Nvidia beta driver 320.49 + some results.

Currently getting around 40% useage of both gpus and a decreased performance in the benchmark. lul..
Useage is all over the place even in idle.
That can't be good.
GTX 680 sli.
I hope they make it run like it should for the actual game.
Stats below, ran in the bench.

Seems there is a performance boost over the last drivers in single GPU mode only.
I got my 1k I lost in score, back with this driver.

SLI ENABLED:
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Thought I had a boost using one card for Physx:

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Single GPU, same score, so no boost dedicating second card to Physx.

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Benchmark is old software. Use beta 3's build instead for testing as all the optimizations so far have been applied to that. It's been stated several time SLI is not yet supported, what you're seeing is normal for games and applications with no SLI support.

There is a sli profile in this driver for FFXIV ARR.
Look at the graphs.
It shows SLI working just at very bad rates.
Of course the B3 will be better to use for testing purposes.
This was mostly out of boredom.

Regardless I did get a performance increase in the bench over the last driver.
Hopefully I will not still be crashing.

FYI; both cards having a relatively constant load of 50% each means the game only ever treats it as ONE card. Exactly the same behavior as 1.0 had, and it had a SLI profile as well.

Meaning you DON'T get an advantage from using SLI (yet). I tested it with a 2x260GTX cards back then, I had exactly the same if not inferior framerates with two cards as I had with one and none of them ever went over 50% usage even though the framerate crashed to 20fps and below at those settings.

So just because the GPU is used doesn't mean SLI is being utilized.

Google Translation from Japanese Lodestone:

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Currently displayed as "FINAL FANTASY XIV Realm Reborn" in the item "program to customize" You have graphics drivers that are exposed from NVIDIA Corporation Regarding "GeForce 320.49 Driver Beta", "NVIDIA Control Panel" → to "Managing 3D Settings" will be.

However, in the newborn β3 version FFXIV, SLI support of the game program side does not yet completed. Towards the official launch, we are promoting the SLI-ready, but we ask that you can wait until a formal response completion

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Or in other words, SLI is not ready yet even if it is listed on the drivers and to wait for official support confirmation.

a benchmark is just that. real world performance will always be better.

Just wanted to pass on the update we made on the site about this:

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Regarding SLI Support
We confirmed that if you have installed the “GeForce 320.49 Driver Beta” graphic driver from NVIDIA®, FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will show up as a customizable game (NVIDIA Control Panel > 3D Settings > Manage 3D Settings). However, please note that we have not yet made the necessary adjustments on the program side to make the game compatible with SLI. Please be patient as we plan to have this ready by the official launch.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

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Crossfire?

Cross posting to both threads..

Saw good results with 320.49 (assuming no major patches got pushed on the SE side to the client). Had none of the freezing that I was seeing in previous weekends. Can't speak for all aspects of performance since I was only interested specifically in the freezing issue.

Any new info on this driver? before i download it i have a overclock asus 660GTX version.

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

Any new info on this driver? before i download it i have a overclock asus 660GTX version.

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320.49 is old.

Download the 326 series driver. It comes with the needed SLI support with the newest benchmark.

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

320.49 is old.

Download the 326 series driver. It comes with the needed SLI support with the newest benchmark.

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326.41 is still in beta i hold on too the version i have to someone test the release of that driver. I don't have SLI only got one card so does not really matter to me much.

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

320.49 is old.

Download the 326 series driver. It comes with the needed SLI support with the newest benchmark.

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320.49 seems to be working just fine with SLI.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/rottis/XIV/arr_...sli_320-49.jpg

I'm still sticking with 306.97. 326.41 brings better SLI performance (both cards at 98% load vs. one 98%, one 89%), but it crashes very often for my 260GTX. And when it doesn't crash, the video is jerky, for example on that uldah camera pan.

Kinda disappointed with nvidia's drivers lately.

With 306.97 I'm getting 30.384 avg fps (3740 points, single card) or 64.311 avg fps (7406 points, SLI) on max settings, 1080p. Pretty good work on SE's side, didn't expect these old cards to scale that well. Also, that's 10fps more compared to last benchmark, I guess they got rid of a lot of debug code.

I'm still using 311.06 driver (GTX 560). I haven't really had any problems so I am very reluctant to play around with drivers at all. And with the comments on 660 cards in other threads (Beta), I don't even feel like upgrading. I'm just feeling like, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. :eek:

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz
8183.117MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (VRAM 4050 MB) 9.18.0013.1106

Running Maximum settings/1920x1080/Full screen, my benchmark has come up very nice from the first:
Exploration benchmark: 4244, FPS 34.4
New CC benchmark: 5740, FPS 47.4

Really nice job, SE!

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Originally Posted by Digirotta

320.49 seems to be working just fine with SLI.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/rottis/XIV/arr_...sli_320-49.jpg

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I find the newer 326.01/326.49 to perform better on my system.

I tried 326.49 the other day and while running the unengine heaven benchmark & noticed my card temp creep up and hover around 71C which is higher than I've ever seen it and made me a bit uncomfortable. Rolled it back to 326.01 and it doesn't get higher than 59C. Anyone else notice higher temps running this driver?

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Originally Posted by Skullmaker

I tried 326.49 the other day and while running the unengine heaven benchmark & noticed my card temp creep up and hover around 71C which is higher than I've ever seen it and made me a bit uncomfortable. Rolled it back to 326.01 and it doesn't get higher than 59C. Anyone else notice higher temps running this driver?

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Have not try it but my asus overclock 660 stay at a nice 35c and highest i see it around 59C also. So ya i don't want to try it even tho 71C is not bad i want to keep this video card working for years to come lol.

I'm running 320.49 drivers on GTX560ti in SLI scoring over 10k each run at max settings

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