New Nvidia Beta Drivers 290.53

[bigtonyman]

Just found are there are new Drivers available (credit for the find goes to littleone562 from the m18x forums)

Download location: NVIDIA DRIVERS 290.53 BETA

Official BETA NVIDIA 290.53 Display Driver Feedback Thread For NVIDIA Geforce Desktop/Notebook/ION

doesn't looks like a crucial upgrade as it just updates physx, and fixes the following:

[NVIDIA Control Panel]: After adding a game to the Manage 3D Settings profiles when it was not already detected by the driver, instead of the game name appearing in the profiles list, the path to the game appears.
[GeForce 9800 GTX]: 1080p resolution is not listed in the HD, SD section of the NVIDIA Control Panel Change Resolution page. [848805]
The display driver may send incorrect display timings to the monitor when the refresh ate is set to 60Hz, resulting in poor image quality. [908729/909942]
[GeForce 500 series] [The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] : There is flickering/corruption in the game when CSAA is enabled. [897301]
[GeForce GTX 5 series][The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] : The game experiences poor performance when using ultra‐quality shadowing mode. [898733]
[Battlefield 3]: There are triangle artifacts in the game. [877789]
[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] : Added Ambient Occlusion to the application profile.
[3DVision] [The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] Added Skyrim Crosshairs to the NVIDIA
Control Panel‐>Set Up Stereoscopic 3D‐>Change 3D Laser Sight page.

I found the change sheet at Overclockers.com, so it might be just for desktop cards instead of laptop cards idk. I wil try to find out.

Edit: looks like this is a list of all the changes for both laptop and desktop cards.

[tyranus7]

Any improve on Arkham City?

[bigtonyman]

Any improve on Arkham City?

Doesn't look like it I don't have the game so I don't know for sure though.

[widezu69]

Just a heads up, here is the actual link to the driver:
NVIDIA DRIVERS 290.53 BETA

[Painkilller]

It says on the What's New - GeForce site that it improves the performance of Skyrim by up to 25%, depending on your system. Since I'm knee deep in that game right now, it's definitely a driver I want to install.

Already downloaded it but, I'm going to need a modded .inf.

[Morgor]

Will give a try to, but with mods and 4GB patch, Skyrim already works like a charm

[bigtonyman]

Installed fine, Haven't had anytime to see if skyrim runs better yet though.

[Aunty June]

Skyrim does seem to run better, Riften seems to run smoother..

[maxheap]

I didn't see any change in Whiterun

[ryan_calif]

There isn't going to be an FPS improvement in-game unless you are currently bottlenecked at the GPU (which most people are not).

If you're seeing a slowdown in the cities, it is more than likely a CPU issue, in which case these NVIDIA drivers are inconsequential.