Guild Wars 2

New nVidia driver – 306.23 WHQL

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/48771

The new NVIDIA GeForce 306.23 WHQL drivers are now available to download. An essential upgrade for every GeForce GTX user, the GeForce 306.23 WHQL drivers enable high-quality TXAA anti-aliasing on GTX 600 Series GPUs, improve game performance by up to 17% on all GeForce 400, 500, and 600 Series GPUs, enhance seven top titles with NVIDIA Control Panel MSAA and Ambient Occlusion profiles, improve the overall user experience for all GPU users, and add SLI and 3D Vision profiles for new releases and upcoming titles, including Borderlands 2, Darksiders 2, Dishonored, End of Nations, F1 2012, Guild Wars 2, Max Payne 3, Orcs Must Die! 2, PlanetSide 2, Sleeping Dogs, The Secret World, The Walking Dead, Torchlight II, and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.

The release notes also state support for SLI in Guild Wars 2.

It should be noted, there are NO new GW2 improvements in this driver, it’s just the “official” version of the beta from last week. I’ve also read a comment from an Nvidia developer that a LOT of the performance problems this game has are not GPU but CPU, there’s not a lot they can do apparently.

Ambient occlusion is still not working with reflections or supersampling turned on. Kind of disappointing to have to choose between the two.

Does not help the poor performance in Guild Wars 2. The problem is with ANet they need to fix the game.

Nvidia even stated on their forum that no driver can fix a poorly optimised game.

I’ve already made a post regarding the new drivers, tests have confirmed no significant improvements in overall guild wars 2 gameplay, only some minor improvements with particular scenes/graphics properties.

Zelta.6829:

I’ve already made a post regarding the new drivers, tests have confirmed no significant improvements in overall guild wars 2 gameplay, only some minor improvements with particular scenes/graphics properties.

Ah, I didn’t see your post. Maybe an admin can merge the threads?

The improvements I’ve noticed might not be from the new drivers, could be an Anet patch. If so, we hope to see some major optimisation work done in the near future.

“Does not help the poor performance in Guild Wars 2. The problem is with ANet they need to fix the game.
Nvidia even stated on their forum that no driver can fix a poorly optimised game.”

Agreed. It would be nice if ANet would take responsibility for the pervasive black screen issue that is NOT fixed by this driver.

VisceralMonkey.6128:

It should be noted, there are NO new GW2 improvements in this driver, it’s just the “official” version of the beta from last week. I’ve also read a comment from an Nvidia developer that a LOT of the performance problems this game has are not GPU but CPU, there’s not a lot they can do apparently.

Did you read it over at Guru3D by chance? If so he was responding to one of my questions.

This isn’t as simple as “It’s CPU” bound. Because a AMD GPU can be the difference between having unstable performance and solid performance. This is a Nvidia issue, specificly it’s kepler (high end) line.

But in general, the message was they can’t really do much until Arena Net works closer with them.