New Beta-GeForce Driver v275.27

[notty22]

These boost performance in Witcher 2, it looks great and there are some real system killer settings.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-275.27-beta-driver.html

 

[Anarchist420]

Desktop Scaling

• New NVIDIA Control Panel user interface for configuring desktop scaling, including new preview window.
• Now consistently available for all displays (including VGA and HDMI connections).
• New scaling override option for Windows 7 gaming.
• Improved desktop resizing user interface that guides the user to disable overscanning using their HDTV controls and also provides a fallback option to enable desktop resizing via the NVIDIA Control panel.
• NVIDIA desktop resizing now creates a custom, resized resolution with 1:1 pixel mapping and resizes standard resolutions for games that don’t support custom resolutions.

Hooray

 

[videopho]

The desktop scaling was a huge issue from 270.61.
Can't wait to try this, just about time.

 

[notty22]

Some control panel screens of that.

 

[Grooveriding]

SLI scaling is non-existent in The Witcher 2 with these drivers. Showing 30-40% GPU usage across all cores.

Looks like it's time for a thread to get some working drivers out, or we'll be waiting forever, it's another Dragon Age 2 all over again.

Bad drivers.

 

[notty22]

SLI scaling is non-existent in The Witcher 2 with these drivers. Showing 30-40% GPU usage across all cores.

Looks like it's time for a thread to get some working drivers out, or we'll be waiting forever, it's another Dragon Age 2 all over again.

Bad drivers.

How surprising others are reporting different.
275.27 drivers (Massive boost in Witcher 2!)

 

[Grooveriding]

How surprising others are reporting different.
275.27 drivers (Massive boost in Witcher 2!)

Try to read my post again. SLI scaling is non-existent.

 

[notty22]

Try to read my post again. SLI scaling is non-existent.

I have the game and I have SLI, and thats not what I'm experiencing.
The first % is gpu load, the second is fan speeds.

edit: And there was a large improvement with the beta driver. With the whql driver I tried making a profile and forcing afr2 , which this game is using and that did not help much.

edit: I'll add, playing around with the graphic options is always fun, but this game seems to react opposite most. Turning up quality settings lowers fps, thats not abnormal, but my gpu usage decreases. Usually you find a sweet spot, where you get more IQ, your gpu % gets near maxed.
Unless my sweet spot is 'just' medium at least for now.

 

[Ichinisan]

Desktop Scaling
New NVIDIA Control Panel user interface for configuring desktop scaling, including new preview window.
Now consistently available for all displays (including VGA and HDMI connections).
New scaling override option for Windows 7 gaming.
Improved desktop resizing user interface that guides the user to disable overscanning using their HDTV controls and also provides a fallback option to enable desktop resizing via the NVIDIA Control panel.
NVIDIA desktop resizing now creates a custom, resized resolution with 1:1 pixel mapping and resizes standard resolutions for games that don’t support custom resoluti

Hooray

The desktop scaling was a huge issue from 270.61.
Can't wait to try this, just about time.

Wow. I was just coming to make a thread about this after seething about NVIDIA scaling problems for YEARS.

I just submitted my problem to NVIDIA, and now I see it's supposedly fixed. I guess I better test and delete my submission if it has already been resolved.

Strange coincidence that they'd resolve it just now. Almost every case where I've needed proper scaling in the last 7 years, the NVIDIA scaling options have failed me.

Usually, it only worked with specific modes and specific native resolutions. Even the quality monitors I've had, like (Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW and 2007WFP) had scaling controls that ignored certain modes, and the NVIDIA scaling consistently failed to compensate. Now I have a Hanns-G 1920x1200 display that ignores its own scaling options and stretches 1920x1080 to 1920x1200. When I set 1920x1080 on my system, NVIDIA Control Panel loses all scaling options. My brother's 24" Acer does the same thing.

I'll check again tonight!

 

[Avalon]

Sorry to go a bit OT, but how is Witcher 2 btw?

 

[SirPauly]

Just desired to add there is a new FXAA setting for OpenGL titles at this time:


http://alienbabeltech.com/abt/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22971&start=10#p50282

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1336589397&postcount=64

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1336590370&postcount=69

 

[AdamK47]

I'm liking the 1:1 scaling with custom resolutions. I can set an older game that doesn't support widescreen to 1440x1080 and get perfect 1:1 pixel mapping with black borders on the side.

 

[tviceman]

SLI scaling is non-existent in The Witcher 2 with these drivers. Showing 30-40% GPU usage across all cores.

Looks like it's time for a thread to get some working drivers out, or we'll be waiting forever, it's another Dragon Age 2 all over again.

Bad drivers.

In the meantime, go ahead and completely play through the game so you can complain about how bad it performed and didn't scale well with SLI instead of being patient like anyone with uber high end hardware should expect since you're the .02% of the customer base Nvidia and AMD caters to. And by waiting forever, do you mean 2 and a half weeks? That's about how long it took to fix the Dragon Age 2 performance issues.

 

[imaheadcase]

Who uses drivers for scaling anyways.. always use monitors built in scaling.

 

[tviceman]

SLI scaling is non-existent in The Witcher 2 with these drivers. Showing 30-40% GPU usage across all cores.

Looks like it's time for a thread to get some working drivers out, or we'll be waiting forever, it's another Dragon Age 2 all over again.

Bad drivers.

Please get AMD cards soon so you can no longer have reasons to complain about your rig everytime a new Nvidia thread pops up.

 

[Madcatatlas]

In the meantime, go ahead and completely play through the game so you can complain about how bad it performed and didn't scale well with SLI instead of being patient like anyone with uber high end hardware should expect since you're the .02% of the customer base Nvidia and AMD caters to. And by waiting forever, do you mean 2 and a half weeks? That's about how long it took to fix the Dragon Age 2 performance issues.

Please get AMD cards soon so you can no longer have reasons to complain about your rig everytime a new Nvidia thread pops up.

Did he strike a nerve or something for you to reply twice to his one post?

Calm down. Everyone is entitled to sigh once in a while about problems they encounter

By notty22:
These boost performance in Witcher 2, it looks great and there are some real system killer settings.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-wi...ta-driver.html

i admit i belived you meant system killer in the literal sense...

Im impressed by Nvidias timely patching, honestly!. Lets see how long it takes AMD to make their Crossfire profile ready for this game.

 

[CitanUzuki]

And why should those who pay all that money for "uber high end hardware" have to wait? Lets not forget that this is a TWIMTB title as well. With ubersampling sli seems to do nothing.

 

[aigomorla]

And why should those who pay all that money for "uber high end hardware" have to wait? Lets not forget that this is a TWIMTB title as well. With ubersampling sli seems to do nothing.

ummm.. no because u can afford the higher tier hardware, you tend to wait to utilize it to its fullest.

It makes no sense optimizing a game for the highest spec tier first and then rolling down.

Also u pay for that high end hardware because u can do more with it.
Like multi spam'd displays... 3d gaming on stereo.

And unfortunately all those require time, because they fit in a catigory which as someone said only applies to the 0.2% of the gamers out there.

Please get AMD cards soon so you can no longer have reasons to complain about your rig everytime a new Nvidia thread pops up.

not going to step this thread into a brand favoratism.. however..

ALL VENDORS HAVE THEIR BLACKHOLE.

Nvidia / ATI / Intel / AMD / Apple.

U think ur avoiding 1 hole.. only to find yourself close to another.

 

[tviceman]

Did he strike a nerve or something for you to reply twice to his one post?

Calm down. Everyone is entitled to sigh once in a while about problems they encounter

ummm.. no because u can afford the higher tier hardware, you tend to wait to utilize it to its fullest.

It makes no sense optimizing a game for the highest spec tier first and then rolling down.

Also u pay for that high end hardware because u can do more with it.
Like multi spam'd displays... 3d gaming on stereo.

And unfortunately all those require time, because they fit in a catigory which as someone said only applies to the 0.2% of the gamers out there.



not going to step this thread into a brand favoratism.. however..

ALL VENDORS HAVE THEIR BLACKHOLE.

Nvidia / ATI / Intel / AMD / Apple.

U think ur avoiding 1 hole.. only to find yourself close to another.

Yes, he did strike a nerve with me. Look at his post history. He's an unproud owner of SLI'd gtx480's. But he didn't buy them both at the same time; he bought them about six months a part. And he complained about his single gtx480 ALL THE TIME before purchasing the second one. Whenever there is a "look new drivers/ something good" thread about Nvidia he jumps in and complains about something wrong with either his rig or Nvidia in general. And also look at all the threads he has started. Notice how many are slanted negative toward Nvidia, and how few (if any) are slanted negative toward AMD/ATI.

He complains ALL THE TIME about his rig and Nvidia, even in threads such as "new drivers, game X increased performance by Y%" yet he continues to own and even purchase new Nvidia stuff. He also praises AMD/ATI products constantly, yet does not buy any of them. Grooveriding is like the ultimate paradox-fairweather hardware enthusiast.

 

[Grooveriding]

Yes, he did strike a nerve with me. Look at his post history. He's an unproud owner of SLI'd gtx480's. But he didn't buy them both at the same time; he bought them about six months a part. And he complained about his single gtx480 ALL THE TIME before purchasing the second one. Whenever there is a "look new drivers/ something good" thread about Nvidia he jumps in and complains about something wrong with either his rig or Nvidia in general. And also look at all the threads he has started. Notice how many are slanted negative toward Nvidia, and how few (if any) are slanted negative toward AMD/ATI.

He complains ALL THE TIME about his rig and Nvidia, even in threads such as "new drivers, game X increased performance by Y%" yet he continues to own and even purchase new Nvidia stuff. He also praises AMD/ATI products constantly, yet does not buy any of them. Grooveriding is like the ultimate paradox-fairweather hardware enthusiast.

Wow. You mad ?

I bought my first two 480s together, then bought a third down the line. So your stalking of my hardware purchases is a bit off.

It's unfortunate you get so worked up about posters who don't lavish nvidia with constant praise.

I'm satisfied with the performance of my rig, it's just unfortunate and unsatisfying with the poor state of nvidia's drivers these days. AMD definitely has the leg up on them with drivers lately.

Nvidia releasing drivers that kill cards, taking over a month to fix DA2 and now The Witcher 2 - which still has no proper SLI scaling fix, flashing artifacts when using AA in certain titles that use SSAO/HBAO, load voltage and load memory speeds being used with multi-monitor configs resulting in high temps at idle, needing two cards to run three monitor gaming etc.

Nvidia's drivers have been piss poor as of late.

 

[tviceman]

I'm satisfied with the performance of my rig, it's just unfortunate and unsatisfying with the poor state of nvidia's drivers these days. AMD definitely has the leg up on them with drivers lately.

Nvidia releasing drivers that kill cards, taking over a month to fix DA2 and now The Witcher 2 - which still has no proper SLI scaling fix, flashing artifacts when using AA in certain titles that use SSAO/HBAO, load voltage and load memory speeds being used with multi-monitor configs resulting in high temps at idle, needing two cards to run three monitor gaming etc.

Nvidia's drivers have been piss poor as of late.

Speaking of piss poor driver releases, I just tested this new driver with Batman AA, since the driver specifically stated big improvements for this game.

With my i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz, and gtx560 ti @ 975mhz, my minimum frame rate in Batman AA's benchmark went up from 35 fps to 48 fps. (4x AA, All settings on or maxed, physx on High)

Note to Nvidia, please keep releasing piss poor drivers like this. Getting a 37% minimum frame rate is really, really impressive for being piss poor.

 

[digitaldurandal]

Yes, he did strike a nerve with me. Look at his post history. He's an unproud owner of SLI'd gtx480's. But he didn't buy them both at the same time; he bought them about six months a part. And he complained about his single gtx480 ALL THE TIME before purchasing the second one. Whenever there is a "look new drivers/ something good" thread about Nvidia he jumps in and complains about something wrong with either his rig or Nvidia in general. And also look at all the threads he has started. Notice how many are slanted negative toward Nvidia, and how few (if any) are slanted negative toward AMD/ATI.

He complains ALL THE TIME about his rig and Nvidia, even in threads such as "new drivers, game X increased performance by Y%" yet he continues to own and even purchase new Nvidia stuff. He also praises AMD/ATI products constantly, yet does not buy any of them. Grooveriding is like the ultimate paradox-fairweather hardware enthusiast.

I 100% agree with tviceman. His post history doesn't make sense. He actually enters every Nvidia thread and complains. Sometimes to the point that it doesn't match up with other people's experiences. IE in Mafia 2, I posted that I was running the game in surround with 4x8x (2x570) and my frames were good but he posted that with 3x480 he couldn't run the same settings as I can. Which is baffling because I never had any drop in performance.

There are things to complain about regarding Nvidia - but it doesn't make sense for someone to purchase more of the same card after already acknowledging that it didn't meet their expectations. Also if I was unhappy with my graphics card to the point of flaming them in every thread possible, I would post my cards on FSFT and purchase a competitor's card.

I don't think this is one of them (things to complain about). The only setting that is not really usable at the moment is ubersampling and it gives a huge hit to AMD cards as well.

 

[digitaldurandal]

Wow. You mad ?

I bought my first two 480s together, then bought a third down the line. So your stalking of my hardware purchases is a bit off.

It's unfortunate you get so worked up about posters who don't lavish nvidia with constant praise.

I'm satisfied with the performance of my rig, it's just unfortunate and unsatisfying with the poor state of nvidia's drivers these days. AMD definitely has the leg up on them with drivers lately.

Nvidia releasing drivers that kill cards, taking over a month to fix DA2 and now The Witcher 2 - which still has no proper SLI scaling fix, flashing artifacts when using AA in certain titles that use SSAO/HBAO, load voltage and load memory speeds being used with multi-monitor configs resulting in high temps at idle, needing two cards to run three monitor gaming etc.

Nvidia's drivers have been piss poor as of late.

But the thing is do you have to make every thread about that. Everyone here already knows your opinion. Since it is constantly in your posts. Our question is, why don't you just switch to the competition?

 

[Grooveriding]

But the thing is do you have to make every thread about that. Everyone here already knows your opinion. Since it is constantly in your posts. Our question is, why don't you just switch to the competition?

I guess that is the distinction between some owners and others. I can see the flaws in hardware yet continue to use it. There is a far cry between completely broken and just bad drivers.

As per your other comments about your surround `performance` I distinctly remember the discussion being related to lack of memory on the 570s for demanding games. You denied it, I posted benchmarks proving it, you left. As far as Mafia 2, that was likely a discussion of the huge performance high physx brings to that game, don't clearly remember that.

Again, some buy video cards and become zealots about their vendor of choice. Others can make a purchase and still see its flaws. My 5870 cf performance was poor due to lack of vram I switched to 480s. Surely I would rather have 3 6970s or 3 unlocked 6950s, but the cost incurred would not be worth it because performance would be the same. I'll just wait on the 7970s in the fall to upgrade and get better drivers and more performance at once.

 

[Firestorm007]

Nice set of drivers! So far, so good on my single 580. Also, let's stop with the personal attacks guys. It's not necessary. Just stick to complementing the drivers, not Groove's personal opinions or his hardware likes and dislikes.