GeForce R304 Driver 306.81

This is the second WHQL-certified driver from the R304 family of drivers (304.xx to 306.xx).

New in GeForce 306.81

• Adds support for GeForce GTX 650 Ti.
• Updates SLI profile for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier.

New in R304 Drivers:

• GPU Support
• Adds support for GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, and GeForce GTX 650.
• Legacy Support Notification: GeForce 6-series and GeForce 7-series GPUs will be moved to legacy support after GeForce R304 drivers. GeForce R310 drivers (the next major family of drivers) will not support these products.

• Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 680:
• Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
• Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
• Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)
GeForce GTX 560:
• Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
• Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
• Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
• Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

• NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
• Alan Wake's American Nightmare – added
• Borderlands 2 – added
• Darksiders 2 – added
• End of Nations - added
• F1 2011 – updated
• F1 2012 – added
• Final Fantasy XIV – updated
• Nexuiz - added
• Orcs Must Die! 2 – added
• PlanetSide 2 - updated
• Saints Row: The Third – updated
• Shogun 2: Total War – updated
• Sleeping Dogs – added
• Spec Ops: The Line - added
• The Secret World - updated
• Torchlight II - added
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier - added
• Tornado Force - added
• Tribes: Ascend – updated

• Other Profile Updates
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
• Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

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

Additional Details

• Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.18.0.
• 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 and DirectX 10.

*Note: The following SLI features are only supported on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8: GeForce GTX 600 series SLI, Quad SLI technology, 3-way SLI technology, Hybrid SLI, and SLI multi-monitor support.