Latest Nvidia GeForce drivers will improve your games

The driver update is recommended for all GeForce users, and includes “numerous game-changing, NVIDIA-exclusive improvements.”

The new driver is said to drastically improve performance for GTX 560 and GTX 550 Ti users. Nvidia claims that the new driver improves Skyrim performance on the GTX 560 by a massive 44.5%, allowing players to enjoy the game’s “Ultra” graphics setting. GTX 560 SLI performance is also up 44.1%, and GTX 580 performance is up 36%.

Diablo III players can look forward to a GTX 560 SLI frame rate improvement of 91.6%, and a 90% improvement on the GTX 570.

The patch also makes improvements to Modern Warfare 3, and adds a bunch of new SLI and updated 3D Vision profiles.

New SLI Profiles

• 7554
• Afterfall: InSanity
• ArcheAge
• Core Blaze
• F1 2011
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
• Mass Effect 3
• Oil Rush
• Red Faction: Armageddon
• The Darkness II
• Trine 2
• WRC 2: FIA World Rally Championship 2011

New & Updated 3D Vision Profiles

• Afterfall: Insanity – Rated Fair
• Alan Wake – Rated Poor
• ANNO 2070 – Rated Not Recommended
• Apache: Air Assault – Rated Fair
• Black Prophecy – Rated Not Recommended
• Chaos Online – Rated Fair
• Choplifter HD – Rated Good
• Cities XL 2012 – Rated Good
• Da Vinci Online – Rated Fair
• Dino D-Day – Rated Good
• DotA 2 – Rating upgraded to Fair
• Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale – Rated Fair
• Edge – Rated Excellent
• Ferrari Project – Rated Not Recommended
• Fractal – Rated Excellent
• FreeStyle 2 – Rated Good
• Insane 2 – Rated Excellent
• King Arthur II – Rated Not Recommended
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Rated Fair
• Kong Fu Ying Xiong – Rated Fair
• Love Beat – Rated Good
• Marvel Super Hero Squad Online – Rated Good
• Microsoft Flight – Rated Fair
• Perpetuum – Rated Fair
• Post Apocalyptic Mayhem – Rated Fair
• Prototype 2 – Rated Fair
• Q.U.B.E. – Rated Excellent
• Quan Qiu Shi Ming – Rated Excellent
• Red Bull X-Fighters – Rated Excellent
• rFactor 2 (mod mode) – Rated Good & Updated Convergence
• Risen 2: Dark Waters – Rated Fair
• Saints Row: The Third – Rated Not Recommended
• Shadow Company: Left for Dead – Rated Not Recommended
• Special Force – Rated Good
• Tera – Rated Good
• The Adventures of Tintin – Rated Good
• The First Templar – Rated Fair
• The Haunted Halls Reach – Rated Excellent
• Top Gun: Hard Lock – Rated Not Recommended
• Tropico 4 – Rated Good
• Worms Blast – Rated Good

Other Miscellaneous Additions

• 295.73 WHQL adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3D monitors.
• Includes updated PhysX 9.12.0209 System Software for improved compatibility and performance in Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City.
• Enables WHQL-certified support for NVIDIA Surround on Intel X79 SLI-certified motherboards.
• Fixes instances of texture corruption/artifacts in Battlefield 3 when memory constrained (typically on 1GB or less graphics cards running Ultra settings and high resolutions).

You can download Nvidia’s GeForce 295.73 WHQL drivers here.