October 24, 2011By
Andrew Burnes
The new
GeForce 285.62 WHQL drivers are now available to download. Recommended for
Battlefield 3,
Batman: Arkham City and
Rage, these drivers bundle together all the enhancements and updates contained within the
285.27 and
285.38 beta releases, in addition to new
SLI and
3D Vision profiles for many of today’s most popular games.
[h=5]Performance Improvements[/h]For
Battlefield 3 we’ve improved performance by up to 11% since the release of the GeForce 285.38 beta drivers, have included several compatibility enhancements, a new and improved SLI profile, and a 3D Vision profile. Similarly,
Rage has received enhancements since the release of the same drivers, and
Batman: Arkham City compatibility has been implemented.
As mentioned, updates contained within the earlier beta drivers have been carried over, such as the many performance improvements made to games --between the release of the 280.26 WHQL drivers and today’s 285.62 WHQL drivers-- when running on our entire range of
500-Series graphics cards.
On the
GeForce GTX 580, for example, SLI users can expect to receive frame rate boosts of up to:
And single-GPU users will receive improvements of up to:
Likewise, on the
GeForce GTX 560, SLI users will receive frame rate boosts of up to:
- 11% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat,
- 7% in Dragon Age II,
- 7% in F1 2010,
- 7% in Metro 2033,
- 5% in Battlefield: Bad Company 2,
- 5% in Crysis 2 with the DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade enabled,
- 5% in Just Cause 2,
- 5% in Lost Planet 2,
- And 4% in Mafia 2.
And single-GPU users will receive performance improvements of up to:
- 11% in Battlefield 3
- 7% in StarCraft II,
- 6% in Call Of Duty: Black Ops,
- And 4% in Bulletstorm.
[h=5]New SLI & 3D Vision Profiles[/h]The new and updated SLI profiles included with the GeForce 285.62 WHQL drivers are as follows:
- Battlefield 3
- Dead Island
- Diablo III
- Dragon Age 2
- Need for Speed: The Run
- Saints Row: The Third
And similarly, the following 3D Vision profiles have been included:
- Aion
- Battlefield 3
- Diablo 3
- Dirt 3 (rating updated to Excellent)
- Dead Rising 2: Off The Record
- Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) 2
- Driver San Francisco
- F1 2011
- Football Manager 2012
- From Dust
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
- Last Remnant Benchmark
- Men of War: Assault Squad
- OIO The Game
- rFactor 2
- Rise of Flight
- Stock Car
[h=5]Bug Fixes[/h]Users of the R285 beta drivers will be pleased to hear that we’ve fixed the reported driver timeouts, and
World of WarCraft users will be especially pleased to hear that flickering experienced upon death on a SLI system has been rectified.
On Optimus notebooks, a
Halo 2 crash has been rectified, as has an audio error that occurred when switching between 1080p and 480p resolutions.
Click here to download the new NVIDIA GeForce 285.62 WHQL drivers.
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