geforce 295.51 beta out!

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (HippieMagic)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:18:05 GMT

I had to uninstall these, shut down my pc, drain all the power from it, let it set for a few minutes, and then restart and re-install the drivers. That is the only thing that solved my artifact issue. I even tried using older drivers after the initial install(always clean) and the problem persisted until the above fix cleared it up.

I have never had any real issue with these cards until this set of drivers. I am not impressed.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (random_matt)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:35:46 GMT

CHughes

Amazing visual quality especially in Skyrim with these new Beta's
Say what you want about placebo effect but I'm sold, there have been some very distinct, Wow! moments with these installed

Much smoother gameplay wise

All MSI afterburner overclocks and voltage tweaks stable

Keepers!!

I am the complete opposite with skyrim using these rubbish beta drivers. Performance is terrible with them, i am back with 285.79 drivers and runs way smoother.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (HippieMagic)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:41:16 GMT

Ok so I seem to be having some serious issues with this driver. I have never experienced any issues prior to this on any driver except the odd crashing in Bad Company 2 on one set but I honestly don't remember what set that was. It may have been one of the 270s.

I was playing World of Tanks and noticed some artifacts and significantly lower FPS to the point that I actually had to check and see if SLI was working. I thought it was odd and thought maybe it was just the game screwing up so I defragged and cleaned my PC as it was due for the weekly cleaning anyway.

Start WoT back up and immediately noticed jaggies everywhere so I hop off and run 3Dmark11. Same experience in this as in WoT so I figured out the problem wasn't just one game. I decided to roll back to the previous set of drivers because it was a known good set for me and ran more tests as well as played some World of Tanks and it appears that the artifacts have totally gone and my FPS is back up to where it should be.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (aflo661)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:50:57 GMT

I can play BF3 with my 285 driver. That's all that matters :)

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (barsbars)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:08:51 GMT

can it fix bugs on gtx560 ti ( i played battlefield 3 and then, there's a dark shadow on top screen) sorry my english bad. my driver version is 285.66..

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (CHughes)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:05:32 GMT

Amazing visual quality especially in Skyrim with these new Beta's
Say what you want about placebo effect but I'm sold, there have been some very distinct, Wow! moments with these installed

Much smoother gameplay wise

All MSI afterburner overclocks and voltage tweaks stable

Keepers!!

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (zardoc)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:47:37 GMT

Hi all,
I've been beta testing and using ATI/Nvidia cards for almost 15 years. I remember a big issue with ATI and Nvdia drivers when XP came out.
I haven't run into driver issues for quite some time but I must say, this Nvidia card is making me go nuts!
Driver failure since the beginning. Now it's flickering on my second screen or green screen when viewing Youtube.

What makes it worst, is that I'm not even gaming!!

Everything is stock all the way. Seems that the worst issue I've read in most forums is users playing BF. If only that were my case. I use this rig to work on the network in the medical field.

Using beta drivers but problem went to driver not responding to serious flickering on my second screen.

I stand corrected, I just got a driver failure while writing this post

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (mist3r_q)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:23:54 GMT

Finally, the phantom 95% fan speed issue with my 590 is fixed.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (Hitcho)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:37 GMT

alphazallan

Is the reason why Nvidia keeps releasing beta drivers because there were so many games that came out in December?

Probably because there have been so many problems with crashes and instability with the last series of drivers. The last good stable set were probably the 270.33's, up from there it's been hit or miss for everyone. It's either stable, crash city, or DOOM HAS COME! And they haven't had a set that's been stable enough to send off for certification.

I don't think I've seen the nvidia forums full of crash posts, and TDR problem posts quite as badly as it has been since the 280 series were released, well ever since they they got hit with the 190 problem.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (InfinityNinja)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:47:00 GMT

i have flickering issues on starcraft 2 with this driver and somtimes flickering on youtube videos

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (alphazallan)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:17:31 GMT

Is the reason why Nvidia keeps releasing beta drivers because there were so many games that came out in December?

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (Porpoise Hork)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:41:46 GMT

Based on all this im sticking with 285.62. I have had bad luck with beta drivers in the past.. and it seems like this one is no different.

looking at the release notes of the last 4 beta drivers it looks like all the B team is capable of doing is adding sli profiles and 3d vision mapping and subsequently screwing things up for a lot of us in the process..

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (415krunch)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:55:43 GMT

I lost about 20fps using the newest drivers and it felt laggy. Rolled back and all is good again.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (Halfdead14)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:27:16 GMT

Anyone else using these drivers getting absolutely terrible performance in Battlefield 3?

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (Zapper_Weisman)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:53:10 GMT

@maniacvvv

I totally get why you are upset. I do! I'd be angry to. I just want to say that I have 2x GTX 580s and I have used every last beta driver since the last WHQLs and I have been able to enable SLi and it runs fine for me. I only had a couple driver related crashes/lockups and that was with the last set. I don't know what steps you've taken to solve this but maybe you should try something else. Maybe even go as far as a clean windows install. (i didn't read the whole thread so maybe you did this, i don't know) Also, post your problems under the official driver feedback thread on nVidia's official forum, if you haven't already.

I also agree you can't blame EVGA for this. They are responsible for the hardware, not nVidia's reference drivers. I hope you find a solution!

Edit: Just read you solved it. Glad to see that.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (Shockjockey)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:35:30 GMT

I gave this driver a shot.It installed fine and ran some of my newer games like Skyrim decent but some of my older stuff like The Witcher and fallout run like ship.I went back to 266.58 and got a huge performance increase on everything.The only bad thing about the older driver is that you have to make your own custom profiles to take advantage of sli for the newer games.Frankly I am a little disappointed in NVIDIA.I hope they get their act together soon.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (Zibri)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:18:51 GMT

EVGA_JacobF

bobmitch

EVGA_JacobF

bobmitch

Using these drivers...Precision will not apply overclocks to my 580SC. When I set the clocks and memory...hit apply and everything goes to 0. Not good for me
Back to 290.53 and overclocks stay put. Oh well...maybe the next set. 290.53 have been some of the best I have used to date

Which version of Precision?

Hi Jacob...

I am using Precision 2.1.2

I can set up new settings...example...set clock from 797 to 850. Memory to 2100 ...they will be there...the minute I hit "apply" they all turn to 0 and that's that...

I have tried looking at this and cannot reproduce it, can you try a reinstall of Precision?

This happened to me even with older drivers and it happens only when you update the drivers with precision/afterburner running and don't reboot.
If you install the drivers and do a clean reboot it will work.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (Zibri)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:17:09 GMT

maniacvvv

Unexpectedly, these are -again- from the euorpean division driver team and not from the west coast A team....

Reading over the official release notes on this Beta driver, is most troubling.

It appears that Nvidia has made a decision and seperated the driver development teams, with the B team (euro) taking responsiblity for 500 series and below, while the A Team (west coast) is responsible for The Kepler release drivers.

I can only say that I belive this is a terrible mistake, one that is quite likely to damage Nvidia very seriously. The driver quality that has made Nvidia the premiere choice is just no longer there and is now looking alot like AMD driver development....

I will test and report back later tonight

My advice: sell your nvidia cards get an amd card and ~~get lost~~ be happy! :)

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (bdary)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:01:44 GMT

techsoldier

I'm somewhat surprised to see maniacvvv post something like this. Typically he has intelligent information to share however this rant post targeting EVGA as the source problem is completely ridiculous. Just don't see any justification for a rant thread bashing the EVGA team????????

Yeah, I've seen some of his rants about drivers here & there, but the EVGA thing does seem a bit over the top IMO. Will be waiting to see another post from him now since he may have figured out his issue & is retesting. I personally haven't had any problems with any driver, Beta or WHQL since the 270 series.

NOTE: Haven't tried the latest beta yet though.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (techsoldier)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:27:29 GMT

I'm somewhat surprised to see maniacvvv post something like this. Typically he has intelligent information to share however this rant post targeting EVGA as the source problem is completely ridiculous. Just don't see any justification for a rant thread bashing the EVGA team????????

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (buggyruth)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:34:52 GMT

This one seems good, also a peers to fix the USB3 issues in P67 & Z68 MOBO's

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (dmbatch)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:50:54 GMT

Weird, I was getting tdr's with 290.36 beta but none with this beta.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (realone)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:08:03 GMT

badboy64

Windows Media player keeps on crashing with these drivers. Went back to 290.53 and all is OK.

Yeah im getting lots of crashing with Windows Media player and with flash in Firefox as well.

290.53 was more stable then these.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (Hitcho)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:18:44 GMT

AKA the black flashy screen of doom. Where the driver restarts because the videocard and the driver stop talking with each other, usually around 2seconds or so. It's supposed to stop the old BSOD problem.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (EVGA_JacobF)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:02:58 GMT

Timeout detection and recovery.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (thePoison)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:37 GMT

what the hell is a TDR?

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (raw2dogmeat)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:01:10 GMT

letterkilled

the last beta messed my computer up pretty bad. so im kinda scared to try this one out.

I spent the last 3 days trying to fix my computer after trying these drivers. Came home today with the expectation I'd reinstall Windows for the 1st time since I got Windows 7..then I tried 1 last ditch effort..boot from "repair disk" and restore from "system image". Thank God..it worked. I don't remember the last time my computer was so *!#$ed up...VERY dissappointed in the drivers...but thankfull it's fixed.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (malVizio)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:14:38 GMT

So:
1- a lot of TDR
2- 4-5°C more O_O'
3- WMP crash

....mmmm dunno why but i think i'll stay with mine 'till WHQL's...

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (badboy64)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:22:29 GMT

Windows Media player keeps on crashing with these drivers. Went back to 290.53 and all is OK.

Re:geforce 295.51 beta out! (zoson)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:46:59 GMT

I installed these an immediately started getting TDR's. TONS of them. Back to the 290.53 driver for me.