The nVidia R331 Driver looks to be the most promising stable driver that has been released in months. nVidia says that it is an essential update for Battlefield 4 and Batman Arkham Origins. We are fully testing this driver right now, and will keep you updated as to the nVidia R331 performance.
Download it here: http://www.geforce.com/drivers
GeForce 331.58 Driver
Release Summary
This Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in Batman: Arkham Origins and Battlefield 4. GeForce Game Ready drivers also provide performance increases for a variety of different games.
New in GeForce R331 Drivers
- Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 13% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 327.23 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:
GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN:
- Up to 11% in Dirt: Showdown
- Up to 9% in Metro: Last Light
- Up to 8% in Sleeping Dogs
- Up to 13% in Sniper Elite V2
SLI Technology
- Batman: Arkham Origins – updated profile
- Battlefield 4 – updated profile
- Shadow Warrior – added DX9 profile
- War of the Vikings – added DX11 profile
- Dragon Sword – updated DX9 profile
- GRID 2 – updated DX11 profile
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 – updated profile
Gaming Technology
- Civilization 5 – added HBAO+;
SHIELD
- Enables GeForce to SHIELD streaming (Beta). Learn more here.
4K Displays
- Adds support for 4K Surround
Additional Details
- Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.0725.
- Installs HD Audio v1.3.26.4
- Installs GeForce Experience v8.3.23.1
- Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
- Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
- Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
- 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.
Hmm. Feeling somewhat lukewarm about this. The gains they claim to have made, while welcome, seem to focus more on older games.
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/331.58/331.58-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf Even skimming through this, I can’t find really anything else in the Frames Per Second department.
However, the HBAO+ for Civ V is good, and the Shield streaming is VERY good, so that’s exciting.
Eh. Stuck with a 6870 ATM so not like it matters to me much haha. Thanks for the article though.