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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

mrk said:
Tested with RE9.

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577.00 Studio : PT : DLSS-P : 2xFG : 4K
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Average framerate  :  122.1 FPS
Minimum framerate  :  117.4 FPS
Maximum framerate  :  125.7 FPS
1% low framerate   :   52.7 FPS
0.1% low framerate :   48.2 FPS

595.79 Studio : PT : DLSS-P : 2xFG : 4K
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Average framerate  :  120.6 FPS
Minimum framerate  :  115.2 FPS
Maximum framerate  :  126.9 FPS
1% low framerate   :   52.6 FPS
0.1% low framerate :   48.2 FPS

So within run-variance, looks like they sorted PT performance. Maybe they will stay, for now :p
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Oh, you couldn't help yourself in the end :p

FG eh? :cry:
 
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Dicehunter said:
Does this give any benefits ?
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If your working with development kits and using the latest available hardware then yes! Running LLM with Llama.cpp for example you have to really have a modern driver before you install the toolkit so at some point using 57x.xx may cause you some issues.
 
A bug I've come across with the latest drivers..

I was browsing the web, and I opened another webpage with a Facebook video and the system froze ( music still playing ), and GPU reset.

The description for Event ID 153 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\000000a5
UCodeReset TDR occurred on GPUID:100

The message resource is present but the message was not found in the message table
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All been stable for me so far, I have 2x browser windows open side by side even in the BG when gaming, each window has tens of tabs open like youtube, socials etc.
 
mrk said:
All been stable for me so far, I have 2x browser windows open side by side even in the BG when gaming, each window has tens of tabs open like youtube, socials etc.
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I can't reproduce it....

It happened once and so far not again. I had three opened tabs, and someone linked a video from a Facebook post. The Facebook page loaded and bang GPU crash.
 
Could have been a memory bit flip due to cosmic rays.

It sounds ridiculous but is an actual thing that happens routinely to computer systems as particles pass through solid matter and doing so at the right time can cause bit flips. Mozilla hinted at this recently on their Firefox logging metrics where a percentage of crashes were due to these very bit flips.
 
mrk said:
Could have been a memory bit flip due to cosmic rays.

It sounds ridiculous but is an actual thing that happens routinely to computer systems as particles pass through solid matter and doing so at the right time can cause bit flips. Mozilla hinted at this recently on their Firefox logging metrics where a percentage of crashes were due to these very bit flips.
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Damn it man, I now feel like I'm in some sort of strange Doctor Who episode :cry:
 
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It's quite fascinating stuff, there are some documented famous cases where cosmic bit flips caused some interesting results.
 
mrk's setup.

foil-prank-cover.jpg
 

NVIDIA Vulkan Developer Beta Driver Windows 595.92​




March 13th, 2026 - Windows 595.92, Linux 595.44.03

New:
VK_KHR_device_address_commands
Host image copy support for all depth/stencil image formats on Blackwell GPUs
Support stencil aspect copies on compute-only queues for all depth/stencil formats on all GPUs
Support stencil aspect copies with VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT on transfer-only queues for Blackwell GPUs

Fixes:
Significantly reduce the memory requirements returned from vkGetGeneratedCommandsMemoryRequirementsEXT for compute
Fix crash using host image copy on images created with VK_IMAGE_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_HEAP_CAPTURE_REPLAY_BIT_EXT

Vulkan Driver Support

Get the latest Vulkan 1.4 general release drivers and developer beta drivers.
developer.nvidia.com developer.nvidia.com
 
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rchads89 said:
Currently on the 576.88 driver with the 5090 astral stick or twist?
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It's always worth updating. If the current driver works fine and the new one has issues, you can always install the old one over the top.

They may have fixed or improved things that weren't in the patch notes. The Division 2 runs much better for me with smooth motion on in the current driver compared to the last official release, and that fix certainly wasn't listed.
 
clone said:
So is it safe to download the new driver?
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Not at all, they're a ticking time bomb waiting to murder your hardware on install.

Rumour has it that these latest ones revert DX12 back to DX5 and performance on anything other than the 5000 series degrades to the extent that performance becomes equal to a GeForce 2 MX.

I'd steer well clear fella.
 
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