Yoda
03-25-2010, 04:39 PM
Battlefield Bad Company 2 has been out for 3 weeks now and players around the world have been waging a digital war in the latest installment of the Battlefield Series. Nvidia and ATI have both released new drivers over the past few days, that improve overall performance of their video cards. we recommend updating your video card’s drivers to the latest versions to make sure you get the most out of your PC Bad Company 2 experience.
Below you will find each camp’s new drivers, change logs, and download link information:
Nvidia: Team Green has just released their newest BETA drivers (197.25) that add increased speed and optimization for SLI and Multi-GPU Cards for Bad Company 2. I can tell you that even if your not running a SLI or Multi-GPU setup, your probably still going to see around a 5%-10% increase in FPS. These 197.25 drivers were released March 23rd. They also fix the Fan Speed bug that some Nvidia users were getting when setting their computers to “Sleep Mode”. These are not WHQL Certified, but me, and most of my Nvidia friends have been using them issue free for the past couple of days.
Download Page: (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us)
Change Log:
dds support for Next Generation ION (http://www.nvidia.com/ion).
Adds support for GeForce GT 320 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_320_us.html), GeForce GT 330 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_330_us.html), and GeForce GT 340 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_340_us.html).
Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0129.
Upgrades HD Audio driver to version 1.0.9.1 (for supported GPUs).
Increases performance in several PC games from v196.21 WHQL. The following are examples of measured improvements. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
Up to 13% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with a single GPU
Up to 30% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with SLI technology
Up to 13% performance increase in H.A.W.X with single GPU
Up to 15% performance increase in H.A.W.X with SLI technology
Up to 30% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with single GPU
Up to 28% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with SLI technology
Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for top new gaming titles including Assassin Creed II, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight, Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Napoleon: Total War, and Zombie Driver.
Enhanced SLI support for Metro 2033, Supreme Commander 2, Unigine, and World of Warcraft.
Adds Ambient Occlusion (http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_ambientocclusion_home.html) support for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Need for Speed: Shift, Resident Evil 5, RUSE, and Street Fighter IV.
Adds override anti-aliasing support for Mass Effect 2.
Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx).
<HR style="WIDTH: 620px">ATI: Team Red has released their newest Catalyst 10.3 Drivers that improve performance across the board on multiple gaming engines. Bad Company 2 is not on the list, but a few Overclocking Forums have users posting 5%-10% gains.
http://badcompanytwo.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ATI_Radeon_80x.jpg ATI Download Page: (http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx)
Performance Gains:
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.3:
3DMark Vantage
Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics
products
Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Aliens vs. Predator
Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Battleforge
Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Call of Duty: World at War
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Company of Heroes
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Crysis and Crysis Warhead
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Devil May Cry 4
Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
DiRT 2
Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note Version 10.3 7
Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD
5700 Series products
Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Far Cry 2
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark
Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000
Series products
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Resident Evil 5
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI
Radeon HD 5700 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Unigine Tropics
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
World in Conflict
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Wolfenstein
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Below you will find each camp’s new drivers, change logs, and download link information:
Nvidia: Team Green has just released their newest BETA drivers (197.25) that add increased speed and optimization for SLI and Multi-GPU Cards for Bad Company 2. I can tell you that even if your not running a SLI or Multi-GPU setup, your probably still going to see around a 5%-10% increase in FPS. These 197.25 drivers were released March 23rd. They also fix the Fan Speed bug that some Nvidia users were getting when setting their computers to “Sleep Mode”. These are not WHQL Certified, but me, and most of my Nvidia friends have been using them issue free for the past couple of days.
Download Page: (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us)
Change Log:
dds support for Next Generation ION (http://www.nvidia.com/ion).
Adds support for GeForce GT 320 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_320_us.html), GeForce GT 330 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_330_us.html), and GeForce GT 340 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_340_us.html).
Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0129.
Upgrades HD Audio driver to version 1.0.9.1 (for supported GPUs).
Increases performance in several PC games from v196.21 WHQL. The following are examples of measured improvements. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
Up to 13% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with a single GPU
Up to 30% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with SLI technology
Up to 13% performance increase in H.A.W.X with single GPU
Up to 15% performance increase in H.A.W.X with SLI technology
Up to 30% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with single GPU
Up to 28% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with SLI technology
Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for top new gaming titles including Assassin Creed II, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight, Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Napoleon: Total War, and Zombie Driver.
Enhanced SLI support for Metro 2033, Supreme Commander 2, Unigine, and World of Warcraft.
Adds Ambient Occlusion (http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_ambientocclusion_home.html) support for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Need for Speed: Shift, Resident Evil 5, RUSE, and Street Fighter IV.
Adds override anti-aliasing support for Mass Effect 2.
Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx).
<HR style="WIDTH: 620px">ATI: Team Red has released their newest Catalyst 10.3 Drivers that improve performance across the board on multiple gaming engines. Bad Company 2 is not on the list, but a few Overclocking Forums have users posting 5%-10% gains.
http://badcompanytwo.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ATI_Radeon_80x.jpg ATI Download Page: (http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx)
Performance Gains:
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.3:
3DMark Vantage
Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics
products
Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Aliens vs. Predator
Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Battleforge
Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Call of Duty: World at War
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Company of Heroes
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Crysis and Crysis Warhead
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Devil May Cry 4
Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
DiRT 2
Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note Version 10.3 7
Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD
5700 Series products
Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Far Cry 2
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark
Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000
Series products
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Resident Evil 5
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI
Radeon HD 5700 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Unigine Tropics
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
World in Conflict
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Wolfenstein
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products