Download GeForce 306.97 WHQL 32/64-bit drivers

#4429095

Grahf

2012-10-11 19:49

Thanks!

#4429128

andressergio

2012-10-11 20:32

With any driver before r301 i could run at 2280mhz, since r304 only ~2215mhz, now with r306 2200-2210mhz. Im still happy with 2200mhz though 🤓 Maybe now with r304- r306 i need more volts, i didnt try 30mv at 2250mhz+ yet, but i think i won't either..Kinda scared to push so much volts xD

Tj its a common thing that dif drivers versions make cards OC different, it happened to me and mostly all cards and drivers, the thing for me is that if drivers are well optimized for games to max the use of GPU it will obvious ask for more volts for ex i run high res 2560x1440 all ULTRA on BF3 before on other branches of drivers i saw 66%ish of use of each GPU and i was runing some OC, not it uses 88% to 90% on some maps so my other OC doesnt run OK unless i notch volts Cheers !!! Sergio

#4429160

-Tj-

2012-10-11 20:55

Tj its a common thing that dif drivers versions make cards OC different, it happened to me and mostly all cards and drivers, the thing for me is that if drivers are well optimized for games to max the use of GPU it will obvious ask for more volts for ex i run high res 2560x1440 all ULTRA on BF3 before on other branches of drivers i saw 66%ish of use of each GPU and i was runing some OC, not it uses 88% to 90% on some maps so my other OC doesnt run OK unless i notch volts Cheers !!! Sergio

Yes that's what i noticed too with various driver branches. 305.67 and 306.23 were ok at 2215mhz (still r304), these 306.89 and 306.97 (r306) i had to lower Vram OC. Gpu voltage is ok since i raised for 6mv, (started with r304). Before I was ok with lower and in both cases I had high gpu usage, I guess Nvidia squeezed even more power now with r304 and r306 branch.

#4429179

F3ckB9LL

2012-10-11 21:15

Any return with 590GTX ?

#4429181

Noisiv

2012-10-11 21:18

Tj Its a common thing that dif drivers versions make cards OC different

It's a common thing that there are plenty of other reasons which make card OC different. Dust, ambient temperature, degradation of components (GPU, PSU, MOBO) to name few. And when he says that on previous driver he was OK at xyz MHz and bla-bla volts, I wouldn't let this "OK" of his run Calendar/Clock at bronies convention. That's how OK was his previous overclock. I have enough of him reporting his OC woes on every single beta leak, without you encouraging him 🙂

#4429182

BenchAndGames

2012-10-11 21:20

This driver version 306.97 WHQL have a little fail. Random time, automatically switching to windowed mode, but otherwise everything works ok

#4429183

Noisiv

2012-10-11 21:23

uh... that's a nasty one, but my bet would be - it's got nothing to do with driver try turning off all(unnecessary) schedules/updates

#4429209

-Tj-

2012-10-11 22:05

It's a common thing that there are plenty of other reasons which make card OC different. Dust, ambient temperature, degradation of components (GPU, PSU, MOBO) to name few. And when he says that on previous driver he was OK at xyz MHz and bla-bla volts, I wouldn't let this "OK" of his run Calendar/Clock at bronies convention. That's how OK was his previous overclock. I have enough of him reporting his OC woes on every single beta leak, without you encouraging him 🙂

Yeah whatever, if you dont like it move along, no one is forcing you to read it.

#4429214

garikfox

2012-10-11 22:11

Can anyone confirm a bug im seeing, In NV Control Panel under system information its saying my 660 Ti is running at PCI Express x16 Gen2 🙁 But in GPU-Z it says it is running at PCI-E x16 3.0 🙂

#4429226

sapo_joe

2012-10-11 22:43

I'm just happy my GF6800GT is still supported! LOL I'll test some games with the 560Ti later!

#4429239

garikfox

2012-10-11 23:02

Ok cool thanks, at least I know now the NV CP is showing the wrong info, phew

#4429358

buddybd

2012-10-12 02:25

BF3 performance has been absolutely trash for me, high FPS (lower than before) but still jittery feeling. Back to the previous WHQL.

#4429471

yosef019

2012-10-12 07:15

It's a good driver for me: - Fixes Adobe Flash 11 overlay flickering - Some small window resizing issues in Surround mode seem to be fixed

its not fixed for me... anoing in firefox 16

#4429551

kakarot

2012-10-12 09:33

Same issue as with all other 306 drivers and its getting old. Back to 304.79 once again http://imageshack.us/a/img189/5812/screenshot000dz.th.jpg

#4429559

JEskandari

2012-10-12 09:45

Can anyone confirm a bug im seeing, In NV Control Panel under system information its saying my 660 Ti is running at PCI Express x16 Gen2 🙁 But in GPU-Z it says it is running at PCI-E x16 3.0 🙂

well , for me it say PCI Express x16 Gen3

#4429614

HonoredShadow

2012-10-12 12:04

Firefox 16 is broken anyway... just like 15.

How? All fine here!

#4429736

HonoredShadow

2012-10-12 15:35

15 has several security issues, a memory leak and often crashes with Flash. 16 was just recalled because of security issues, dunno if the other bugs were fixed.

Ok. Thanks. Had a few crashes with Flash but not many. Did not know about the memory leak but I thought that was par for the course! Just read about 16. Think their is a fix already out. I use Waterfox so will have to wait.

#4429989

-Tj-

2012-10-12 21:11

15 has several security issues, a memory leak and often crashes with Flash. 16 was just recalled because of security issues, dunno if the other bugs were fixed.

Actually 16.0 has some serious security issues, mozzila recommends to downgrade to 15.0.1., but then again they already fixed that exploit and it got updated to 16.0.1 🙂

#4430000

andressergio

2012-10-12 21:29

It's a common thing that there are plenty of other reasons which make card OC different. Dust, ambient temperature, degradation of components (GPU, PSU, MOBO) to name few. And when he says that on previous driver he was OK at xyz MHz and bla-bla volts, I wouldn't let this "OK" of his run Calendar/Clock at bronies convention. That's how OK was his previous overclock. I have enough of him reporting his OC woes on every single beta leak, without you encouraging him 🙂

yes its true what u say but its not the main point of this thread...i can see clear how from driver to driver OC may vary and fail older OC or improve your actual ones

#4430057

macdaddy

2012-10-12 23:00

I'm getting lighting flickering in some games and not in others in sli mode. 3dmark11 borderlands 2 and sniper elite v2 all flickering. This happens with all latest drivers. have to go back to 301.xx set. Just a bit off topic. Is it possible to update sli profiles without updating drivers ?