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Update Your Nvidia Drivers, Improve Battlefield 3 Performance

Posted Oct 25, 2011 at 5:51PM EST by

Listed in: Hardware Tags: battlefield 3, crysis 2, drivers, nVidia, rage
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If you’re one of the many PC gamers that picked up Battlefield 3 today (or last night), it’s fitting to assume you updated your graphics card drivers before you started the install. After all, with the insane problems we saw during the Rage launch, it’s always better to be safe than sorry. If you didn’t, now is the time to get those drivers updated and ensure your system is running at peak performance.

 

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Nvidia card owners are getting a little help from the manufacturer, who has released a brand new set of drivers to coincide with the launch of Battlefield 3. The new drivers offer what Nvidia claims to be an 11% improvement in performance, which is more than enough to make or break a heated multiplayer match. With Battlefield 3 being hailed as one of the best-looking PC games ever, it’s only fitting that you’d need to upgrade or update something in order to experience it in its full glory. You'll also see improvement in tons of other games, depending on which specific card you use. 


Here’s some technical jargon from the Nvidia website:

 


For Battlefield 3 we’ve improved performance by up to 11% since the release of the GeForce 285.38 beta drivers, have included several compatibility enhancements, a new and improved SLI profile, and a 3D Vision profile. Similarly, Rage has received enhancements since the release of the same drivers, and Batman: Arkham City compatibility has been implemented.


As mentioned, updates contained within the earlier beta drivers have been carried over, such as the many performance improvements made to games --between the release of the 280.26 WHQL drivers and today’s 285.62 WHQL drivers-- when running on our entire range of 500-Series graphics cards.


On the GeForce GTX 580, for example, SLI users can expect to receive frame rate boosts of up to:

• 13% in Metro 2033,
• 8% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat,
• 7% in Civilization V,
• 7% in F1 2010,
• 5% in Crysis 2 with the DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade enabled,
• 5% in Lost Planet 2,
• And 5% in Mafia 2.


So, even if you’re not playing Battlefield 3, you may as well pick up the new drivers. You can find the full list of changes and affected games by clicking this link, and you can bounce over to Nvidia and download the new drivers by clicking this one. Party on!


Also, if you are playing BF3 – how’s it going? I haven’t had a chance to pick up my copy yet.


Via PC Gamer

 



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# RE: Update Your Nvidia Drivers, Improve Battlefield 3 Performanceaeon44 2011-10-25 22:05
if it weren't for this article, i may have not known that there's already a new update for NVIDIA video cards.

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# RE: Update Your Nvidia Drivers, Improve Battlefield 3 Performancecm0n3y34 2011-10-26 07:04
Didn't they release these drivers a couple weeks ago? And for some reason, these drivers came with an updater service, that just sits in the background using ~65% CPU when it opens, does nothing (I checked, it doesn't touch anything in and doesn't even try to go online), won't let me kill it, and has to be uninstalled seperatley. (although this doesn't happen for everyone, just a few people)

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