He did not actually say if official or beta in thread.
Me personally the drivers have been terrible from Nvidia the last 3 months or so. For each release they introduce more problems, be in graphical, missing features, etc. Just a random example here is the last 3 driver releases under Heaven benchmark. They seem to get WORSE over time.
1st driver..the CPU is my "older" quad core..is only difference between the 3.
eaven Benchmark v2.5 Basic
FPS:
58.9
Scores:
1484
Min FPS:
30.9
Max FPS:
125.5
Hardware
Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
CPU flags:
2833MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 HTT
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 8.17.12.8026 1536Mb
Settings
Render:
direct3d11
2nd driver beta for Bf3..
FPS:
49.8
Scores:
1255
Min FPS:
30.2
Max FPS:
112.7
Hardware
Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU flags:
3411MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 8.17.12.8579 1536Mb
Settings
Render:
direct3d11
3rd beta driver for BF3. Had to uninstall because terrible bugs in bf3 and graphics issues with text.
FPS:
50.4
Scores:
1270
Min FPS:
28.6
Max FPS:
114.7
Hardware
Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU flags:
3411MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 8.17.12.9036 1536Mb
Settings
Render:
direct3d11