• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

Villan said:
Preview driver 590.26 allows users to enable Smooth Motion on their RTX 40-series GPU:
www.tomshardware.com

Nvidia's new driver update finally brings Smooth Motion to RTX 40-series GPUs, works like AMD's Fluid Motion Frames and claims to double your FPS with a single click in any game

Prepare for trouble, and make it double!
www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com
Click to expand...
So I just enable this as a global setting and get another form of frame generation that doesn't need the game to have it built in?

Can I do this without having to have the optional app? As a matter of principle, I really don't like things that manditory report what I'm doing in order to use it.
 
Which is the most stable least bad recent driver for 5090? I'm on 576.52 but there are regular weird black screens/desktop icons fluctuating between one drive and desktop and black backgrounds for Windows 11 desktop. It's not catastrophic but it is super annoying.
 
Jacky60 said:
Which is the most stable least bad recent driver for 5090? I'm on 576.52 but there are regular weird black screens/desktop icons fluctuating between one drive and desktop and black backgrounds for Windows 11 desktop. It's not catastrophic but it is super annoying.
Click to expand...

I honestly had no issues with the latest driver on my 5090, 576.88
 
Jacky60 said:
Which is the most stable least bad recent driver for 5090? I'm on 576.52 but there are regular weird black screens/desktop icons fluctuating between one drive and desktop and black backgrounds for Windows 11 desktop. It's not catastrophic but it is super annoying.
Click to expand...
I haven't had anything like that on any of the drivers for my 4070 since release, but I'm guessing this is a 5XXX series specific driver issue?
 
Dicehunter said:
I honestly had no issues with the latest driver on my 5090, 576.88
Click to expand...
Thanks I've done a clean install of 576.88 and wish me luck. Things have just been a bit wobbly on occasion since 576.52 but looking good so far (It's been minutes I know but the problem/s were really getting my goat.
 
Jacky60 said:
Yep my 4090 was super happy but my 5090 is a sensitive soul and has been gaslit by Nvidia.
Click to expand...
iu
 
Last edited:
Neil79 said:
NVIDIA 590.26 preview drivers

590.26_gameready_win11_win10-dch_64bit_international.exe

drive.google.com drive.google.com

RTX 590.26 Exostenza Edition.rar

drive.google.com drive.google.com

via
forums.guru3d.com

RTX 576.88 + 590.26 preview - Exostenza Edition™ (de-bloat)

Hello community, can anyone help me to get this driver version RTX 566.03 Exostenza Edition™ thanks in advance RTX 566.03 Exostenza Edition™...
forums.guru3d.com forums.guru3d.com
Click to expand...

Would be interesting to see if there's a genuine performance difference between stock Nvidia drivers and this "Exostenza" version.
 
Not gonna bother trying smooth motion, no interest and needs nvapp so... yeah but no.
 
I've only just got around to testing Nvidia smooth motion a bit recently. Let's just says it's odd and a mixed bag...

First game I tried was expedition 33 as it has no form of built in 'proper' frame gen. SM 'works', and the good points are the performance increase is huge and there's very little artefacting and input lag. But, and it's a massive mamma big but, the whole image flickers and is slightly dimmed - exactly like black frame insertion is on older LG OLED TVs. It's therefore unusable for me and just plain weird.

Second game I tried was TLOU2 simply as it's one I'm playing currently (trying to put aside the awful subversive messaging in it, as its a great actual video game). This also 'works' and it has no black frame insertion weirdness at all. But the performance increase is very odd in this game. Rather than maxing out my fps to 120, it increased fps only a bit, but reduced my GPU usage to ~65% instead of 99%. It also had quite nasty artefacting.

So I'm not inspired to do much more testing to be honest. I see very few people talking about the problems of smooth motion, so I can only assume no one is bloody using it? Also - the latest version of Lossless Scaling frame gen seems better too.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom