Nvidia Owners: 285.36 Beta Driver has my game running spectacular

[katdogfizzow]

285.38 is the required driver for Battlefield 3 to run on my rig, so I installed it.

I then checked my new performance on CoD and I have the best performance yet 35-40 fps over London with bombers "feels like 6o" haha and smooth as silk. I'm even able to record now at a solid 30fps with no hiccups

sim is running great

EDIT 10/4/2011 Subject Title should read 285.38 Sorry

[Faustnik]

I will try it!

Thanks for the info. :)

[NedLynch]

Good to know :grin:.

What driver where you using before?

[skouras]

285.36 is the required driver for Battlefield 3 to run on my rig, so I installed it.

I then checked my new performance on CoD and I have the best performance yet 35-40 fps over London with bombers "feels like 6o" haha and smooth as silk. I'm even able to record now at a solid 30fps with no hiccups

sim is running great

same here

[Tvrdi]

285.38 it is...

[klem]

Good to know :grin:.

What driver where you using before?

+1 please

[nearmiss]

Do as you will, but remember video driver upgrades don't always work as well on certain cards. My card is 8800 GTS 512 and all I read says the newest drivers won't help me. Yet, the next driver release may.

[PeterPanPan]

Excited to try this as I have the same GPU as you katdogfizzow, although sadly only 1, not 2 SLI'd!

Thanks for the info.

PPP

[CWMV]

On my GTX 580sc going from the last beta drivers (285.26?) to these I gained a lot.
min fps jumped up by 10+fps, max...well I cant tell its capped at 60 with Vsync!
Average now flying low over londons rooftops with all the settings on high is at lowest 49-50fps.
Really starting to like this game...!

[Mad G]

I tried this new driver and didn´t see a big difference, only 1 fps + in min.
I´ve been using the 275.33 driver, for me the best by so far.

[ATAG_Dutch]

I have 280.26, and Nvidia driver update says I'm up to date, so where's this 285.36, or 285.38 as Tvrdi says, come from please?

No worries, found it.

[JG52Krupi]

It's a beta Dutch :)

If this works I'm gonna hate you nvidia users... I really dont want to buy a new card.

Tbh I get 40-50fps atm just hope the slow downs and crashes are removed in the final patch.

[ATAG_Dutch]

It's a beta Dutch :)

If this works I'm gonna hate you nvidia users... I really dont want to buy a new card.

Tbh I get 40-50fps atm just hope the slow downs and crashes are removed in the final patch.

I was happy with what I've got driverwise mate, but every little helps.

I'm getting similar rates to you online with game 'maxed out' already, but over London it still struggles. If the beta driver helps with that well.......:grin:

So where do I get it then?

No worries, found it.

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

I'm running the beta drivers (clean install) with the beta patch (from a clean install) and it makes no difference whatsoever (GTX580). Still get stutters at low level (even with lowered settings) and awful slowdown with flame/smoke effects etc. Good framerates generally......just the micro stutters which are the main problem really. Plays Rise of Flight smooth as silk though, with excellent frame rates.

I wouldn't buy another thing 'for' this sim......its the crap unoptimised code that is to blame (which Ilya has essentially admitted) and you can't really buy your way out the problem; if you try to atm, you have more money than sense. :)

They are trying to fix it though to be fair, so we'll see. :)

EDIT: HANG FIRE! I'm actually using the 285.27 BETA drivers, NOT the 287.36, so my mistake (didn't realise a new BETA had come out). I'll give this a try and report back, hope it does better. Cheers. :)

EDIT II: Should I go for the .36 or .38? Since there is a good report for .36 I reckon I'll try that first.

[JG52Krupi]

They have done quite well so far in all honesty. Let's just hope they haven't hit a wall in terms of optimisation.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Ok,

Black Death with 280.26 driver,
Frames 6366, Time (ms) 216867, Min 9, Max 62, Avg 29.354

Black Death with 285.38 driver,
Frames 6304, Time (ms) 217143, Min 8 , Max 63, Avg 29.032

All settings Very High, epi off, ssao and V-sync on. 1920 x 1080.
Single card no sli, so maybe there's only an improvement with sli.

Plus v-sync enabled limits to 60 fps of course.

Here's one without v-sync but I've no benchmark to compare with old driver unfortunately;
Frames 6538, Time (ms) 216828 , Min 7, Max 80, Avg 30.153

[ChocsAway]

I tried this new driver and didn´t see a big difference, only 1 fps + in min.
I´ve been using the 275.33 driver, for me the best by so far.

+1

I've seen no frame rate increase on my GTX480 with these beta drivers. My previous were the 275.33

[KeBrAnTo]

I agree 2.85.38 BETA drivers added more or less 8-10 fps more to my sim. :grin:

[41Sqn_Stormcrow]

285.36 is the required driver for Battlefield 3 to run on my rig, so I installed it.

I then checked my new performance on CoD and I have the best performance yet 35-40 fps over London with bombers "feels like 6o" haha and smooth as silk. I'm even able to record now at a solid 30fps with no hiccups

sim is running great

That's for the 460 in SLI I suppose?

[Whiski]

Just installed the 285 nvidia drivers. I did find an improvement in FPS (roughly 5-10 fps). My previous FPS was 30 average, with 60 as max (Vertical sync is on), now it is 39 average.


Though it runs with better FPS, the game still has the stutters online. Not sure if that has to do with spawning A/C (AI or Player controlled).

[RickRuski]

I'm running 285.38 beta but haven't noticed any great improvements from 285.27 beta. Hopefully when or if we get optimisation officially for Sli, things may improve. At the moment all of us using "multi graphics cards" are trying a "work around" to get the best we can. Still getting some "micro stutters" no matter what I have tried so far, still working on it. I'm getting better fps with Sli as compared to single card (almost double) but the odd "micro stutters" are annoying, seem to be worse until the cards reach full operating temps (about 57--59deg) after that hardly noticeable.

Rick

[katdogfizzow]

I'm running the beta drivers (clean install) with the beta patch (from a clean install) and it makes no difference whatsoever (GTX580). Still get stutters at low level (even with lowered settings) and awful slowdown with flame/smoke effects etc. Good framerates generally......just the micro stutters which are the main problem really. Plays Rise of Flight smooth as silk though, with excellent frame rates.

I wouldn't buy another thing 'for' this sim......its the crap unoptimised code that is to blame (which Ilya has essentially admitted) and you can't really buy your way out the problem; if you try to atm, you have more money than sense. :)

They are trying to fix it though to be fair, so we'll see. :)

EDIT: HANG FIRE! I'm actually using the 285.27 BETA drivers, NOT the 287.36, so my mistake (didn't realise a new BETA had come out). I'll give this a try and report back, hope it does better. Cheers. :)

EDIT II: Should I go for the .36 or .38? Since there is a good report for .36 I reckon I'll try that first.

Sorry, I had the wrong info in the OP Im using 285.38


285.38 Beta Driver has my game running spectacular

[katdogfizzow]

285.38 is the required driver for Battlefield 3 to run on my rig, so I installed it.

I then checked my new performance on CoD and I have the best performance yet 35-40 fps over London with bombers "feels like 6o" haha and smooth as silk. I'm even able to record now at a solid 30fps with no hiccups

sim is running great

EDIT 10/4/2011 Subject Title should read 285.38 Sorry

Please note. I just ran GPU-z to confirm my driver and noticed it was this later version. I was given the wrong info .
285.38 Beta Driver has my game running spectacular

[skouras]

please notice
that you will see a difference if your previous drivers was from 275 family
as i was running the 275.33 and not the last official one 285.27

[PeterPanPan]

please notice
that you will see a difference if your previous drivers was from 275 family
as i was running the 275.33 and not the last official one 285.27

I am running a 460 GTX and have just upgraded the driver from the 275 family to the latest beta and WOW ... massive difference. Much, much smoother, very few stutters AND the exhaust flames are now way more visible and much better looking. A massive, massive improvement.

PPP

[Toasted_Toad]

I was unable to get through the "Black Death" track without a lockup and crash until installing 285.38.

It's now running with everything maxed out, worth setting up and trying out the game now.

Looking forward to the patch (haven't tried the beta).

Cheers,

T_T.

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

Can confirm some improvements my end on a GTX580. Definite FPS increase on Black death track, and less (though by no means eliminated) stutter. Another bonus is that when switching from 'wide' view to 'zoom' (30dg) there is no longer a massive pause/stutter (it seems to be that 'textures' or whatever are loading when this happens), the transition is smoother.

Better, but still not there yet......and definitely not 'spectacular' lol. I'm hopeful that along with (tonights?) new patch, we might be getting there.

Thing is, it can be done ( I had fantastic 35 FPS performance over London at roof top level with everything maxed out with an earlier beta version) its just a matter of nailing it down for everyone, probably not an easy task.

Good luck. :)