Download NVIDIA GeForce 310.64 Beta Driver

Here you can download the NVIDIA GeForce 310.64 Beta 32/64-bit driver. This GeForce driver is a BETA-candidate and is recommended for best results with blockbuster games in this holidays season. The GeForce 310.64 drivers have been optimized for Far Cry 3, which means up to 38% faster perf.

This driver is mainly optimized for Far Cry 3, the other perf increasements you see mentioned blow have already been included in the previous driver.

GeForce R310 Drivers

The result values depend on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 680:

up to 38% in Far Cry 3
up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
up to 16% in Battlefield 3
up to 18% on Assassin's Creed III
up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
up to 6% for Warfighter: Medal of Honor
up to 6% in StarCraft II
up to 6% in Dragon Age II
up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
up to 5% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat

GeForce GTX 660:

up to 40% in Far Cry 3
up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
up to 10% in Battlefield 3
Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
up to 5% in Dragon Age II
up to 5% on Assassin's Creed III
Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 4% in Warfighter: Medal of Honor

NVIDIA SLI Technology - The following SLI profiles are added or updated:

Far Cry 3 - SLI Profile Update
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 - updated SLI profile
DiRT Showdown - SLI Profile Update
Dota 2 - SLI Profile Update
Dou Zhan Shen - SLI Profile Update
F1 2012 added SLI profile -
FIFA 13 - added SLI profile
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad - updated SLI profile
Hawken - added SLI profile
Hitman: Absolution - added SLI profile
Natural Selection 2 added SLI profile -
Primal Carnage - added SLI profile

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BenchAndGames
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#4465432 Posted on: 11/28/2012 12:52 PM

Still BIG STUTTERING in Battlefield 3 with all Beta driver, 310.XX , only work fine with WHQL for now.

But other games still fine, inly BF3 is work bad with BETA.

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#4465439 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:02 PM

And that's why I get a tad upset when the drivers are leaked/launched/released ahead of embargo because users miss out on the article containing all the full picture.

Sorry AndyB, but I find that to be a very weird remark. The drivers are hosted on the German NV website incl release information, e.g. this what you call 'leak' is happening at your own offices:

http://www.nvidia.de/object/winxp-310.64-beta-driver-de.html

Pointing the finger towards the Guru3D community for noticing the stuff NVIDIA places on-line, is ... weird ?

SLI-756
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#4465441 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:06 PM

..
670 is only a smidge slower than the 680...

I wouldn't have used the word 'smidge' the PR dept. is gonna gets ya now. haha

*it's true though, 680 is more than a smidge.

Iruwen
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#4465442 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:07 PM

Thank you for your help.

It's improve to 980Mhz , but still low fps

We can see that when palying Hitman 5 have correct boost clock .

How can i fix it? Just waiting a new forceware?

Low GPU usage = lower clock

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#4465443 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:07 PM

Still nothing mentioned about the Mobile Kepler Clock bugs. What's the status on the promised "investigation" on that issue ManuelG sent me via PM?

It really is time now, fixing idle clocks shouldn't be so damn difficult!
Our 680Ms and 660Ms are running at 405 Core @ idle.

Iruwen
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#4465445 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:08 PM

Still nothing mentioned about the Mobile Kepler Clock bugs. What's the status on the promised "investigation" on that issue ManuelG sent me via PM?

It really is time now, fixing idle clocks shouldn't be so damn difficult!
Our 680Ms and 660Ms are running at 405 Core @ idle.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4465294&postcount=201

PcZoneExtra
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#4465449 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:13 PM

BF3.exe stopped working AGAIN!.So nice the 3rd of beta drivers that does not work and i think Nivida does not clue whats is wrong... :bang:

.306.97 no problems at all.

Wanny
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#4465450 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:13 PM

In our articles we do mention this, and that's why I get a tad upset when the drivers are leaked/launched/released ahead of embargo because users miss out on the article containing all the full picture.

We're excited Nvidia users!

BTW Far cry 3 is still a long way for US users so we can't comment on the drivers...

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#4465454 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:17 PM

Can anybody clarify what would happen if us 5 series card users were to ask for an RMA on our cards (still within 3 year warrenty) since this issue is new and only with dx11.1 games.

I would have to rturn mine to PNY and im not sure on a few things.

1 would they replace my card with the exact same model or offer me a different card if the model was no longer being made, which is the case on the site where i bought it from

2 would the card actually be NEW, I know how these companys like to send out refurbs as replacements

3 could I ask up front if i could return the 580 and get a 680 and pay the difference since this dx11.1 issue will most probably happen to the replacement 580 they send in the first place

4 is it even a valid reason for an RMA?

Many Thanks in advance chaps

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#4465460 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:20 PM

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4465294&postcount=201

Ok, that's nice to know. Yet we want our cards to properly cool down when idle. Even after a reboot the clocks are at 405.

But... "For example, the GPU core clock might be faster when the GPU is in idle mode than in previous drivers." ? It is more than half of it's 3D clocks (720). Way too much, and seriously not needed for idling, is it?

And... "This ensures optimum power while providing high graphics performance." Who the hell needs high graphics performance when idling?

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#4465469 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:28 PM

I really need a new sli profile for assassins creed 3. Flickering shadows and horrible performance.

I really wish NVIDIA would release hotfix drivers for games as waiting for them to filter into the regular driver releases means waiting weeks or months for fixes by which time I've finished the game using a less than optimal workaround. In Assassin's Creed III's case that means either forcing the game to run on one GPU (because that's why I bought two cards after all!!!) or using the Call of Duty: Black Ops II SLI flag which fixes the tessellation flickering in the snowy frontier but has lower performance. Neither are ideal.

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#4465473 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:33 PM

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#4465475 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:35 PM

We have limited benchmark cycles so tend to do the 660 and 680 (670 is only a smidge slower than the 680). Each of the improvements we develop helps all of the GTX 600 series cards and also benefits older cards too, though obviously to varying degrees. In our articles we do mention this, and that's why I get a tad upset when the drivers are leaked/launched/released ahead of embargo because users miss out on the article containing all the full picture.

Thanks for the explanation, I always read the notes and when I see, "Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs"

I always assumed it was insignificant and no effort was put into other cards, I now understand.

I just want my GTX 670's to arrive so I can try them out and be rid of this display driver crash due to low voltage/dx11 issue in some games.

I will admit...I am scared that I heard BF3 is having issues on these beta drivers.

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#4465481 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:44 PM

BF3.exe stopped working AGAIN!.So nice the 3rd of beta drivers that does not work and i think Nivida does not clue whats is wrong... :bang:

.306.97 no problems at all.

Thanks for that heads up,ive had the same exact problem with the last 3 betas,only BF3 crashes ,and when i put the WHQL back in it has not crashed once.Guess ill skip this one also :/

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#4465485 Posted on: 11/28/2012 01:49 PM

Can anybody clarify what would happen if us 5 series card users were to ask for an RMA on our cards (still within 3 year warrenty) since this issue is new and only with dx11.1 games.

I would have to rturn mine to PNY and im not sure on a few things.

1 would they replace my card with the exact same model or offer me a different card if the model was no longer being made, which is the case on the site where i bought it from

2 would the card actually be NEW, I know how these companys like to send out refurbs as replacements

3 could I ask up front if i could return the 580 and get a 680 and pay the difference since this dx11.1 issue will most probably happen to the replacement 580 they send in the first place

4 is it even a valid reason for an RMA?

Many Thanks in advance chaps
1. PNY im sure like others keeps RMA stock,EVGA still has 8800 for RMAs that i know of.
2. Refurbished/re-certified .(rarely new if they have none atm)
3. No RMA's dont work like step up programs .Rarely you get a newer card ,but it does happen sometimes.
4.Driver suppoort (i beleive is what you asking) is a no. if the card works at the speeds advertised it works.

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