New NVIDIA Geforce WHQL Driver 353.06

Just checked for updates in Geforce Experience and found theres a new driver out.

Link:
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/85819/en-us

Just in time for the highly anticipated title Heroes of the Storm, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience. This driver is also aligned with today’s launch of the first notebooks featuring G-SYNC display technology. In addition, this new Game Ready driver provides a number of new gaming features and benefits based around G-SYNC technology, Dynamic Super Resolution, and enhancements for the latest new titles.

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for Heroes of the Storm, including support for GeForce Experience 1-click optimizations

New Geforce GPU
Supports the new Geforce GTX 980 Ti GPU, Based upon the second-generation Maxwell architecture

Gaming Technology
Supports G-SYNC technology in windowed mode, offers both G-SYNC (V-SYNC on) and G-SYNC (V-SYNC off) options, support for Ultra-Low Motion Blur (ULMB) in the NVIDIA Control Panel, provides Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) for notebooks with discrete GeForce GPUs, and optimizations and bug fixes which can provide increased performance for Kepler-based GPUs.

 

you mean this?

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/85823/en-us

 

Finally, maybe I will be able to play The Witcher 3 without dropping below 30 FPS on low settings with GTX 870M but I am not eager to try it right away, I'll wait for people's feedback first.

 

Yeah its that one and thanks

I dont know why it wouldnt show in the search

 

I just noticed the new driver myself. I'm temped to try them out, I just installed 353.00 for that purpose so why not.

 

cos i googled it.

 

Laptop version: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/85885/en-uk

 

ok, better , willl download the lappy version.

 

Notebook 64bit (7/8/8.1) US
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/85819/

Notebook 32bit (7/8/8.1) US
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/85818/

 

@Mr. Fox what do you think about this driver ?

 

Thank you for tagging me to ask. I checked early this morning and it must have been prior to the release of it because 353.00 was the newest.

I'm about to find out. I hope and pray I can finally run something newer on my 780M SLI than 345.20 without it throttling like a big dog. I will let you know as soon as I find out.

 

Really seems to improve frame rate with hairworks on kepler

 

These drivers mention support for G-Sync. Can anyone with a qualifying laptop(Asus G751JT/JY only for the moment) confirm if this works?

 

what do they mean with "as long as it has overclocking enabled" ?
how do i know that my card is overclock enabled ?

 

Finally! DSR for notebooks.

Installing now

It isn't saying that the G-Sync is for notebooks.

 

Another hot, steamy, deep-dish colon loaf. I should have known better than to be optimistic. Worthless piece of crap driver. Back to 345.20... AGAIN.


[parsehtml]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="[URL]https://twitter.com/ManuelGuzman[/URL]">@ManuelGuzman</a> <a href="[URL]https://twitter.com/nvidia[/URL]">@nvidia</a> Look at core and memory clocks on 353.06. I'm so angry about how bad NVIDIA drivers have become <a href="[URL]http://t.co/iLiXlPJsF9[/URL]">pic.twitter.com/iLiXlPJsF9</a></p>&mdash; Mr. Fox ([USER=165514]@Mr_Fox_Rox[/USER]) <a href="[URL]https://twitter.com/Mr_Fox_Rox/status/605172367422128128[/URL]">June 1, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/parsehtml]

 

Damn man... What the hell did they do?!

 

Overclocked or stock 880ms? Because just looking at Mr. Fox's recent post, overclocked kelper looks pretty... horrible.
Wait, @Mr. Fox, does it only affect 3DMark like the last couple of drivers (EDIT: It would be kind of selfish to expect an answer in the next minute. Take your time)?

 

News flash... that is STOCK clocks and voltage. Just look at this garbage!!!
[parsehtml]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/ManuelGuzman">@ManuelGuzman</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nvidia">@nvidia</a> Just LOOK at this GARBAGE!!!! What are you guys doing to your drivers? This is stock clocks. <a href="http://t.co/XBBxMWNI34">pic.twitter.com/XBBxMWNI34</a></p>&mdash; Mr. Fox ([USER=165514]@Mr_Fox_Rox[/USER]) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mr_Fox_Rox/status/605176603048448000">June 1, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/parsehtml]

 

Thank you Mr.Fox for saving me wasting time and trouble. And damn you NVIDIA

 

Why don't you try the driver first? Just because it throttles for Mr. Fox doesn't mean it'll throttle for you. The Project CARS and Witcher 3 performance improvements for Kepler seem well worth it.

 

Yikes, that's bad. Worse than I expected.
But what about games?

 

True but I always hesitant when it comes to driver update and bad feedback doesn't help it either

 

It's affecting gaming performance, or just 3DMark?

Witcher 3 is still running amazingly for me, no performance loss.

 

Also keep in mind that Mr. Fox is a benchmarker first and foremost. I may be wrong, but I have not seen him report throttling in actual games, just 3DMark. So unless you also play 3DMark, I don't see what is the harm of trying this driver.

 

i don't see issues though that's possibly due to:

- me having a single GPU set up
- not being able to discern what's considered as throttling

 

I don't know, and absolutely do not care. I am a benchmark/overclocker first, gamer second. If it does this in benchmarks with stock clock the driver is utterly worthless. Back on 345.20 and it works flawless stock and overclocked. Time for another nasty tweet.

 

Thanks for the encouragement, I am going to try it tomorrow. I don't mind 3DMark right now but I hope TW3's performance will get better.

 

Out of curiosity have you flashed a stock 780M vbios to make sure that they haven't introduced something that conflicts with the mod?

I know the stock vbios isn't something that you will run but it could at least help figure out what broke.

 

sorry should have specified, 780ti sli

 

im a bit dissapointed.Expect way bigger gain in witcher 3 and ended gaining 10-15%.850M which is little slower than my 760M OC(+346/750Mhz) can play witcher 3 on some medium setting with 30fps and i cant achieve same performance .What surprised me is that i gained 10% in Far cry 4 but i dont know why witcher 3 is so slow.Im still around 30-35% behind the 850M performance.Maybe cdpr fault?all other games are same for me

EDIT:i saw on geforce forum guys with kepler desktop cards reporting the same as me.They also expect way bigger gain than 10-15% so im not alone.Maybe its time for AMD

 

yea that extra 15 percent can really make the difference though between choppy and smooth with hairworks, especially when you are in the 50 to 45 fps range on ultra on scenes with lots going on, can bump it up to 55 it becomes extremely playable

 

yeah but in newest benchmark which will appear i hope tommorow kepler woud be still at least 20-30% behind their maxwell rivals

 

I have been telling all of you with Kepler that you're not going to see the performance increases that you want. The game is optimized for the Maxwell architecture. Maxwell is more than just a few "efficiency" tweaks - it has a brand new tessellation engine (GM204 and GM200 only), better memory management, texture compression, etc.

 

Hopefully nvidia will still be selling titan x on their website still on the 22nd of next month. I really don't want to mix different brands of cards if I can avoid it.

 

yeah but why amd 7XXX cards which were released 2011 run this game really well and outperform similar kepler gpu's with a big margin?and amd is worse in tesselation than nvidia especially that old cards from 2011

 

Maxwell's improved tessellation engine can't be it because GCN cards are worse than Kepler in that regard but still outperform them in TW3

Edit: oops ninja'ed

As for memory bandwidth, sure Maxwell is a bit more efficient but a 128-bit GM206 or 256-bit GM204 still shouldn't outperform a much bigger 384-bit GK110.

 

10-15% is huge for a software optimization.

 

waiting for j95 to mod these so i can install them with a 980m.

 

Did a clean install of the new drivers on my G751JY but can't see any mention of G-Sync in the Nvidia Control Panel. Using the latest bios release so probably needs something else to activate it. Know that with older drivers the screen refresh rate went from default 60Hz to 75Hz before Nvidia fixed it.

 

You also need a compatible eDP panel and a cookie in the BIOS which contains the G-Sync license

 

Its not just tessellation. Read the white paper for the GTX 980. I'm too lazy to pull it up and quote it all right now

 

The Maxwell 2 whitepaper doesn't why a 960 should be outperforming a 780 all of a sudden in pCARS and TW3

 

And COD:AW, and Far Cry 4:



Ok fine it doesn't outperform a 780 (at least not stock vs stock), but coming within 10% of it while being more than 20% behind in other games? Yeah something's up.

 

seems its not just witcher 3 and pcars.
http://www.computerbase.de/2015-05/.../3/#diagramm-metro-last-light-redux-1920-1080
780ti 58,2 vs 970 70,4 fps on avg

 

970 was slower than 780 Ti at release: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1072?vs=1355

Now: http://www.techspot.com/review/1000-project-cars-benchmarks/page2.html

 

Yeah i know that the 30% of performance that most kepler owner still miss in witcher and some other games.I dont like the whole thing about nvidia in recently.First that 970 vram problem now kepler.They sabotage their own customers and not just AMD.

 

That's a really stupid assessment. They traded blows depending on the computational workload and the difference in pCARS is not large enough to suggest intentional crippling.

They were also so close in some tests that if you ran them again, the result could favor the other card...

 

Not large enough? 960 is supposed to be slower than 770, not faster than 780. From the end of the review:

 

Gotta wait for a new bios to release then. Anyways the new driver seems to be great overall, but i dont really overclock.