back says something.
Also Start8 can disable Metro all together, you won't ever have to look at it even on boot.
OR get Classic Start Menu from http://ninite.com/ (check under Utilities section)
its FREE !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVtWAPq3Y0
Yes this can work too, but I find Start8 much more streamline personally. Win8 is a great experience, and I truly hope MS learns from this. The fact that even Stardock would release a program to bring the superbar/startbar back says something.
Also Start8 can disable Metro all together, you won't ever have to look at it even on boot.
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#4494429 Posted on: 01/06/2013 07:27 AM
This explains why i had latency issue and sound popping on the 310.xx they where first drivers i put on when I got my 660gtx 2 days later i notice the issue, went back to 306.97 and everything is fine since. Guess i stay away from them for while till it sorted out.
the 310 sets introduce some very high dcp latency. i hope they fix this with the new set. anything below 310 zero issues.
This explains why i had latency issue and sound popping on the 310.xx they where first drivers i put on when I got my 660gtx 2 days later i notice the issue, went back to 306.97 and everything is fine since. Guess i stay away from them for while till it sorted out.
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I noticed the same exact problem. Sound popping and crackling due to this. Older drivers were fine.
I have yet to see anyone from NVIDIA confirm they know this is happening even after members posted on the NVIDIA forums.
Lets hope they do indeed fix this or its a deal breaker for staying with NVIDIA for a lot of people im sure.