Was home sick for the past two days...played BF3 till my eyes were about to pop out!  Two crashes out of hours of game play and honestly I think the crashes were more on the server side.  Anyway, everything was smooth as butta with all settings maxed on my GTX580 3GB. 

New drivers working fine on GTX 560 TI 448.

maniacvvv

minuteman

BF3 still crashes on these drivers, pretty much every 20 to 30 minutes.

Running: Dual GTX 590's in SLI with water cooling.
What happens:

• Screen turns black, monitor goes dark, computer is stuck, but hasn't crashed. Other apps and voice chat are still running
• Game freezes for 2 seconds, screen turns black, everything else is still running, alt tab works and I can see a BF3.exe message has appeared telling me that a DirectX error has cause the game to stop responding. SOMETIMES I can just end task, but most of the time the system freezes and I have to hard restart. The funny thing is voice chat is still running as well as my other programs. I just can't do anything with the mouse or keyboard.

Now, this problem only occurs using all drivers versions except: 285.62 released back in October. The 285.62 drivers don't crash at all, but I still get that FPS dip which somtimes drops my FPS to 20 or 30 which is ridiculous considering I have dual GTX 590's, 12GB of 2000MHz memory and an Intel 990x processor. I have reported this problem with every Nvidia Driver release since 285.62, but nvidia has not acknowledged my bug report or released a fix for it. This problem only seems to happen on the GTX 500 series graphics cards from what I've seen on the net.

What in-game settings are you using?
Cyclic slowdowns are most often caused by running the in-game  Texture Quality setting too high, causing increased streaming loads. Due to your 1.5gig Vram, only the setting of HIGH texture quality should be used on a 590
Crashes could be caused by streaming timings or by temps, so rule out the temps. 

So did you get it to work Maniac?

What is the best driver for BF3
 

_REAPER_

What is the best driver for BF3

Hard to say. These drivers have eliminated the flashing textures in the distance for me (firestorm mostly), but others are experiencing issues. 

These drivers are working great for me as well...

rblaes_99

so does everyone still uninstall and driversweep the old files before installing new drivers?  or are we past that to just installing overtop of the existing set?

I have done it both ways and don't seem to have issues either way.

 
I think if you are updating from 275/280/285+ series drivers (ones that started including the Nvidia update feature) then there is no need to use driver sweeper anymore unless you like running some betas (those may need full sweep).
I actually since 285 started installing WHQL drivers on top (upgrade mode) and have no issues.
...but I do not run SLI currently (can't find another cheap evga 570 recertified card anywhere) and I do not use any 3D stuff (I don't even install those features).
 
on a side note, this driver runs smooth and it works fine with Windows 7 Media Center, can finally watch TV again
also remote desktop and teamviewer sessions are working again with this driver
for me it's good enough
 
sorry to read many posts about SLI users experiencing so much trouble (missing SLI settings).

kcuestag Personally I just use the Nvidia installer and select Custom -> Clean Install method. 
Never had a problem by doing that...

^ This

LOL! and so my newegg's autonotify worked like a charm for EVGA's recertfied 570 HD (-1571-RX)
they put one piece back in stock at $199 so I took it, with 90 day warranty, just like any -RX line
 
I guess soon I will be testing out the SLI mode with this new driver hehehe

Hello I just downloaded and installed this driver for my 2 gtx 570s in sli on my evga x58 ftw3 Motherboard.  With 3x 24in displays in surround.   And rebooted after i installed this driver and i now have no sli or surround option in the nvida control pannel.  But i can re-install this driver and not reastart and it puts SLI and Surround back ANd every thing works fine and battlefield 3 plays great.  But if i restart i loose the sli and surround option and have only PhysX opption and i can then re-install the driver and Sli and surround comes back but if i restart my pc i loose them Again.   
My Specs
Windows 7 x64
EVGA X58 FTW3 Motherboard.
Intel 990x stock.
12gb xms3 ram. stock
ocz 1000w power supply.
2x GTX 580 1.2gb each Stock. in SLI.
and three 24in displays.
 
What should it do? Im ok as long as i do not re-start witch is ok.
   But what is causing This?
 
Any Ideas?
 
 
Thank You
Cole AkA AREA 51c

What should it do? Im ok as long as i do not re-start witch is ok.
But what is causing This?
Any Ideas?
 
Thank You
Cole AkA AREA 51c

 
Hmmm, that is why I'm about a fresh install of windows 7 64. This Driver messed up my whole system. SLI was gone totally.
 

 
 
 

Got a blue screen while playing TF2 today 
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:                        BlueScreen
  OS Version:                                          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Locale ID:                                             1033
 
Additional information about the problem:
  BCCode:                                               1e
  BCP1:                                                    0000000000000000
  BCP2:                                                    0000000000000000
  BCP3:                                                    0000000000000000
  BCP4:                                                    0000000000000000
  OS Version:                                          6_1_7601
  Service Pack:                                       1_0
  Product:                                               256_1
 
Files that help describe the problem:
  C:\Windows\Minidump\022712-11403-01.dmp
  C:\Users\Custom\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-41355-0.sysdata.xml
 

Had these drivers for a few days and have had no problems with them at all. I used the method of initially uninstalling drivers in windows environment then go into safe mode and use driver cleaner to get rid of any registry's or remnants of the previous driver.
Then install the new drivers and everything has been great in all games including and most importantly BF3. No lag or anything and most gpu's seem to be working. Same can be said of Skyrim as in previous drivers, only one gpu seem to be put under work.
 
Very happy with them .

This driver is so amazing it caused me to log on to say this.
 
I am using a evga 560TI with max settings on skyrim (no anti aliasing) with the official two high res model packs. I am getting 75 fps (v sync turned on) everywhere I go but dips to 60~75 fps in very high fog/snow on mountians (it's probably the high res pack).
 
This is a amazing driver and I can't think nvidia enough for making this! I am going to stick with this driver probably forever now unless there's a huge update like this again.

what's wrong with this driver and civ V? I play it too and it runs great for me, no probs. however I re-installed it recently, because lots of steam cache files were not right during verification (after some DLC or update downloaded some time ago).
 

Nereus

 
Didn't make a lot of difference for BF3 for me, but it screwed with Civilization V badly - very badly. Reverting back to previous WHQL.