http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-331-40-beta-drivers-released
 
 

The new GeForce 331.40 beta driver is now available to download. An essential update for all GeForce GTX users jumping into the Battlefield 4 beta, 331.40 beta ensures maximum performance and system stability in the shooter’s eagerly anticipated pre-release test.
331.40 beta also includes a major update to our NVIDIA Control Panel Ambient Occlusion feature, which allows you to apply fidelity-enhancing, realistic shading and shadowing to games that do not natively support Ambient Occlusion. With a few simple clicks, you can greatly increase the image quality of your favorite games, and now, with 331.40 beta, the quality of the Ambient Occlusion shading will be significantly higher thanks to the introduction of HBAO+.

 

Debuted in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, HBAO+ is a new, NVIDIA-developed Ambient Occlusion technique that utilizes the latest technologies to dramatically increase the precision, fidelity, and rendering speed of high-quality AO. For further details on HBAO+, please visit our HBAO+ technology page, and for more info on Ambient Occlusion itself, please head here.

 

Rounding out 331.40 beta is a whole host of profile updates, adding new SLI profiles, updating existing SLI profiles, adding new Ambient Occlusion profiles, and updating other profile elements for optimum game experiences:

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Updated Profile
• Batman: Arkham Origins – Updated SLI Profile
• Battlefield 3 – Updated Surround Profile
• Battlefield 4 – Updated Surround Profile, Added SLI Profile
• Crisis – Added SLI Profile
• Crysis 3 – Added AO Profile
• Dirty Bomb – Added DX9 SLI Profile
• Dying Light – Added DX11 SLI Profile
• F1 2013 – Updated SLI Profile
• FIFA 14 – Added SLI Profile, Added AO Profile
• Natural Selection 2 – Added DX11 SLI Profile
• Outlast – Added DX9 SLI Profile
• Space Hulk – Updated Profile
• Splinter Cell: Blacklist – Updated SLI Profile
• State of Decay – Added DX9 SLI Profile
• Watch Dogs – Added DX11 SLI Profile

You can download 331.40 beta directly from the Drivers page, or automatically through GeForce Experience. For the complete set of release notes please click here.
 

Pshh tomorrow? Tonight!!

It works good in BF3 but I'm having a hard time finding servers. At the only populated server I found I was getting +20 more FPS than with the 320.18 I was using. That's not a fair performance assessment without another server to compare it to though. I had an issue with the installer that I really didn't need. I unchecked all boxes except for Driver and PhysX but it installed .NET Framework extended, GeForce experience, some other sync garbage, and gave me that 'Updatus' profile in my Users folder. I had to uninstall the .NET Framework, GFE and delete a bunch of useless folders too. I ran the installer again to repair any damaged files but it worked normally the second time through.

Installed and played some starcraft2 and suddenly I had a power surge and my system shut down (asus protect thingy).
After a reboot my 780sc fans would blast at full speed. It didn't show up in Xprecision though. And even when I would manually try and control the speed it would ignore my input. At auto it also showed the fans at their minimum speed. Strange things!!
Then I removed the card and rebooted with the cpu graphics (haswell). The high fan sound was gone confirming it was my 780sc that was tripping.
I removed the drivers and everything and rebooted the pc with the graphics card. The high fan speed is gone and the card seems to be just fine. Didn't play yet though with the previous drivers.
My PSU is CoolerMaster M2 Silent Pro 1000W and I have never had any issues with it whatsoever so I highly doubt its the PSU. Also the fact it happens the night I install and try these beta drivers make me lean towards the drivers. I will not install these again. If I get the same problem again with the old drivers I will come and update my story.
 
Edit: It stills seems to go at full speed while indicating 39%.. still ignores my manual inputs too .. Thats with the 327 drivers now.
It starts going full speed as soon as I enter windows :(

I seemed to gain about 5 fps overall in bf3 with these on a evga gtx 780 SC ACX. Good sign for BF4 performance seeing as it's still essentially "Frostbite". Thanks for the up. 

I installed these no problems to report of the few games I played (none on the above list).

Nice and just in time for the BF4 beta.
 
Only a few more hours to go until we can start playing!

This driver makes BF3 run pretty good. Lower GPU usage and higher FPS... Makes me wonder why NVIDIA was holding back for so long. 

4way frame time is much smoother than the old version in Crysis3 8msaa
but has other problems

That is correct everyone. This driver is optimized for BF4 but also contains some bug fixes.
 
CleWe: Please uninstall and reinstall EVGA Precision

Great, readings back to normal!
Battlefield 4 uses all of my Q9450's 4 cores to 100% though >:I
Greedy bastard.

Everything is working just fine with these drivers. Booting up BF4 Beta after work

just trying 331.40 beta
setting up bezel correction is not working, crashing... anyone had luck with that?
 
 
edit: nevermind working after restart. will see for the rest

Zuhl3156
I got no OSD with Afterburner and no FPS data saved after I quit the game so I don't know what kind of performance I'm getting. My progress isn't getting saved and I get no battle reports in BF4 either. That might be a good thing because I only got 2 Kills and 8 Deaths. LOL
It's going to be one of those days, isn't it?
 
 

 
Do you have logging turned on? RTSS does not work with 64 bit games.

Zuhl3156

HeavyHemi
 
Do you have logging turned on? RTSS does not work with 64 bit games.

No, I didn't think about logging. By the time I realized it was a 64-bit game it was too late and I didn't want anyone to know how stupid I can be sometimes so I didn't post back. I guess it's no secret anymore, is it? LOL

I feel the same way about certain posts I do as well Lol, it happens but oh well