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    nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v358.50

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Oct 7, 2015.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

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

    This new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience in the Star Wars: Battlefront Open Beta. This driver also brings support for the latest OpenGL ARB extensions as well as OpenGL ES 3.2. In addition, this Game Ready driver also includes updated features and functionality for the GameWorks VR software development kit (SDK).

    Game Ready
    Learn more about how to get the optimal experience here: Star Wars: Battlefront Open Beta

    Gaming Technology
    Supports OpenGL 2015 ARB extensions and OpenGL ES 3.2

    GameWorks VR Support
    Updated driver support for GameWorks VR SDK, adding VR SLI enhancements, and bug fixes. Learn more at developer.nvidia.com/vr.
     
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    No thank you.
     
    Ethrem, Oct 7, 2015
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    LOL, totally understandble

    you know when they say same ****, different day....... ?

    This is the same with nVIDIA, Same ****, different version number :D

    Running 3DMark11 right now...
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Oct 7, 2015
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    When my laptop comes in today, I will be putting 347.88 on it and if I need the new SLI profiles I'll put 358.50 on my desktop and export them... Not risking my machine, especially when I haven't had it since August
     
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    My thoughts exactly, first thing I remembered when I saw the score is your post "no thank you" LOL
     
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  9. Scanner

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    This driver also installed Nvidia Experience. I quickly uninstalled it.
     
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    All drivers install GeForce Experience :rolleyes: Once must select CUSTOM installation and de-select it. It also installs the older GeForce Experience so I deselected it and installed the latest one.
     
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    can someone tell me how to use the sli profiles file you just uploaded ? thanks
     
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    Import them with NVidia Inspector
     
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    installed these clean twice, my firestrike score was half! about 6000 instead of the usual 11.2k graphics score. Reverted back to betas and all is back to normal. Can anyone test and confirm?
     
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    What happen to the good old days whenever nvidia would release a driver they gave a list of the most recent games and the fps boost in each game.now They just keep the same driver and add a sli profile to it. And In some cases screw up the driver to where it won't even work proper at all.
     
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    That was when they had competition and people didn't buy their broken, mismarketed GPUs.
     
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    _______________________________________________________

    Well said. Here's to Nvidia for EFFING up my games!
    This last update has completely screwed up not just Skyrim: TES,
    but it has completely altered the way all my games detect my 880m.
    To put it simply, NONE of my games now "see" my Nvidia card, and
    only Intel 4600 card, and they play all my games accordingly
    .
    So, basically, now my system and games run exactly the same way on video card setup for games as my old AMD 7970m did.
    Congratulations, Nvidia, you've managed to bring me back to my crappy
    AMD card that I hated so much.

    Well done.
    :mad:
     
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    Being forced to use 355.60 or later for Battlefront I gave this a try. My Firestrike score actually went up to 10 140, usually it´s around 9 800 stock. I´ve never been above 10K without oc.
    Will see how it fares in games.
     
    Mr Najsman, Oct 10, 2015
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    Ugh, these drivers still hard crash me randomly.... and it's awful being forced to update to play battlefront. 353.62 are still the last stable driver for me....

    The weird part is that once it hard crashes, it reboots and works well. But after shooting down, back to russian roulette.
     
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    That's weird, I haven't seen a crash in a long, long time and I update to every new revision. Perhaps it's some intermittent hardware instability.
     
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    It has happened after 353.62. Every other driver before that has worked flawlessly but at 355.60 and onwards I get these issues. It seems to be widespread with Titan users in general, but not 100% of them.

    If this gets too annoying I will just return to 353.62. I don't even plan on buying battlefront anyways haha.
     
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    No, thanks. I'll stay with 347.52. Pretty much all 350.xx drivers are crap.
     
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    These are working fine for me on both the laptop and the desktop.
     
    Ethrem, Oct 11, 2015
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    Horrible drivers, that's all I will say. Uninstalled.
     
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    nVidia's drivers on the whole have been mostly aids since ~347.88.
    Some users (like you and myself) get no problems. But it doesn't mean the drivers are any good, really. The general consensus online is that the drivers suck and you're just lucky if things work.

    Doesn't mean I'll be updating to every new driver anyway.
     
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    Which of the latest Nvidia drivers perform best in Bench tests? Since I have a Aw so I'm careful with the choice of drivers (brick sreens). Is now at 353.06.
     
    Papusan, Oct 11, 2015
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