{"id":32972,"date":"2012-02-24T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32972"},"modified":"2012-02-24T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:32:30","slug":"latest-nvidia-geforce-drivers-will-improve-your-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32972-latest-nvidia-geforce-drivers-will-improve-your-games","title":{"rendered":"Latest Nvidia GeForce drivers will improve your games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver update is recommended for all GeForce users, and includes \u201cnumerous game-changing, NVIDIA-exclusive improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s \u201cUltra\u201d graphics setting. GTX 560 SLI performance is also up 44.1%, and GTX 580 performance is up 36%.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The patch also makes improvements to Modern Warfare 3, and adds a bunch of new SLI and updated 3D Vision profiles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New SLI Profiles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7554<\/li>\n<li>Afterfall: InSanity<\/li>\n<li>ArcheAge<\/li>\n<li>Core Blaze<\/li>\n<li>F1 2011<\/li>\n<li>Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning<\/li>\n<li>Mass Effect 3<\/li>\n<li>Oil Rush<\/li>\n<li>Red Faction: Armageddon<\/li>\n<li>The Darkness II<\/li>\n<li>Trine 2<\/li>\n<li>WRC 2: FIA World Rally Championship 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New &amp; Updated 3D Vision Profiles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Afterfall: Insanity \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Alan Wake &#8211; Rated Poor<\/li>\n<li>ANNO 2070 &#8211; Rated Not Recommended<\/li>\n<li>Apache: Air Assault \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Black Prophecy \u2013 Rated Not Recommended<\/li>\n<li>Chaos Online \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Choplifter HD &#8211; Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>Cities XL 2012 &#8211; Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>Da Vinci Online \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Dino D-Day &#8211; Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>DotA 2 \u2013 Rating upgraded to Fair<\/li>\n<li>Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Edge &#8211; Rated Excellent<\/li>\n<li>Ferrari Project \u2013 Rated Not Recommended<\/li>\n<li>Fractal \u2013 Rated Excellent<\/li>\n<li>FreeStyle 2 \u2013 Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>Insane 2 &#8211; Rated Excellent<\/li>\n<li>King Arthur II \u2013 Rated Not Recommended<\/li>\n<li>Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Kong Fu Ying Xiong \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Love Beat \u2013 Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>Marvel Super Hero Squad Online \u2013 Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Flight \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Perpetuum \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Post Apocalyptic Mayhem \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Prototype 2 \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Q.U.B.E. \u2013 Rated Excellent<\/li>\n<li>Quan Qiu Shi Ming \u2013 Rated Excellent<\/li>\n<li>Red Bull X-Fighters &#8211; Rated Excellent<\/li>\n<li>rFactor 2 (mod mode) \u2013 Rated Good &amp; Updated Convergence<\/li>\n<li>Risen 2: Dark Waters &#8211; Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>Saints Row: The Third \u2013 Rated Not Recommended<\/li>\n<li>Shadow Company: Left for Dead \u2013 Rated Not Recommended<\/li>\n<li>Special Force \u2013 Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>Tera \u2013 Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>The Adventures of Tintin \u2013 Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>The First Templar \u2013 Rated Fair<\/li>\n<li>The Haunted Halls Reach \u2013 Rated Excellent<\/li>\n<li>Top Gun: Hard Lock \u2013 Rated Not Recommended<\/li>\n<li>Tropico 4 \u2013 Rated Good<\/li>\n<li>Worms Blast \u2013 Rated Good<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Miscellaneous Additions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>295.73 WHQL adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3D monitors.<\/li>\n<li>Includes updated PhysX 9.12.0209 System Software for improved compatibility and performance in Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City.<\/li>\n<li>Enables WHQL-certified support for NVIDIA Surround on Intel X79 SLI-certified motherboards.<\/li>\n<li>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).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can download Nvidia\u2019s GeForce 295.73 WHQL drivers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geforce.com\/Drivers\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3 &#8211; 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