**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[Silent_Scone]

 

[triss]

Such a teaser

 

[Silent_Scone]

Just as well, was planning on going out for the day. Not re-doing all my scores on here

 

[whyscotty]

Looks like a busy week for those who do the benches.

Feel the pain for Kaaps - not enough hours in the day - so many runs to redo

 

[Geeman1979]

So the ETA for the new drivers is tomorrow?

 

[whyscotty]

Aye

But will wait till Tuesday for the win8.1 update

 

[Silent_Scone]

Looks like a busy week for those who do the benches.

Feel the pain for Kaaps - not enough hours in the day - so many runs to redo

I'll probably not bother unless a lot of mine get beat

Firestrike is the one I want to tackle

 

[shankly1985]

So them results 60% here etc is for a laptop? And the desktop version might not give you same results?

 

[atomic7431]

Shame no BF4 gains etc, how long are Nvidia drivers usually in Beta, as my Beta testing days are long gone.....

 

[Geeman1979]

Obviously until we get confirmation.

 

[Silent_Scone]

Betas are normally fine. WHQL is just a certification that some numbnuts at Microsoft has approved the driver for use. Unless you hear people screaming bloody murder on the message boards that the driver is terrible, then there's no harm in trying them.

They're normally in beta for a couple of weeks I think.

 

[Boomstick777]

Nvidia 337.50 beta drivers 64bit Win 64bit 7/8/8.1 Date Monday, 04/07/2014
Nvidia 337.50 beta drivers 32bit Win 32bit 7/8/8.1 Date Monday, 04/07/2014

 

[///Rage]

So is are these improvements across the board or do nvidia have to make them game specific?

 

[Geeman1979]

 

[atomic7431]

Betas are normally fine. WHQL is just a certification that some numbnuts at Microsoft has approved the driver for use. Unless you hear people screaming bloody murder on the message boards that the driver is terrible, then there's no harm in trying them.

They're normally in beta for a couple of weeks I think.

yeah i know about the certification from microsoft for whql. I have had bad experiences with `Beta` drivers in the past but maybe times have changed

 

[Gregster]

Stupid 14:00 - 22:00 all week. I am proper looking forward to these. I just had a look at the Sniper elite bench thread and the Tomb Raider bench thread and can't believe there is more performance to be had. nVidia already owns in those benches

 

[Kaapstad]

I don't think we will be seeing a 53% increase on SEV2 for SLI on desktop PCs as the game already scales very well going from 1 all the way through to 4 GPUs.

 

[Kaapstad]

Stupid 14:00 - 22:00 all week. I am proper looking forward to these. I just had a look at the Sniper elite bench thread and the Tomb Raider bench thread and can't believe there is more performance to be had. nVidia already owns in those benches

I don't think you will see much on SEV2 as it already scales well all the way to 4 GPUs with desktop PCs. That 53% is probably more to do with laptops or similar.

 

[Gregster]

I don't think we will be seeing a 53% increase on SEV2 for SLI on desktop PCs as the game already scales very well going from 1 all the way through to 4 GPUs.

I was chatting with PGI and said that both my GPU's were pretty much 99% the whole time (as did he) in SEV2. I will be surprised if I see anything like that kind of boost on my system.

 

[Gregster]

I don't think you will see much on SEV2 as it already scales well all the way to 4 GPUs with desktop PCs. That 53% is probably more to do with laptops or similar.

Tell time tomorrow Kaap I feel we will know if they have found driver boosts of DX boosts one way or t'other tomorrow