some of the bigger titles really got a nice bump when BF4 came out the game ready driver gave me a nice 20-30fps increaseQuite a few people are reporting this. That is quite a big jump where one cannot say it is margin of error. Who knows what Nvidia are up to. Yeah, game ready probably is. Never really noticed any difference when upgrading to game ready drivers before. I can imagine in most instances they just look over the code to make sure there are no bugs or conflicts in it for the said game and call it game ready without any actual optimisation for performance actually done.
I will stick with the drivers I have until next year probably. Unless I end up grabbing Shadow of Tomb Raider or Just Cause 4, then I don’t see the point in upgrading. I doubt I will pick those up until the price drops to closer to a tenner by which point all the bugs will be ironed out also. Got plenty of games to keep me busy with until then
I never did play any of the Witcher 3 dlc, so I am going to be playing that now that I am done with Final Fantasy 15
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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**
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For sure some games will get a boost, especially big one's which are likely to be in benchmarks more. Nvidia will more likely put the resources into optimising drivers for those naturally.
Also 20-30fps does not tell me much, a percentage boost would be much more useful information
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Okay, i went ahead and benched 4 different games using 4 different drivers and both DX11 and DX12 when possible on my 1080ti. Those interested in seeing my results can follow my google sheets link. Now of course my testing is not perfect and sample is not as big as i wanted it to be but its so darn dull to do this kind of benching. Information about it all is also in the sheet.
TLDR; I havent seen any gimping so fare.
TLDR; I havent seen any gimping so fare.
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Let me think, how much would my 1080ti have to be gimped before I would consider spending £1100 on a 2080ti to replace it? I think Nvidia would have to gimp the performance so badly that I wouldn't even consider a Nvidia card again, let alone an upgrade.
No one rushes out to buy a new card because the driver lowered their FPS by 5 frames. Nvidia have no reason to invest a resource into driver gimping and risk getting caught out, there's just no financial incentive to take such a massive risk.
It would be so easy to catch them at it.
No one rushes out to buy a new card because the driver lowered their FPS by 5 frames. Nvidia have no reason to invest a resource into driver gimping and risk getting caught out, there's just no financial incentive to take such a massive risk.
It would be so easy to catch them at it.
tested assetto corsa benchmark and timespy with old and the newest drivers,no gimping found.
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/4783688/spy/4592044#
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/4783688/spy/4592044#
You must be doing something wrong bud
I was on 3.9924 before updating to the latest,not seen any gain or loss tbh in the 2 benchmarks but I 'think' the latest seemed a bit smoother.
I used DDU in safe mode with ethernet cable unplugged to uninstall old drivers,rebooted and installed latest.
I used DDU in safe mode with ethernet cable unplugged to uninstall old drivers,rebooted and installed latest.
Lol
Unless you are about to play something that has recently come out, just stick with what you have, otherwise get the latest drivers. From what I can see any issues that were caused by windows apparently have been fixed.
Still on 390.xx myself. Plays everything I am playing right now very well. The only game I have which is new is SoulCalibur 6, but my Titan XP eats that for breakfast maxed out at 4K. Considering I am using the original FE blower fan, it hardly makes any noise on the default fan profile.
The only game from the ones I am playing right now where I need to use my headphones on is Witcher 3. I use a 1:1 fan profile when playing that to keep the card cooler for a better boost/oc which can get noisy. Luckily can’t hear it with headphones on though, so all good
I knew it!!!Me too
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Suppose it depends if you play any of the games that have been optimised in the release notes, if not stay on your current.
Playing the new Tomb Raider at the moment.
Looks like 399.24 for this title
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-game-ready-driver/
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I was having random issues with my pc such as my post in the gtaV thread on 416.16 driver
I upgraded to 416.34 and performance seems better and my issues are gone .416.16 is a bust I think
I upgraded to 416.34 and performance seems better and my issues are gone .416.16 is a bust I think
The elevated 3d clocks which I was experiencing seemed to have gone away, no doubt due to a more recent driver update, however, since upgrading to Windows 10, it's now doing it again. Currently stuck at 822/3505. I'm still not 100% sure what causes this issue, be it one, two or several applications.
Edit: even a reboot hasn't sorted it, which is a first.
Edit v.1.1: although I didn't change anything, for some reason the settings in the NVCP were different, so everything is once again working as it should be. Puzzling why it happened, though.
Edit: even a reboot hasn't sorted it, which is a first.
Edit v.1.1: although I didn't change anything, for some reason the settings in the NVCP were different, so everything is once again working as it should be. Puzzling why it happened, though.
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