295.73 Nvidia Drivers are out! (Not Beta Drivers!)

[bleachpedro3]

Graphics Driver - Verde 295.73 Driver - GeForce


Going to test out with Skyrim now

[Moriarty]

Let us know if you get any gains :P

Might help out with Alan Wake?

[bleachpedro3]

Ok before I play Skyrim I tried to play some BF3. Is anyone else not noticing a difference between Texture Settings? I use to play on Ultra,but now when i change it Low to Ultra there is no difference.

EDIT: Oh my,it seems that every game is like that now! Just tried Skyrim and set texture to high (Always played like that). And I noticed that the texture settings was at low when I played!

[Sergin]

Installed the new drivers, and I can confirm that it helped a bit on Alan Wake.

Now I'm getting 25FPS steady on night levels. It used to fluctuate a lot before.

Regarding BF3 I see no changes.

If I'm not mistaken you have to exit the game and run again everytime you change a graphic option.

[zekaks92]

better than 285.62? '-' i hope correct bugs in old games like L4D...

[GNandGS]

on paper there are little gains unless you have 3D or SLI seems like - where looks like a lot of changes. Some specific gain in a few games like BF3 are claimed.

[dreeew]

This might be a coincidence but I see big improvements with the fan management and the noise after installing the drivers. I mean I have no idea how 3rd company drivers could have any impact on that but it really behaves differently.

The fan never goes to 6600 rpm in games even though the nvidia card reaches the exact same temps as before (70+).
More surprisingly, it stays at 4200 RPM in games while I have never seen this speed ever before (and I was monitoring temps/fans since I got my m11x). Before I only had 0-3800-6600. Now it's 0-3800-4200.

Maybe Dell pushed some automatic update I have no idea what happened there

[hiarieshi]

I'll try this out with LoL and see if I get blue screens

[aznboi855]

How much of an increase are you guys getting with Skyrim?

[apslao]

You know...I'm currently playing this with said drivers, OC at 565,1365,890, MX11 R1, CPU stock OC, Seagate Momentus XT 500gb, and with the Beth Hi Res Pack. I'm running almost 60fps indoors of High Rhothgar, and right outside with snow storm at about 40fps. In Whiterun, at the top of Dragon's Reach, I'm getting about 25-30fps. This is with no AA, 16xAni Filter, High Text, Med Radial Blur, Med Shadow, High Decal Qual, FXAA enabled, all water reflections, and High Object detail. I could list my Nvidia control panel settings, and the rest of the draw distance settings if it helps anyone.
I only played for about an hour...I experienced some minor graphic clipping/tearing, no artifacts or discoloration. Can't say about any CTD or crashes in general due to my playtime. I'll update if/when I get a chance to put some more playtime in.