Nvidia Driver update news

Neil79 · 25 Aug 2010 at 18:22

A beta driver should be released on monday to fix stuttering in bfbc 2 and some other games.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=170238&st=200&p=1108205&#entry1108205

Audio Drivers and 3D Drivers will be optional on install

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=177836&st=0&p=1107835&#entry1107835

Drivers 260.35 will contain the Gothic 1 and gothic 2 fixes but won't be in next week's beta set!

Just a quick update everyone. It looks as if the driver version that fixes this issue is going to be 260.35 which is based on a branch that is slightly newer than the upcoming beta driver that is slated for this Monday. The follow up driver will contain all of the fixes for Gothic 1 and Gothic 2.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=104636&pid=1108672&st=440&#entry1108672

RavenXXX2 · 25 Aug 2010 at 18:38

Sweet, look forward to trying them out.

Neil79 · 25 Aug 2010 at 20:08

Update 2

Sorry. I did not mean to ignore the Geforce GTX 260 users. I just did not fully complete my own testing with Geforce GTX 200 series cards so I did not want to comment too early. I only tested the Geforce GTX 280 but GPU usage was around 90-100% average with the new drivers.

Gerard · 25 Aug 2010 at 20:20

Neil79 said:
Update 2

Is that better gpu usage for bc2?

Neil79 · 25 Aug 2010 at 20:22

Gerard said:
Is that better gpu usage for bc2?

Yes and other games

We shall see

RavenXXX2 · 25 Aug 2010 at 20:23

Interesting....I have low GPU usage in some games, hope this set cures it.

Gerard · 25 Aug 2010 at 20:23

Neil79 said:
Yes and other games

We shall see

Hmm hopefully the 295 gets a bump as well.

Neil79 · 25 Aug 2010 at 20:59

The Gothic 1-2 fix will be in the next WHQL driver , so after the beta

xtremedetailz · 25 Aug 2010 at 21:54

hey another set

gotta try these

Neil79 · 25 Aug 2010 at 21:59

xtremedetailz said:
hey another set gotta try these

Not out till monday

drunkenmaster · 25 Aug 2010 at 23:16

Thank god their are fixes, of course, we're all led to believe Nvidia drivers "just work" are far ahead of AMD and of course, fixes happen incredibly quickly.

Fixes for Gothic 1 and 2..........

Uber quick

I'm of course making a joke, because it looks like they simply forgot to add in previous fixes......... which again is something AMD get slated for mercilessly by 1-2 people, and Nvidia never ever do themselves.

Final8y · 26 Aug 2010 at 00:40

Neil79 said:
A beta driver should be released on monday to fix stuttering in bfbc 2 and some other games.

What! surely no. :confused:

A beta driver should be released on monday to fix stuttering in bfbc 2 and some other games on ATI cards

That's better

lay-z-boy · 26 Aug 2010 at 00:52

Final8y said:
What surely no.

That's better

No kidding. I spat out my drink when I read the opening post. Clearly a typo, thank god you corrected it.

Neil79 · 26 Aug 2010 at 09:05

heh

I R Confused

kylew · 26 Aug 2010 at 09:21

Neil79 said:
heh I R Confused

I think they're making fun of all the people who claim problems such as this don't happen with nVidia cards.

straxusii · 26 Aug 2010 at 09:41

Our cards have no stuttering, it is your card that stutter!

skotish| · 26 Aug 2010 at 09:45

No issues here

Neil79 · 26 Aug 2010 at 09:50

kylew said:
I think they're making fun of all the people who claim problems such as this don't happen with nVidia cards.

Oh

skotish| said:
No issues here

Load gothic 1 or 2 , there you go issues

Stanners · 26 Aug 2010 at 09:54

Here we go, The ATI brigade have arrived, Let the thread trashing start, good to see the usual suspects.

On a side note, how do you RTM (Not for this thread btw, just for future reference)

drunkenmaster · 26 Aug 2010 at 10:24

Stanners said:
Here we go, The ATI brigade have arrived, Let the thread trashing start, good to see the usual suspects.

On a side note, how do you RTM (Not for this thread btw, just for future reference)

Just for reference I've never jumped into a Nvidia driver thread to trash them before, however several people in this thread have done it to every possible ATi thread in the past few weeks, all claiming Nvidia drivers just work, never a problem, no issue and AMD drivers are crap, issues every single AMD user has, AMD being slow to fix problems, and the cream of the crop, Nvidia cards just run all games smoother..........

Then you have a thread with fixes for games that stutter on Nvidia, not even close to new games, especially as several of these users have complained several times about AMD's loading time issue with BC2, a problem with the game itself, and a fix AMD was first to introduce, a problem that effected Nvidia cards and the fact that AFTER it was supposed to have been fixed on the game side via a patch AMD left this fix out of the driver, and then refixed it a day later as the game fix wasn't working so AMD readded it.

Some users would have you believe forgetting to add this "fix" to a new driver was almost unforgiveable and certainly would never happen with Nvidia, and yet again, we see that Nvidia have done exactly that.

I don't care, I'm not calling Nvidia drivers crap, I'm calling them the SAME as AMD drivers, they have issues, people pretending otherwise are just talking rubbish.

However, personally I don't think stuttering in several games, at least one a major title, is a minor issue, the leaving out a fix that SHOULD have been long since fixed by game patches I couldn't care less about, stuff happens.