NVIDIA Rolls Out the GeForce 340.43 Beta Driver

Cristian_25H · Jun 17, 2014

NVIDIA has today made available a new graphics driver, a beta release that's supposed to provide the 'best possible gaming experience' EA's Battlefield: Hardline (Beta) and Codemasters' GRID: Autosport. The GeForce 340.43 beta also comes with a few new SLI profiles and various fixes. The driver offers support for GeForce 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 and 700 Series desktop cards and for ION/ION LE chips.

Download: Windows 7/8/8.1/Vista (64-bit) / Windows 7/8/8.1/Vista (32-bit) / Windows XP (64-bit) / Windows XP (32-bit)

New in GeForce 340.43 Beta drivers

Game Ready - This 340.43 Game Ready Beta driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience for GRID: Autosport and the Battlefield: Hardline Beta.

SLI Technology

3DMark Skydiver subtest - added profile
Battlefield: Hardline - added profile
Elder Scrolls: Online - added profile
LuDaShi Benchmark - added profile
Wildstar x32 version - added profile
Dark Souls II - updated profile

Gaming Technology

Supports GeForce ShadowPlay technology
Supports GeForce ShadowPlay Twitch Streaming

SHIELD

Supports NVIDIA GameStream technology

3D Vision

Supports new "3D Compatibility Mode" for 3D Vision that enables us to improve the 3D experience for many key DirectX 10 and 11 games.

3D Compatiblity Mode Profiles

Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea (DLC) - rated as "Excellent"
Banished - rated as "Good"
Krater - rated as "Good"

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RCoon · Jun 17, 2014

Odd that NVidia have a driver for the new Battlefield turd, considering it's basically the BF4 mantle engine thing, as it's only Beta. Does Hardline use Mantle?

THE_EGG · Jun 17, 2014

RCoon said:
Odd that NVidia have a driver for the new Battlefield turd, considering it's basically the BF4 mantle engine thing, as it's only Beta. Does Hardline use Mantle?

EA must have paid Nvidia to do that to make the minions believe they are getting a whole new game.

I only just installed the latest driver today (before this one) .... damnit

Recus · Jun 17, 2014

THE_EGG said:
EA must have paid Nvidia to do that to make the minions believe they are getting a whole new game.

I only just installed the latest driver today (before this one) .... damnit

Interesting thing that Hardline is AMD sponsored game so scrubs will buy it because of Mantle.

HumanSmoke · Jun 17, 2014

THE_EGG said:
I only just installed the latest driver today (before this one) .... damnit

Oh no! faces whole three minutes of driver updating! I really feel your pain.

A first world problem or THE first world problem
:SMH:

THE_EGG · Jun 18, 2014

HumanSmoke said:
Oh no! faces whole three minutes of driver updating! I really feel your pain.

A first world problem or THE first world problem
:SMH:

Thanks for feeling my pain

I only thought the timing was quite funny, as I literally just finished installing the previous set of drivers, opened my browser, went to TPU and boom new headline stating that Nvidia had released new drivers. I hasn't thought about the loss of my time tbh.

BorisDG · Jun 18, 2014

Damn. I have still artifacts in Valley with 780Ti...

THE_EGG · Jun 18, 2014

Ok tried these out. They installed fine and everything. Games seemed a little slower so I check out if SLI was enabled (as I noticed temps were really low on the second card) and found it was disabled in NVidia control panel. So I enabled it, and black screen. It refuses to run SLI with these drivers and my setup. Previous drivers work fine though (337.88).

xorbe · Jun 18, 2014

BorisDG said:
Damn. I have still artifacts in Valley with 780Ti...

Same here with Titan. I even tried massively downclocking my Titan and CPU, no change. It has to be the drivers and/or Unigine Valley. I have no problems otherwise.

FX-GMC · Jun 18, 2014

BorisDG said:
Damn. I have still artifacts in Valley with 780Ti...

xorbe said:
Same here with Titan. I even tried massively downclocking my Titan and CPU, no change. It has to be the drivers and/or Unigine Valley. I have no problems otherwise.

I'm glad you posted that. Good to know it's not just me.

BorisDG · Jun 19, 2014

Yeah, it's common problem with 780 series and last drivers. With older driver for example - 332.21 no problems. No artifacts there. It's driver issue, not gpu/memory, so no worries.

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