Nvida 295.73 WHQL driver

[Akira]

Hello, i was wondering if anyone is using the 295.73 WHQL driver and if you have noticed any performance gain from the 280.26 WHQL driver thank you

[Zenaku]

No but going to test it out now going to see if it's any better when it come to Nvidia drivers there always better but for some reason when it come too ATI sometime take a while for them to get a good one that better for ffxiv.

Edit:

Hmm seem like it way better then the old one but i have a 450GTX each video card would be diff for the drivers try it out and see what happen with yours.

[Lienn]

I'm curious about this too...you getting better performance with same settings? This one seems to be focused at ambient oclusion, which i don't use, so i'm curious to hear about the performance as a whole.

[Zenaku]

I'm curious about this too...you getting better performance with same settings? This one seems to be focused at ambient oclusion, which i don't use, so i'm curious to hear about the performance as a whole.

Running

1440x900
2x MSAA multsampling
drawing quality 8
General Drawing Quality Standard
Shadow Detail Standard
DOF ON
Texture High
Texture Filering Highest

and running at 30FPS in Ul'dah

Pretty have with this new update but remember i have a 450 so don't know if that would help much with other video card. I also don't have AO and before this update i could put most of the stuff on high and even multsampling up to 4 or 8 but i don't see much of a diff in looks.

Still testing to see if there any issue so far so good.

[sh1nk4n]

Running

1440x900
2x MSAA multsampling
drawing quality 8
General Drawing Quality Standard
Shadow Detail Standard
DOF ON
Texture High
Texture Filering Highest

and running at 30FPS in Ul'dah

Pretty have with this new update but remember i have a 450 so don't know if that would help much with other video card. I also don't have AO and before this update i could put most of the stuff on high and even multsampling up to 4 or 8 but i don't see much of a diff in looks.

Still testing to see if there any issue so far so good.

Sorry but this may sound like a stupid question.
I'm using alienware M17x R3 with Nvidia GTX 460M. Just wondering how do you set your FPS to 30? I couldn't find the option to adjust the FPS anywhere in the Nvidia control panel.

[Soukyuu]

You might see a performance increase if your card is one-two generations old, if it's older then it's just a change of version numbers. I don't bother updating my drivers anymore (260 GTX) unless I see it being specifically mentioned.

[Zenaku]

You might see a performance increase if your card is one-two generations old, if it's older then it's just a change of version numbers. I don't bother updating my drivers anymore (260 GTX) unless I see it being specifically mentioned.

Not true i have a 450 and i saw a big performance increase with FFXIV so i'm pretty happy

[VoltaAsura]

release notes:


This is the first WHQL-certified driver from the R295 family of drivers. It is the recommended upgrade for all GeForce users, especially those playing the latest hot PC games like Battlefield 3, Diablo III, Mass Effect 3, or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These drivers come packed with GeForce-exclusive performance and quality enhancements and are now Microsoft WHQL-certified. Read the full GeForce 295.73 driver article on GeForce.com.

R295 Highlight Summary
New features and performance since last WHQL-certified driver

•Game-changing performance boost of up to 45% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, “the fastest selling title in Steam’s history”
•Up to 2x performance Mass Effect 3 with SLI technology.
•GeForce-exclusive quality enhancements with ambient occlusion support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Diablo III, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
•New 3D Vision and SLI profiles for over 50 titles.
•New PhysX software for the best experience in top PhysX titles like Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City.
R295 Highlight Details

Performance

•Increases performance by up to 45% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (measured with GeForce GTX 560 at 1080p Ultra settings in indoor scenes vs. 285.62).
•Updates the NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to a higher performance profile.
•Boosts Mass Effect 3 SLI performance to up to 2x.
Ambient Occlusion

•Adds ambient occlusion support for Diablo III. See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.
•Updates the ambient occlusion support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to a higher performance profile (also in 290 beta drivers). See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.
•Adds ambient occlusion support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (also in 290 beta drivers). See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.
NVIDIA SLI

•Adds or updates SLI profiles for:
◦Mass Effect 3
◦Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
◦The Darkness II
◦F1 2011
◦Oil Rush
◦Red Faction: Armageddon
◦7554
◦Trine 2
◦WRC 2: FIA World Rally Championship 2011
◦Afterfall: InSanity.
◦ArcheAge
◦Core Blaze
NVIDIA 3D Vision

•Adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3D monitors.
•Added new 3D Vision laser sight /crosshair options to better match Skyrim crosshairs.
•Adds or updates 3D Vision profiles for:
◦The Adventures of Tintin – rated Good
◦Afterfall: Insanity – rated Fair
◦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
◦The First Templar – rated Fair
◦Fractal – rated Excellent
◦FreeStyle 2 – rated Good
◦The Haunted Halls Reach – rated Excellent
◦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 and 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
◦Top Gun: Hard Lock – rated Not Recommended
◦Tropico 4 – rated Good
◦Worms Blast – rated Good
•If you are using 3D Vision with the 3D Vision USB emitter, please read this FAQ for more details on installation.
NVIDIA PhysX

•Updates PhysX System Software to 9.12.0209 for improved compatibility with Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City.
NVIDIA Surround

•Enables WHQL-certified support for NVIDIA Surround on Intel X79 SLI-certified motherboards.
HD Audio

•Updates HD Audio to version 1.3.12.0.
Battlefield 3

•Fixes instances of texture corruption/artifacts in Battlefield 3 when memory constrained (typically 1GB or less graphics cards running Ultra settings and high resolutions).
Other Details

•Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
•Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards

[VoltaAsura]

BTW the drivers seem to work just fine for me. I can't honestly say I notice much an improvement, but the drivers seem to be more targeted for the 500 series cards. I can say tho, that uldah doesn't seem as laggy.
I'm doing around 34-38 fps w gtx460 and i3-2100 in uldah

[Soukyuu]

Not true i have a 450 and i saw a big performance increase with FFXIV so i'm pretty happy

A 450 is one generation old (newest being the 5xx) series. As I said,

You might see a performance increase if your card is one-two generations old

So... what about my post is "not true"? If anything, your post directly confirms mine.