Nvidia has released new WHQL certified GeForce/Ion drivers. It is the first stable release in the R304 series. This driver adds support for the newly introduced GeForce GTX 660 Ti. We also find further support for TXAA on, a new and better way of anti-aliasing supported only by the GeForce 600 family. The full changelog for this release can be found below.
Release Highlights
- This is a WHQL-certified driver for the new GeForce GTX 660 Ti GPU.
New in R304 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. Read about it on GeForce.co.uk.
- TXAA is supported on GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs.
nVidia SLI Technology– Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
- Alan Wake’s American Nightmare – added
- Borderlands 2 – added
- Darksiders 2 – added
- End of Nations – added
- F1 2011 – updated
- F1 2012 – added
- Final Fantasy XIV – Updated
- Nexuiz – added
- Orcs Must Die! 2 – added
- PlanetSide 2 – updated
- Saints Row: The Third – updated
- Shogun 2: Total War – Updated
- Sleeping Dogs – added
- Spec Ops: The Line – added
- The Secret World – updated
- Torchlight II – added
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier – added
- Tornado Force – added
- Tribes: Ascend – updated
nVidia 3D Vision– Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
- A New Dawn – rated Fair
- Alan Wake’s American Nightmare – rated Not Recommended
- All Zombies Must Die! Scorepocalypse – rated Good
- ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead
- fair
- Bang Bang Racing – rated Excellent
- Brave – rated 3D Vision Ready
- Devil May Cry 4-rated Fair
- Dishonored – rated Good
- End of Nations – rated Good
- F1 2012 – rated Good
- London 2012 The Official Video Game – rated Fair
- Mad Doc Jr.’s Doom Rails – rated Excellent
- Planetside 2 – rated Not Recommended
- Prototype 2 – Rated Poor
- Raiderz – rated Fair
- Roller Coaster Rampage – rated 3D Vision Ready
- SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator – Rated Fair
- The Secret World – rated Good
- Sleeping Dogs – rated Good
- Spec Ops the Line – rated Good
- Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends – rated Good
Other Profile Updates
- Added nVidia Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
- Added nVidia Control Panel antialiasing support for LA Noire
- Added nVidia Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
- Added nVidia Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.
nVidia Surround
- Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall.
nVidia CUDA
- Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 Preview or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information here
Additional Details
- Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604.
- Installs HD Audio v1.3.18.0.
- 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.
The following downloads are available:
nVidia ForceWare 305.68 WHQL for Windows XP (32bit)
nVidia ForceWare 305.68 WHQL for Windows XP (64bit)
nVidia ForceWare 305.68 WHQL for Windows Vista and 7 (32bit)
nVidia ForceWare 305.68 WHQL for Windows Vista and 7 (64bit)
| Version number | 305.68 WHQL |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Windows 7 x64, Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64 |
| Website | nVidia |
| Download | |
| File sizes |
148.00MB – 220.00MB |
| License type | Freeware |