GeForce 306.02 Beta Drivers

[Rusty0611]

Well these Drivers again have problems, Playing Smite it's a DX9 game only a 32Bit available however the game dips into 40 FPS when it gets hectic and the GPU usage doesn't move to keep 60 FPS

Sounds like an engine problem unless you've read of people replicating on AMD drivers/other nVidia set up and not having the same issues.

While it is easy to say that the drivers are causing the issue in general unless you've ruled out other things...

If you have then what have you done?

 

[Snodge]

A friend of mine has a 3770k and 670 he says he doesn't get these Dips so I assume it must just be me.

 

[buchtis]

I did not have any problems with the older drivers so yes.

If you were in my position would you not go for the drivers that give the best performance and minimum problems.

OcUK Graphics Cards section in a nutshell.

Spend thousands on a PC with XFire/SLi set ups to run benchmarks.

Good God.

 

[opethdisciple]

A friend of mine has a 3770k and 670 he says he doesn't get these Dips so I assume it must just be me.

I know you shouldnt have too, but have you tried to replicate issue with card at stock settings?

 

[tommybhoy]

@butchis,

That's why it's PC and not console, it's choice, be it BF3, 3Dmark, Minecraft, Folding...

 

[Kaapstad]

OcUK Graphics Cards section in a nutshell.

Spend thousands on a PC with XFire/SLi set ups to run benchmarks.

Good God.

My PC also runs BF3 with everything maxed out and the frame rate well over a hundred with 301.42 without a glitch.

Why would I want to run a set of beta drivers.

 

[Kaapstad]

Spend thousands on a PC with XFire/SLi set ups to run benchmarks.

My PCs were built to run games not benchmarks. Depending on how you play there are games that are very resource hungry and put a lot more strain on a PC than a FPS. Try running CIV 5 on a huge map with a huge empire very late in the game. It is a challenge for any PC and makes benchmarks look like a pushover.

 

[LambChop]

Just tried them.

About 4% slower in Unigine Heaven 3

About 1% slower in 3dmark11

Back to 301.42 for me.

Hope everyone else has better luck.

lol

 

[Kaapstad]

lol

Would you use a driver that made your setup run worse.

For most people the latest driver seems to be an improvement but that does not mean everybody.

 

[layte]

Would you use a driver that made your setup run worse.

For most people the latest driver seems to be an improvement but that does not mean everybody.

How do games run? Getting worked up over artificial benchmarks that mean nothing seems a bit strange IMO.

I stopped benchmarking every single driver release in pointless tests years ago. These days I fire up the games (you know, the things you bout the card for) I'm playing at the moment and see how they compare.

That they might be fractionally slower in nonsense heaven or 3dmark means absolutely sod all to me if they run my games better.

 

[V_R]

Great!, thanks op

Although these drivers are BETA, they are very very close to the final WHQL driver which we will be releasing in a few days. We wanted to get these drivers out to users sooner for those who have been requesting updated drivers to use with newer graphics cards or games. Once you have had an opportunity to test these drivers, we ask that if you encounter any issues, please take a moment to fill out our driver feedback form. Please provide as much information as you can to assist us in reproducing your issue:

http://surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?pi=6e7ea6bb4a02641fa8f07694a40f8ac6

Regards,
Manuel
www.nvidia.com

Whatever happened to these?

 

[illuz]

Probably still working on bugs reported through the feedback form. Programming drivers is hard, trust me. No room for error.

 

[Snodge]

Yeah I have replicated the same problem with core speeds.

 

[Rusty0611]

A friend of mine has a 3770k and 670 he says he doesn't get these Dips so I assume it must just be me.

Yeah I have replicated the same problem with core speeds.

Might be a CPU bottleneck at the point of the drops in FPS.

Not sure as I don't know the game.

Have you told nVidia of the problem? Bit hard with their forums down I know but they might not be aware. There are 1000's of games and 1000's of configurations. Unless somebody tells them something is up they can't investigate.

That's more progressive than just posting saying that game x is broken with drivers y without really doing all that much to eliminate other causes.

Edit: Not having a go - sorry if it sounds like that.

 

[Gregster]

My PC also runs BF3 with everything maxed out and the frame rate well over a hundred with 301.42 without a glitch.

Why would I want to run a set of beta drivers.

+1

Beta drivers are exactly that. If you have no probs with the WHQL drivers and everything is running smooth, why would you change to a beta that could possibly undo something that isn't broken?