280.26 WHQL NVIDIA Drivers

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by skouras

no blue screen for me
but i can't get to install the updater
everything else install great
anyway to tell you the truth i don't need it
because i install the new drivers manually and not via updater

Let me know how it works for you skouras. Remember, don't use a game profile. Do all your settings globally.

[=FI=Scott]

I always do the following istalling new drivers and it seems to work well for me.

1. Uninstall the old driver via Control Panel/Uninstall Program.
2.Restart PC in safe mode without internet connection.
3.Run a driver cleaner-I use driversweeper and clear out old Nvidia display drivers.
4.Re-start normally (but without internet connection) and run the driver install.
5. Restart with Internet connection and re-do settings etc.

This has always worked for me. As to the Nvidia update thing I don't use it. Nvidia bundles up a load of useless rubbish with their drivers and this is another example. If you want to update your drivers better to do it yourself.

Back on the subject of SLI, what concerns me is when Luthier makes statements like this, the clouds didn't make the last patch because they conflict with SLI.

Unfortunately two major things we cut out of the beta version of the patch did not make it into this release. Distant 2D clouds continue to conflict with NVidia SLI.

I would like to know how Luthier knows that the clouds conflict with SLI when SLI doesn't work, how did he test that?? What driver did he use to get SLI working? What profile did he use to test this?
Its these kind of crazy excuses that set my alarm bells ringing. During development Luthier claimed that SLI was working but couldn't show it working because he didn't have an SLI rig, so unless he has recently purchased am SLI setup any information he gives us about SLI is going to be pure guesswork on his part.

[furbs]

Since most people cant get SLI to work or dont have 2 cards, why cant we have the 2D clouds anyway?

maybe they are to be released "shortly" again...

Originally Posted by furbs

Since most people cant get SLI to work or dont have 2 cards, why cant we have the 2D clouds anyway?

maybe they are to be released "shortly" again...

SLI has not worked correctly since day 1, I think that the clouds conflict with SLI is just a smoke screen although I could be wrong, but if I am wrong I would like to know which driver Luthier is using to get SLI working and how he has set is SLI profile up. To be honest I am not expecting an answer from him on this.

[LcSummers]

Is the new driver defenitley better than 275.33?

[=FI=Scott]

Originally Posted by LcSummers

Is the new driver defenitley better than 275.33?

Personally I can't see any noticable improvements in either CoD or RoF.

[katdogfizzow]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

SLI has not worked correctly since day 1, I think that the clouds conflict with SLI is just a smoke screen although I could be wrong, but if I am wrong I would like to know which driver Luthier is using to get SLI working and how he has set is SLI profile up. To be honest I am not expecting an answer from him on this.

He said they broke SLI support just before the initial release, presumably that's how they know as it was once working. What drivers were working is irrelevant because they broke it and it doesn't work. (Probably with that Epilepsy filter)

Originally Posted by katdogfizzow

He said they broke SLI support just before the initial release, presumably that's how they know as it was once working. What drivers were working is irrelevant because they broke it and it doesn't work. (Probably with that Epilepsy filter)

Since then they claim to have fixed SLI, read previous posts.

[Stefem]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

SLI has not worked correctly since day 1, I think that the clouds conflict with SLI is just a smoke screen although I could be wrong, but if I am wrong I would like to know which driver Luthier is using to get SLI working and how he has set is SLI profile up. To be honest I am not expecting an answer from him on this.

Funny as always Tree_UK , people talk about things they know nothing about, oh well, this certainly is not new...

Maybe Luthier as more important things to do so I will answer to your question, devs can rename the executable to invoke a specific profile to force AFR mode and make the driver skip any form of inter-GPU synchronizations as well as common form of CPU-GPU synchronization.
This will lead to maximum expected scaling in that system, but may introduce rendering artifacts since the driver is no longer performing all the operations required to guarantee correctness in AFR mode.