Latest Nvidia Driver Comes With New Features
 

Nvidia has released their 301.24 driver, which along with various performance improvements comes with several new features.

If you're an Nvidia owner and you want to try the new driver, you can get it here.

After the issues I've had in Saints Row 3 and Batman:AC I'm never buying ATI again. Looks like Nvidia is working to make that choice even easier.

The Adaptive Vertical Sync intrigues me.

I just tested the FXAA and Adaptive vsync in Darksiders and it all worked great.

I hope they've gotten rid of that little stutter when adaptive vsync enables and disables. Its not a very smooth transition.

Also nvidia's fxaa isn't quite as nice as what I've seen in games that support it natively like CS:GO and Skyrim. It blurs everything overall, even the on screen fonts. It can make a game like EVE or Guild Wars absolutely nasty to read anything.

It's still a beta driver so that may have something to do with any issues it's causing.

Same here - looks interesting. I have a friend up north who had a pair of the 3-D goggles too. I tried em out playing Ledt 4 Dead & was amazed. Not perfect tech - but close enough for my brain to figure out.

That said, I'm currently running ATI, but will likely swap over to Nvidia on my next purchase if they are still tied for the lead.

Thanks for the heads-up hommie!

Games with native support for FXAA do run better than they do with MSAA. In games like Shogun 2: Total War, a bit of a hog, it definitely helps.

I want a graphics card update first! Running a GTX 275!

Finally making my investment in quad 680s worth it.

Running games at 2650 x 1600 with 8xAA would be nice! :)

That is really weird. ATI and AMD are losing the battle big time

The thought of such a thing hurts my head!

Every time that it comes around to buy a video card ATI is in front.
That said, I always have niggling little issues with ATI through the years.
Maybe it is time to just buy an Nvidia and do less work to get my games run.

NVIDIA invented $DLC and they still practice it today by slowly unlocking chips instead of selling you complete products. The 460 and the 560 are basically the same card except for the ti unclocking.

Pretty much every chip vendor does something like this if they have multiple tiers of products. Intel & AMD have done similar things over the years as well. It makes it so they can basically have one assembly line for multiple chips with a very minor tweak at the end of assembly to generate chip X and chip Y.

With AMD you can turn a 6950 into a 6970 via a BIOS hack.

That is because a 6950 is a failed 6970, that is why you can hack it into a 6970.

AMD sets out to build X number of 6970 chips. When the make the chips Y percent don't meet the specs to be a 6970, so they underclock them, disable features, etc... and market them as a 6950. Then modders hack them back to 6970 running the risk of getting crashes, etc... Many modders have additional cooling in their systems, etc.. that the average consumer does not and therefore they can get away with running their 6950 at a higher clock speed than it is rated to run.

Also not all AMD chips are made on 1 line. The 6800 and 6900 series use different cores and many of the newer chips are made using different processes 28nm, 40nm, etc... It isn't as simple as AMD makes a bunch of chips and does some XOR to disable or enable features.

I'm curious what troubles you had. Those are probably the only two major PC games that I don't own, and my three week old AMD 7850 has been running every single other thing I throw at it flawlessly.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...things-future/

Talking bout the Anti-Aliasing.
(I use MLAA since i got my 7850, i didn't use AA at all on most titles with my older 4870)