Official 310.70 drivers.

[ShintaiDK]

http://www.geforce.com/drivers

GeForce R310 Drivers:

• Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 306.97 WHQL drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

• 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

 

[BFG10K]

These drivers have broken PhysX. Jericho crashes on startup and Medal of Honor Airborne fails to launch, complaining that PhysX isn’t installed. Rolling back to a previous PhysX fixes things.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Are you a one off, or are more having this issue?

What GPU?

 

[notty22]

I tried Mafia II with physx and no problems, in short duration testing.

 

[Eureka]

Any improvements for Fermi chips?

 

[FalseChristian]

I've already installed the beta 310.70s. So I really need to install these WHQL 310.70s?

 

[cmdrdredd]

I've already installed the beta 310.70s. So I really need to install these WHQL 310.70s?

I installed them anyway.

Also, physx works fine.

 

[daveybrat]

I've been using the beta drivers of these and they've definitely improved my gameplay in Black Ops 2. Will probably install these official ones though just to be safe.

 

[blackened23]

These drivers have broken PhysX. Jericho crashes on startup and Medal of Honor Airborne fails to launch, complaining that PhysX isn’t installed. Rolling back to a previous PhysX fixes things.

I don't play those particular games but I haven't noticed any hiccups with Batman: AC (which I play with phsyx) or borderlands 2. Did you try a clean install?

As for black ops 2, I get 150 fps now instead of 145. Yay I guess.

 

[chimaxi83]

Loaded up BL2 on my sons machine (680), no PhysX issues in about 5 minutes of running around that I saw. Might load up FC3 to see what that 38% is all about.

 

[nforce4max]

These drivers have broken PhysX. Jericho crashes on startup and Medal of Honor Airborne fails to launch, complaining that PhysX isn’t installed. Rolling back to a previous PhysX fixes things.

Uninstall the physx drivers but leave the graphics drivers alone and manually an older version of physx. Then it will work just fine, ended up doing this because one version bricked every sort of dedicated physx.

 

[stahlhart]

Non-Steam version 1.3 of Medal of Honor Airborne launches and runs fine here. Also checked Cryostasis, Mafia II and Metro 2033; no issues.

 

[PowerK]

These drivers have broken PhysX. Jericho crashes on startup and Medal of Honor Airborne fails to launch, complaining that PhysX isn’t installed. Rolling back to a previous PhysX fixes things.

PhysX works fine here.
Mafia II, Batman Arkham City and Borderlands 2 run fine with 310.70 WHQL.

 

[BFG10K]

Are you a one off, or are more having this issue?

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I can consistently cause those two games to fail if I try using the PhysX package in these drivers. The previous PhysX package works fine.

What GPU?

GTX680, configured for software PhysX.

 

[Red Hawk]

Seems you have one of those weird hardware/software malfunctions that only happens for you BFG10K. :\

 

[cmdrdredd]

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I can consistently cause those two games to fail if I try using the PhysX package in these drivers. The previous PhysX package works fine.


GTX680, configured for software PhysX.

By software physx you mean you are running it off the CPU? What happens when you specify the GPU?

 

[BFG10K]

By software physx you mean you are running it off the CPU? What happens when you specify the GPU?

GPU PhysX has the same problem.

 

[cmdrdredd]

GPU PhysX has the same problem.

I have ran bl2, fluid mark, batman, and none of them have any physx issues.


So is it isolated to those specific games? There must be something changed that affects those titles.

 

[BFG10K]

So is it isolated to those specific games? There must be something changed that affects those titles.

Yep.

 

[3DVagabond]

OCaholic's 310.70 performance review.

 

[BFG10K]

I contacted nVidia and they confirmed the PhysX issue.

In case anyone else has the same problem, here's their response:

I discussed this issue with some of our developers and looks like this is expected. Those titles use SDKs that never supported GPU accelerated PhysX. Consequently they are no longer included in the PhysX System Software that is included with the Public combined GPU driver. Users that want to run these games will need to install the Nvidia PhysX Legacy System Software on top of the 310.70 driver. You can download the NVIDIA PhysX Legacy System Software here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.12.1031-legacy-driver.html. Again, this needs to be installed on top of the 310.70 combine driver package. This should allow backward compatibly with these older titles and current titles.