GeForce 327.23 WHQL Driver

[Jaydip]

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/66884

Release Summary

This Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience and is also a recommended driver update for the Windows 8.1 Preview. GeForce R326 drivers also provide performance increases for a variety of different games.
New in GeForce R326 Drivers

• Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 320.49 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:

• GeForce GTX 770:
• • Up to 15% in Dirt: Showdown
  • Up to 6% in Tomb Raider

• GeForce GTX 770 SLI:
• • Up to 19% in Dirt: Showdown
  • Up to 11% in F1 2012

• SLI Technology
• • Added SLI profile for Spinter Cell: Blacklist
  • Added SLI profile for Batman: Arkham Origins

• SHIELD
• • Enables GeForce to SHIELD streaming. Learn more here.

• 4K Displays
• • Adds support for additional tiled 4K displays
  • Adds support for 4K FCAT testing
  • Extended support for tiled 4K features

Additional Details

• Installs new PhysX System Software 9.13.0725.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.26.4
• Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
• Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• 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.

 

[blackened23]

Nice, thanks for the heads up. I'll give these a shot later today.

 

[Mem]

I wonder if this one fixes the driver bug random freezing with 5xx cards on anything above 314.22s?

Answer is NO!(going by geforce.com forums)

Very bad job nVidia - and that's an ongoing issue for almost half a year!
I've immediately reverted to 314.22 (combined with PhysX Driver 9.13.0725) after a brief trial of 327.23 which is even worse than 327.24 OpenCL 4 BETA and every other crap following 314.22.
With 327.23, FF V.23.01 & 24 instablility until full freeze with hardware accelleration enabled persists, needless to mention that this latest crap also produces pale, washed-out colours and does not support the graphics hardware accelleration (CUDA) of Cyberlink PowerDirector 10 and Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12.
I am now completely fed up with these futile, screwed-up products vomited up by a hopeless bunch of obviously totally disorganized, confused and incompentent slobs.
A look at the hilariously brainless driver "numbering" system they can't seem to get straight explains a lot - for instance, the latest 327.23 WHQL is still R325 - but named 327, while the (only 2 days) earlier released R327.24 OpenCL DEV BETA is R326 (newer!) but also named 327.
They seem to think that "chronological" is a wristwatch brand, and "ascending order" applies only to the floor numbering of multi-level buildings. nVidia - never again. That ain't no threat - it's a promise! Bye!

Sys Specs:
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O/S: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1
MBO: Asrock Z77 Extreme 6
BIOS: AMI / 2.80 (latest)
CPU: i7 2600K (4.8 GHz Allcore-Turbo OC, IGP disabled, no drivers, no Virtu MVP)
RAM: Mushkin Silverline 32 GB / 1333 / 9-9-9-24
GPU: evga GTX 560 Ti DS SC
P/N: 01G-P3-1567-KR
ID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1200&SUBSYS_15673842&REV_A1
VBIOS: 70.24.2E.00.3C (last: 1567 Update 1.0)
CLK: Proc: 50.6 MHz / Shader: 101.3 MHz / Mem: 67.5 MHz - Eff: 270.0 MHz
DRV: 9.18.13.2658DID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1200&SUBSYS_15673842&REV_A1\4&1CDA0A78&0&0008
OTH: all components watercooled, no overheating whatsoever
PSU: XFX (SeaSonic) 650W high current

So 5xx owners wait for next one,almost 6 months wait.

Think I'll try them on Win8.1 and see for myself.

 

[Jaydip]

I am puzzled why on earth NV can't reproduce the issue experienced on 5xx cards.This is very lazy from NV's part.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I wonder if this one fixes the driver bug random freezing with 5xx cards on anything above 314.22s?

Answer is NO!(going by geforce.com forums)


So 5xx owners wait for next one,almost 6 months wait.

Think I'll try them on Win8.1 and see for myself.

Your quoted post looks like a troll. Cant even take it serious in any way.

Member call outs are not allowed -Shmee

 

[Mem]

Your quoted post looks like a troll. Cant even take it serious in any way.

First I've a 560ti card and anything over 314.22s causes lockups etc..its well documented over at geforce forums etc...
So to answer your question no its not a troll,however a lot of Nvidia 5xx users like myself just want a newer driver then 314.22 that does not cause lockups,is it a lot to ask for?

I give you more quotes from geforce forums today,

GeForce GTX 560

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: FFFFFA80062398F8
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

I freeze every 15seconds and it repeats over n over

Back too...

314.22-Desktop-Windows 7 - 64bit

@ManuelG

I would like a simple answer to a simple question please; "Are the problems with the 560s EVER going to be fixed"?

Thanks

DrT

And he did says at the end : "back to 314.22" which off course implies that the card runs very well with the 314.22 drivers.... but hey, it is easier for people to just say that the card is dying.

Or in your case call me a troll :hmm: .

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...lay-driver-feedback-thread-released-9-19-13-/

Anyway be back later to give you my verdict on these drivers with my 560Ti card on my fresh clean install of Win8.1(only 2 days old).

 

[Teizo]

That lock up/freeze only happened to me in Firefox with my old GTX 460. Chrome or IE I had no problems whatsoever.

I guess it had something to do with GPU Acceleration.

 

[ams23]

Common sense would dictate that this GTX 560 Ti owner should just stick with version 314.22 since he had an issue with recent beta drivers? It is not the end of the world to stick with that driver.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Wondering if this driver will fix the issues i get when i apply a overclock on my gtx770,used both msi afterburner and evga precision and i get as far as 1241 boost/8Ghz memory which is a relatively weak oc before BF3 crashs.....doubting its a bad overclock cause every gtx770 in every review went way pass this.

Heck my gtx770 would have to be the worlds worst overclocker if it couldn't even do 1241 boost/8Ghz memory.

 

[blackened23]

1241 is not a weak overclock IMHO. It's pretty good and above average.

Anyway, these drivers are working great for me, i've thrown about 10 games at it, all is well.

 

[skipsneeky2]

1241 is not a weak overclock IMHO. It's pretty good and above average.

Anyway, these drivers are working great for me, i've thrown about 10 games at it, all is well.

Perhaps i got my memory to high,it seems when people wanna boost at 1300mhz they drop their memory down to 1950 so maybe i will give that a shot,got a feeling my memory is to blame as if you check the overclock.net gtx770 thread virtually everyone in there is pushing pass 1260 boost....plenty over 1300mhz.

Drivers wise,they are treating me well in BF3 till i apply that 1241/8Ghz memory overclock,so will drop the memory and hope for the best cause any lower on this overclock honestly isn't worth my time.

 

[CrystalBay]

Thanks for the notification OP...

 

[Teizo]

Wondering if this driver will fix the issues i get when i apply a overclock on my gtx770,used both msi afterburner and evga precision and i get as far as 1241 boost/8Ghz memory which is a relatively weak oc before BF3 crashs.....doubting its a bad overclock cause every gtx770 in every review went way pass this.

Heck my gtx770 would have to be the worlds worst overclocker if it couldn't even do 1241 boost/8Ghz memory.

Dude....overclocking is not guaranteed. Overclocking is for benchmarks anyway. You don't need to overclock a 770 to play BF3. I mean, you can if you want to of course, but when you are getting 90+ fps you are not going to miss those extra 5 fps.

 

[Imouto]

Your quoted post looks like a troll. Cant even take it serious in any way.

Happened to me too on my 560Ti 448. Got it fixed with 314.22.

Anyway I'm not moving from these drivers, I'm getting lower CUDA performance with every driver release.

 

[FalseChristian]

I love these drivers on my 2 eVGA GTX 760 4GB SLI. They rock! Great job, nVidia!

 

[skipsneeky2]

Dude....overclocking is not guaranteed. Overclocking is for benchmarks anyway. You don't need to overclock a 770 to play BF3. I mean, you can if you want to of course, but when you are getting 90+ fps you are not going to miss those extra 5 fps.

Yeah the hassle in the end for those 5fps isn't worth it especially with all the bother hoping its stable,i don't notice a difference in my other games as they don't need this power even at stock and i love BF3 but it isn't worth the trouble no more but thought my luck was driver related,not anymore.

Will go with the others on saying these drivers are fantastic,then again my luck with nvidia has always been good for the most part.

 

[blackened23]

Dude....overclocking is not guaranteed. Overclocking is for benchmarks anyway. You don't need to overclock a 770 to play BF3. I mean, you can if you want to of course, but when you are getting 90+ fps you are not going to miss those extra 5 fps.

I see what you're saying but I disagree that overclocking is worthless. Clearly overclocking offers tangible benefits - I gain 10-12 fps in many games from OC'ing my 780. It isn't only for benchmarks - the trick is to find an overclock that is 24/7 stable, which can be time consuming to dial in.

That said, my only thing was 1241 being a bad OC. I don't necessarily agree with that - I think it's pretty good for a 770. I'll also add : take reviewer overclocks with a grain of salt. They aren't always indicative of "real world" overclocking since the reviewer is provided with a card by the AIB manufacturer, and there are obvious implications with that at times. The AIB maker may claim that they don't send reviewers their best cards, but I don't buy that for a second. So don't pay TOO much attention to overclocks that reviewers get - what end users get is a much more useful data point.

 

[Teizo]

I see what you're saying but I disagree that overclocking is worthless. Clearly overclocking offers tangible benefits - I gain 10-12 fps in many games from OC'ing my 780. It isn't only for benchmarks - the trick is to find an overclock that is 24/7 stable, which can be time consuming to dial in.

That said, my only thing was 1241 being a bad OC. I don't necessarily agree with that - I think it's pretty good for a 770. I'll also add : take reviewer overclocks with a grain of salt. They aren't always indicative of "real world" overclocking since the reviewer is provided with a card by the AIB manufacturer, and there are obvious implications with that at times. The AIB maker may claim that they don't send reviewers their best cards, but I don't buy that for a second. So don't pay TOO much attention to overclocks that reviewers get - what end users get is a much more useful data point.

Well, I can't say 'too' much about not overclocking lol. Points to sig...And, I agree with you as long as you can find a good, stable, overclock and have the overall system designed to support it you might as well do it to get some extra performance. That being said...if you are already getting 90+, which is what a 770 is capable of in BF3...other than removing some of the thrill factor involved with OCng...it's not something to get too hung up over with high end cards since the extra performance is a luxury...not a necessity...to run max settings (@ 1080p that is....@1440 the dynamic changes entirely).

 

[Minerva]

Wow Win 7 Titan users left out?

 

[Mem]

That lock up/freeze only happened to me in Firefox with my old GTX 460. Chrome or IE I had no problems whatsoever.

I guess it had something to do with GPU Acceleration.

I installed them last night and so far no issues with Firefox or freezing,so looking good but still early days,they may be the ones I actually keep over 314.22 on my 560Ti card.

I'll give it a few more days of proper testing to see how it pans out but its looking positive.

Update: Just got a video hardware error so looks like might have to roll back to good old 314.22s.

 

[BoFox]

I am puzzled why on earth NV can't reproduce the issue experienced on 5xx cards.This is very lazy from NV's part.

While Nvidia claims:
"Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 320.49 WHQL-certified drivers"

quite pointless with a fatal BSOD flaw like this... for my GTX 460's... :twisted:

 

[Mem]

While Nvidia claims:
"Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 320.49 WHQL-certified drivers"

quite pointless with a fatal BSOD flaw like this... for my GTX 460's... :twisted:

We want stability and bug fixes (ie no lockups or crashes) not performance increases ie 4xx/5xx users,anyway gone back to 314.22 which are solid for many users including myself with 4xx/5xx cards,still a lot of people ranting/complaining at Geforce forums on latest drivers about why they can't fix the driver bug issue that 320.xx causing with 4xx/5xx cards,plenty of posts there about it.

I can understand their frustration,its been nearly six months and Nvidia reputation for drivers is now far from perfect in a lot of 4xx/5xx owners eyes.

A few complaints here https://forums.geforce.com/default/...y-driver-feedback-thread-released-9-19-13-/15

 

[Magic Carpet]

Working great on my Geforce 610. No issues with retro gaming or GPU acceleration in Windows. Not sure, why did I even bother updating the drivers though, knowing that they touch the newer content, I don't even play.

Whatever

P.S. You should check out the HoMM 3 HD mod, it's fantastic.

 

[Neden]

I was looking forward to this driver update since my GTX560 has been crashing a lot with the previous drivers. It sounds like the issues still isn't solved or really even improved any.

For those of us with 400/500 series cards, is there any big advantage in going past the 314.xx drivers anyway? Any notable performance gains other than the couple of titles that Nvidia listed? :hmm:

 

[Jaydip]

Don't bother, stick with 314.xx.