NVIDIA GeForce 275.33 Driver (WHQL)

[Elganja]

http://www.nvidia.com/obj...75.33-whql-driver.html

This is the first WHQL-certified release from the Release 275 family of drivers (versions 275.xx to 279.xx). You can read more about this family of drivers on GeForce.com.
This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. This driver package also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.
New in Release 275.33
GPU Support

• Adds support for the newly released GeForce GTX 560 GPU.

Performance

• The Release 275 beta driver v275.27 can cause significant performance drop in The Witcher 2. This issue has been resolved in v275.33 drivers. Please read this FAQ for more information on this issue.
• Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. v270.61 WHQL drivers. The following are some examples of improvements measured on Windows 7. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

• GeForce GTX 580:
  • Up to 4% in Crysis 2
  • Up to 5% in Civilization V with SLI
  • Up to 9% in Portal 2
  • Up to 13% in Bulletstorm with Antialiasing enabled
  • Up to 15% in Batman: Arkham Asylum with PhysX High
  GeForce GTX 560:
  • Up to 6% in Crysis 2
  • Up to 8% in Portal 2
  • Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham Asylum with PhysX High
  • Up to 15% in Bulletstorm with Antialiasing enabled

• Increases gaming performance by up to 12% for dual-core CPUs in CPU-limited cases.

NVIDIA Update

• In Release 275, NVIDIA Update adds automatic SLI, multi-GPU, and antialiasing (AA) profile updates. These profile updates are automatically downloaded from NVIDIA and silently installed on your PC, keeping it up-to-the-minute with the latest game profiles. When you install a Release 270 or later GeForce driver from www.nvidia.com, you will be presented with the option to install NVIDIA Update. Click here to learn more about NVIDIA Update.

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.

NVIDIA 3D Vision

• With Release 275 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller driver is now included with all GPU driver installations. This driver package includes v275.33 3D Vision Controller driver. Users are no longer required to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver or CD driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article for more information.
• 3D Vision Window Mode support. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information.
• Added support for 3D Vision Photo viewer to now work in Window Mode. When you have opened a 3D picture file check the “View” section for this new option.
• Improved 3D Vision IR emitter and 3D Vision glasses synchronization
• Adds support for new 3D Vision projectors: NEC NP-V300X series
• Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
  • Age of Empires Online
  • Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
  • Battlefield Play4Free
  • Duke Nukem Forever
  • Dungeon Siege III
  • Super Street Fighter IV
  • World of Tanks
• Update the following 3D Vision game profiles
  • Portal 2 – fixed water reflection problem and updated convergence setting to provide a better user experience
  • The Witcher 2 – Improved 3D Vision compatibility for all in-game effects

Other

• Installs HD Audio driver version 1.2.23.3
• Installs PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514
• Supports playing back Blu-ray 3D discs when connecting your GPU to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV. Playback requires compatible software application from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Roxio, or Corel. For GPU and system requirements, visit the NVIDIA Blu-ray 3D website.
• Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
• Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
• Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here.
• Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Supports OpenGL 4.1 on GeForce 400 series and later GPUs.
• 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 X58-based motherboards.
• Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
• Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

 

[BFG10K]

Nice, I'll have to try them out soon. :thumbsup:

 

[Lightflash]

Nice, I'll have to try them out soon. :thumbsup:

As will I.

 

[Cerb]

Increases gaming performance by up to 12% for dual-core CPUs in CPU-limited cases.

Well, time to update my drivers, then.

 

[smartpatrol]

Great to hear about the new desktop resizing features!! I will give these drivers a shot later today

 

[notty22]

Another thank you and will have to install. I notice not many talking about it, Dirt 3. The game rocks. It seems to drive my gtx 460's sli more than any recent game. There is night, dusk, snow spraying, falling racing, in many new great race locations. Some in forests, citites. It is a AMD evolved game, but plays/feels very polished on my multi-gpu rig, which has not been the norm lately.

 

[BD231]

Wow, amazing gains in Shogun Total War 2 on the GTX 460, I'll have to test out some different titles.

 

[FalseChristian]

GLQuake just rocks with these new drivers! 1500 FPS!

 

[Rifter]

GLQuake just rocks with these new drivers! 1500 FPS!

LMAO, going to fire up doom next? lol

 

[Majic 7]

Anyone having trouble with whatever monitoring system they use. For some reason after the new drivers EVGA Precision shuts down when I sleep for extended periods. Didn't have this trouble with the 275 beta. It's set to start with Windows and it was staying on all the time before.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Thanks, OP for the heads up.

Any point in installing the Nvidia Update for my GTX460 if I am not doing SLI?

 

[Termie]

Will be interesting to test this out to see if the claimed improvement on dual-core CPUs is for real. I've never seen more than 90% GPU utilization on my GTX460, and it was usually around 75% even with what should have been "GPU-limited" settings. I figured that my e8400 just couldn't feed it enough data. But maybe it was a driver issue after all (took long enough for nVidia to address this, by the way).

 

[tviceman]

Will be interesting to test this out to see if the claimed improvement on dual-core CPUs is for real. I've never seen more than 90% GPU utilization on my GTX460, and it was usually around 75% even with what should have been "GPU-limited" settings. I figured that my e8400 just couldn't feed it enough data. But maybe it was a driver issue after all (took long enough for nVidia to address this, by the way).

I had an overclocked gtx465 on an e8400@ 4.05ghz. When I upgraded to i7-2600k, I got some pretty big jumps in some games that weren't supposed to be CPU-limited.

 

[Blue Shift]

If only they'd find a way to keep my 480 from "idling" at 700MHz with two monitors plugged in...

Edit: Sorry, that should be 405 MHz. It idles at 50MHz with one monitor.

 

[Elganja]

If only they'd find a way to keep my 480 from "idling" at 700MHz with two monitors plugged in...

mine idle's at 405 and has for a long time now

 

[aigomorla]

yeah my 550 does not idle at full speed when im not doing 3d on it.

And i thought they fixed that?

 

[Blue Shift]

yeah my 550 does not idle at full speed when im not doing 3d on it.

And i thought they fixed that?

So did I, until I bought one. They "fixed" it by changing the fan contour, so it no longer idles at very high temperatures, at the cost of increased noise.

Do you have two monitors plugged in?

 

[apoppin]

LMAO, going to fire up doom next? lol

i just did over the weekend.
:whiste:

i have recently evaluated over 70 games for a 3D Vision article coming up in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, 3D Vision no longer supports OpenGL (except with Quadro). The oldest game that i got working great in S3D was No One Lives Forever 2 (2002).


Anyway, i am evaluating 275.33 vs. 271.58 and the new drivers seem to have nice performance games in some of the 30 games i am benching now. i just added Civ V, Shogun II and DiRT3 to my benching suite.
-- unfortunately that means now i got to let a few old ones go
:'(

 

[dualsmp]

Anyone having trouble with whatever monitoring system they use. For some reason after the new drivers EVGA Precision shuts down when I sleep for extended periods. Didn't have this trouble with the 275 beta. It's set to start with Windows and it was staying on all the time before.

275.33 failed to install in two tries with my GTX 460. I even downloaded the file again just to make sure it wasn't corrupt. It looked like my speedfan was hanging (dialog box when minimized would leave the title bar behind). The 266.58 installed without problem though and I'm up and running. There seems to be something wrong with the 275.33 drivers if using monitoring software. Maybe if I update speedfan it might help, but not sure.

 

[nvidiaintelftw]

how are these drivers for everyone. Im thinking about getting them. this 270.61 drivers cause really low minimum FPS in a lot of my games. especially Metro 2033

 

[apoppin]

how are these drivers for everyone. Im thinking about getting them. this 270.61 drivers cause really low minimum FPS in a lot of my games. especially Metro 2033

Great. However, there is not a lot of improvement in Metro 2033

If you want higher minimums, try overclocking your CPU
- driver sets only usually make dramatic FPS improvements in newer games.

 

[nvidiaintelftw]

Great. However, there is not a lot of improvement in Metro 2033

If you want higher minimums, try overclocking your CPU
- driver sets only usually make dramatic FPS improvements in newer games.

I will be overclocking my CPU to 4.2GHZ when i get my new G. Skill pi ram and finish with my cooling project

 

[Mezzanine]

Awesome driver for Dirt 3 but i'm getting white screen crashes in Bad Company 2....back to 266.58 I go...

 

[BD231]

GLQuake just rocks with these new drivers! 1500 FPS!

nVidia drivers suck on new titles until updated, lame comparison on your part :thumbsdown:.

 

[tweakboy]

This is a flawless WHQL , tight drivers.

Also just run it, no need to uninstall anything.. gl