NVIDIA’s Outs 331.58 Drivers, Prepares You for Upcoming Big Titles

With the end of October we’re going to be seeing the release of a lot of big name titles, and two of the first big ones to kick things off are Batman: Arkham Origins and Battlefield 4.

In preparation of this, Nvidia today released it’s latest Drivers meant to bring optimal performance for these games and more, with them saying results have been seen as high as 13% increase from previous drivers when used on a GTX 770/780 or TItan, using examples like Sniper Elite v2 (13%), Sleeping Dogs (8%), Metro: Last Light (9%), and Dirt: Showdown (11%).

Of course these results can vary based on your own PC build and overall system setup. These Drivers will also be adding support for 4K Surround for those using 4K Displays, and is now starting the beta stages of allowing the Nvidia Shield to stream games via GeForce. The holiday releases will shortly be upon us, make sure you update your driver’s properly and get ready for back to back game releases!

Release Summary

This Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in Batman: Arkham Origins and Battlefield 4. GeForce Game Ready drivers also provide performance increases for a variety of different games.

New in GeForce R331 Drivers

• Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 13% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 327.23 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:

GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN:

• Up to 11% in Dirt: Showdown
• Up to 9% in Metro: Last Light
• Up to 8% in Sleeping Dogs
• Up to 13% in Sniper Elite V2

• SLI Technology
  • Batman: Arkham Origins – updated profile
  • Battlefield 4 – updated profile
  • Shadow Warrior – added DX9 profile
  • War of the Vikings – added DX11 profile
  • Dragon Sword – updated DX9 profile
  • GRID 2 – updated DX11 profile
  • Euro Truck Simulator 2 – updated profile

• Gaming Technology
  • Civilization 5 – added HBAO+;

• SHIELD
  • Enables GeForce to SHIELD streaming (Beta). Learn more here.

• 4K Displays
  • Adds support for 4K Surround

Additional Details

• Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.0725.

• Installs HD Audio v1.3.26.4

• Installs GeForce Experience v8.3.23.1

• Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit.  More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

• Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.

• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.

• Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.

• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.

Source: NVIDIA