GeForce 306.97 Driver | Windows Vista 64-bit

This is the recommended driver for the launch of Windows 8. It is Microsoft WHQL-certified and will also be available for download via Windows Update.

This driver is also recommended for the best experience in the latest top PC games like Borderlands 2 and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.

New in GeForce 306.97 Drivers:

• Recommended driver for Windows 8 launch.
• Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 650 Ti GPU.
• Updates SLI profile for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier.
• Updates 3D Vision profiles for the following PC games:
• Check vs. Mate - rated Excellent
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - rated Good
• Doom 3: BFG Edition - rated Excellent
• English Country Tune - rated Good
• F1 2012 - rated Good
• Iron Brigade - rated Fair
• Jagged Alliance: Crossfire - rated Good
• Orcs Must Die 2! - rated Good
• Planetside 2 - rated Not recommended
• Prototype 2 - rated Poor
• Sleeping Dogs - rated Good
• Spec Ops: The Line - rated Good
• Tiny Troopers - rated Fair
• Torchlight 2 - rated Good
• Transformers: Fall of Cybertron - rated Fair

New in Previous GeForce R304 Drivers (versions 304.xx to 306.xx):

• 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.

• Adds support for NVIDIA TXAA
• NVIDIA TXAA is new film-style anti-aliasing technique designed specifically to reduce temporal aliasing (crawling and flickering in motion) through a combination of hardware AA, custom CG film style AA resolve, and a temporal filter.
• The Secret World is the first game to support TXAA. Read about it on GeForce.com.
• TXAA is supported on GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs.
• Learn more about TXAA on GeForce.com.

• 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 – updated from latest beta
• 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

• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
• Alan Wake's American Nightmare – rated Not Recommended
• A New Dawn – rated Fair
• All Zombies Must Die! Scorepocalypse – rated Good
• ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead – rated Fair
• Bang Bang Racing – rated Excellent
• Borderlands 2 – updated profile with new convergence settings
• Brave – rated 3D Vision Ready
• Devil May Cry 4- rated Fair
• Depth Hunter – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
• Dishonored – rated Good
• End of Nations – rated Good
• London 2012 The Official Video Game – rated Fair
• Mad Doc Jr.'s Doom Rails – rated Excellent
• Mass Effect 3 – updated in-game compatibility message and profile to be more compatible with community 3D mods
• Max Payne 3 – updated rating to Excellent and updated in-game compatibility message to inform users to use DirectX 11, disable MSAA and use SSA0.
• Raiderz – rated Fair
• Roller Coaster Rampage – rated 3D Vision Ready
• SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator – rated Fair
• Street Fighter X Tekken – rated 3D Vision Ready
• Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends – rated Good
• Tiger Woods PGA 12: The Masters – rated Good
• Tribes: Ascend – rated Fair
• The Secret World – rated Good
• The Walking Dead – rating Good
• World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria – rated Excellent

• 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
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support Counter-strike: Global Offensive
• Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support MechWarrior Online
• Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

• NVIDIA Surround
• Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall.

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

• Key Fixes
• Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
• Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
• Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

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, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.