NVIDIA GeForce 331.40 Beta Video Card Drivers Released

By Nathan Kirsch

NVIDIA today released GeForce 331.40 beta video card drivers that are now available to download. If you are using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX video card and plan on playing Battlefield 4 beta, GeForce 331.40 beta drivers are what you should be running to ensure maximum performance and system stability.

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GeForce 331.40 beta also includes a major update to the NVIDIA Control Panel Ambient Occlusion feature, which allows you to apply fidelity-enhancing, realistic shading and shadowing to games that do not natively support Ambient Occlusion. With a few simple clicks, you can greatly increase the image quality of your favorite games, and now, with 331.40 beta, the quality of the Ambient Occlusion shading will be significantly higher thanks to the introduction of HBAO+. An example of this is shown in the image above in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist with HBAO+ enabled. For further details on HBAO+, please visit the NVIDIA HBAO+ technology page, and for more info on Ambient Occlusion itself, please head here.

Rounding out 331.40 beta is a whole host of profile updates, adding new SLI profiles, updating existing SLI profiles, adding new Ambient Occlusion profiles, and updating other profile elements for optimum game experiences:

  • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Updated Profile
  • Batman: Arkham Origins Updated SLI Profile
  • Battlefield 3 Updated Surround Profile
  • Battlefield 4 Updated Surround Profile, Added SLI Profile
  • Crisis Added SLI Profile
  • Crysis 3 Added AO Profile
  • Dirty Bomb Added DX9 SLI Profile
  • Dying Light Added DX11 SLI Profile
  • F1 2013 Updated SLI Profile
  • FIFA 14 Added SLI Profile, Added AO Profile
  • Natural Selection 2 Added DX11 SLI Profile
  • Outlast Added DX9 SLI Profile
  • Space Hulk Updated Profile
  • Splinter Cell: Blacklist Updated SLI Profile
  • State of Decay Added DX9 SLI Profile
  • Watch Dogs Added DX11 SLI Profile

You can download GeForce 331.40 beta directly from the Drivers page, or automatically through GeForce Experience. For the complete set of release notes please click here.