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[nVidia] Real Performance Increase (How To Install Custom Drivers Too)


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FearCain

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Working with some of the lads over at nvidia.com/forums and I discovered despite my initial dismisal of the beta drivers 267.59, apparenty I managed to get them to work correctly.  Before hand, I couldn't get the drivers to install AND to give me DX11 / Very High settings due to a broken .INF renaming my DeviceID.  None of that matters, this is (99% sure) a fool proof way for you to get the same benefit out of a variety of nVidia GPUs.  Don't expect miracles on older gear, but the newer 4xx and 5xx gear seems to have improved between 50~100% for some of us.

Note: 8xAA still can show some glitching in combat (black blocks on screen in combat) however, the FPS is over 110% more than 267.31 or 267.46 beta drivers for me.

267.59 is a WHQL driver to support the Geforce GTX 550.  It requires a mod to install these drivers for other cards.  This mod is a modified .INF file and what it does is add the full library of GPUs to be used, rather than the small library (in this case JUST a GTX 550) so the driver installer recognizes your card.

The latest/best modified INF I have found is HERE.

If the above link has failed, visit here:
LaptopVideo2Go

The other download you will need is the 267.59 drivers which can be found HERE.

Before you just run the installer, you will need to extract the drivers, and since they are compressed similar to a Zip, RAR, or 7z library, having any of those programs installed will let you right click and Extract the files to their own folder.

If you don't have any of those visit: http://www.rarsoft.com and Install WinRAR.  Once installed, find where you downloaded 267.59 and right click and then Extract To...  It will create a new folder and should be the same name as 267.59 driver file you just extracted from, and inside it should be numerous other folders and a setup.exe.

Before you run Setup.exe, take that modded INF file you downloaded and place it in the folder "Display.Driver" sub directory.  Make sure to Overwrite and not Copy in new file.

Then run SETUP to install the drivers as you would normally, I recommend doing a Custom install, so on the next window you get the check box to do a clean install (removes all old drivers first) to avoid conflicting drivers.

If that fails to install for "Missing Files Error" then download the 267.24 drivers found HERE.

Extract the 267.24 to the their own folder so it also has a bunch of sub folders and setup.exe, and then copy the ENTIRE contents of the first driver into the 267.24 drivers folders.  Overwrite ALL files while doing this.
Once that has been completed just run the setup again, and it everything should install.

Post here if you need amplifying instructions, but I can't do it for you, you do have to have some knowledge of what you are doing OR just wait for the next WHQL release, as we have official word from nVidia we get a massive performance boost next driver release.

Link to that info HERE.  nVidia DA2 Performance Issues & Glitches Discussion thread HERE.

Modifié par FearCain, 21 mars 2011 - 02:40 .


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FearCain

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Doh :D At least I did have an additional error that I can at least help those who had the Missing Files Error.

These things should get stickied to prevent my useless posting :D :wizard:

Modifié par FearCain, 21 mars 2011 - 04:15 .