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SoM
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Posted: 02-21-2012 12:30 PM

available here

lots of improvements and bug fixes.

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* Game-changing performance boost of up to 45% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, “the fastest selling title in Steam’s history”
* Over 90% SLI scaling in Mass Effect 3.
* GeForce-exclusive quality enhancements with ambient occlusion support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Diablo III, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
* New 3D Vision and SLI profiles for over 50 titles.
* New PhysX software for the best experience in top PhysX titles like Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City.

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Posted: 02-22-2012 04:06 PM

FINALLY some WHQLs. Every BETA release since the last has managed to fuck something up, from driver crashes during video playback to artifacts in Battlefield and my Windows mouse cursor turning pink. These better work.

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Posted: 02-22-2012 05:37 PM

I'll wait. I finally got my driver to stop crashing when watching full screen YouTube so I'm in no rush to upgrade.

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Posted: 02-25-2012 06:56 PM

so far only thing i've noticed is when watching an .avi and you skip through the progress bar, the movie screen becomes scrambled for a few seconds.

besides that no other problems so far

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Posted: 02-25-2012 06:58 PM

although, i only noticed this after installing VLC 2.0.0

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Posted: 02-25-2012 08:22 PM

No problems for me yet, But I'm on two old ass 460's

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Posted: 02-26-2012 05:32 AM

Same, olde 460. But these are stable so far. Through vids, emulator, Battlefield, youtube viewing I've had no crashing or problems yet

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Posted: 02-26-2012 09:33 AM

460 here aswell, ONLY noticed this with transformers 3

besides that everything works

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Posted: 02-26-2012 10:05 AM

SoM wrote:
transformers 3

I found your problem.

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SoM
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Posted: 02-27-2012 07:22 PM

problem is you

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Posted: 03-06-2012 06:47 PM

Memphis wrote:
Same, olde 460. But these are stable so far. Through vids, emulator, Battlefield, youtube viewing I've had no crashing or problems yet

I'm glad these are good for you guys.

Me and my 560 Ti are rolling back to the previous drivers. After installing them last week I've had 3 BSODs and can barely watch The Daily Show from the website without the driver crashing and hanging my whole system for 2 full minutes while it crashes in slow mo. At least the earlier drivers crashed quickly and let you get back and going. With these newer drivers YouTube had become an adventure. Also, I hadn't noticed an increase with Skyrim either.

Oh well...old drivers were fine anyway.

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Posted: 03-06-2012 10:09 PM

Working fine with my GTX 580.

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Posted: 03-14-2012 09:50 PM

296.10s now out.

Yet to try 'em.

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SoM
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Posted: 03-15-2012 01:56 AM

FYI, those are WINXP drivers

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Posted: 03-15-2012 03:13 PM

No issues with the 296.10 WHQLs.

XP drivers SoM? eh?

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Posted: 03-15-2012 10:26 PM

here's a link

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Posted: 03-17-2012 11:19 AM

Yeah, says XP through 7. 8 has the separate drivers.

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Posted: 03-17-2012 01:56 PM

XP through 7 is not 'XP drivers' as SoM oddly stated.

What kind of moron bought Win 8 yet?

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Posted: 03-17-2012 06:39 PM

Exactly on both counts. There is a consumer preview of 8 available. I tried the developer preview. Seems geared toward tablets and touch screens. I didn't care for it.

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Posted: 03-19-2012 01:36 AM

only if you use the metro ui.
we all know every nerd is going to set it to WinClassic theme 3 minutes after installation anyway.

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Posted: 03-19-2012 02:29 AM

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only if you use the metro ui.
we all know every nerd is going to set it to WinClassic theme 3 minutes after installation anyway.

Without a start button though.

Still a bit skeptical about Win8. I'm not sure how they expect us to use Metro and regular applications together. MS will most likely make sure that stuff like Office is going to be based on Metro. So how do I use my non-Metro applications in combination with that?

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FINALLY some WHQLs. Every BETA release since the last has managed to fuck something up, from driver crashes during video playback to artifacts in Battlefield and my Windows mouse cursor turning pink. These better work.

I'll wait. I finally got my driver to stop crashing when watching full screen YouTube so I'm in no rush to upgrade.

so far only thing i've noticed is when watching an .avi and you skip through the progress bar, the movie screen becomes scrambled for a few seconds.besides that no other problems so far

although, i only noticed this after installing VLC 2.0.0

No problems for me yet, But I'm on two old ass 460's

Same, olde 460. But these are stable so far. Through vids, emulator, Battlefield, youtube viewing I've had no crashing or problems yet

460 here aswell, ONLY noticed this with transformers 3besides that everything works

SoM wrote:transformers 3I found your problem.

problem is you

Working fine with my GTX 580.

296.10s now out. Yet to try 'em.

FYI, those are WINXP drivers

No issues with the 296.10 WHQLs. XP drivers SoM? eh?

here's a link

Yeah, says XP through 7. 8 has the separate drivers.

XP through 7 is not 'XP drivers' as SoM oddly stated. What kind of moron bought Win 8 yet?

Exactly on both counts. There is a consumer preview of 8 available. I tried the developer preview. Seems geared toward tablets and touch screens. I didn't care for it.

only if you use the metro ui.we all know every nerd is going to set it to WinClassic theme 3 minutes after installation anyway.

so far only thing i've noticed is when watching an .avi and you skip through the progress bar, the movie screen becomes scrambled for a few seconds.

besides that no other problems so far

460 here aswell, ONLY noticed this with transformers 3

besides that everything works

SoM wrote:
transformers 3

I found your problem.

296.10s now out.

Yet to try 'em.

No issues with the 296.10 WHQLs.

XP drivers SoM? eh?

XP through 7 is not 'XP drivers' as SoM oddly stated.

What kind of moron bought Win 8 yet?

only if you use the metro ui.
we all know every nerd is going to set it to WinClassic theme 3 minutes after installation anyway.