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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**
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Old! Ancient.
You’ve made me feel better now, I was testing out my newly acquired 3080ti on Saturday by playing Delta Force Land Warrior which I think is of a very similar vintage!
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/Goes to hide GOG copy of Caesar 3 and other similar games...
Look at some of our start dates on the forums though, it's obvious some of us have been at this quite some time...
Look at some of our start dates on the forums though, it's obvious some of us have been at this quite some time...
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To think when I joined the forum in 2007 I looked at PC stuff with excitement, Wonder and joy... now I just look at it and think "oh joy when's that going to break..."
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Soldato
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Yes, back then if someone said AI you'd think C3PO not 'Hi Chat, please explain why my budget for my graphics card needs to be 30x higher than a decade ago'
I'm still trying to cognitively rationalise joining this forum *22* years ago. My join date could have a family at this point lol
It's very funny though how we have gone forward in so many ways, but twisted our ankle in others.
I'm still trying to cognitively rationalise joining this forum *22* years ago. My join date could have a family at this point lol
It's very funny though how we have gone forward in so many ways, but twisted our ankle in others.
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Nope, Seems good so far.
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Nope, just installed them on my laptop but not had time to test them yet.
No but the was a windows update that affected Nvidia recently.
New Windows update ruins Nvidia GeForce GPU performance - OC3D
It looks like Microsoft has released another Windows update that has negatively impacted the GPU performance of Nvidia GeForce GPUs.
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Nope. But, there's a Windows update that they don't like..
Nope, all seem good so far.
All fine here
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No issues for me either.
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Studio drivers performed worse than the Vulkans in games like Battlefield 6... But at a choice it's either Studio or Vulkan
Main game ready ones are pretty naff
Aren't the Studio and GRD the same driver though with the Studios just being tested more ?
Hmmm, Ive had no real issues since getting my 5090, twice had black screens whilst installing drivers but disconnecting secondandry monitor always solved that.
Just tonight my system wouldnt wake from lock screen/monitors off. Couldnt get an image on either of my 2 monitors, even when unplugging/replugging. Rebooted and still had black screens on 3 seperate reboot occasions. Fourth time it eventually booted and gave me a windows login screen after a massive delay, even though it didnt display the BIOS POST screen/logo...
Absolutely bizzare! The fact the BIOS POST/Logo screen wouldnt show is somewhat worrying, that should be indpendant of OS drivers really?
Just tonight my system wouldnt wake from lock screen/monitors off. Couldnt get an image on either of my 2 monitors, even when unplugging/replugging. Rebooted and still had black screens on 3 seperate reboot occasions. Fourth time it eventually booted and gave me a windows login screen after a massive delay, even though it didnt display the BIOS POST screen/logo...
Absolutely bizzare! The fact the BIOS POST/Logo screen wouldnt show is somewhat worrying, that should be indpendant of OS drivers really?
You’ve made me feel better now, I was testing out my newly acquired 3080ti on Saturday by playing Delta Force Land Warrior which I think is of a very similar vintage!
I loved the first delta force game
Am sure i remember the graphics having a kind of green or grey tinge to them
Edit: I just googled it and it came out in 1998, Now i feel old
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NVIDIA GeForce Vulkan Developer Driver 582.29 WHQL
Vulkan Developer Beta Driver Release Updates
January 23rd, 2026 - Windows 582.29, Linux 580.94.16
New:
VK_EXT_descriptor_heap
VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_partitioned
VK_KHR_internally_synchronized_queues
VK_NV_push_constant_bank
Performance Improvements
VK_EXT_descriptor_heap finally brings a DX12-style descriptor heap model to Vulkan. No descriptor sets, no pipeline layouts, much closer to how DX12 actually works, so translation layers don’t have to fight the API anymore.
VK_NV_push_constant_bank lets NVIDIA hardware use multiple push constant banks, which maps way better to DX12 root constants in heap-based setups.
VK_KHR_internally_synchronized_queues reduces queue locking overhead and helps multithreaded scenarios.
Fixes:
Increased the maxTexelBufferElements limit to 256M
Fixed crash with continuous window resize on Linux that sometimes occured
Fixed GPU exception with some VK_NV_cluster_acceleration_structure use cases
Fixed hang on Windows with vkWaitForPresent2KHR and VK_KHR_swapchain_maintenance1
Vulkan video fixes and improvements
Sadly these drivers suffer from texture bugs in BF6
VIDEO ( expires in 2 days )
Vulkan Developer Beta Driver Release Updates
January 23rd, 2026 - Windows 582.29, Linux 580.94.16
New:
VK_EXT_descriptor_heap
VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_partitioned
VK_KHR_internally_synchronized_queues
VK_NV_push_constant_bank
Performance Improvements
VK_EXT_descriptor_heap finally brings a DX12-style descriptor heap model to Vulkan. No descriptor sets, no pipeline layouts, much closer to how DX12 actually works, so translation layers don’t have to fight the API anymore.
VK_NV_push_constant_bank lets NVIDIA hardware use multiple push constant banks, which maps way better to DX12 root constants in heap-based setups.
VK_KHR_internally_synchronized_queues reduces queue locking overhead and helps multithreaded scenarios.
Fixes:
Increased the maxTexelBufferElements limit to 256M
Fixed crash with continuous window resize on Linux that sometimes occured
Fixed GPU exception with some VK_NV_cluster_acceleration_structure use cases
Fixed hang on Windows with vkWaitForPresent2KHR and VK_KHR_swapchain_maintenance1
Vulkan video fixes and improvements
Sadly these drivers suffer from texture bugs in BF6
VIDEO ( expires in 2 days )
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