Nvidia WHQL 344.60 Advanced Warfare ready driver

Nvidia Game Ready Driver especially for Advanced Warfare


WHQL 344.60 released 4th November


64bit
NOTEBOOK ONLY NVIDIA DRIVERS GeForce Game Ready Driver WHQL



Release notes pdf http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/344.60/344.60-win8-win7-notebook-release-notes.pdf

warning: few unhappy customers including me. massive lag for me and other problems for other members below. rolled back to previous non game ready whql and all is well again

use this page to find the previous 20 drivers http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

 

Worthy of note: DO NOT INSTALL ANYTHING LESS THAN THE FULL DRIVER.

The driver only actually updates the "driver" and the "3D vision driver". It does not update HD audio or PhysX or any such thing, and neglecting to install any of those results in the whole process breaking entirely and the machine being stuck at a black screen with just a mouse cursor.

So for the sake of ease, use express install XD.

 

really

ive not been able to test as at work and all downloads are blocked.

thought id get it out there though as theres quite a lot just getting black screens.

 

That's odd, I've always selectively installed components before and don't remember running into problems. Or is the problem specific to this version?

 

Never had a problem with it before, but this one just locked my PC, and I had to force it off. When i loaded into windows, the display driver was installed and PhysX remained, but GFE (and all its settings), the HD audio driver and the 3D vision driver were all removed and I had to reinstall the driver.

 

gg nVidia.

 

i always do a clean install.I will try this new driver with call of duty in couple of hours

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

im gettin friggin lag now.

time to roll back.

 

You scare me.Maybe i should wait till next week when again new drivers will come for AC unity

 

But... but... only two cards surpass the minimum requirements for AC unity in the laptop world! You'll never run the game! Oh the HUMANITY!

/sarcasm

 

is DSR enabled for mobile cards?

 

Only 900M.

 

Uh, COD. What is this - the lowest GPU utilization was from when I alt tabbed out. Game isn't even at a steady 60 anymore. Yo-Yo-s between 45 and 60. This is before AND after the new driver.

I'm really sick of the issues I'm running into. I still can't plug my laptop into an external monitor without taking a performance hit as well. Do I really need to do a fresh install of everything? that.

And here's what it's like post driver and with settings increase to include DSx2:



Ugh, I hate that I'm wasting so much time trying to fix issues here.

 

DONT UPGRADE!!!!!!!!!II tested a bit and this are the worst drivers this year probably.I got much higher temps and i rolled back to 344.48 and its okay now.I thought first the thermal paste is gone but its cause of the drivers.I talk about 10-15C more temp on the gpu!!skip this driver

 

You are having the weirdest problems I've seen with the 980Ms. I don't get it at all. The game was working fine for you yesterday, but today it's not even close to working well?

Here's what: I want you to try something. Go in nVidia control panel and program settings. Find the applications you want, then find and set this option to what I have selected here:


Then afterward, I want you to go into windows power options then advanced settings and find and set this to what I have in this next screenshot if it isn't already so (it should be on "moderate" by default):

 

Just to let anybody who want to reads this know about the problem I had with this driver. I got that wonderful Nvidia installer failed install driver blah, blah. This was of course after it had removed the working driver, with no drivers my pc went down four letter word path. I went into safe mode and manually installed this new driver. Thanks Nvidia.

 

Appreciate the help. And yeah, it's driving me INSANE.

I also had a look at my CPU and it's crazy. Did I mention the game was also using 7777MB of my 8GB of vRAM? The gameplay is the section in the middle.



Will test that out now and report back.

 

That CPU usage is indeed correct. Also, VERY nice to know that the game uses all 8GB of a 980M. VERY GOOD. I will be including this in my report; can you do me a favour please and take a screenshot of playclaw 5's in-game overlay showing your vRAM usage while playing the game? I really would like to add this to my review.

 

I did what you said, no effect:



I turned off v-sync in the above to see how high the FPS would go and it keeps dropping from 90% utilization to 50%.

What the hell? Do I need to return this? To be fair, my old laptop would do the same. And the only common ground between the two are the SSDs I have installed. The primary is a Samsung Evo (I just did the performance restoration) and the other is a secondary Crucial drive with double the storage. Could they be the cause? This is maddening. I'm calling Sager Tech support when I'm free Thursday evening.

 

I do find it extremely odd that two completely different machines do the same thing indeed... I don't know why it would be the SSDs, but something is indeed wrong. I've not seen anyone else with a 980M report this, and HTWingNut running single-GPU 980M on the P377SM-A with Evolve and such does not have this issue. I SERIOUSLY suggest calling and finding out what's going on. Worse comes to worst, you could take out the SSDs and install windows on the HDD you have, then try gaming from it and see if any similar problems arise. If none arise, then your SSDs are somehow doing it. Process of elimination will always reveal the culprit!

 

Did you do a fresh install with this new machine, or did you simply clone everything over from the old computer? I vaguely remember you saying something about reusing the SSD from your old laptop, but I'm not sure.

 

I just installed the SSDs again. No wipe or anything. Literally just screwed them in and updated the Nvidia driver.

*Sigh* I should just do a hard wipe, huh?

 

It... might help, but I don't know. I'm one of the "hard wipe is best" people.

 

Well, I just checked the Nvidia control panel, and I can't find the 9**m series exclusive features like DSR. It should be there, right? I'm on the latest driver.

 

Wait, so did your old laptop have the exact same config as your new laptop minus the GPU? Must be right since you can freely swap SSDs in and out?

But yeah before nuking your SSD entirely, try DDUing the driver in safe mode, then install whichever one worked best for you again and see if that helps any.

 

Exact same config. Hence why I did it.

And yeah, already tried that, didn't help. Any way to nuke the SSD without having to do a full windows reinstall? Happy to do everything else over apart from that. I'd have to install 7 first, then download 8 etc. Less than ideal.

 

No, DSR is not available for mobile yet. Wait a couple months. Same thing happened with Shadowplay, even though we could use NVENC via programs like OBS. nVidia purposefully has laptops getting the best gear and features late. I don't know why, but I am assuming it's to let desktop users' e-peens grow and have some time to insult laptop users.

 

Well I'm definitely getting a raging e-boner right now...

Spoiler

NOT

As for nuking SSD without having to reinstall everything, don't think that's possible. What you could do is keep an image of your current installation, and if the reinstall doesn't solve your problem, simply load the old image back in and fire off an email to Sager.

 

Well, I have nothing to do for the next 45 minutes. Nuking HDDs, installing Windows 7 and redownloading my games overnight it is. Joy.

 

DSR isn't available on 900M? I was under the impression it is.

 

Can confirm that the settings are not where they're meant to be. Not unless that's just a problem for me seeing as I'm the only 980m user in the world with any issues.

 

Nope. Just like how the 780M had to wait about 3 months for Shadowplay even though I could use the NVENC encoder via OBS (meaning the card was always capable; just needed it to be enabled via driver support), the 900M series is similarly gimped. It's not just the fact that full GM204 isn't here yet =3

 

thanks for all the feedback guys. ive put a warning on the first post but just in case people on read the last page ill add it here as well.

warning: few unhappy customers including me. massive lag for me and other problems for other members in this thread. rolled back to previous non game ready whql and all is well again

use this page to find the previous 20 drivers if you want to roll back NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search

 

Hmm... odd. So far, I have no complaints about this new driver... seems to be working great for me with 780M SLI. Hopefully, those experiencing weirdness with 980M are just having some new car bugs that will be sorted in short order. Don't get discouraged already. It took a year or so to get a decent driver for 7970M and 980M is brand new. I bet it will all be in the rear view mirror within 30 days. [ LINK ]

 

His real problem is that he's the only 980M user with such weird problems. I was trying to point out this to him before he rises up on Sager's shores with 300,000 psychic humpback whales and flying killer jellyfish.

 

Sent an e-mail to the support team at PowerNotebooks, they told me to do a clean install. Which I'd just done.

Only what I hadn't done was install Service Pack 1 and all other Windows 7 updates before installing the driver disc. Apparently this is not a good move as most of the drivers on that disc won't work properly without SP1. I wonder if this was causing the issues with my 880m also. Never had the throttling issues that others complained about, just the weird GPU utilization stuff that seemed unrelated to the temps. Just did another clean install of Windows 7 to prep for that...

Installing all 211(!) updates now. Will then redownload all my games and see tomorrow if that helped/

 

there is a compiled oem build of SP1, just need to search. Also it's possible to find a compiled custom build iso with almost all updates but you should trust compiler. I personally use 1 author's builds and install OS in 15-20 minutes.

 

I just spent the evening installing all the Windows Updates through that automated system. Maybe not the most efficient way but it's all done now. Just leaving my PC on overnight to download a few games and I'll install all the drivers tomorrow before trying them out.

Fingers crossed this has been the cause of my issues - it's the only common thread between both laptops that had this problem, besides the same SSDs. And those don't seem to be failing.

 

You forgot about viruses which can travel from SSD to HDD and forth.

 

Eh, I formatted the SSDs before each Windows install. I'd be fairly surprised if that was the case.

 

Really hope you get this sorted. Honestly, the best way to install windows is always a later pre-installed version that has Service Packs and many existing updates installed, because this way they seem to have less update compatibility issues. That was my experience with both Windows Vista and Windows 8/8.1. Windows 7 I never used a pre-SP1 compilation build, so I was unable to test.

 

I only have a very old Windows 7 DVD lying around and no USB sticks to hand, so I thought this would be fine. I do like 8, especially the fast boot times but I can deal with 7 if it means the issues are sorted. I'll find out in 3 hours or so. At least the COD:AW problems seem to be due to the game, and not my set-up. I just hope that Ryse plays nice with HDMI now. That's a game I want on the big screen. Although, to be fair, it started running at only slightly better than 880m levels even with the HDMI cable unplugged which was not OK. Especially when my performance should be literally double that (probably the biggest jump in terms of performance I've seen the 980m have over the 880m, although it only applies to that game). That's really want prompted all of this. That and Crysis 3 yo-yo-ing and being unable to just stick to the 99% GPU utilization that they were hitting the first day I had the 980m.

Weird how I enjoyed Ryse at 30FPS 3 weeks ago. And now with my new laptop I'm mad that it won't hit the 60FPS that I was getting a few days back. Changing standards.

 

I remember this joke I once saw... "why show peasants 60fps trailers if they can only cry in 30fps". After laughing for about 3 minutes, I realized it's true: Why bother showing 60fps trailers of games that only play 30fps for them? Confuses me.

 

F*ck me... Nothing's changed. Ryse is still going from 60% usage to 90% when holding the camera still in a single scene. Ugh. Writing another e-mail to their support team. It can't be the SSDs, surely?

 

I... do not know. Unless you're having a bottleneck somewhere else on the machine? What you're describing COULD happen with a CPU bottleneck. OH I know, try running throttlestop and seeing if throttlestop indicates any CPU throttling of any kind. It shouldn't happen, but we might as well check everything while we're at it, right?

 

Just downloaded throttlestop. Working out how to log/see changes now.

EDIT: And now everything's fine again so I can't see what's causing it. OHAIHSAJSMNAKJDBFUIAFKJMD< AC<>nqj

 

So Throttlestop fixed your problems?

 

If running throttlestop fixed your problems, you had a CPU bottleneck for some reason... if that's the case, your windows power settings might have been broken and causing the issue; I know for sure that sometimes windows changes power plans on you without your doing, or resets your power plan settings.

Remember, even with my CPU running 3.5GHz constant in an AC, my 780Ms ran into a CPU bottleneck in Crysis 3... Ryse could likely do the same at max settings, and AW has shown that sometimes it throws CPU usage to 100% for me (though it's rare).

 

Hmmm, Well I don't think throttlestop was actually running. My PC just decided to be OK again.

The New Baghdad mission in COD:AW runs like . Going between 40-60FPS despite being at 40-50% GPU load. Let me turn on throttlestop and actually use it this time.

EDIT: Yeah, things have gone back to normal but I have no idea why. Also, every other mission in COD ran fine apart from that one. The game has hitching at every checkpoint (you will drop to 50fps from 60 regardless) and it seems to be due to streaming issues. Rest worked fine. Not as smooth as I'd like, but playable. MP has no issues. Ryse ran at 99% or so and I got 45-60FPS in the opening level. Which actually felt way smoother. They're really good at making things feel better than they are. Even Cryis 1 felt more playable than other similar games at lower framerates.