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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**
- Thread starter Boomstick777
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Soldato
What I really mean is in relation to AMD's drivers. What with frame pacing and now mantle, Nvidia's drivers have been, well pretty mundane.
Agreed. Having things just work is very boring
That's the thing, they don't just work other wise they wouldn't need to fix things in every release
A number of people on guru3d are starting to get "driver has stopped responding" with the latest beta's(yes I know they are betas), so I'm using the quadros now and haven't had a single issue.
Caporegime
That's the thing, they don't just work other wise they wouldn't need to fix things in every release
A number of people on guru3d are starting to get "driver has stopped responding" with the latest beta's(yes I know they are betas), so I'm using the quadros now and haven't had a single issue.
Yer, I am sure there is a number of people who have issues. When I went SLI, I had major BSOD's and couldn't for the life of me work out why but a run of DDU sorted that out and touch wood, running sweet as a nut.
@ Opeth, frame pacing was sorted years ago on nVidia and as far as Mantle goes, that is something I would like to see nVidia implement.
Not as banal as some of the game code the pc game developers pass out to the end user, i mean, how trite most of the pc games are today. Boring pc games, imo.
Boring drivers lol? Aren't they all pretty boring, install, run a few benches if you can be bothered (I can't anymore) I just test them on the games I'm currently playing and if it's smooth and it doesn't crash then they're good for me.
Mantle is an API not a driver.
Mantle is an API not a driver.
Associate
Maybe just maybe the touted Windows 9 with DX12 could have a more direct to metal approach ?? M a y b e!!!!
Been fast and stable for me, not sure what you mean? I know AMD have launched a lot of new features in their latest drivers, but aside from Mantle, a lot of the updates were to fix Crossfire compatibility, frame pacing etc. While Nvidia is spot on in that regard. We may get Mantle support or something similar in the future. Nothing wrong with fast and stable though..
Soldato
Maybe just maybe the touted Windows 9 with DX12 could have a more direct to metal approach ?? M a y b e!!!!
I doubt it would be as good as mantle is theoretically, becuase Microsoft would have to make something generic to work on all hardware configurations.
Associate
Ok but like mantel if you have x game you could drop down a tab to use say DX metal? So you would have compatibility for all plus a bonus for people that have splashed out for high end systems.
I would love to know what Nvidia are thinking with all this Mantel talk this means there not really talking about Nvidia!
Associate
They're probably fed up with seeing the word Mantle everywhere. As am I.
Soldato
Gone back to the WHQL drivers as the latest BETA causes some of the worst FPS spikes using vsync (adaptive, on or even smooth) with 2 cards in SLI that I've ever seen. Affected games seem to be WOW and BF4.
Soldato
Well you don't help yourself by trolling in the mantle threads now, do you?
Goodbye Nvidia, I've had you since the days of the 560ti!
MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB
Why come into an Nvidia drivers thread and post that?
Pointless trolling.
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Associate
That's utter nonsense, if you don't have anything to say about Nvidia drivers then just leave - I could do without pointless baiting today, I'm not in the mood.