Download Driver For Nvidia GeForce/Ion 310.54 Beta

Nvidia has released a new version of the 310 beta GeForce/Ion drivers. The drivers are suitable for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8, and as usual there are separate downloads for 32bit and 64bit environments. The changelog reports performance improvements for the 4, 5, and 600 series cards over the GeForce 306.97 WHQL drivers and includes several new or updated sli and 3d vision profiles.

Release Highlights

This is the recommended driver for the best experience in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Assassin’s Creed III, providing up to 26% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and up to 18% faster performance in Assassin’s Creed III, as well as smooth, shimmer-free graphics with TXAA antialiasing in both games.

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 STALKER: 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 310.33):

• Assassin’s Creed III rated Not Recommended
• Bloody Good Time rated Good
• Bullet Run rated Fair
• Call of Duty Black Ops 2 rated Good
• Carrier Command: Gaea Mission rated 3D Vision Ready
• Dark Souls rated Fair
• Dishonored rated Fair
• FIFA 13 rated Good
• Hitman: Absolution rated Fair
• I Am Alive rated Fair
• MLB 2K12 rated Fair
• NBA 2K12 rated Good
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted rated Fair
• Sniper Elite V2 rated Poor
• Tiny Troopers rated Fair
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD rated Good
• Total War Battles: SHOGUN rated Good
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair

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
• Subway: 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

nVidia SSAA

• Added negative LOD adjustments for nVidia’s full-screen sparse grid supersampling mode to improve image sharpness.

The following downloads are available:
nVidia ForceWare 310.54 beta for Windows XP (32bit)
nVidia ForceWare 310.54 beta for Windows XP / 2003 Server (64bit)
nVidia ForceWare 310.54 beta for Windows Vista/7/8 (32bit)
nVidia ForceWare 310.54 beta for Windows Vista/7/8 (64bit)