Geforce 310.54 beta is out

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-310-54-beta-drivers-released

Results & Benchmark Settings:

• Aliens vs. Predator: Performance increased by 3.4% at 1920x1080 when using max settings, tessellation, and Advanced Shadows.
• Assassin’s Creed III (Pre-Release Build): Performance increased by 17.8% at 1920x1080 when using max settings and Normal Anti-Aliasing, by 7.1% at 2560x1600 using the same settings, and by 9.8% at 1920x1080 when using max settings and Very High Anti-Aliasing.
• Batman: Arkham City: Performance increased by 7.6% at 1920x1080 when using Very High detail settings, Tessellation High, PhysX High and FXAA High. At 2560x1600, using 4xMSAA, performance increased by 5.2%.
• Battlefield 3: Performance increased by 13% at 1920x1080 when using Ultra settings in a single-player Paris benchmark; at 2560x1600 an improvement of 7.9% was recorded. Using High settings, an improvement of 15.3% was registered at 1920x1080.
• Borderlands 2: Performance increased by 5.3% at 2560x1600 when using max settings and PhysX High. At 1920x1080 performance increased by 3.3%.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II: Performance increased by 26% at 1920x1080 when using max settings and 8xMSAA. At 2560x1600 performance increased by 24.1%.
• Civilization V: Performance increased by 23.7% at 2560x1600 in a late-game benchmark using max DirectX 11 settings.
• DiRT 3: Performance increased by 4.3% at 1920x1080 when using Ultra DirectX 11 settings and 8xMSAA.
• Dragon Age 2: Performance increased by 8.5% at 2560x1600 when using max settings.
• Hard Reset: Performance increased by 3.6% at 1920x1080 when using Ultra settings and FXAA.
• Just Cause 2: Performance increased by 3.2% at 1920x1080 when using max DirectX 10 settings and 8xMSAA.
• Medal of Honor: Warfighter: Performance increased by 5.7% at 1920x1080 when using High settings.
• Metro 2033: Performance increased by 4.6% at 1680x1050 when using max DirectX 11 settings, Depth of Field, and Advanced PhysX.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat: Performance increased by 4.7% at 2560x1600 when using Extreme settings. At 1920x1080 performance increased by 4.2%.
• Shogun 2: Total War: Performance increased by 3.5% at 2560x1600 when using max DirectX 11 settings, and by 3.3% at 1920x1080.
• Sniper Elite V2: Performance increased by 3.5% at 2560x1600 when using max settings, AA High, and 2.5x Supersampling. Without Supersampling, performance increased by 3.8%.
• StarCraft II: Performance increased by 6.2% at 1920x1080 when using Ultra settings.
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena: Performance increased by 18% at 2560x1600 when using max settings.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Performance increased by 5% at 2560x1600 when using Ultra settings in an indoor scenario, and by 4.7% at 1920x1080.
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: Performance increased by 3% at 1680x1050 when using max settings and anti-aliasing. At 1920x1080 performance increased by 2.8%.
• Unigine Heaven 3.0: Performance increased by 3% at 1920x1080 when using max DirectX 11 settings and Extreme Tessellation. At lower settings and resolutions performance increased by up to 4%.

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 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: 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
  • Metro: 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 http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

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

Additional Details

• Installs PhysX System Software 9.12.1031. This version fixes a bug that caused some applications including Unreal Tournament III, Trine, and Metro 2033 not to launch.
• 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.

Upss. Didn't check there. Only checked the Nvidia section.

sorry

For the first time ever after completion of a driver installation I had a black screen with my Mouse cursor. I had to do a hard reset to start the PC up again. However the installation went through.

Now onto some testing.