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nVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Windows 301.42

4.2 (1640 votes)

(May 22, 2012)

Windows 7/8/Vista/XP / Freeware / 577,609 downloads

WHQL-certified release that supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.

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NVIDIA Corp.
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nVIDIA GeForce Drivers
Latest Changes
- New GPU Support:

- GeForce GTX 690

- GeForce GTX 680

- GeForce GTX 670

- GeForce GT 600-series GPUs

- Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 296.10 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

- GeForce GTX 570/580:

- Up to 23% in Just Cause 2 with SLI

- Up to 21% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

- Up to 17% in StarCraft II with SLI

- Up to 14% in Far Cry 2 with SLI

- Up to 9% in Bulletstorm

- Up to 7% in Civilization V

- Up to 6% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution with SLI

- Up to 6% in Dragon Age 2 with SLI

- Up to 5% in Metro 2033 with SLI

- Up to 5% in Total War: Shogun 2

- GeForce GTX 560/560 Ti:

- Up to 20% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

- Up to 15% in Just Cause 2 with SLI

- Up to 13% in Far Cry 2 with SLI

- Up to 12% in Bulletstorm

- Up to 11% in Civilization V

- Up to 10% in StarCraft II with SLI

- Up to 9% in Batman: Arkham City

- Up to 4% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution with SLI

- Up to 4% in Dragon Age 2 with SLI

- Up to 4% in Metro 2033 with SLI

- Up to 4% in Total War: Shogun 2

- NVIDIA FXAA Technology – shader-based anti-aliasing technology available from the NVIDIA Control Panel that enables ultra-fast anti-aliasing in hundreds of PC games. FXAA delivers similar quality to 4x multi-sample antialiasing (MSAA) but is up to 60% fas

- NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync – dynamically enables vertical sync based on your current frame rates for the smoothest gaming experience. Adaptive VSync is supported on all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Visit GeForce.com to learn more

- NVIDIA Frame Rate Target – dynamically adjusts frame rate to a user specified target. Support for this feature is enabled via third party applications via NVAPI. Visit GeForce.com to learn more

- NVIDIA Surround Technology – Adds the following new Surround capabilities.Visit GeForce.com to learn more

- Add in a fourth accessory display with GeForce GTX 600-series to get access to your email, web, or other applications while you game

- Maximize an application to a single physical display when in Surround mode (enabled by default)

- Confine the Windows Taskbar to the center display (enabled by default)

- Enable bezel peeking – a feature which enables users to temporarily peek behind the monitor bezels using a hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + B). This feature is designed to be used in conjunction with bezel corrected resolutions

- Add or remove resolutions from the list of Surround resolutions (only those selected will be available to applications)

- Full center display acceleration for single wide display modes (center display must be connected to the master GPU)

- NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:

- Alan Wake

- Call of Juarez: The Cartel

- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

- Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link

- Left 4 Dead

- Orcs Must Die

- Portal 2

- Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

- Risen 2: Dark Waters

- The Darkness II

- Battlefield: Bad Company 2

- Crusader Kings II

- Max Payne 3

- Sniper Elite V2

- Street Fighter X Tekken

- NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:

- All Zombies Must Die! – rated Fair

- Ghosts 'n Goblins Online – rated Good

- Oil Rush – rated 3D Vision Ready

- Postal III – rated Good

- Rayman Origins – rated Good

- SevenCore – rated Fair

- Stacking – rated Good

- Unigine Heaven Benchmark v3.0 – rated 3D Vision Ready

- Wargame: European Escalation – rated Good

- Warp – rated Good

- Wings of Prey – rated Fair

- Krater – rated Poor

- Adam's Venture Episode 1- rated Poor

- Blacklight: Retribution – rated Poor

- The Darkness II – updated in-game recommended settings

- Depth Hunter – updated profile

- Dirt: Showdown – rated Good

- Passion Leads Army Benchmark – rated 3D Vision Ready

- Resident Evil: Operating Raccoon City – Rated Fair

- RFactor 2 – changed rating to 3D Vision Ready

- Trackmania 2: Canyon – rated Fair

- Unigine 3.0 Heaven Benchmark – updated profile

- World of Tanks – changed rating to Excellent

- Other Details

- Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0213

- Installs HD Audio v1.3.16.0

- Supports OpenGL 4.2

- Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600-series

- Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP

- 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 and AMD motherboards
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Reviews of nVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Windows

DudeBoyz
Reviewing 295.73 (Feb 26, 2012)

Dag Nabbit. Still introducing problems where none previously existed on my Windows 7 Pro 64 bit system.

266.58 is still the most stable for me.

295.73 seems broken in at least 2 ways right off the bat for me. One, having initialization trouble with DX10/11 mode in some games (Civ 5 for example) and two, sometimes support for Aero seems to "flicker" on and off. I'll be playing a game or doing web surfing, watching videos on YouTube and bam, it'll toggle OUT of Aero mode to Classic, meaning no transparency effects and such on the desktop. Then it might pop back IN to Aero mode - and I can discern no pattern.

So for now my 3 Gigabyte GTX-580 is sticking with 266.58.
AlphaBetaGamma
Reviewing 295.73 (Feb 23, 2012)

I use my Nvidia cards mainly for Folding@home, and the 295 series causes crashes on my GT 240 and GTX 560 Ti (Win7 64-bit). So I have gone back to 290.53 beta, which works fine for my needs.
sweathog
Reviewing 285.79 Beta (Dec 9, 2011)

Thanks Dude Boyz for saving me a lot of hassle. I'm using 266.58 with no problems. For that same reason, as well as smaller file size, I'm using the December ?25, ?2009 version of the Realtek audio driver. (Sorry, don't have version number because I repacked the installer.
DudeBoyz
Reviewing 285.79 Beta (Nov 20, 2011)

I have been testing these drivers on a variety of chipsets under Windows 7 64 bit. Two mobile (425m and 580m) and two desktop (460 and 580) and have found that the 266.58 drivers simply work the most reliably.

Every version past that, even with the new MSI 3 Gigabyte GTX 580 that I had saved up for and finally gotten, seems to have stability issues.

285.62 WHQL and 285.79 Beta in particular have introduced some crashes in games not previously having problems.

They do have some interface improvements, such as for the scaling options, which are nice, so I have given it a 2 instead of a 1, but sadly, the drivers still do not seem to be able to force 1:1 scaling in all modes on all monitors. On a SyncMaster 305t, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x720, 1280x768 and 1280x800 resolutions all stretch full screen regardless of the setting in the driver. Thankfully, 1920x1080 does not, so the game plays / looks normal when playing and recording for YouTube upload with Fraps. 1280x720 looks pretty pixelated when stretched all the way to edges of a 30 inch LCD.

My recommendation is to stick with 266.58 unless you have a specific need to go higher (newer, unsupported card for example).

Hope that helps someone out there. :)
anomoly
Reviewing 285.38 Beta (Sep 27, 2011)

http://www.station-drive...pic.php?f=32&t=3307
In the code box it has 32 and 64 as well as the 7 & vista links separate.

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Jun 18, 2010 - 9:48 PM
Joe_Loftie
257.21, lowered my performance on win7 x64....so went back to 197.45.

Nvidia suprised me by releasing this!

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