Nvidia Owners: 285.36 Beta Driver has my game running spectacular

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.......

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

+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.

Originally Posted by katdogfizzow

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).