Yeah - in the middle section it would get very choppy before.
Wasn't me - I understand frametimes, etc. as well as anyone around here.
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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**
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Yeah - in the middle section it would get very choppy before.
Wasn't me - I understand frametimes, etc. as well as anyone around here.
Caporegime
Shanhai bridge part in bf4, lowest graphics settings.
driver 334.89
driver 337.50
Ignore the post earlier about my connection. Rebooted my router and went back in and got the same results as in pic 1. Normally on full ultra, x4 msaa and HBAO on, 16xaf i get 60.7 fps at that spot. Ill retry that in a bit with the new drivers. Strange though how the in game console fps counter is slightly different than fraps, normally use afterburner but display has gone since this driver update.
Edit, max settings.
334.89
337.50
Pretty impressed so far.
driver 334.89
driver 337.50
Ignore the post earlier about my connection. Rebooted my router and went back in and got the same results as in pic 1. Normally on full ultra, x4 msaa and HBAO on, 16xaf i get 60.7 fps at that spot. Ill retry that in a bit with the new drivers. Strange though how the in game console fps counter is slightly different than fraps, normally use afterburner but display has gone since this driver update.
Edit, max settings.
334.89
337.50
Pretty impressed so far.
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Soldato
Cool enjoy.
Soldato
Cooking dinner then going to try them out on BF$ (not a typo). I am hoping for some gains on my AMD 6 core (phenom II) and 680 although I am at 80 fps (locked) 99.9% of the time anyway :/
Shanhai bridge part in bf4, lowest graphics settings.
driver 334.89
driver 337.50
Ignore the post earlier about my connection. Rebooted my router and went back in and got the same results as in pic 1. Normally on full ultra, x4 msaa and HBAO on, 16xaf i get 60.7 fps at that spot. Ill retry that in a bit with the new drivers. Strange though how the in game console fps counter is slightly different than fraps, normally use afterburner but display has gone since this driver update.
Edit, max settings.
334.89
337.50
Pretty impressed so far.
Looks like I should have upgraded to the .89s a fair bit higher fps than the 334s I had on before.
Man of Honour
Do the new drivers improve on every game or is it only select titles?
Gains in some, but the main benefit seems to be better mins - at least that's what I'm finding
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Caporegime
I will be doing some testing with my CPU at stock. Not going to bother with turning cores off, as it is pointless but for the cpu lows I noticed, it would be cool if I could run a stock cpu for 24/7 gaming and still not get a bottleneck.
Lol, personally I would just use the second card to mine on so I can make money while playing D3 with everything maxed out
but I guess D3 SLI could be useful for people still rocking a pair of GTX460's.
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I love that you guys are doing all these tests. Means I don't have too. Just watch and learn
I love that you guys are doing all these tests. Means I don't have too. Just watch and learn
Why you .....
And here we GO!
System spec:
4770K @ 4.6ghz
8GB HyperX @ 1866 C11
Gainward Phantom GLH SLI @ 954/1500.
All tests were carried out at maximum settings available at 1920x1080. Tests carried out using in game bench mark utility where available, if not a consistent time demo via FRAPS.
Bioshock: Infinate
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains of +2.6%!
Hitman Absolution
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains:
Mins: +29.63%
Avg: +26.87%
Max: +30.23%
Just Cause 2: Concrete Jungle
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains of +6.92%
Sniper Elite V2
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains:
Min: +52.19%
Avg: 0%
Battlefield 4: Siege Of Shanghai
Taken in Humbugs fave spot
60 second FRAPS recording.
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains:
Min: +4%
Avg: +22.81%
Max: +61.79%
Obviously salt pinches required as it was never going to be a 1:1 copy for each run, still, a decent improvement.
Whats missing and why?
Sleeping dogs and TR are missing as I royally screwed up and did the 335 bench with vsync enabled (I only noticed once I was settings up 337 benches). Regardless of this SD gained next to nothing, TR was up around 7% on mins and ~5% avg.
Star swam, again, I screwed up, on finishing the 337 test I noticed I still had one of the frame buffer timing things set at 16.6ms when it should be 8ms.
System spec:
4770K @ 4.6ghz
8GB HyperX @ 1866 C11
Gainward Phantom GLH SLI @ 954/1500.
All tests were carried out at maximum settings available at 1920x1080. Tests carried out using in game bench mark utility where available, if not a consistent time demo via FRAPS.
Bioshock: Infinate
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains of +2.6%!
Hitman Absolution
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains:
Mins: +29.63%
Avg: +26.87%
Max: +30.23%
Just Cause 2: Concrete Jungle
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains of +6.92%
Sniper Elite V2
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains:
Min: +52.19%
Avg: 0%
Battlefield 4: Siege Of Shanghai
Taken in Humbugs fave spot
60 second FRAPS recording.
335 WHQL
337 BETA
Gains:
Min: +4%
Avg: +22.81%
Max: +61.79%
Obviously salt pinches required as it was never going to be a 1:1 copy for each run, still, a decent improvement.
Whats missing and why?
Sleeping dogs and TR are missing as I royally screwed up and did the 335 bench with vsync enabled (I only noticed once I was settings up 337 benches). Regardless of this SD gained next to nothing, TR was up around 7% on mins and ~5% avg.
Star swam, again, I screwed up, on finishing the 337 test I noticed I still had one of the frame buffer timing things set at 16.6ms when it should be 8ms.
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Soldato
Very nice gains considering it's for free, from Nvidia (I just thought that was worth pointing out 
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Odd that in some tests it lower one of the 3 framerate values (min, max or avg).
So are there any problems in games like BF4 where these drivers cause an increase in VRAM meaning 3GB cards or less need to turn settings down lower than before?
How about SLI scaling, is that any good? You'd think to some degree this would benefit more from reduced CPU overhead.
I wonder if this is a one off like the magic AMD drivers (12.11s?) or if they'll keep tweaking and improving things?
).Odd that in some tests it lower one of the 3 framerate values (min, max or avg).
So are there any problems in games like BF4 where these drivers cause an increase in VRAM meaning 3GB cards or less need to turn settings down lower than before?
How about SLI scaling, is that any good? You'd think to some degree this would benefit more from reduced CPU overhead.
I wonder if this is a one off like the magic AMD drivers (12.11s?) or if they'll keep tweaking and improving things?
Associate
Well i have not done any bench testing but just playing BF4 you can just see and feel its better.
There are certain maps that just feel sluggish and twitchy in parts now just smooth
also the green and yellow bar you get up in BF4 (forgot what it's called) well the green GPU line looks a lot flatter and closer together (if that makes sense)
This is one very good update for sure
There are certain maps that just feel sluggish and twitchy in parts now just smooth
also the green and yellow bar you get up in BF4 (forgot what it's called) well the green GPU line looks a lot flatter and closer together (if that makes sense)This is one very good update for sure
Caporegime
Noticed bf4 a bit smoother too and minimum fps are up a bit. Havent had the performance graph running though.Well i have not done any bench testing but just playing BF4 you can just see and feel its better.
There are certain maps that just feel sluggish and twitchy in parts now just smooth
This is one very good update for sure
Associate
That's the thing setter I always felt the game was smooth with SLI but this just feels better and those twitchy parts of certain maps now feels allot smoother.
Anyone else had a look at the performance graphs for BF4?
Soldato
i feel like I had slightly better fps and performance before these drivers concerning BF4, but they did give me 20+fps on crysis3 fully maxed out