Nvidia WHQL 347.52 (game ready) Feb 10th

another game ready driver released 10th Feb 2015

347.52

64bit http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/81879/en-us


32bit http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/81878/en-us


release notes http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/347.52/347.52-win8-win7-notebook-release-notes.pdf


GeForce Game Ready Driver for Evolve

Just in time for the highly anticipated title Evolve, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience With support for GeForce SLI technology and one-click game setting optimizations within GeForce Experience, you'll have the best possible performance and image quality during gameplay. In addition, we are delivering performance improvements across GeForce GPUs that will immediately benefit a wide variety of titles at various resolutions.

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for Evolve, including support for SLI Technology and GeForce Experience 1-click optimizations

Gaming Technology
Performance improvements across various GeForce GPUs.

 

Steady driver updates like this is why I buy Nvidia cards

 

Cloud, can you or someone with Maxwell cards test if the driver allows OCing on Maxwell mobile?

 

Tested over here Champ!
Not the greatest of drivers for me so far in terms of performance.
Also no overclocking on maxwell for me either!

 

Guys you gotta let your voices be heard. Sitting idle by and winging that you can't overclock with them isn't going to help. Go and give them a piece of your mind

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...l-driver-feedback-thread/2/?offset=18#4456177

 

The fail from NVIDIA.. It should have been fixed by now.. Isn't there some good programmer here who knows how to enable the OCing lol?

 

Duh, GeForce experience just started crashing today. This was even before installing new drivers. According to GeForce forums this is apparently widespread problem. Somehow just detecting new drivers being available made it crash (or maybe new game profiles broke it).

You can still manually download and install new drivers yourself from here:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

This seem to work ok, though even clean install doesn't fix GeForce experience.

 

GeForce Experience is one buggy piece of crap

 

totally agree.
when released it was on my computer for roughly 15 minutes before being deleted.

 

Saw an improvement on Modor minimum FPS ~4 frames in benchmark, stock 980m just made it over the 10k line for the graphics score for the first time in Fire Strike.

 

Wrote there too.

 

And here too: https://forums.geforce.com/default/...s/gtx-900m-overclocking-with-347-09-347-25/1/
Though i don't know if it will change anything :/

And for Geforce experience issue: uninstall and reinstall it, but once GE open don't click on the "drivers" tab, it is what causes the crash.

 

I'm new to NVidia, been on ATI hardware for a few years, Can someone give me a quick summary of what Geforce Experience does?

I dont usually install any of the bloatware, just drivers. But wondered if its worth having

Ta
Mick

 

The main utility is to check and download (automatically if you want to) your driver.
You can also use shadowplay (game recorder, fps counter).
And there is a feature that scans your drives to find (supported) games, and you can apply nvidia-recommended settings for these games with one click.

 

Bloated AF too. Adds like 5 different background processes/startup items and increases my boot time. Also uses not an insignificant amount of RAM and CPU, considering I have an i7.

MSI Afterburner is better than ShadowPlay for my recording purposes, other than that I have absolutely no use for GFE.

 

I don`t see anything wrong with GF Experience. My bootup only takes 6-10 seconds here.
It adds profiles to your games, where you can select which settings you want to use in the games before you launch it. But it also gives a recommendation based on your hardware.
GF Experience also adds Shadowplay which let you record your games, or you can just use it to add FPS counter in the games.

Its a nice little program, nothing revolutionary though.

 

They have fixed the issue with this driver btw
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...-tab-fix-coming-shortly/post/4457297/#4457297

 

So I wonder what sort of visual/performance difference there is when using Nvidia's profiles or just setting up the graphic options in-game? Is it worth it?

Mick

 

You should probably clarify which driver issue was fixed.

Edit: It was GFE that was fixed, not the driver. GG Cloudfire getting Maxwell owners all worked up about possibility of overclocking again.

 

I've made an account on NVIDIA forums and complained about the Maxwell crap.. even PMed the Gareth guy to demand an answer!

 

Actually performance increase seemed noticable in this release, tried with evil within and dragon age i, never install GFE so didn't get any issues. notice both smoother and no longer microstutters on my 980m.

 

No difference, it is just faster than doing it manually, and most of the time accurate.

 

did they fix the overclocking for 900M cards yet?

 

Nope.

 

urgh! ok, i'm gonna hold out in getting a sager till later in the year and i've already gotten the ball rolling on a custom drawn tattoo so i think that'll be option for now.

 

GPUs before tattoos, my chink of ink.

 

is this overclocking issue even a bug? Or is nvidia doing it on purpose so we don't squeeze out any extra free performance?

 

nVIDIA is definitely doing it, but they won't even acknowledge it.

 

mainly i went with tatts first because it was the first thing i wanted to do when i got a paying job.....more than a laptop with a 900M GPU.

 

Really? Everybody got different priorities, I guess.

 

no dsr still for notebooks???ohhh i wait to for that...I want to play fifa 15 in 4K

 

if i wanted to get a sager first i think i would have a tough time trying to find a buyer for the alienware.

 

This is a good question.

 

It would appear as though nvidia is intentionally locking users out of overclocking as for multiple past drivers from the 344 days onwards, we were unable to OC our gpu's.

 

There is nothing to fix if it's not broken. Nvidia did it and believes it's not broken.
Expecting them to fix it is like expecting bandit-politition to put under the jail bandits of his gang. They will do it if they will be forced to.

 

So... I have to choose between performance boost from driver optimisations or performance boost from overclocking - but not both from now onwards?

Not good, as new drivers can really help increase performance in new releases. Over time, it all adds up to something quite significant. Mustn't forget the game-breaking bugs that sometimes need to be addressed by driver fixes too.

If the next main branch also lacks the ability to overclock, it looks like it's intentional

Sent from my Nexus 5

 

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...king-with-347-09-347-25/post/4458903/#4458903


Edit: oops, there is a thread for that, didn't see, sorry

 

I dont have adaptive vsync with these drivers?im not sure about the drivers before but im pretty sure that 1-2months ago i saw adaptive vsync available in nvidia control panel.I dont use it but wanted to try it to fix dead rising problems but its not available anymore

 

There is no Adaptive V-Sync if you have Optimus.

 

I have a 980M on an (unfortunately) Optimus laptop. Is there any way to disable the integrated GPU entirely so I can access adaptive vsync? Optimus also causes some other weird problems like not being able to start some games in fullscreen.

 

Using the new drivers, it improved my 980M GTX SLI's performance on AC Unity. Stable 60fps max settings and FXAA.

I will check Witcher2 and Skyrim with ENB.

 

EDIT: This one is on me. I changed some settings in the INF that I shouldnt have touched. Works perfectly now

I`m staying away from this driver.
I got a pitch black screen while installing this driver. Had to force reboot the system and the installer didnt install all components like it was suppose to. When the AW18 rebooted, Geforce Experience was stuck on my screen.

Had to use IGP and use DDU to wipe it away. Ugh

 

You can't, unfortunately.

 

i'm still on the old drivers and i wonder if the new drivers block OC on 700M GPUs?

 

No, at least not yet.

 

when it happens i better be on a new laptop with a new GPU or move back to desktops!

 

Well if you do move to a desktop for god sake don't support the company that forced you there.

 

I told ya.

 

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A little late to the party is all