**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[Greebo]

That's nice to release a driver after I have completed all those games.

Seriously tho, it's a move in the right direction. I wonder if the improvements will be only for the 10 series or will it effect older cards.

Yes anything pre-10 series will drop in framerates to encourage upgrade

 

[Razor Time]

Yes anything pre-10 series will drop in framerates to encourage upgrade

The way its meant to be played.

 

[Supernaut91]

Nvidia Geforce 378.78 drivers

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

Game Ready
Provides the optimal gaming experience for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands

Gaming Technology
Includes DirectX 12 optimizations which provide additional performance increases for a variety of titles

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/115936/en-uk

 

[atomic7431]

thanks for the heads up

 

[Ayahuasca]

Hmmm, 1080ti reviewers are going to have to rerun DX12 results with these drivers

 

[TheRealDeal]

Hmmm, 1080ti reviewers are going to have to rerun DX12 results with these drivers

Nah according to Anand and Guru they are using them and are nothing special by the looks off it.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11180/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-review/4

 

[Rroff]

Nah according to Anand and Guru they are using them and are nothing special by the looks off it.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11180/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-review/4

Fair bump in hitman and ashes though a bit late - but does suggest they are cracking the shortcomings in regard to that type of DX12 usage - not really surprising stuff like BF4 sees little difference.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Fair bump in hitman and ashes though a bit late - but does suggest they are cracking the shortcomings in regard to that type of DX12 usage - not really surprising stuff like BF4 sees little difference.

Anand seem to be saying that these games had already seen speed bumps since release so they are not really saying it's this driver that gave the % increase. There will need to be a before and after driver test to see if there is any gains in the new driver.

But because of NVIDIA’s talk of driver performance gains, I’ve already seen some confusion here over whether the GTX 1080 Ti launch driver (378.78) is a special performance driver or not. For the record, it is not.

So in short this is probably not the driver Nvidia was talking about.

 

[Gregster]

I would expect the DX12 enhancements to come soon and probably on a different driver branch.

 

[arc@css]

Installed fine apart from something about Nvidia Share not responding or whatever it was. All seems ok, though.

 

[opethdisciple]

(Regarding these being or not being DX12 performance drivers)

It says so in the release notes.

"Gaming Technology
Includes DirectX 12 optimizations which provide additional performance increases for a variety of titles"

Nvidia article. Says A) Released and B) working on Vulkan too.

 

[QlimaxUK]

Installed fine apart from something about Nvidia Share not responding or whatever it was. All seems ok, though.

I would call that a perfect install

 

[Nexus18]

So nvidia still aren't gaining anything from dx 12 then? If so, looks like this settles whether they have proper dx 12 support or not then... It shouldn't take this long to get dx 12 optimisation drivers out especially when people say that nvidia get the very best performance from day 1 with their drivers and work closely with all developers...

They really should do the test on a weaker/older CPU though as that is where the biggest improvement for dx 12 is.

 

[arc@css]

I would call that a perfect install

Ha! I think I see what you mean.

 

[Rroff]

Anand seem to be saying that these games had already seen speed bumps since release so they are not really saying it's this driver that gave the % increase. There will need to be a before and after driver test to see if there is any gains in the new driver.

Ah 2 titles that I have zero interest in so not followed performance of.

 

[Gregster]

All working fine here. Ran a quick down and dirty DX11 Vs DX12 in AoTS

DX11


DX12


No idea if that is an improvement or anything in truth.

 

[tommybhoy]

Sean Pelletier@PellyNV
Senior Product Manager for GeForce Game Ready Drivers

For those wondering, YES. Absolutely re-run benchmarks on GeForce GPUs using today's Game Ready driver. Perf definitely changed!

 

[tommybhoy]

DirectX 12 Performance Optimizations

Game Ready drivers not only deliver the best out of the box game experience for the biggest AAA PC games, but they also continue to improve their performance over time with new optimizations and improvements released via new Game Ready drivers. Furthermore, we work tirelessly to optimize APIs, and work closely with developers to create and integrate app-side optimizations.

Today, our new Game Ready drivers introduce a raft of DirectX 12 optimizations that improve performance in Gears of War 4, Hitman, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Division, and other games.

As a result, performance has increased by 33% in Rise of the Tomb Raider, 23% in Hitman, and by an average of 16% across the five most popular DirectX 12 titles.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-wildlands-game-ready-driver

 

[Greebo]

ill take 33% in ROTR

 

[TheRealDeal]

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-wildlands-game-ready-driver

Anand used them and reported no increases since launch in Rise of the Tomb Raider. I wonder if they used Dx11 or 12 though.

As was the case with NVIDIA’s data, the performance gains vary from game to game. Some games have not budged, whereas others like Hitman have improved significantly, and outlier The Division has actually regressed a bit due to some major updates that have happened to the game in the same time period. But at the end of the day, these are performance gains that have accumulated over the months and are already available in the latest drivers from NVIDIA.