NVIDIA GeForce Display Driver 306.02 Beta for Vista64/Windows 7 x64/Windows 8 x64 Download

Posted at May 5, 2024 by PCI-DB Team

NVIDIA GeForce Display Driver 306.02 Beta for Vista64/Windows 7 x64/Windows 8 x64 Description

Fixes:

NVIDIA Control Panel Game Enhancements

- Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
- Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support and Multisample Anti-Aliasing support to Darksiders 2.
- Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to Guild Wars 2.
- Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to MechWarrior Online.

New & Updated SLI Profiles

- Alan Wake's American Nightmare
- Borderlands 2
- Darksiders 2
- F1 2012
- Orcs Must Die! 2
- PlanetSide 2 (Updated)
- Shogun 2: Total War (Updated)
- Sleeping Dogs (Please note that we are currently evaluating SLI bit 0x0C4010F5, which may result in higher performance for users)
- The Secret World (Updated)

New & Updated 3D Vision Profiles

- A New Dawn – Rated Fair
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare – Rated Not Recommended
- All Zombies Must Die! Scorepocalypse – Rated Good
- ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead – Rated Fair
- Bang Bang Racing – Rated Excellent
- Brave – Rated 3D Vision Ready
- Devil May Cry 4 - Rated Fair
- Dishonored – Rated Good
- End of Nations – Rated Good
- London 2012 The Official Video Game – Rated Fair
- Mad Doc Jr.'s Doom Rails – Rated Excellent
- Raiderz – Rated Fair
- Roller Coaster Rampage – Rated 3D Vision Ready
- SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator – Rated Fair
- Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends – Rated Good
- The Secret World – Rated Good

NVIDIA Surround

- Surround settings now persist after new driver install.

Fixed Single-GPU Issues

Windows Vista & Windows 7

- 3D Surround, 4-way SLI: The NVIDIA Control Panel -> Configure Displays for Surround user-assistance screen does not show the correct GPUs to connect the displays on a 4-way SLI system.
- GeForce 400 series: After installing the VGA driver and then choosing the ‘restart later’ option, the display goes blank when subsequently installing the NVIDIA driver.
- GeForce GT 650M: "No compatible hardware found" error occurs when installing the driver.
- GeForce GTS 400 series: Rendering is not visible with some DirectX 9 applications when Shader model 3.0 is used.
- GeForce GTX 200 series: Mount & Blade Warband - Stuttering occurs during game-play.
- GeForce GTX 500 series, 3D Vision: Crysis 2 & DiRT Showdown - Residual images appear throughout the game if 3D Vision is enabled.
- GeForce GTX 600 series: Titan Quest - Gameplay is jerky and stutters with V-Sync enabled.

Windows 8

- GeForce GTX 500 series, 3D Vision: Crysis 2 & Dirt Showdown - Residual images appear throughout the game if 3D Vision is enabled.
- Optimus Notebook: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to dxgkrnl.sys when attempting to uninstall the driver using the Windows Device manager.
- SLI, Surround: Intel x59 or x79 - With Surround enabled, a blue-screen crash (0xA: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) may occur when enabling or disabling SLI or Surround modes. When re-installing the NVIDIA driver after uninstalling it, the driver may fail to install.

  It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

Try to set a system restore point before installing a device driver. This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.

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