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May 23rd, 2012, 07:43 GMT · By

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Download Nvidia Driver 301.42 for Improvements to Skyrim and More

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Nvidia has released its newest set of drivers for its graphics cards, boosting performance in a variety of games, including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, both for those who use single cards and for those who have SLI setups.

Nvidia has always tried to offer owners of its graphics cards top-notch performance in popular games and many new versions brought specific improvements for titles like Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, and more.

Now, with the 301.42 drivers, Nvidia is boosting performance for owners of cards from its 400, 500 and 600 series in a variety of games.

Chief among these is Skyrim, whose performance is now 20% better, Just Cause 2, Far Cry 2, Bulletstorm, Civilization V, and much more.

Many of these improvements apply to single-card setups and to SLI ones, so you should definitely check out these new drivers.

You can download Nvidia’s 301.42 driver right now, from Softpedia.

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Comment #1 by: Tom on 11 Sep 2012, 13:06 UTC reply to this comment

Bull Sh**.

With this driver installed my GTX 550 Ti went from being able to play Skyrim on Ultra w/ the HD texture pack installed at 45-60 FPS, to not being able to get past 10FPS on low settings.

This was on a new computer running Win 7 64 bit and 4 GB of RAM.

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