nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v368.81 Findings & Fixes

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I highly recommend using Display Driver Uninstaller in Safe Mode to uninstall the previous driver and get rid of all the current driver's file / registry remnants.

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Thank you, as usual!

 

But..... does it BENCH ?

 

Thanks! Going to bench it now with Futuremark's new Time Spy DX12 benchmark that was just released.

 

It says my 4GB VRAM isn't enough to run it


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Its funny how some websites are testing with async and then whining about GTX 970 and 980 scores being the same. And that 1070 is acting weird.

 

Well finished the "slideshow"... http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13199407

Now, were is my new 1080m?

 

Just bought it, thanks for letting me know about it

 

Release notes added to the OP

 

FYI, still no Fast Sync support for Maxwell. nVIDIA lied to us in the video they made recently saying that Fast Sync is also coming to Maxwell GPUs.

You can enable it with nvidia inspector just go to vertical sync option and select 0x18888888

 

LOL, from the nVIDIA Forums, a Pascal owner complaining:

 

Yeah if you can force enable it in the driver and it actually works, then there is "support", whether or not you're able to easily turn it on via NCP. No support would be like when they disallowed Shadowplay installing/running on laptops (even dGPU-only ones like mine) even though the driver already had NVENC support (confirmed by using OBS to record via NVENC).

I know I'm nitpicking a bit here, but if you can force it, that's part of the benefits of being on nVidia hardware. If this were AMD, we wouldn't get a chance.

Any word on if Fast Sync is going to happen for Kepler? I thought it would be Pascal-only and I was not certain how it'd play out.

 

will see if it's worth the upgrade!

 

So are we good to go on this one? I am going to try it on my M17x R4 and 980M.

 

didn't have any issue with 1080 on w7, could be related to how nvidia handles dx12 in w10 that causes the dpc latency and extra compute time needed

 

yes sir, been running it for a while. nothing odd.

 

Cool! Thanks for the reply.

 

Is it wide-spread or is that possibly just an isolated incident?

This seems to say that there are no frame-pacing or stuttering issues or anything like that, and in the past Guru3D has tended to be pretty un-biased from what I have seen: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/fcat_geforce_gtx_1080_framepacing_review,16.html

 

dpc doesn't always mean stutter, though in this case I can't really give comments because I'm not experiencing the high dpc myself

 

How is this driver in bench?
@Mr. Fox @bloodhawk @Phoenix

 

I'm not sure. Haven't tried it. Still using the last @j95 mod. Maybe I will image my OS again this weekend before testing it so I can restore the image if it sucks. I don't trust NVIDA as far as I can throw them, so I don't want to make changes without an escape route. The way things are getting, no telling what kind of irreversible changes their newest cancer drivers might inflict on the OS.

 

Im on @j95 mod

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/72267
Without optimizations. So pretty decent id say.

 

Yup, I agree. Looking good.

We used to say, " if it ain't broke, don't fix it" but that's starting to look more like " if it ain't broke yet, wait wait for the next driver update" LOL. With the Pascal launch upon us the danger of Maxwell getting crippled by NVIDIOT cancer drivers is real.

 

Thanks. Yeah you never know from these Morons. Have seen that those with AW upgraded with Maxwell is recommended to update the OS before new graphics driver. Why?? I dislike such a way to do things!!

 

Definitely a solid driver. If anyone is on the fence I say get these installed.

 

Hi, I'm looking for some advice from someone who has experience with recent Nvdidia drivers:

As I have mostly played The Witcher 3 over the last year, but also some MGS V, my MSI GT72 2QE (980M, Windows 8.1) was kept on 355.82, the driver that was released as the Game Ready driver for the latter game. All in all, that driver has served me well.

However, now it's time to move on to more recent games and I'm wondering which driver version to update to. 368.81 is the most recent WHQL version and from reading this thread it seems to be a solid driver. I also understand that many see 362.00 as the "best" most recent offering from Nvidia. So my choice basically boils down to those two.

I would really appreciate some advice, maybe even from someone with the same or similar system specifications. Thanks a lot in advance.

 

365.19 or 362. They're both solid but I haven't had any issues with 365.19 and it gave my old Kepler card a nice boost too so I run it on both my laptop and my desktop.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. 365.19 wasn't even on my radar.