NVIDIA GeForce 304.79 beta driver introduces TXAA

Posted on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 19:44 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
NVIDIA has published the GeForce 304.79 Beta, a new set of drivers that introduce TXAA support for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs. The first game to support TXAA will be The Secret World, but TXAA support won't be ready at launch, it will follow via an upcoming patch. You can find the driver over here.
New in 304.79 Drivers:

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 (support will be enabled in an upcoming patch).
  • TXAA is supported on GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs.
  • Learn more about TXAA on GeForce.com.

    New SLI Support
    Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
  • The Secret World - added
  • End of Nations - added
  • Nexuiz (also provided earlier via NVIDIA Update)
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier (also provided earlier via NVIDIA Update)
  • Tornado Force - added
  • Tribes: Ascend - updated

    Key Fixes
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with Civilization V and GeForce 400/500 series GPUs
  • Fixed instances of flickering or missing mouse cursor when hardware cursor is enabled (reported with Aion, World of Warcraft, Eve Online and others).
  • Fixed instances of very low frame rates in Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX11).
  • Fixed an issue that caused a PC reboot instead of a PC shut down.
  • Fixed an issue that led to a black screen after driver installation.
  • Power management mode settings now persist across driver overinstalls.


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