NVIDIA GeForce 310.54 beta delivers more performance gains

Besides launching the first GK110 based cards for the server market, NVIDIA also released a new GeForce driver today. The GeForce 310.54 beta driver release can be downloaded over here, it's the recommended driver for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Assassin's Creed III.

The full changelog is listed below, although some of the features overlap with what was already present in the recently released 310.33 beta driver.

New in 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 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 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:
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 (new in 310.54):
007 Legends rated Fair
The Amazing Spider-Man rated Not Recommended
Bunch of Heroes rated Good
CABAL2 rated Good
Euro Truck Simulator 2 rated Excellent
Hawken rated 3D Vision Ready
Lucius rated Fair
Mabinogi Heroes rated Fair
Medal of Honor: Warfighter rated Fair
Metro: Last Light rated Good
NBA 2K13 rated Good
Novlum Demes Editor rated Excellent
Of Orcs and Men rated Fair
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation rated Fair
Planetside 2 rated Not Recommended
Prepar3D rated Good
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 rated Poor
Unmechanical rated Good
War of the Roses rated Fair
World Rally Championship 3 rated Good

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.