New NVIDIA Geforce WHQL Driver 353.06

You can't because your notebook has Optimus

 

Interesting if notebooks with GT graphics will get DSR with 353.06 + gamenab's DSR patch.

 

@j95 has driver mods that should get you fixed right up. Here is a link: http://forum.techinferno.com/nvidia/6307-[alienware]-aftermarket-upgrades-driver-support-modded-inf-8.html#post135452

You can open the NVDMI.INF with NotePad and change the 675M hardware ID (1212) to 13D7 (980M) and change "675M" to "980M" using NotePad's Find/Replace All feature in a matter of seconds for a down and dirty mod that will install fine. I recommend using j95's mod because it is tweaked to help stop Maxwell throttling issues installed in Alienware machines.

 

[parsehtml]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is a side-by-side graph showing how the Alienware M18xR2 with GTX 780M SLI malfunctions with NVIDIA drivers... <a href="http://t.co/6Z8lsi5MWd">http://t.co/6Z8lsi5MWd</a></p>&mdash; Mr. Fox ([USER=165514]@Mr_Fox_Rox[/USER]) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mr_Fox_Rox/status/608777753148682240">June 10, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/parsehtml]

Notice how the CPU/Physics score is also adversely affected. 352.86 degrades CPU performance and 353.06 does so even more. NVIDIA is going the wrong direction with their drivers.

Lots of unhappy folks over in the driver feedback thread.

 

The drivers crashed on chrome AGAIN! this time viewing NBR forums!

 

@Mr. Fox I have a silly idea. Have you attempted to use express install for the drivers? Not removing the old driver with DDU? From your working 345.20 drivers, if you use an express install to 350.12 or 353.06 etc, if it makes a difference. I almost never use DDU unless I actually encounter an issue because of the large amount of custom game settings I have (resetting them each time is annoying) and it's the only other thing I could think of.

 

Yes, in fact that is exactly what I did to create the graph I posted earlier today. Cleaning with DDU first or using Express Install doesn't seem to have any appreciable effect on the throttling. It might be slightly less after Express Install, but it is sort of irrelevant since it still happens.

I normally don't use DDU either, but when I am testing driver mods I do because I want to be sure I am starting with a clean slate so I can get an accurate read on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the driver mod.

Seems that attempting to use these crappy new drivers is an exercise in futility for quite a few desktop and laptop owners. Have you tried using an older driver with your 980M yet, such as my 345.20 DT driver mod or 352.86? Might work better and let you enjoy that shiny new 980M GPU a little more.

 

Nvidia is really going down the tubes with drivers. You can build the best, fastest, and most robust hardware, but it means squat if there isn't solid driver support.

 

In other words, Nvidia is following the path of AMD.

 

Haha. No, AMD just stopped trying on all fronts. I wish they had mobile competition.

 

FTFY

 

The way things are going we'll be getting Nvidia shields shoehorned in to fanless laptops with 5k screens.. Because.. Hey, it's thin and light right..
And they'll probably be faster than AMDs mobile offerings

 

Thing are looking pretty sad on all fronts. Hopefully, things won't get worse.

 

I just put the DSR on 1.5x native resolution, single 970m and I saw improvement on fps guys!!!

 

Which game? And doesn't seem possible. Pushing MORE pixels results in FPS improvement?

 

I tested on bf hardline

 

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this. But I have a strong feeling "Window mode G-sync" is largely to blame for most of these problems with recent drivers. Especially with the CPU being affected in some situations.
Tom Peterson mentions in this "I̶n̶f̶o̶m̶e̶r̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ interview" that they've managed to change Windows Power Options with their drivers. Something I'd like left alone.. thanks Tommy boy..

 

I have taken a break for the last couple weeks. Honestly just tired of spending all the limited gaming time I have working on trying to get things right and not gaming. Getting to the point that I dread dealing with. Just feels like work at this point. Anyway, I think Nvidia needs to stop making drivers for specific games until they can figure out how to release good all around drivers. Seems like the more they have focused as of late on optimizing drivers for specific games, the worse the drivers have become. Stop, back away from the optimization, and figure things the hell out first.

 

What if:

Nvidia is screwing up its drivers on purpose to drive ppl away from PC gaming and toward its new Shield console?

/tinfoil hat off

 

And the Moon Landing debunking presentation they did was government sponsored

 

As were 9/11 and the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations

 

And thermite melts through metal
... Oh wait

 

And HL3 was released....

 

And I lol'd

 

Nvidia conspiracy confirmed!

 

Wow, much conspiracy, much speculation.

 

Does that look better now Dogemeister?

 

using the 353.00 drivers and just suffered 3 crashes while using chrome within a few minutes of each other....BOO!

CODAW is crashing heaps with the 353.06 drivers.

 

Strange thing happened.
I upgraded to 353.06 and my clevo had a black screen after waking up from sleep in battery power. Hooked to a wall no problem. I started to remember I had the same issue with 350.00 or .03, can't remember which one I had before upgrading. But it happened only a few times because I didn't use the laptop so much and didn't pay attention to it at the moment.
I installed 347.88 and the problem vanished.
Anybody else had the same problem? What drivers would you recommend to use?

 

It would help if we knew what your laptop model was.

 

Sorry I forgot the specs!
clevo 370sm-a
4810mq
16gb ram
980m sli
2x 840 evo 250gb raid 0
120hz screen

edit: and Win 8.1 64bit

 

Best person to ask would be @Ethrem about that issue @wikileaker as he has almost your same config and can check.

 

Thanks Ultima!

 

I have same system as you and ended up reverting to 350.12 . I never got black screen but I never run my system off battery . But but the new drivers 353.00 and 353.06 make my laptop freeze when booting for short periods of time and do wierd things . When I went back to 350.12 everything worked perfect again. So I'm just waiting until next driver update before updating again . I tried clean install of new drivers . Express install of new drivers and it doesn't matter they still behave improperly for me .

 

I'll try the 350.12 and see what happens.
It's actually quite strange. Did they change something in the power management? I tried to change power options etc. but nothing except downgrading the drivers helped. Didn't try sli disabled though.. hmm..

 

Let us know what happens..
If you have to disable sli to get driver to work properly then the driver is pretty much usless. At least to me anyway. I bought a sli laptop so I could use dual graphics cards not so I could disable one just so my laptop would function correctly.

 

I have been pretty quiet about 353.06. Because they ran quite well on mine, maybe placebo, maybe not, but the only game I play often ran without noticeable lags at 8xMSAA+8x tr.SSAA until couple days ago. That happened before too, for some reason performance seemed to lower idk why.

But yesterday I met serious problems. When I tried to launch GFExperience or uninstall it, or uninstall driver or... well, trying to do anything with driver aside from gaming I got strange error window:
Nvidia. Name of this file can not be allowed by the system. Maybe that is because I set custom settings by Nvidia Inspector or BF3 yesterday, maybe that is just a coincidence.

But even after using DDU I see that error in DDU logs and now my Nvidia GPU is missing in Device manager. Win10 sees it though so I doubt it bricked. But now I have to recover my OS from earlier stage, COOL!

 

James, maybe it's a Win 10 issue?

Ok, installed 350.12, no issues! Tried with SLI disabled too. Don't have the tenacity to try newer drivers again.. But I did notice that the clevo command center had some problems too with the newer drivers. Eg. couldn't choose the performance power plan. Maybe it's just me but something clicks either with the power settings in the drivers or it's a software issue with clevo and nvidia.

 

I formatted drive with Win10 yesterday. I installed on it Win10 drivers only, 353.06 is for 7, 8.

 

James - Nvidia released the new Win 10 driver yesterday, version 353.30. Install that one since you just did a clean install of Win 10!!!

 

Sorry, now I'm a Linux guy cause I just did Linux Mint 17 x64 (Cinnamon) fresh install on the partition where Win10 was

 

You don't have SLI do you? It does not and probably will not ever work on Linux.