**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[Jokester]

Yes, If You guys have any sense you will start deleting some of those posts

What he says - I'm on holiday and in a good mood at the moment, so I'm going to give you both, jh30uk and tayto_0 an opportunity to self edit before any other Dons see it.

 

[JGStonedRaider]

In on topic this driver is working great. Why are people comparing this driver to Mantle? Mantle is an API, this is a driver. If anything I'd suggest this Nvidia driver is the equivalent of that driver AMD brought out during BF3 where their performance rocketed..Invoking LtAMD here, he'll know which driver I mean,

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

So BF4 are getting some good gains then, niiiiiiice, shall be upgrading tonight.

Someone kind enough to check if Arma 3 gets any kind of boost?

Cheers.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

What he says - I'm on holiday and in a good mood at the moment, so I'm going to give you both, jh30uk and tayto_0 an opportunity to self edit before any other Dons see it.

Too late

 

[RetrogamerX]

I think i know now that These drivers aren't anywhere near as good as Mantle.

Mantles been out for how long now? Nvidia drivers just came out.

Nice try AMD.

 

[Parabellum]

All hail the mighty 337 GOLDEN Driver

These Drivers are the BOMB! butter smooth, runs like gravy AND frankly the best Nv drivers I have ever used. Tested several games last night and got gains in every single one ++ every game feels so much smoother in every aspect & every area when compared to life before 337... all this with the 1st beta release is pretty amazing too - Nvidia has just picked DX up by the scruff of the neck and put it back on top of the performance charts across several titles. Not just the one title that Mantle shouts about.

I would just like to say as an Nvidia user on a Nvidia topic/thread

Well done Nvidia – The Way It's Meant to be Played

 

[RetrogamerX]

All hail the mighty 337 GOLDEN Driver

These Drivers are the BOMB! butter smooth, runs like gravy AND frankly the best Nv drivers I have ever used. Tested several games last night and got gains in every single one ++ every game feels so much smoother in every aspect & every area when compared to life before 337... all this with the 1st beta release is pretty amazing too - Nvidia has just picked DX up by the scruff of the neck and put it back on top of the performance charts across several titles. Not just the one title that Mantle shouts about.

I would just like to say as an Nvidia user on a Nvidia forum/topic

Well done Nvidia – The Way It's Meant to be Played

^^^^

 

[Cosimo]

Looks like I missed the party, downloading now.

 

[ubersonic]

Just shows that Nvidia doesn't even need to create their own graphics API to give us good performance increases and reduce CPU dependence

TBH I really don't see why they should be congratulated for fixing their drivers when AMD did this exact same thing shortly after the GeForce 600 series launched.

 

[triss]

TBH I really don't see why they should be congratulated for fixing their drivers when AMD did this exact same thing shortly after the GeForce 600 series launched.

If AMD's driver fix for reducing cpu dependence etc was so good why did they bother to make a whole new API called mantle??

 

[pgi947]

TBH I really don't see why they should be congratulated for fixing their drivers when AMD did this exact same thing shortly after the GeForce 600 series launched.

Different circumstances. The 12.11 driver was when amd figured out how to write perf drivers on gcn based cards, 337 is nvidia manipulating the very best out of dx11. The drivers were never broken, nvidia have just pulled out some performance/efficiency improvements.

 

[Gregster]

TBH I really don't see why they should be congratulated for fixing their drivers when AMD did this exact same thing shortly after the GeForce 600 series launched.

I think you will find most gains are because of the CPU overhead and I bet Microsoft has had something to do with it. The DX libraries are closed and only MS has access (as I understand it) but wouldn't surprise me if they have allowed nVidia access to better optimise, so Mantle doesn't stay in the limelight (which is clearly what is happening).

Mantle relieves a CPU bottleneck and so does 337.50. The difference seems to be that 337.50 is across the DX11 range, whilst Mantle is 2 games.

 

[pgi947]

Either ms helped them (new DX dev kit?) Or nvidia have replaced certain items in DX with their own implementation. It was never going to show the kinds of results mantle shows as mantle was built from the ground up with low overhead in mind, 337 is merely a patch for an existing api in DX. Regardless its showing some very healthy gains, long may it continue.

 

[SkodaMart]

I've found a problem with the new beta drivers in Cyberlink Power Director 10.
If you import a video to the timeline, it renders endlessly.
Rolling back to my previous drivers.

 

[triss]

Does MSI kombuster still work for anyone on these drivers? doesnt for me

 

[Fanatic]

The NVENC encoder doesn't work with Open Broadcaster Software with these drivers. Hopefully OBS is updated soonish. Will give ShadowPlay 2.0 a go now I guess. I was getting better results with OBS + NVENC.

 

[Boomstick777]

All hail the mighty 337 GOLDEN Driver

These Drivers are the BOMB! butter smooth, runs like gravy AND frankly the best Nv drivers I have ever used. Tested several games last night and got gains in every single one ++ every game feels so much smoother in every aspect & every area when compared to life before 337... all this with the 1st beta release is pretty amazing too - Nvidia has just picked DX up by the scruff of the neck and put it back on top of the performance charts across several titles. Not just the one title that Mantle shouts about.

I would just like to say as an Nvidia user on a Nvidia topic/thread

Well done Nvidia – The Way It's Meant to be Played

 

[SkodaMart]

Betas don't work with Power Director 10, unless anyone has a fix?

Rolled back and everything OK.

 

[Gregster]

Betas don't work with Power Director 10, unless anyone has a fix?

Rolled back and everything OK.

You should report it to nVidia on the official nVidia forums Mart. They may not know about it.

 

[opethdisciple]

Having a read over at the AMD Drivers thread, the AMD boys seem to be scratching their heads in shock at these drivers...