Verde 304.79 Driver | Windows Vista 64-bit

This is the second BETA driver from the R304 family of drivers and the first GeForce driver to combine support for Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista into a single driver.

New in 304.79 Drivers:

Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:

• The Secret World - added
• End of Nations - added
• Nexuiz (also provided earlier via NVIDIA Update)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier (also provided earlier via NVIDIA Update)
• Tornado Force - added
• Tribes: Ascend - updated

• Fixed a compatibity issue with Civilization V and GeForce 400/500 series GPUs.
• Fixed instances of flickering or missing mouse cursor when hardware cursor is enabled (reported with Aion, World of Warcraft, Eve Online and others).
• Fixed instances of very low frame rates in Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX11).
• Fixed an issue that caused a PC reboot instead of a PC shut down.
• Fixed an issue that led to a black screen after driver installation.
• Power management mode settings now persist across driver overinstalls.

New in R304 Drivers (Introduced previously with 304.48 drivers):

GeForce GTX 680:

• Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
• Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
• Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)

GeForce GTX 560:

• Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
• Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
• Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
• Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

• Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
• Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
• Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

• Spec Ops: The Line
• PlanetSide 2
• F1 2011 – updated profile
• Final Fantasy XIV – updated profile
• Saints Row: The Third – updated profile
• Torchlight II
• Tribes: Ascend

• Alan Wake's American Nightmare – rated Poor
• Borderlands 2 – updated profile with new convergence settings
• Depth Hunter – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
• Mass Effect 3 – updated in-game compatibility message and profile to be more compatible with community 3D mods
• Max Payne 3 – updated rating to Excellent and updated in-game compatibility message to inform users to use DirectX 11, disable MSAA and use SSA0.
• Street Fighter X Tekken – rated 3D Vision Ready
• Tiger Woods PGA 12: The Masters – rated Good
• Tribes: Ascend – rated Fair
• The Walking Dead – rating Good

• Other Profile Updates
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

• NVIDIA CUDA
• Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 Preview or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

Additional Details

• Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.17.0.
• Supports OpenGL 4.2
• 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.