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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

Rroff said:
Capping framerate at or near the refresh rate with V-Sync off tends to make tearing the most noticeable for some reason - capping a little down can work but I usually find (though sometimes harder to achieve) that running a lot higher framerate than the refresh rate i.e. 100+ on a 60Hz panel gives the least perceived tearing - I used to run SLI setups partly for that reason.
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Thats why i play OW currently at 260+ fps( almost everything set to low @1440p) on my 144hz display, i prefer it due to the feel of the mouse over gsynced 144hz. Did the same a lot back when i was running a 60 and 75hz ultrawide. Worked great.. just pump out so many frames that the top and bottom of the tear gets closer and a lot less noticeable.
 
Rroff said:
Capping framerate at or near the refresh rate with V-Sync off tends to make tearing the most noticeable for some reason - capping a little down can work but I usually find (though sometimes harder to achieve) that running a lot higher framerate than the refresh rate i.e. 100+ on a 60Hz panel gives the least perceived tearing - I used to run SLI setups partly for that reason.
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I can't stand more than 1 tear per refresh just feels stuttery to me
 
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got a 1070 arriving today, whats the best way to completely wipe my old drivers off? just uninstalling or is there a deeper method? swear i ran a small program before to clean up any left over stuff
 
If you are upgrading from an nVidia card just download the latest drivers, stick the new card in and then reinstall the latest driver with the clean install option ticked.
 
Actually when I say latest drivers - I've had better results on 372.70 so I'd be tempted to say use those unless you need the newer ones for game support i.e. GoW 4 or Mafia 3, etc.
 
kinger8938 said:
got a 1070 arriving today, whats the best way to completely wipe my old drivers off? just uninstalling or is there a deeper method? swear i ran a small program before to clean up any left over stuff
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Going from my gtx 780 to my 1070 i had to use DDU to get the drivers to recognise my card and install.
Try just installing and see but if it doesnt work try DDU
 
I didn't need to do that when I went from my 780 to my 1070. All I did was remove the 780, install the 1070 and booted up. The 1070 was recognised straight away. Still installed a nnew driver as a new version had been released. All I do is click the custom installation box, select the Nvidia driver and Physx driver (don't want or need the other rubbish) and select clean install. Never had any problems doing it this way.
 
It might not be strictly necessary, but I always use DDU before installing a new driver. It just eliminates any possibility of any sort of incompatibility or bug caused by leftovers, so if I ever have an issue I can rule that out straight away.
 
Aretak said:
It might not be strictly necessary, but I always use DDU before installing a new driver. It just eliminates any possibility of any sort of incompatibility or bug caused by leftovers, so if I ever have an issue I can rule that out straight away.
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Over the years I've had better overall results not using DDU religiously on the systems I haven't versus the systems that I have - but there has been isolated cases where I've not been able to fix a problem without resorting to DDU. Occasionally using DDU has resulted in the system not recognising the new GPU until I've messed around further with older drivers, etc.
 
Rroff said:
Over the years I've had better overall results not using DDU religiously on the systems I haven't versus the systems that I have - but there has been isolated cases where I've not been able to fix a problem without resorting to DDU. Occasionally using DDU has resulted in the system not recognising the new GPU until I've messed around further with older drivers, etc.
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Never had that problem myself. Always just DDU, reboot, install the new driver and everything's fine, even when swapping between AMD and Nvidia cards.
 
Since updating to the latest driver, does anyone get a trace very briefly left behind any text when scrolling up or down? It's a very minor thing, but it seems to have occurred only since I've tried the last one / couple of drivers.
 
The latest Mafia 373.06 driver is god **** terrible for me. Its the most unstable PoS i have seen from them in a long time. Youtube videos would cause the system to hang, gaming would at random cause the system to hang but it would take a while for it to happen. Fullscreen youtube videos would have weird frame melting issues when not crashing the machine if viewed in fullscreen regardless of browser used. So ive went back to the 368 bracket.
 
What's happened to NVidia drivers? Never had a problem till now :(

I've installed latest video drivers and GeForce experience for my 1070 but GFE is not working at all and just boots to a empty looking box, was really hoping to get some streaming going to my newly bought Shield TV. Is there any fixes for this?
 
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