Actually, it looks from the release notes that the only performance change in 310.70 is in Far Cry 3. That being said, there are numerous bugs fixed over 310.64, including a BF3 multiplayer crash that I have experienced numerous times since installing 310.64, so this is a worthwhile update for more than just Far Cry 3.
Oh wow... that's great news. I thought it might be more than coincidence that bug occurred around the time of the update. The drivers had been working so nicely I guess I didn't want to believe it was their fault. I'll be updating to these as soon as I get home.
I downloaded and installed this for Farcry 3 and GTX590. I have 3 1920x1080 screens for a total of 5760x1080 widescreen format. While the widescreen modes work fine in F3, the game is to taxing even with 590 at that resolution in very high and ultra modes. There is also a bug where if you switch from widescreen to single monitor the FOV stays stuck at widescreen and your view becomes a very compressed version of a wide angle on a single screen. If you switch the FOV or stop/start the game or change resolutions doesn't fix it. It always seems new games no matter how new and modern screw the widescreen gamers. I blame the whole console mentality that games are developed for the lowest common denominator but the industry is always pushing for multiple monitors and widescreen gaming even in 3D but the game developers don't or can't seem to make it happen.
Wait a minute, let's give credit where credit is due, to utterly shame amd and their pathetic driver releases:
GeForce GTX 680: Up to 38% in Far Cry 3 Up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Up to 16% in Battlefield 3 Up to 18% in Assassin's Creed III Up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Up to 6% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter Up to 6% in StarCraft II Up to 6% in Dragon Age II Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
GeForce GTX 660: Up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Up to 10% in Battlefield 3 Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Up to 6% in Far Cry 3 Up to 5% in Dragon Age II Up to 5% in Assassin's Creed III Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City Up to 4% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Other Profile Updates Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Counter-strike: Global Offensive Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Cross Fire Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Darksides 2 Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Dragon Nest Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Guild Wars 2 Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Mechwarrrior Online Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Meng San Guo
LOL - I hate shading in games ( amd fanboy emulation), and PhysX too
NVIDIA SSAA Added negative LOD adjustments for NVIDIA’s full-screen sparse grid supersampling mode to improve image sharpness.
( don't expect a comparison to amd crap with SSAA )
Oh look they tell the truth on their 3D, not claiming it's all wonderful, but BEING HELPFUL TO THEIR FANS
NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles: 007 Legends - rated Fair Assassin's Creed III - rated Not Recommended Bloody Good Time - rated Good Bullet Run - rated Fair Bunch of Heroes - rated Good CABAL2 - rated Good Call of Duty Black Ops 2 - rated Good Carrier Command: Gaea Mission - rated 3D Vision Ready Dark Souls - rated Fair Dishonored - rated Fair Euro Truck Simulator 2 - rated Excellent FIFA 13 - rated Good Hawken - rated 3D Vision Ready Hitman: Absolution - rated Fair I Am Alive - rated Fair Lucius - rated Fair Mabinogi Heroes - rated Fair Medal of Honor: Warfighter - rated Fair Metro: Last Light - rated Good MLB 2K12 - rated Fair NBA 2K12 - rated Good NBA 2K13 - rated Good Need for Speed: Most Wanted - rated Fair Of Orcs and Men - rated Fair Painkiller: Hell & Damnation - rated Fair Planetside 2 - rated Not Recommended Prepar3D - rated Good Sniper Elite V2 - rated Poor Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - rated Poor The Amazing Spider-Man - rated Not Recommended Tiny Troopers - rated Fair Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD - rated Good Total War Battles: SHOGUN - rated Good Unmechanical - rated Good War of the Roses rated Fair World Rally Championship 3 rated Good XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair
THANK YOU FOR BEING THE HONEST GAMING CARD COMPANY NVIDIA, unlike your nearing bankruptcy fanboy rage competition, who sucks at 3D.
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is what, nearly four years old now? I at one point tried using it as a game for benchmarking, but eventually dropped it. Also, it's OpenGL accelerated so I could see how optimizations might still be forthcoming. Crazy!
Wish they would fix audio over HDMI. My computer plugs into my receiver which plugs into the TV, sometimes when turning off the receiver and TV the computer decides it can't output audio through HDMI anymore
Going into the control panel and disabling audio over HDMI and then re-enabling it usually fixes it but is really annoying to do since the computer just runs Media Center to watch recorded TV
Actually, my HD7850 has this same exact problem in my HTPC. Just switched over to a GTX660 in hopes that the issue would go away because it annoyed me so much. So far the issue has not come back, but I have only had the 660 for a couple days.
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Termie - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - link
Actually, it looks from the release notes that the only performance change in 310.70 is in Far Cry 3. That being said, there are numerous bugs fixed over 310.64, including a BF3 multiplayer crash that I have experienced numerous times since installing 310.64, so this is a worthwhile update for more than just Far Cry 3.Sufo - Monday, December 10, 2012 - link
Oh wow... that's great news. I thought it might be more than coincidence that bug occurred around the time of the update. The drivers had been working so nicely I guess I didn't want to believe it was their fault. I'll be updating to these as soon as I get home.aguilpa1 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - link
I downloaded and installed this for Farcry 3 and GTX590. I have 3 1920x1080 screens for a total of 5760x1080 widescreen format. While the widescreen modes work fine in F3, the game is to taxing even with 590 at that resolution in very high and ultra modes. There is also a bug where if you switch from widescreen to single monitor the FOV stays stuck at widescreen and your view becomes a very compressed version of a wide angle on a single screen. If you switch the FOV or stop/start the game or change resolutions doesn't fix it. It always seems new games no matter how new and modern screw the widescreen gamers. I blame the whole console mentality that games are developed for the lowest common denominator but the industry is always pushing for multiple monitors and widescreen gaming even in 3D but the game developers don't or can't seem to make it happen.CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - link
Wait a minute, let's give credit where credit is due, to utterly shame amd and their pathetic driver releases:GeForce GTX 680:
Up to 38% in Far Cry 3
Up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Up to 16% in Battlefield 3
Up to 18% in Assassin's Creed III
Up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Up to 6% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Up to 6% in StarCraft II
Up to 6% in Dragon Age II
Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
GeForce GTX 660:
Up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Up to 10% in Battlefield 3
Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Up to 6% in Far Cry 3
Up to 5% in Dragon Age II
Up to 5% in Assassin's Creed III
Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 4% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Other Profile Updates
Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Counter-strike: Global Offensive
Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Cross Fire
Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Darksides 2
Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Dragon Nest
Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Guild Wars 2
Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Mechwarrrior Online
Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Meng San Guo
LOL -
I hate shading in games ( amd fanboy emulation), and PhysX too
NVIDIA SSAA
Added negative LOD adjustments for NVIDIA’s full-screen sparse grid supersampling mode to improve image sharpness.
( don't expect a comparison to amd crap with SSAA )
Oh look they tell the truth on their 3D, not claiming it's all wonderful, but BEING HELPFUL TO THEIR FANS
NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
007 Legends - rated Fair
Assassin's Creed III - rated Not Recommended
Bloody Good Time - rated Good
Bullet Run - rated Fair
Bunch of Heroes - rated Good
CABAL2 - rated Good
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 - rated Good
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission - rated 3D Vision Ready
Dark Souls - rated Fair
Dishonored - rated Fair
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - rated Excellent
FIFA 13 - rated Good
Hawken - rated 3D Vision Ready
Hitman: Absolution - rated Fair
I Am Alive - rated Fair
Lucius - rated Fair
Mabinogi Heroes - rated Fair
Medal of Honor: Warfighter - rated Fair
Metro: Last Light - rated Good
MLB 2K12 - rated Fair
NBA 2K12 - rated Good
NBA 2K13 - rated Good
Need for Speed: Most Wanted - rated Fair
Of Orcs and Men - rated Fair
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation - rated Fair
Planetside 2 - rated Not Recommended
Prepar3D - rated Good
Sniper Elite V2 - rated Poor
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - rated Poor
The Amazing Spider-Man - rated Not Recommended
Tiny Troopers - rated Fair
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD - rated Good
Total War Battles: SHOGUN - rated Good
Unmechanical - rated Good
War of the Roses rated Fair
World Rally Championship 3 rated Good
XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair
THANK YOU FOR BEING THE HONEST GAMING CARD COMPANY NVIDIA, unlike your nearing bankruptcy fanboy rage competition, who sucks at 3D.
JarredWalton - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - link
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is what, nearly four years old now? I at one point tried using it as a game for benchmarking, but eventually dropped it. Also, it's OpenGL accelerated so I could see how optimizations might still be forthcoming. Crazy!enki - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - link
Wish they would fix audio over HDMI. My computer plugs into my receiver which plugs into the TV, sometimes when turning off the receiver and TV the computer decides it can't output audio through HDMI anymoreMarlin1975 - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - link
Yea my GTX460 also does the same thing sometimes that requires a re-boot to fix.enki - Thursday, December 6, 2012 - link
Going into the control panel and disabling audio over HDMI and then re-enabling it usually fixes it but is really annoying to do since the computer just runs Media Center to watch recorded TVJhatfie - Friday, December 7, 2012 - link
Actually, my HD7850 has this same exact problem in my HTPC. Just switched over to a GTX660 in hopes that the issue would go away because it annoyed me so much. So far the issue has not come back, but I have only had the 660 for a couple days.