Nvidia 256.76 drivers due tomorrow!

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Yayz! New drivers with better internal architecture should pretty much pwn everything right? Well, kind of (lawlz). Actually I'm surprised at what gains there are, especially in minimum framerates (where it really matters anyway) - as opposed to the usual "up to 15% increase in Crysis" and in fact it's actually at best the same as the previous driver (FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU).

Thread is in French and shit, but it's the only one I found with screenshots still up:

http://www.centrale3d.com/?Pemier-bench-des-pilotes-256-76

Should be lots of fun to play with. 256 though? With their driver revisions, the version number of Nvidia's drivers will soon be OVER 9000!!!!!! I pretty much just hope they and the infamous non-existent "Tuesday" patch for BC2 will resolve my long-time-loading issue with DX11. DX10 works perfectly fine though if that doesn't; just no soft shadows for me if it doesn't lawlz (not that I care much if at all).

 

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Aaaaaand they're out:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Apparently they give OMFGLOLZMORE fps in BC2 (with DX11) which is AWESOME! Somebody posted something on the guru3d forums about an increase from 50fps to 80fps average with a GTX 480 - quite tasty.

For DX10/9, should be about the same I'm guessing. Hopefully the loading issue with BC2 is gone too... I'll check them out when I get home for sure ;-) .

 

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While everyone's been kicking each other's ballsacks (especially the EU division), and Fast manhandling LadyEVA like only Canadians can do it (eh?) (no offense meant lol, I feel justified with all of Boon's BS about Bulgaria anyway ;-) ), I installed these today and... BC2 is AWESOME! Couldn't get the FPS to drop below 57 (1920x1080x4AA, everything maxed out and HBAO on) no matter how hard I tried; most of the time it's around 75-80 - in DirectX 11.

Joined an Arica server tonight and 9:2 just messing around for a partial round (Buddha praise the AN-94 + 40MM 'nades) :-D .

Best thing is: loading issues are gone. I'm still among the first group of usually 4-5 to load in consistently. No more 45-second loads in DX11!

So yah, I'm basically going to wipe off the jizz off of everything tonight.

I finally bought and received my final WC components too so that should be also quite tasty with more overclock coming... leaving it for Friday/Sat possibly for installation. Consistent 60fps+ MINIMUM in BC2 maxed out at 4xAA - that's what I'm talking about baby ;-P .