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    nVIDIA GeForce Driver 353.62 for Windows 10

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Jul 28, 2015.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

    Spartan@HIDevolution Company Representative

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    Windows 10 64-bit

    Desktop GeForce GPUs:

    http://international.download.nvidi...3.62-desktop-win10-64bit-international.hf.exe

    Notebook GeForce GPUs:

    http://international.download.nvidi....62-notebook-win10-64bit-international.hf.exe

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    Windows 10 32-bit

    Desktop GeForce GPUs:

    http://international.download.nvidi...3.62-desktop-win10-32bit-international.hf.exe

    Notebook GeForce GPUs:

    http://international.download.nvidi....62-notebook-win10-32bit-international.hf.exe
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Jul 28, 2015
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    Another shiny piece of crap. :)
     
    J.Dre, Jul 28, 2015
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    This driver has now also been released for Windows 7 and 8 in the nVIDIA page
     
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  4. D2 Ultima

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    So who wants to be the guinea pig I mean crash test dummy (literally) I really mean lab rat good samaritan who will run these for us and tell us how it goes?
     
    D2 Ultima, Jul 29, 2015
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    i'm fine with the 353.38 hotfix drivers thanks!
     
    thegh0sts, Jul 29, 2015
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    I am actually running this driver, 353.62, and it runs ok. Many consider the 345.20 to be the holy grail driver, but If you want to be able to run WWE 2k15, then you have to upgrade past it in order to get stable frame rates.

    I am not much of a 3Dmarker, so I can't provide the scientific results as would Mr. Fox.
     
    liteon6x, Jul 29, 2015
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  7. D2 Ultima

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    As much as I love Mr. Fox and his desire for OCing and I know I'll get there someday too, stability is nVidia's first concern right now. As far as I see it's mostly alienware users that ended up with throttling cards, and only 780M and 900M cards so far. Don't get me wrong... FULL functionality is still of utmost importance. But you can't provide an overclockable, power-stable driver that TDRs every 5 minutes. When there are no direct bugs, then fixing the power issues comes up.
     
    D2 Ultima, Jul 29, 2015
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  8. thegh0sts

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    i wonder if it's ok with aftermarket GPUs?
     
    thegh0sts, Jul 29, 2015
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    Marecki_clf Homo laptopicus

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    I installed this driver today on freshly upgraded Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. No issues so far, no throttling observed. For those with upgraded GPUs, modded .inf is already available at laptopvideo2go. Before installing this driver it is a good idea to use Display Driver Uninstaller and completely remove previous driver. This DID get rid of GPU throttling in my system, which indeed was happening after upgrading the OS.
     
    Marecki_clf, Jul 29, 2015
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    This driver is **** for me... Even with laptopvideo2go inf and J95's modded inf, it installs etc but clocks are stuck at lowest P state in all games and no GPU memory is used...
     
    TomJGX, Jul 29, 2015
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  11. Scanner

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    I installed the win8.1 version and everything went fine. I modded it like I always did. I upgrade to win10 and tried to install the win10 version of this driver, modding it like always and it would not install. Kept saying not supported blah blah. Anyone have any ideas why it won't work? Going back to 8.1
     
    Scanner, Jul 29, 2015
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  12. Zymphad

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    Why would you mod it?
     
    Zymphad, Jul 29, 2015
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    Sigh, I have 980ms in my AW18 non-modded drivers won't work
     
    Scanner, Jul 29, 2015
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    That's too bad. Why is that?
     
    Zymphad, Jul 30, 2015
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    So... win 10 doesn't allow modded drivers at all now?
     
    D2 Ultima, Jul 30, 2015
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  16. Marecki_clf

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    Mine does... :newpalm:
     
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    Last edited: Jul 30, 2015
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  18. be77solo

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    Did a quick run, and these bumped my 3DMark11 to P9440 at stock clocks after installing W10, normally I'm right around ~P9000 on W8. Physics stayed the same, always around 8000+/-, graphics was the improvement.
     
    be77solo, Jul 30, 2015
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  19. ijozic

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    Is overclocking working? I installed these on my Sony S13 with the Win 10 upgrade and I can't overclock the card with Nvidia Inspector anymore.
     
    ijozic, Jul 31, 2015
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  20. D2 Ultima

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    Might actually be that NVI needs to update or something.
     
    D2 Ultima, Jul 31, 2015
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    Had 353.45 installed. Downloaded 353.62 and while updating drivers my PC FROZE.
    I'm so tired of Nvidia's drivers and don't care if it's .45's fault or 62's
     
    James D, Aug 1, 2015
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    Could be, hence why I hope someone who uses them on Windows 10 can share their overclocking experience.
     
    ijozic, Aug 1, 2015
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    Because they're honestly the same card, really. As much as a 7970M is an 8970M is a R9 M290X
     
    D2 Ultima, Aug 2, 2015
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    Inspector works as intended on my W10 machine.
     
    Zymphad, Aug 2, 2015
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    Just updated from 353.38 and jesus....

    Better results w/ all benches, slight improvements.

    HoTS and CS:GO crashed randomly.

    Reverting back... might update in 10 years time again
     
    jaug1337, Aug 2, 2015
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    I know that, but some programs detect my GTX 860m as a GTX 960m. Only software like Nvidia Inspector, Nvidia Control Panel, and Windows detect it as a GTX 860m.
    I get the same thing for my R9 285 for the latest AMD drivers, but I think that's because of the drivers since R9 380 == R9 285.
     
    Game7a1, Aug 2, 2015
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  28. J.Dre

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    Windows 10 won't stop installing this driver, lmao. MACHINES ARE TAKING OVER!

    [​IMG]
     
    J.Dre, Aug 2, 2015
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    There's an external tool you can use to deny GPU drivers and the like.

    You'll just have to use it every. single. time. nVidia brings out a new driver.

    Isn't Windows 10 amazing?
     
    D2 Ultima, Aug 2, 2015
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    [​IMG]
     
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    if windows 10 detects your gpu as not compatible then it won't install the drivers but you can still do it manually.
     
    thegh0sts, Aug 2, 2015
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    Just got my first ever memory leak on Windows 10 thanks to the Nvidia Capture Service. (Used around 11gb and murdered my game) Doubt any fix will come soon so for now i guess uninstalling Geforce Experience is the only fix.
     
    DEagleson, Aug 3, 2015
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    This new driver is horrible. Decreased performance, memory leaks, audio device failures, monitor failures, etc.
     
    J.Dre, Aug 3, 2015
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    I think somewhere at some point on the internet, nVIDIA did not disqualify the fact that they have chimps taking over all the new driver updates.

    I think that is.
     
    jaug1337, Aug 3, 2015
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    so it's confirmed that older drivers are OK for win 10?
     
    thegh0sts, Aug 3, 2015
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  36. J.Dre

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    If you don't mind fighting with Windows 10. It will keep reinstalling the latest. Don't let it restart. :p

    But yes, Windows 8.1 drivers work fine.
     
    J.Dre, Aug 3, 2015
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    i don't think i had any issue since it considered my 980M as incompatible and i disabled the driver update thingy. i was thinking of using the 353.38 hotfix drivers. i haven't had issues with them on win 8.1.
     
    thegh0sts, Aug 3, 2015
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  38. be77solo

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    So far so good using this driver and Windows... I was actually a bit impressed with how well Windows 10 did installing all the necessary drivers after a clean install.
     
    be77solo, Aug 3, 2015
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    A little cinebench r15 test with gtx 850m

    Driver 347.88 - windows 8.1 - scored 79.88
    Driver 353.62 - windows 10 - scored 48.59
     
    AhmedouviX, Aug 14, 2015
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  40. FidaGillani

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    I upgraded my laptop to GTX 980m and now I am using windows 10+353.60 driver. Everything has been working okay
     
    FidaGillani, Aug 18, 2015
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    By the way the latest driver is 353.60 and not 353.62 as the former released on August 13 and the later on July 29
     
    FidaGillani, Aug 18, 2015
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    Nope the latest is 35 5.60
     
    octiceps, Aug 18, 2015
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    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    Numbers might be different, but underneath it's still some ol' crap.
     
    killkenny1, Aug 18, 2015
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    haha, this is what I had said. I used the way we write in our articles where we mention two things in the sentence ans says the former and later to talk about these in the later part of the sentece :). So, former meant 353.60 and later meant 353.62.
     
    FidaGillani, Aug 18, 2015
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    /facepalm

    There is no 353.60 driver. There is 353.62 which came out 7/29, and then there is 35 5.60 which came out 8/13.

    I'm not an ESL, I know what former and latter (not "later") mean.

    I suggest you read people's posts more carefully.
     
    octiceps, Aug 18, 2015
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    U r absolutely right and I got confused with the title 353.62 and both 'later' and 'latter' are true. So at least I was right somewhere :)
     
    FidaGillani, Aug 18, 2015
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    I qas wrong there as well :(
     
    FidaGillani, Aug 18, 2015
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    I hope you don't have an old Alienware... 355.60 is still blowing displays in them...
     
    TomJGX, Aug 19, 2015
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    In my case, 355.60 is crashing my system with constant reboots/freezes and all. I am running older drivers now.
     
    ryzeki, Aug 19, 2015
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    Not even going to try this driver in Windows 8.1.... This driver has bricked LCD's just like 353.62... I'm still on 353.00.. Works perfectly for me..
     
    TomJGX, Aug 20, 2015
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