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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**
- Thread starter Boomstick777
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Soldato
Which did you try? the 353.45 or the 353.49?
Caporegime
Have you restarted since installing? I thought that as well till I restarted.
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Didn't have to restart my machine but just did and the LED is still red.
Soldato
Was this a mistake as the url goes to 353.49 or did nvidia whip in a new new hotfix really sharpish ?
Caporegime
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I know it's a hotfix and shouldn't do anything else other than cure the issues it mentions, but I just played Arkham Knight with the 353.49 hotfix driver installed (Win 10 Tech Preview 10162) and it had more consistently higher FPS at 4k using Titan X + Titan X as dedicated Physx (V-sync off)
Temps were even lower as well?!
Previously I was using the 353.30 Game Ready driver.
Temps were even lower as well?!
Previously I was using the 353.30 Game Ready driver.
Associate
They did indeed lol
Today we released a new Hotfix driver 353.49 that addresses the following issue:
Sony Vegas Pro crashes
Windows 10 installation issue introduced with previous 353.45 driver
In addition, this driver also includes the same fixes which were part of our previous 353.38 hotfix driver release:
Chrome Crashes/Freezes/TDRs
Delays when starting or switching apps & games with GSYNC enabled
Visit the URL below to download this driver:
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3698
hmm latest drivers are pants (stock 980 clocks with stock Hydro Copper bios on Windows 8.1).
My 3d GPU clocks in mordor seem to be stuck at 2D clocks (500mhz)
Load up W3 and no SLI Support either.
Both games crash after a while to desktop, even got a blue screen "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" on one occasion.
My previous driver was happy to run BF4 for hours on end so am not sure WTF is going on with these new drivers.
My 3d GPU clocks in mordor seem to be stuck at 2D clocks (500mhz)
Load up W3 and no SLI Support either.
Both games crash after a while to desktop, even got a blue screen "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" on one occasion.
My previous driver was happy to run BF4 for hours on end so am not sure WTF is going on with these new drivers.
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LOL I just checked that URL and the latest is now:
353.49 !
I will try .49 first and then roll-back to 353.06 as suggested earlier in the thread.
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Hrm what's the story with TDRs? I'm still getting them on 353.38 (used DDU) and my performance in Witcher 3 doesn't seem as good for some reason, although maybe I'm just imagining it. I dropped to standard clocks just to be sure it's not that. Temps are fine.
Thinking of reinstalling the OS but I'd really rather not as it's a massive ball ache to get everything set up again.
Are there some stable, older drivers I can try?
Thinking of reinstalling the OS but I'd really rather not as it's a massive ball ache to get everything set up again.
Are there some stable, older drivers I can try?
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Hrm what's the story with TDRs? I'm still getting them on 353.38 (used DDU) and my performance in Witcher 3 doesn't seem as good for some reason, although maybe I'm just imagining it. I dropped to standard clocks just to be sure it's not that. Temps are fine.
Thinking of reinstalling the OS but I'd really rather not as it's a massive ball ache to get everything set up again.
Are there some stable, older drivers I can try?
The most stable I've found is 353.06( I can't go further back because of 980Tis) for me in the Witcher 3 and everywhere.
I had my first ever Bluescreen on the system and they were driver related. 353.30/38 and 353.49 have been terrible and constantly crashed in games.
Played for a week now on 353.06 and only had one crash, which was tonight after several hours.
You could try 350.12 or before and probably have the best results like others on the NV forums.
Soldato
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I've found the best thing with witcher 3 is to run it in borderless window mode instead of fullscreen, no crashes at all on latest driver
Cheers, chaps. Glad others are confirming there are still issues and it's not just me. I also keep getting red blob artifacts in TW3 with these current drivers (with no OC).
Had no issues at all with my old GTX560Ti but this card has been driving me nuts! Borderless window is a great suggestion, thanks.
Associate
Did the hotfix work to stop the chrome crashes then? Since I switched to the newest drivers its been stable for me so I haven't bothered with the hotfix but I wondered if others have used it.
Associate
Is anyone having issues with W10 and the Nvidia drivers?
I was using W8.1 but I was having serious issues with Witcher 3 with Titan X at 1440p in that the screen would flicker (entire screen) with white artifacts when running through forest areas during daylight. I tried all the usual, hairworks, sharpening, borderless window, v-sync, and none of which worked so I reverted to an older driver (.12 or .06 I think) and it worked much better.
Though the problem persisted intermittently it still p****d me off so I then reset the monitor - Samsung 32D850T and removed the drivers so that it shows up in device manager as generic monitor and the problem stopped completely and everything runs on ultra.
Now though I've gone back to W10 as it is much more stable than before but if I install any nvidia driver other than .38 it cause the display driver is not responding an Windows automatically starts downloading .38. Is this just a windows compatibility issue in that W10 will only accept .38 or could it be something more 'sinister'?
I will mention that it appears the graphic issues with Witcher were monitor driver related though I have no idea why (I think I heard of a couple of 1440p BenQ monitors also doing this).
I was using W8.1 but I was having serious issues with Witcher 3 with Titan X at 1440p in that the screen would flicker (entire screen) with white artifacts when running through forest areas during daylight. I tried all the usual, hairworks, sharpening, borderless window, v-sync, and none of which worked so I reverted to an older driver (.12 or .06 I think) and it worked much better.
Though the problem persisted intermittently it still p****d me off so I then reset the monitor - Samsung 32D850T and removed the drivers so that it shows up in device manager as generic monitor and the problem stopped completely and everything runs on ultra.
Now though I've gone back to W10 as it is much more stable than before but if I install any nvidia driver other than .38 it cause the display driver is not responding an Windows automatically starts downloading .38. Is this just a windows compatibility issue in that W10 will only accept .38 or could it be something more 'sinister'?
I will mention that it appears the graphic issues with Witcher were monitor driver related though I have no idea why (I think I heard of a couple of 1440p BenQ monitors also doing this).
Caporegime
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Are you using 10166? That's the latest Windows 10 version and should solve most issues.
But yeah, I'm using 353.49's and they work fine.
Soldato
So I've not been keeping up to date on Nvidia drivers, but have heard that the last few have had their issues?
What's considered the best driver for GTX 980s on Win7?
What's considered the best driver for GTX 980s on Win7?