This is the first WHQL-certified driver from the R295 family of drivers. It is the recommended upgrade for all GeForce users, especially those playing the latest hot PC games like Battlefield 3, Diablo III, Mass Effect 3, or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These drivers come packed with GeForce-exclusive performance and quality enhancements and are now Microsoft WHQL-certified.
R295 Highlight Summary
New features and performance since last WHQL-certified driver

• Game-changing performance boost of up to 45% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, “the fastest selling title in Steam’s history”
• Up to 2x performance Mass Effect 3 with SLI technology.
• 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.

R295 Highlight Details
Performance

• Increases performance by up to 45% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (measured with GeForce GTX 560 at 1080p Ultra settings in indoor scenes vs. 285.62).
• Updates the NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to a higher performance profile.
• Boosts Mass Effect 3 SLI performance to up to 2x.

Ambient Occlusion

• Adds ambient occlusion support for Diablo III. See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.
• Updates the ambient occlusion support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to a higher performance profile (also in 290 beta drivers). See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.
• Adds ambient occlusion support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (also in 290 beta drivers). See the comparison screenshots on GeForce.com.

NVIDIA SLI

• Adds or updates SLI profiles for:
  • Mass Effect 3
  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
  • The Darkness II
  • F1 2011
  • Oil Rush
  • Red Faction: Armageddon
  • 7554
  • Trine 2
  • WRC 2: FIA World Rally Championship 2011
  • Afterfall: InSanity.
  • ArcheAge
  • Core BlazeFreeStyle 2 – rated Good
  • The Haunted Halls Reach – rated Excellent
  • Insane 2 - rated Excellent
  • King Arthur II – rated Not Recommended
  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – rated Fair
  • Kong Fu Ying Xiong – rated Fair
  • Love Beat – rated Good
  • Marvel Super Hero Squad Online – rated Good
  • Microsoft Flight – rated Fair
  • Perpetuum – rated Fair
  • Post Apocalyptic Mayhem – rated Fair
  • Prototype 2 – rated Fair
  • Q.U.B.E. – rated Excellent
  • Quan Qiu Shi Ming – rated Excellent
  • Red Bull X-Fighters - rated Excellent
  • rFactor 2 (mod mode) – rated Good and updated convergence
  • Risen 2: Dark Waters - rated Fair
  • Saints Row: The Third – Rated Not Recommended
  • Shadow Company: Left for Dead – rated Not Recommended
  • Special Force – Rated Good
  • Tera – rated Good
  • Top Gun: Hard Lock – rated Not Recommended
  • Tropico 4 – rated Good
  • Worms Blast – rated Good
• If you are using 3D Vision with the 3D Vision USB emitter, please read this FAQ for more details on installation.

NVIDIA PhysX

• Updates PhysX System Software to 9.12.0209 for improved compatibility with Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City.
•  GeForce Forceware 295.73 64-bit WHQL
  GeForce Forceware 295.73 32-bit WHQL

You know what, I was about to install 290.53 but I'll go ahead and give these a shot.

Hopefully they are good,....

Well with SLI 580s BF3 seems good, only have played Bazaar, Caspian, and Firestorm. Will try B2K now, and later a bit of Skyrim and Shogun 2.
 
One thing to say bout BF3 though, I am no longer getting the flashing on the map that I used to. By that I mean textures/the map in the distance would flash.

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shogon

Well with SLI 580s BF3 seems good, only have played Bazaar, Caspian, and Firestorm. Will try B2K now, and later a bit of Skyrim and Shogun 2.

One thing to say bout BF3 though, I am no longer getting the flashing on the map that I used to. By that I mean textures/the map in the distance would flash.

like stutter? as in its out of view so the map not sure if it should load that area or not?
 
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Battlefield 3

• Fixes instances of texture corruption/artifacts in Battlefield 3 when memory constrained (typically 1GB or less graphics cards running Ultra settings and high resolutions).

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that may be why. i noticed about 10 fps increase in firestorm i can finaly play max without hitting below 45 fps
 

Can your font be any bigger?

No issues in BF3, just played Oman and all I can say is "Oh Man!" Was in the chopper gunner the whole time and everything was smooth and flawless.
 
2560x1440, 2 1.5 GB 580s,2500k @ 4.6 
 
@warlord, I guess it is considered that, haven't had a single issue yet. 
 
 
Played some Skyrim, I was not getting 1400 MB of memory used in Whiterun before (now I am, looks good!), nor 60+% GPU usage on both cards, used to be stuck at 50% each, game play seemed sluggish before now it doesn't!

Yeah at 1600p AA isn't even needed.

I'm really disappointed there's still no proper SLI profile for SWTOR.
 
And Nvidia and Bioware's refusal to acknowledge this problem, is really taking my patience and good will to its limit.
 
The game ran fine in beta, but ever since launch it's the same issue. Which goes exactly as another Quad SLI 590 user said in a 590 owners/enthusiast forum:
 
Shinobi Jedi, i'm getting crushes too. and right after crash only one of four GPUs continue to "work", other 3 sit at 0% load, 0.875v and nothing can make them work again except reboot. it happens roughly after 2-2.5 hours of playing and first symptoms are dissapearing textures
 
This is exactly what has been happening to me since the launch of this game. And to be clear, this didn't happen at all during the beta when Hi-Res textures were enabled.
 
This is the only game I have issues on. Everything else runs 120fps on full blast on every game, except the highest setting in Witcher 2 for AA. BF3, Skyrim, Batman - games with more complex graphics - all run better than SWTOR.
 
I have never OC'd these cards, I don't mess with voltages, they have been a dream except for SWTOR..
 
I'm ready to walk away from this game, and I'm not an MMO guy, but got into it as a Star Wars geek.  If BF3 wasn't running so rampant with cheaters, I would've already...

 
So I guess what I'm getting at is -
 
Jacob, can we get the EVGA SLI Enhancement Pimp-Jedi's to write us 590 owners, or any other SLI users experiencing this issue, a proper SLI profile for SWTOR?
 
After all, you guys seem to be the only ones that get the job done...
 
Thanks for your time and consideration, and anyone else reading, for allowing me to rant/vent on this issue.
 
Cheers!

THX5334

I'm really disappointed there's still no proper SLI profile for SWTOR.

And Nvidia and Bioware's refusal to acknowledge this problem, is really taking my patience and good will to its limit.

The game ran fine in beta, but ever since launch it's the same issue. Which goes exactly as another Quad SLI 590 user said in a 590 owners/enthusiast forum:

Shinobi Jedi, i'm getting crushes too. and right after crash only one of four GPUs continue to "work", other 3 sit at 0% load, 0.875v and nothing can make them work again except reboot. it happens roughly after 2-2.5 hours of playing and first symptoms are dissapearing textures

This is exactly what has been happening to me since the launch of this game. And to be clear, this didn't happen at all during the beta when Hi-Res textures were enabled.

This is the only game I have issues on. Everything else runs 120fps on full blast on every game, except the highest setting in Witcher 2 for AA. BF3, Skyrim, Batman - games with more complex graphics - all run better than SWTOR.

I have never OC'd these cards, I don't mess with voltages, they have been a dream except for SWTOR..

I'm ready to walk away from this game, and I'm not an MMO guy, but got into it as a Star Wars geek.  If BF3 wasn't running so rampant with cheaters, I would've already...


So I guess what I'm getting at is -

Jacob, can we get the EVGA SLI Enhancement Pimp-Jedi's to write us 590 owners, or any other SLI users experiencing this issue, a proper SLI profile for SWTOR?

After all, you guys seem to be the only ones that get the job done...

Thanks for your time and consideration, and anyone else reading, for allowing me to rant/vent on this issue.

Cheers!

Same problem here. With the other problems that are too numerous to mention I unsubed today with all the other players that are leaving this mess of a game in droves. You will too!

hoserx

BF3 not running well on ultra in 1600p with two 580 3gb cards? You're doing something wrong then............drop AA down to 2x and watch your minimum frames increase by twenty. 

Not exactly, its 15 FPS going from NO AA to x4MSAA, x4 to x2 is much less!

Took a screen of 295.73 and what i was running - 290.36.
Not much difference but to me the newer drivers had slightly better black...shadows and depth. Palm tree shadows and that crater looked better. Also running around the map with the newer drivers i had less stutter. however when i boot windows i get "no display on DVI" right before it gets into windows with the new driver. shrugs. Two 580's on ultra.
 
290.36

295.73

 
 

I am excited about the Skyrim improvements and how they fixed the flickering distant textures in BF3.  Thanks for the heads up.

I know that the last beta's PhsyX program broke my Tribes Ascend and I had to roll it back.  I wonder if I can upgrade to this and Tribes Ascend will still work.  Something to try tonight.

Do these drivers support the GTX560 Ti 448 Core editions?
The drivers are posted on Nvidias site, but not EVGA's, why?
EDIT* I see that they are now posted on the EVGA site now, Great! 
Are the drivers from EVGA different than the ones Nvidia releases?