New NVIDIA Beta Driver Out

[LJGoose]

Hey folks... Just a heads up. Nvidia released a new beta driver today. It is optimized for BF3 beta but lets see if anyone gets any improvements in RO with it.

http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Beta

Post here and see if you notice an improvement... I am installing right now.

 

[Titulus]

I'll run 3DMark11 with it and see if my score increases (in a few hours), but I highly doubt you will be able to notice any improvement by eye in RO2. Most peoples problems are CPU related anyway, the lack of GPU usage is due to a CPU bottleneck.

 

[LJGoose]

I'm about to fire it up to... They claim something like 38% performance improvement for BF3 but lets see if we get any of that in RO... Im running a Core i5 750 with 4gb DDR3 Ram and a GTX 275. I know the card is not the greatest as it is starting to age now but I should still be getting good FPS on Medium-High settings without Bloom and all that other good stuff.

 

[MrGoat]

no change with new drivers

at least bf3 runs great

 

[Dest]

Indeed, those are BF3 beta drivers. AMD will release theirs today aswell.

 

[Dirtybandit]

The problem is mostly cpu related

 

[Titulus]

[url]http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1895807[/URL] - Got 8 more points. Nowhere near noticeable. At least I'll be a happy camper tomorrow.

 

[MajorMelchett]

The problem is mostly cpu related

Exactly, the game isn't using peoples quad cores properly, so a driver update for the GPU is going to do nothing.

 

[flavin420]

Never done anythinkg myself with changing drivers, so if theres a problem updating them is there a easy way to go back to what i had originally, Drivers etc scare me

 

[DeltaElite121]

Never done anythinkg myself with changing drivers, so if theres a problem updating them is there a easy way to go back to what i had originally, Drivers etc scare me

save current drivers set. apply beta drivers. don't like it? uninstall beta drivers and reinstall old drivers.

Easy.

 

[Titulus]

Never done anythinkg myself with changing drivers, so if theres a problem updating them is there a easy way to go back to what i had originally, Drivers etc scare me

Update your drivers NOW! I got my notebook in June 2011 and since then have received a 15% performance increase (in benchmarks) solely from updating drivers. Basically, a free OC. If you have a NVIDIA GPU, click HERE and follow this guide. I assume AMD cards are similar. It is easy to roll back if something goes wrong (have done it myself), but if installed properly, there should be no need to roll back.

 

[jordNZ]

GTX 570 SC here - got 100 points 3dmark11 increase with these new drivers! P5996 - P6096. However I got that annoying screen flicker on logoff/shutdown/restart. The screen flicks black very briefly (split second - like resolution changes) and then continues with the fade to black on the logoff screen. Anyone else get this? Didn't happen on 280.26.

Cheers.

EDIT: Also, in regards to installing drivers - nvidia (on the official site) recommend just installing new drivers over the last ones for the rollback to work as intended (if you need/want to rollback that is). No uninstalling and using driver sweeper etc. We aren't on XP anymore people

 

[flavin420]

No uninstalling and using driver sweeper etc. We aren't on XP anymore people

That is what worried me about updating drivers, ill get it done after work, i dont get BF3 BETA till thursday anyways, unless MOH ps3 code unlocks me on PC aswell.

Any way cya guys in stalingrad

 

[REQUIEM242]

GTX 570 SC here - got 100 points 3dmark11 increase with these new drivers! P5996 - P6096. However I got that annoying screen flicker on logoff/shutdown/restart. The screen flicks black very briefly (split second - like resolution changes) and then continues with the fade to black on the logoff screen. Anyone else get this? Didn't happen on 280.26.

Cheers.

EDIT: Also, in regards to installing drivers - nvidia (on the official site) recommend just installing new drivers over the last ones for the rollback to work as intended (if you need/want to rollback that is). No uninstalling and using driver sweeper etc. We aren't on XP anymore people

I have that too since the 275.xxx drivers. Just a bug

 

[anthonyda]

Exactly, the game isn't using peoples quad cores properly, so a driver update for the GPU is going to do nothing.

Actually, it can changes the CPU usage, even if it's a GPU driver.
It already happened before in the PC gaming history.

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

The Maximum pre-rendered frames setting and the Threaded optimization setting are two of those that effect the CPU in the NVidia Control Panel. Personally, I don't know by how much, but they are there.

 

[Das Bose]

I've found that reducing max pre-rendered frames from the default 3 to 1 with RO2 has a stabilising effect on my system. I've always left the threaded optimisation on auto.

 

[The Reich]

Anyone else crashing/freezing with this beta Nvida driver when playing RO2?

 

[frazz]

Anyone else crashing/freezing with this beta Nvida driver when playing RO2?

Yep more hard comp lockups for me that require a reset. Oddly enough though when it runs, it runs much nicer than the previous driver. Shame about the lockups.

 

[The Reich]

I had to revert back to the latest official drivers, because I enjoy RO2 much more than the battlefield 3 beta.. If I had to choose one or the other I rather have RO2 run with as less hiccups as possible.