GTX 880M Drivers

Hi all,

I would like to ask what are the drivers you recommend for the GTX 880M SLI on WIndows 7? I have yet to try the latest 364.72 or the beta driver and I heard it is pretty bad.


Thank you!

DenNarwhal

 

362.00 would be a good starting point, but the only real way to answer this through trial and error. While one set might work well for some, it might cause crashes or worse on yours.

 

If you are using a 120HZ screen stick to 361.75 otherwise as @saturnotaku said go for 362.00

 

Thanks for your reply m8 gonna try soon

 

Thanks for your response, but I use a 60Hz screen. Will try 362.00.

 

Well I never had any issues with any driver for my 880m but with my 980m which needs modded drivers, I could only get 364.51 to work without giving me a black screen upon rebooting my laptop. Even 362.00 failed to install for me.

It is really my opinion, that for a year now at least, Nvidia drivers are like Russian roulette.

 

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You are so right about this, as my 880m performed okay on one or two post-OEM drivers, but it was exactly that- Russian Roulette on about 90% of them.
The Stock OEM driver worked very well, but with each proceeding driver issued by Nvidia, the game performance got progressively worse and worse, other than the one they issued in September of 2015.
Games like Skyrim: TES, constantly kept crashing and locking up with newer Nvidia drivers, so I went back to the 355.98 drivers from 9/2015, and that solved quite a few issues.
The ONLY way to know which one performs the best, is by starting with the OEM driver, and then using succeeding driver offerings, and see which one performs the best.

 

I actually ended up settling on the 353.06 drivers for my previous 880m sli. I then changed system power management to high performance when gaming. In NVIDIA control panel I set global to prefer max performance and the went into each program (game) in NVIDIA control panel and selected prefer max performance for whatever game I was playing. With all that set, my cards ran at stock boost 993 with only occasional throttle down to 960 or so. The only time there was any significant throttle or drop in clocks was during cutscenes and non playing moments. In game was very stable. I was running 8.1 though so that along with the general crapshoot that applies to NVIDIA drivers means you may not get the same performance I did. Good luck with it.

 

Using 362.00 here.. Strongly suggest that... Its pretty stable etc..

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