GeForce 310.90 Driver | Windows Vista 64-bit

This GeForce driver is recommended for the best experience in the blockbuster holiday games. GeForce R310 drivers add optimizations for Far Cry 3, providing up to 38% faster performance.

These drivers also include optimizations for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Assassin's Creed III, providing up to 26% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and up to 18% faster performance in Assassin’s Creed III, as well as smooth, shimmer-free graphics with TXAA antialiasing in both games.

New in GeForce 310.90:

• Adds a security update for the NVIDIA Display Driver service (nvvsvc.exe).
• Improves performance for GeForce GTX 690:
• Up to 19% faster performance in Autodesk 3ds Max when interacting with large models compared to GeForce GTX 480.
• Up to 60% faster performance in ray tracing applications such as NVIDIA iray and Chaos V-Ray (subject to the scene fitting into graphics memory) compared to GeForce GTX 480.
• Up to 76% faster performance in the 3D extruded ray tracing capability in Adobe After Effects compared to GeForce GTX 480.
• Updates SLI profiles for Far Cry 3 and NBA2k13.
• Adds new 3D Vision profiles for the following games:
• Aliens: Colonial Marines – rated Fair
• GT Legends – rated 3D Vision Ready
• LEGO: Lord of the Rings – rated Good
• Miasmata – rated Good
• Pirate101 – rated 3D Vision Ready
• Viking: Battle for Asgard – rated Excellent
• Warframe – rated Good
• Wizard101 – rated 3D Vision Ready

New in GeForce R310 Drivers:

• Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 306.97 WHQL drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 680:
• Up to 38% in Far Cry 3
• Up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
• Up to 16% in Battlefield 3
• Up to 18% in Assassin's Creed III
• Up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Up to 6% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
• Up to 6% in StarCraft II
• Up to 6% in Dragon Age II
• Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

GeForce GTX 660:
• Up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
• Up to 10% in Battlefield 3
• Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Up to 6% in Far Cry 3
• Up to 5% in Dragon Age II
• Up to 5% in Assassin's Creed III
• Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 4% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter

• NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
• Far Cry 3 – updated SLI profile
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 – updated SLI profile
• Dirt: Showdown – updated SLI profile
• Dota 2 - updated SLI profile
• Dou Zhan Shen – updated SLI profile
• F1 2012 - added SLI profile
• FIFA 13 – added SLI profile
• Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad – updated SLI profile
• Hawken – added SLI profile
• Hitman: Absolution – added SLI profile
• Natural Selection 2 – added SLI profile
• Primal Carnage – added SLI profile


• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
• 007 Legends - rated Fair
• Assassin's Creed III - rated Not Recommended
• Bloody Good Time - rated Good
• Bullet Run - rated Fair
• Bunch of Heroes - rated Good
• CABAL2 - rated Good
• Call of Duty Black Ops 2 - rated Good
• Carrier Command: Gaea Mission - rated 3D Vision Ready
• Dark Souls - rated Fair
• Dishonored - rated Fair
• Euro Truck Simulator 2 - rated Excellent
• FIFA 13 - rated Good
• Hawken - rated 3D Vision Ready
• Hitman: Absolution - rated Fair
• I Am Alive - rated Fair
• Lucius - rated Fair
• Mabinogi Heroes - rated Fair
• Medal of Honor: Warfighter - rated Fair
• Metro: Last Light - rated Good
• MLB 2K12 - rated Fair
• NBA 2K12 - rated Good
• NBA 2K13 - rated Good
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted - rated Fair
• Of Orcs and Men - rated Fair
• Painkiller: Hell & Damnation - rated Fair
• Planetside 2 - rated Not Recommended
• Prepar3D - rated Good
• Sniper Elite V2 - rated Poor
• Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - rated Poor
• The Amazing Spider-Man - rated Not Recommended
• Tiny Troopers - rated Fair
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD - rated Good
• Total War Battles: SHOGUN - rated Good
• Unmechanical - rated Good
• War of the Roses rated Fair
• World Rally Championship 3 rated Good
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair

• Other Profile Updates
• Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Counter-strike: Global Offensive
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Cross Fire
• Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Darksides 2
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Dragon Nest
• Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Guild Wars 2
• Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Mechwarrrior Online
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Meng San Guo

• NVIDIA CUDA
• Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

• NVIDIA SSAA
• Added negative LOD adjustments for NVIDIA’s full-screen sparse grid supersampling mode to improve image sharpness.

Additional Details

• Installs PhysX System Software 9.12.1031. This version fixes a bug that caused some applications including Unreal Tournament III, Trine, and Metro 2033 not to launch.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.18.0.
• Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
• Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.