New NVIDIA Geforce WHQL Driver 353.06

^ lol you wouldn't have any driver issues because there are no drivers for those ancient cards. XD

 

I only finally realized what was happening because of this:
Q:. Graphics settings seem to reset every time I start the game.
A.: Geforce Experience automatically optimizes your game upon start, try disabling it for TW3.
http://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt/faq
For whatever reason, GFE kept reverting my game to Borderless Full Screen as opposed to Full Screen. Full Screen performs much better, and for some reason GFE kept reverting to Borderless for Witcher 3....

 

I think it's actually the game that does that

 

i don't even bother with GFE unless it's for shadowplay.

 

I have had the issue of an "access denied" error trying to save NVCP settings with Windows 8.1 on the Clevo P570WM and I saw at least on desktop user at GeForce Forums complaining of the same. One guy posted a screen shot of the error, so you're not alone in this.

I am back to 345.20 on the Alienware M18xR2 since it is the only driver that works properly for my 780M SLI. I had Chrome crashing and freezing on both the M18xR2 and the P570WM like tons of other people have. Disabled hardware acceleration doesn't change anything. These are just buggy drivers. From one system to the next the results are erratic and inconsistent.

I do not install GFE as part of the driver package. I do install it separately as a stand-alone product because I like the ability to use Shadowplay when I do screen capture. Some people don't like it, but I think it does a great job and I like the desktop capture feature as well. Most of the time it is disabled, and I seldom use it to optimize game settings. Not having GFE installed does not affect my 780M SLI throttling issue with the 350 series drivers... it's the same with or without GFE.

It has never done this to me either. Unless you check the box for GFE to automatically apply the optimized settings, it should not be making any changes. I have seen a couple of reports from users that have the automatic application option disabled and it still applies them for some reason.

 

someone mentioned it might even be the nvidia hd audio driver causing this. either way the drivers are bugged out.

 

What is the advantage of separating GFE from the driver package? GFE is installed in the same folder anyway? If I use DDu for uninstalling Nvidia drivers; Uninstall DDu also GFE although this is installed as a stand-alone product? I'm not a big gamer so I use DDu almost every time I test new drivers. I prefer to test numbers .

 

Some idiot on the GeForce forums thinks you ruined your cards by overclocking. LOL.
I put him in his place already, but feel free to go "mr. fox" on him. XD

 

just read the post....LOL that'll teach 'em!

 

Some people are totally screwed(idiots). Thanks @D2 Ultima

 

Thanks, buddy. Your response was awesome. I just responded as well. Should be interesting to see if this imbecile has a reaction. [ LINK]

 

Amazing that this person has a brain that has learned to formulate garbage in forum posts...

 

hmmmm....it appears that i am getting lower 3DMark 11 scores with the 353.06 driver compared to the 353.00 hotfix driver

 

What about 352.86? Is there a big difference between 353.06 and 353.00 ?

 

10697 - svl7 vbios stock - 353.00
10711 - svl7 vbios 1303/1403 - 353.06
11270 - svl7 vbios 1303/1450 - 353.00
11308 - svl7 vbios 1323/1403 - 353.00
11320 - svl7 vbios 1303/1450 - 353.00

 

People like that are becoming the norm. They find bliss in their wanton ignorance. I know how it starts for some of them. They, or a friend or family member, buys some pathetic piece of junk gamer-boy laptop off the shelf at Best Buy or Fry's Electronics and find out what a piece of junk it is. They also wrongly assume the more expensive machines from Clevo and Alienware are equally pathetic and deem their self to be an 'expert' on how bad laptops are. They are unable to recognize their misinformed state because they have no knowledge, or even a concept, of what a real high performance looks, acts and feels like. It is like being in a room with everyone speaking a language that you do not comprehend. I usually try to cut them some slack, knowing their comments are merely a reflection of ignorance. It's when they fail to recognize their own ignorance and become delusional to the point of considering their self to be an authority that I have a more difficult time listening to their nonsense.

 

It's going to be more and more people who think that all laptops have poor performance. Even more people can get such opinions when you see how pathetic new high end laptops have become. There are not many laptops now with proper socket hardware and with proper performance longer. Everything should be as Apple laptops. Thin and flimsy.

 

'poor' is a "poor" (HA!) descriptor for performance of a laptop when comparing it to desktops or nothing at all.

 

Yeah, just look at this HORRIBLE laptop performance. If that guy thought my 780M cards were broken with that awesome 3DMark 11 score, he will think these 980M cards are totally fried.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/9905398 <- this run pulled 675W on the UPS digital meter in test #1, LOL.


http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5023396

 

I have tried installing last two drivers from nvidia with g force experience and without g force experience. Clean install and installed over older driver. It doesn't matter how I do it the last two drivers from nvidia make my laptop do wierd things. There messed up no matter how you look at it. On boot my computer freezes for a short bursts and can't click on games or applications to launch them. Then all of a sudden it seams ok. Just like Mr Fox was saying was happening to his. So I just went back to 350.12 . That seams to be the last driver that has worked for me without issues. As soon as I go back to 350.12 everything is peachy and seams to function 100% perfect again.
It's crazy how they can jack so much stuff up from a driver update lol.

 

I'm half happy and half sorry. Happy I am not the only one here that experienced that, but sorry it happened to you also.

Hopefully, everyone having issues will be sure to post about it in the appropriate thread(s) at GeForce Forums.

 

Several have Crippled dual gtx88om and with several problems... Not only you.

 

I have this issue too, today decided to revert back to 347.88.
Nvidia drivers are getting worse.

 

Oh, for crying out loud. Just had two TDR on the P570WM running on the desktop doing nothing but web browsing... running 353.00 drivers. Nice!

The dweebs at NVIDIA need to be jack-slapped, real hard.

 

Considered disabling TDR?

 

So am I the only one with no TDRs? My phone is acting up more than my PCs...

 

For once I'm glad I have Optimus. I hope you all can find a solution soon

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

 

Indeed. But that comes with its own set of problems, like being limited to Intel's whims and fancies.

I don't understand why laptop makers just mux the GPUs and allow selection through the BIOS.

 

I've got none.

Optimus doesn't save you if you're in a dGPU game as far as I know. If the dGPU stalls the nVidia driver can break. I've had TDRs (caused by BF4) where I didn't even notice any lag. I'd alt-tab and be using the browser and all of a sudden BF4'd crash and "display stopped responding and has recovered". The problem with TDRs has been that sometimes it won't hold its proper clocks after a TDR. You'll go in a game or something and it'll just sit at midrange (for my 780Ms that's ~400/400) and you need to disable/re-enable or restart the PC. I used to get TDRs *ALL* the time with my 280M after it had some degradation and I couldn't OC it anymore.

And sometimes when I get (read: BF4 makes me get) TDRs even on these 780Ms I still need to restart for it to work.

 

Sure, that's easy. But, when I posted that I had just discovered that there was a reason to. Had not needed to, or so I thought.

Better option is to use an older driver that just works right until the dummies at NVIDIA figure out how to do their jobs well. I don't own Witcher 3, and the more I read about the game the less interest I have in it. I also don't have much interest in GTA 5, so at this point there is no compelling reason for me to care about the latest and not-so-greatest drivers.

It hasn't happened again, so if that continues to hold true I might just take the lazy approach and do nothing.

 

Oh, I remember that back when I had a GT 525M overclocked on my sister's Samsung (RF 411). Every time the driver crashed, I had to reboot. Man, it was annoying.

 

oh man, so glad i am not the only one going crazy over this.

 

@D2 Ultima - ROFLMAO at this dullard... https://forums.geforce.com/default/...hread-released-5-31-15-/post/4561242/#4561242

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even worse when people say "oh, just roll back", to a degree it's true but the fact is NVIDIA is expected to deliver on a certain level of support and they're not meeting it by releasing buggy as hell drivers!

 

I'm now managing to crash on even graphically noob games like... Drum roll please...

Spoiler

Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program.

What the actual ****ing hell, Nvidia?

 

oh jeez! FFS NVIDIA!!!

 

Maybe too heavily for the graphics? LoL

 

I uninstalled GFE and haven't had the problem since... so I blame GFE.

On a different note, and I know I'm opening myself to flames here and mean no insult, but if you don't care about games and their performance, and have a driver that is awesome for your setup and your benchmarking goals, why be so upset with new drivers meant to tweak performance for particular new games? You mention you don't care about Witcher 3, but I'm 35 hours in and absolutely love it. Obviously we have different goals, but I'm glad Nvidia gave us drivers to optimize the game I'm currently enjoying, which runs fantastic.

Just a different side of the coin.

 

I have only ever experienced driver crashes when playing around with overclocking so I'm pretty sure Optimus is shielding me from these issues.

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Overclocking can cause it too XD.

 

I cant wait for my gelid extreme to come this week to repaste both gpu and cpu.Its hot and temperatures increased.How can i be sure if my thermal paste is gone cause i played today and i got 89C max for gpu and 92C for cpu after a hour or a bit more playing project cars..Normally last year with similar outisde temp i was getting like 78-79C max for gpu and cpu around 83C at max.Im worryied if the fan is damaged or its just thermal paste.I think the fan is working properly cause the notebook would shut down really fast and i wont be able to play it for an hour?or im wrong and the increase in temp with broken fan wont be that high?hope GC extreme is the solution

 

It's getting to the point were we need driver on the fli.
Kinda like sli on the fli. So we can switch between drivers on the fli depending on what game we're playing or wether we're benching or not. We could assign different drivers to different macro keys lol. Or we could set wich driver to load with each game using nvidia control panel.

 

a repaste is good, make sure you run HWInfo64 to control the fans.

 

Idea reminds me of Wine, where a certain version of Wine will run an application well but the most recent version might not, so you have the frontend load the version of wine that you want the application to be running with. Would add unneeded complexity though to something that should be simple.

 

I think that's the whole problem to begin with.
Nvidia keeps adding uneeded complexity to begin with .

Edit: ok maybe not the whole problem but definately part of it.

 

If you don't use DDU between drivers you can change to an older or newer driver by manually selecting it in Device Manager because those drivers are still present. If you run DDU it eliminates all old drivers and registry entries. If you are running Windows 8.X.X and using any kind of modded driver you will have to boot with DSE disabled the same as when you first installed the modded driver.

 

Every time I try to upadate to anything above the 344.65 for a 980m, be it 350.12 or 353.06 or anything, I am met with "No compatible graphics card found."

Interestingly enough, GeForce Experience tries to assure me "Your GeForce driver is up to date", yet I'm using 344.65 from 11/10/2014 . . . .

Thoughts?

What's more is trying to update driver from "Device Manager" results in my card then being designated a "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" . . . with a yellow triangular exclamation point.
http://i.snag.gy/0QM5G.jpg

Wild stuff here....
Even trying to play games results in it not recognizing the card at all, but rather reverting to the onboard intel4000 or something.

 

What you are experiencing is not necessarily unusual. What system/model? If your 980M is an aftermarket upgrade, then you probably need to use a modded INF with your GPU's hardware ID added. If you are using Windows 8.X you will also need to boot Windows with Driver Signature Enforcement (DSE) disabled or the driver installation will fail.

 

Right, originally my M17x R4 had a 675m card.
About 8+ months ago I installed a 980m.
Things have been running quite well for over half a year.
Farcry4, GTAV, Witcher 3, everything I can throw at it.
Then upon trying to install the 353.06, things started going wonky.

I read about modded INFs, and determined "%NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.19FD.1043% = Section252, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05511028" would be mine.

What i don't know though, is where to put the line (in which particular file?) or what to do with this info.

 

i have lenovo y50 with 860m 4GB Maxwell, I installed 353.06 Driver but DSR Option dose not show in Nvidia Control Panel, How to enable it?