New 270.61 WHQL Certified Driver set released

Hameister · Post by **Hameister** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:58 pm

Today April 18th, 2011, Nvidia released it's latest set of WHQL certified, unified drivers. Significant improvements are promised both in performance, and functionality.

Here... http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvi ... river.html

Err · Post by **Err** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:41 am

I installed these yesterday for my 275 GTX. I haven't seen any issues yet.

Hameister · Post by **Hameister** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:51 am

Err wrote:I installed these yesterday for my 275 GTX. I haven't seen any issues yet.

I installed it yesterday as well, also no problems, so far. I haven't done any benching to see if I can improve on prior scores. I guess I just don't care much about benchmarks anymore, ha!

Err · Post by **Err** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:51 pm

I don't bench anymore either. I rarely get to play anymore. When I do, I play Oblivion (lots of mods). Last night was an exception. Oblivion didn't crash on me after an hour of gameplay nor did Portal after 2 hours (I was determined to beat it). I also played Defense Grid for a bit with no issues. The framerates were smooth at the resolution of 1690 x 1050. Nowadays, as long as a game runs smooth and doesn't crash, I consider the drivers good.

Hameister · Post by **Hameister** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:20 pm

Err wrote:I don't bench anymore either. I rarely get to play anymore. When I do, I play Oblivion (lots of mods). Last night was an exception. Oblivion didn't crash on me after an hour of gameplay nor did Portal after 2 hours (I was determined to beat it). I also played Defense Grid for a bit with no issues. The framerates were smooth at the resolution of 1690 x 1050. Nowadays, as long as a game runs smooth and doesn't crash, I consider the drivers good.

Yupper, I feel very much the same way. I'm a Crysis fanatic, but also play Mafia II, Left 4 Dead2, Aliens vs. Preditors, HL2 and a few others. As long as I can turn up everything to the max., and have the game run smoothly without any issues I'm happy. If I install a new driver and see something annoying that I didn't see before, I just roll back to the previous driver and wait for the next latest and greatest, ha!

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:35 pm

Funny, I played Defense Grid today as well. New levels are always nice.

Err · Post by **Err** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:25 pm

normalicy wrote:Funny, I played Defense Grid today as well. New levels are always nice.

It's quite addictive. I try to complete a level without losing any cores. The two new maps were difficult but I finally did it.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:53 am

So far, I've beat every single level on the game with a gold star (no lost cores & lots of extra resources). Also got all of the achievements. I was working on the new ones today. That 2nd one is cruel.