Those of you playing Battlefield 3 or Assassin’s Creed III powered by Nvidia graphics cards, may have noticed some strange…
Those of you playing Battlefield 3 or Assassin’s Creed III powered by Nvidia graphics cards, may have noticed some strange graphical glitches in the game. The cause was brought on by the 320.18 driver.
This driver was the only driver available for the new 700 series cards, which meant that players either had to deal with the graphical hiccups, or not play at all.
Nvidia have now fixed these problems with the new 320.49 beta driver. I have myself tested the driver for two hours on Battlefield 3 and can confirm that it is now running perfectly.
Here’s the changelog for the new 320.49 beta driver:
Product SupportAdded support for the GeForce GTX 760.
Performance BoostIncreases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games when compared to the GeForce 314.22 drivers.
GeForce Experience-This driver includes the production release of GeForce Experience (version 1.5) as an optional installation. GeForce Experience replaces NVIDIA Update as the easiest way to keep your drivers up to date.
NVIDIA PhysX System Software-This driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v9.13.0604.NVIDIA GPU PhysX acceleration is available only on systems with GeForce 8-series and later GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory.NVIDIA GPU PhysX acceleration is not available if there is a non-NVIDIA graphics processor in the system, even if it is not used for rendering.
HD Audio DriverThis driver package installs the HD audio driver, version 1.3.24.2.
Fixed IssuesThe following sections list the important changes and the most common issues resolved since version 320.18. This list is only a subset of the total number of changes made in this driver version. The NVIDIA bug number is provided for reference.
Windows Vista/Windows 7 Fixed Issues[Battlefield 3]: Blue rectangles appear when exploding a car within the game. [1282583][Eve Retribution]: There is image corruption in the game. [1282302][Call of Duty: Black Ops 2]: There are artifacts and graphics corruption in the game. [1277657][GeForce GTX 670]: The GPU runs at a higher performance level more frequently with dual monitors enabled. [1279437][GeForce GTX 670][Battlefield 3]: The graphics in the game are corrupted. [1281730][GeForce GTX 680][Assassin’s Creed 3]: There is purple corruption during gameplay. [1290918][SLI][3D Vision][GeForce GTX 680M][Notebook]: The internal display goes blank after installing the driver and enabling SLI or stereoscopic 3D. [1297104][SLI][Surround][GeForce GTX 670]: 2D Surround cannot be enabled when SLI is enabled. [1303522][SLI][Tom Clancy`s Ghost Recon Future Soldier]: SLI profile needs to be updated. [1292762]Windows 8 Fixed Issues[GeForce GTX 680][Stereoscopic 3D]: The NVIDIA Control Panel->Set up stereoscopic 3D->Stereoscopic 3D display type setting reverts from HDMI Checkerboard to 3DTV Play after rebooting the system. [1294390][SLI][3D Vision][GeForce GTX 680M][Notebook]: The internal display goes blank after installing the driver and enabling SLI or stereoscopic 3D. [1297104][SLI][Surround][GeForce GTX 670]: 2D Surround cannot be enabled when SLI is enabled. [1303522][SLI][Tom Clancy`s Ghost Recon Future Soldier]: SLI profile needs to be updated. [1292762]
The 320.49 beta driver can be downloaded through here.
Those of you wondering what exactly was wrong with the 320.18 driver can see for yourselves in my video below. Funky stuff I’m sure you’ll agree!