nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v358.59

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3798


This is a GeForce Hot Fix driver, version 358.59 that addresses the following issues:

• G-Sync Windowed mode & full-screen performance issue

Click the appropriate link to download.


Windows 7 and 8

64 bit Desktop

32 bit Desktop

64 bit Notebook

32 bit Notebook



Windows 10

64 bit Desktop - Win10

32 bit Desktop - Win10

Links for the Notebook Drivers for Windows 10 were not included on the main page, nVIDIA Clowns Team forgot it but I managed to edit the links and get them right:

64 bit Notebook - Win10

32 bit Notebook - Win10

 

awesome, gsync was reducing my performance by about 40% with the previous drivers.

 

Damm, no fix for me yet

 

Did you use DDU to uninstall the previous driver? that is a MUST bro

 

Fine I will DDU to check the new drivers. I was used to not need using any programs to remove drivers and they worked fine.

Damm you nvidia!

Sent from my SM-G925I using Tapatalk

 

Well I visit the nCrapia forums often and 60% of the problems user encounter turn out to be because they didn't properly get rid of the old buggy driver remnants. The Clean install option under the custom setting doesn't work, don't ever trust it. DDU FTW

 

I never use DDU and have never had any issues. I wouldn't say its a must or even remotely required.

 

To each his own. I find no reason not to use it and start out from a fresh clean state.

 

I have a lot of custom settings for various games with my performance preference or forced AA etc. Clean installs of any kind makes me have to re-set about 15 different game profiles versus NCP.

Anyway, there's no reason to use DDU *UNLESS* you already have a problem driver. If your current driver works fine, an express install is fine.

 

15 is nothing. Just export the individual profiles with Inspector, clean install driver, and import them back in. Takes all of a few minutes.

 

I really need to work with NVI more.

 

I always DDU.... Never had any problems.. I'll be sticking to 355.82 since they work and I've been bitten enough by NVIDIA's Crapola drivers...

 

I've never DDU and all newer nvidia drivers consistently give me problems, after 353.62. As soon as I install 353.62 or previous, everything works fine.

I've been quite busy this week. I will attempt to update today.

 

Please let us know the outcome, and if it works, I hope you will use DDU from now on. It is a tool sent from heaven for us nVIDIA owners

 

Hahahaha yeah definitey I will let you know. The problems might take a day or two to appear, and always go away after a hardcrash. As soon as I experience the symptoms, I will be going back to previous drivers and proceed to curse nvidia in the name of neptune.

 

I have a 90% feeling that this time it will work. Let's face it, the drivers have been buggy, as in, not perfect, but thing so drastic to make you stop using them which is what you are facing right now. One shouldn't be using such an old driver just to get it to work. At the end of the day, as bad as they are, they do include some game specific optimizations so let's try this.

Awaiting your feedback

 

Nope didn't work. I installed just fine and used the drivers for a couple of games. As soon as I shut down, and then start the machine up, everything is unstable. It recovers when I restart. It is very obnoxious having to restart every time I turn the computer on.

I did use DDU to remove previous drivers and did a clean install. I will test a couple of days more, bit I don't think I am stable at all.

 

this has never happened to me with any driver.

Please list your OS, Anti-Virus

Also, anything in Event Viewer that might give us a clue or is it just the driver?

PS: Did your MSI laptop come with those 980M SLI or did you install them yourself?

 

It was weird for me the very first time it happened. This issue has happened to various GT80 users.

1) Windows 10 currently, although the issue happened also in Windows 8.1 (I just re re reupgraded to 10, after fixes). My current anti virus is AVG.
2) I can't see anything relevant on event viewer. Just a couple of warnings from the task scheduler for a program I eliminated. Nothing related from nvidia.
3) Yeah, the GT80 came with 980m SLI. The issue only happens with releases after 353.62. Every other release before and up to 353.62 works without issues.

Curously, it is the exact same issue across drivers, after 353.62.

 

This is strange and it bothers me that I cannot solve something. I would've said maybe there is a problem with the MSI GT80 laptops themselves or the BIOS or vBIOS perhaps that MSI uses but since you say drivers from 353.62 worked fine, that's good at least we know it's not a hardware or BIOS issue. It seems like nVIDIA has some change in drivers afterwards that are causing this.

Let's not give up easily as we cannot stay on old drivers forever. I will research more on the MSI forums. Meanwhile, if you can e-mail MSI's technical support detailing the problem, I'd appreciate it.

 

@ryzeki

Your concern has been posted on the MSI forum:

MSI GT80/ Can't use any driver after 353.62

 

Thanks Matrix I also have posted on nvidia forums as well as other forums to see if anyone has any idea. All drivers before 353.62 also work flawlessly, also included the ones you download from the MSI page.

It also bothers me because it is obviously a weird software glitch. If I restart, the issue is gone. Something is definitely happening after shutting down/booting up.

I also tried original vbios, updated vbios and currently still using prema's vbios. So at least I know it's not the vbios.

 

Wrong thread

 

As an update:

I have installed the latest intel graphics drivers, as well as the latest BIOS and the latest EC firmware.

Everything seems to be working for now. I will monitor this over the next few days and hopefully it will be the end of it.

EDIT: Yeah... after updating the thread, I had a crash... I will pretend if was a random fluke and continue testing.

 

did you use DDU to uninstall the previous Intel Drivers?

Please do this:

1- Disconnect your WLAN or internet connection, if you don't do this, Windows Updates may or may not install the Intel driver automatically after we clean up so leave the internet disconnected until we are done.

2- Run DDU and reboot into Safe Mode when prompted

3- Clean up the INTEL Drivers first by selecting it from the drop down menu in DDU then reboot

4- Run DDU again and reboot into safe mode again, this time let's clean the nVIDIA Driversd and reboot

5- Start by installing the latest Intel HD Graphics Driver then reboot

6- Now install the latest nVIDIA 358.59 Hotfix Driver, choose Custom, then select CLEAN Installation, de-select GeForce Experience as the one included in the driver is an old one.

7- Reboot

8- Install the latest GFE (optional) then monitor your system

Please report back, thank you

 

I've been just installing all the drivers.. both Intel and nVidia, on top of the previous ones. Dating back to windows 7 to Windows 10. I only had crashing with one of the nvidia driver revisions and it was definitely nvidias fault as everyone was having a problem with that one. I just installed the old driver right back on top of it. There was a time where I was doing nVidia's clean install option in their installer but I stopped doing that so I didn't lose my profiles. This definitely seems like some GT80 incompatibility or perhaps some intermittent hardware problem that is rearing it's head with a new feature supported in a later driver.

If you can nail down which driver is the FIRST revision that starts this problem for you through to the latest ones, pour through the changelog for the driver and see if that revision is the first one to add a specific feature or optimization. Or perhaps that revision is the first to include some bug fix that is causing you an issue, or even perhaps that's the first one to acknowledge a "known issue" that they haven't fixed yet.

 

I did install the latest drivers via DDU. I don't think the intel VGAs did anything though despite being a bit old, because I don't have optimus and I have to manually switch between GPUs, rebooting in the process. But I did use DDU anyways.

I could try reinstalling the drivers anyway but I can report right now that the issue persists. I already had my predicted crash.

You are right, I do know from which driver onwards the issue started, and it was exactly with the first windows 10 driver, when win10 officially launched. I will find the changelog and see if I can find what's up.

 

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This driver is crap, as it continues to play the game of "Hide and Cloak" with my 880m from being unseen by any games that I play, as was done with previous 358.50 Nvidia release.
Bioshock doesn't see my 880m, and issues me a warning that my IGPU 4600 can't play this game, blah blah blah.
The same can be said for Hard Reset with screen tearing, and Skyrim: TES unable to play at anything above Low quality.
All my games are defaulting to the Intel 4600 now as the only GPU I have.

The overall quality control from Nvidia in has gone way downhill in recent years, in not doing their due diligence in making sure their driver releases are not causing more problems than they are solving....

 

Sorry to revive this old thread but this is the one that I posted the most about my issue with nvidia drivers.

Anyone experiencing the same issue like me, the solution was to disable hibernation/fastboot by windows. It seems that the hybrid shutdown instead of full shutdown, was causing something the next time I booted.

I noticed after testing that all my issues happened after shutting down and then booting up. If I immediately restarted the laptop before using, I had no crashes or problems. Thanks to users in the MSI forums, it occurred to me that the issue was hybrid shutdown and proceeded to test immediately.

I have been successfully running the latest drivers with no crashes at all for some days now. Before I couldn't get even 20 minutes without a crash.