NVIDIA Releases GeForce 344.75 WHQL Game Ready Driver

btarunr · Nov 19, 2014

In what's been a month of driver releases on a near-weekly basis, NVIDIA released its latest "Game Ready" driver, GeForce 344.75 WHQL. In addition to game optimizations for some of the latest game releases of the week, this driver introduces multi-frame sampled anti-aliasing (MFAA), which can be enabled across GeForce GTX 600, GTX 700, and GTX 900 series graphics cards. Game optimizations with this release include FarCry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Crew, and World of Warcraft: Warlords of Dreanor.

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LiveOrDie · Nov 19, 2014

It's good to see nvidia allowing these new features on older cards.

wickedcricket · Nov 19, 2014

Started playing DA:I but now BF4 crashes like f***ing hell :/

Raptor_i · Nov 19, 2014

I'm getting black shadows and green tint when enable SLI + HBAO+ (in Far cry 4).

PLAfiller · Nov 19, 2014

I installed 344.65 yesterday. And 344.60 a few days back. Nvidia are going busy busy busy this month

tongey54 · Nov 19, 2014

"this driver introduces multi-frame sampled anti-aliasing (MFAA), which can be enabled across GeForce GTX 600, GTX 700, and GTX 900 series graphics cards."

This is not true, MFAA is only available on GTX 9xx series cards.

LiveOrDie · Nov 20, 2014

tongey54 said:
"this driver introduces multi-frame sampled anti-aliasing (MFAA), which can be enabled across GeForce GTX 600, GTX 700, and GTX 900 series graphics cards."

This is not true, MFAA is only available on GTX 9xx series cards.

It is true these release notes are Nvidia's also i get the option on my 780TI.

xorbe · Nov 20, 2014

Then AnandTech got it wrong ... (and I don't know the answer!)

LiveOrDie · Nov 20, 2014

Nar i don't see any MFAA on my card when i look in the game settings.

DayKnight · Nov 20, 2014

Last I read, MFAA is only for Maxwell 2.0.

tongey54 · Nov 20, 2014

xorbe said:
Then AnandTech got it wrong ... (and I don't know the answer!)

Guru3D also say Maxwell only...

Prima.Vera · Nov 21, 2014

I can confirm no MFAA for 780Ti.
Also those drivers broke the SMAA in FC4. Now when enabled, it's a complete blured image.

xorbe · Nov 21, 2014

That image has awful composition, lol.

Prima.Vera · Nov 22, 2014

why the hair is so blurred and pixelized??

RejZoR · Nov 23, 2014

Because they fail at rendering fur thats why

We've had fur rendering that didn't look much worse than this like 10 years ago. Can't remember the name of the game, but i think it was made by some german developer or publisher and it was happening in some sort of jungle secret research complex with animals that were turned into robotic hybrids with metal skeleton and flesh over it. And when you shot them, the flesh would be actually torn off. The game was rather mediocre, but the dismemberment and fur rendering was pretty advanced for its time. Not sure why the hell i can't find it...

EDIT:

Found it. The game was Vivisector: Beast Within

Video quality is a bit rubbish, but you can see the fur render being done on those beasts. The game was released back in 2006. We are talking GeForce 6000 and 7000 series era. That's freakin ancient history and they could do fur rendering that basically doesn't look much worse than it does today. Ugh...

D007 · Nov 24, 2014

And another crappy, rushed out driver, plagued with issues.
Now I get blackscreens out of nowhere in kerbal space program.
Why can't Nvidia make a driver anymore?
Did all the competent people quit?

Prima.Vera · Nov 24, 2014

That game looks good even for today's standards. Put some shaders and HD textures and can be good to go

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D007 · Nov 24, 2014

There is already a hotfix for this driver and the issues with DP.
344.8 hotfix.
I'm really beyond annoyed with Npoopia lately.
Thousands of dollars I spent building this sli 980 system, just to get crappy drivers.
Seriously wth happened to Nvidia quality control and competent programmers?

Prima.Vera · Nov 25, 2014

Flashing textures in SWTOR??

FX-GMC · Nov 27, 2014

So I call a guy out for acting like a child and my post gets deleted. Brilliant.

Npoopia wins today.

Prima.Vera · Nov 30, 2014

So just to be clear. MFAA is only for 9xx cards, right?

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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 344.75 WHQL Game Ready Driver

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