Download Driver For Nvidia GeForce/Ion 310.70 Beta

After several betas, Nvidia has now released beta of the 310-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 for release 310 mentions performance improvements for 4, 5 and 600 series cards over the GeForce 306.97 WHQL drivers and includes several new or updated sli and 3d vision profiles. In addition, the drivers include optimizations for games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Assassin’s Creed III and Far Cry 3.

Release Highlights

This GeForce driver is recommended for the best experience in the blockbuster holiday games. GeForce 310.64 drivers add optimizations for Far Cry 3, providing up to 38% faster performance.

These drivers also include the previously released optimizations for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Assassin’s Creed IIIproviding 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 38% in Far Cry 3
• 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 6% in Far Cry 3
• 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:

• Far Cry 3 – updated SLI profile
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 – updated SLI profile
• 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

• 007 Legends – rated Fair
• Assassin’s Creed III – rated Not Recommended
• Bloody Good Time – rated Good
• Bullet Run – rated Fair
• Bunch of Heroes – rated Good
• CABAL2 – rated Good
• Call of Duty Black Ops 2 – rated Good
• Carrier Command: Gaea Mission – rated 3D Vision Ready
• Dark Souls – rated Fair
• Dishonored – rated Fair
• Euro Truck Simulator 2 – rated Excellent
• FIFA 13 – rated Good
• Hawken – rated 3D Vision Ready
• Hitman: Absolution – rated Fair
• I Am Alive – rated Fair
• Lucius – rated Fair
• Mabinogi Heroes – rated Fair
• Medal of Honor: Warfighter – rated Fair
• Subway: Last Light – rated Good
• MLB 2K12 – rated Fair
• NBA 2K12 – rated Good
• NBA 2K13 – rated Good
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted – rated Fair
• Of Orcs and Men – rated Fair
• Painkiller: Hell & Damnation – rated Fair
• Planetside 2 – rated Not Recommended
• Prepar3D – rated Good
• Sniper Elite V2 – rated Poor
• Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 – rated Poor
• The Amazing Spider-Man – rated Not Recommended
• Tiny Troopers – rated Fair
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD – rated Good
• Total War Battles: SHOGUN – rated Good
• Unmechanical – rated Good
• War of the Roses rated Fair
• World Rally Championship 3 rated Good
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair

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 310.70 for Windows XP (32bit)
nVidia ForceWare 310.70 for Windows XP / 2003 Server (64bit)
nVidia ForceWare 310.70 for Windows Vista/7/8 (32bit)
nVidia ForceWare 310.70 for Windows Vista/7/8 (64bit)