nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v397.31

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/133649/en-us

Windows 10 Notebook 64-Bit: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/397.31/397.31-notebook-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe

Windows 10 Desktop 64-Bit: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/397.31/397.31-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe

Windows 7/8 Notebook 64-Bit: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/397.31/397.31-notebook-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql.exe

Windows 7/8 Desktop 64-Bit: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/397.31/397.31-desktop-win8-win7-32bit-international-whql.exe

Release Notes

Game Ready
Provides the optimal gaming experience for BattleTech and FrostPunk

 

So it is the driver for MSI GT75 Titan 8RG? Im not with my notebook atm and cant chek.

 

@Phoenix When will you get your new Msi Gamebook and can test this driver?

Very Nice done by Nvidia... New important info in Released Notes and only intended for Notebooks And as usual... New is always better



Official 397.31 Game Ready WHQL Display Driver Feedback Thread (Released 4/25/18)

Amazing!! But how long will people be in paradise before they can see the real truth?


Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) v17.0.8.5

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Nvidia GeForce Driver 397.31: RTX Support, file cleanup-Ghack.net

 

Installing this one. This seems like a significant release:

• RTX ray tracing technology for DX12 (Volta GPUs for now)
• Vulkan 1.1 API (first major Vulkan update, supports multi-GPU and better DX12 compatibility)
• New sample rates in HDMI audio driver
• Discontinue support for 32-bit OSes and Fermi GPUs

 

RE: Nahimic 3 I still cant get it from windows store. It says I "own" it but then gives me a try again later error...... any other way of getting it ?

 

Downloading now. Thanks for posting! I love fast internet! it finished in 37 seconds

 

Well I need this for Battletech, so...

*sign of the cross*

 

Time to download and install

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Double posties.

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*INF MOD v397.31*​

Finally custom refresh rates seems to work correctly...Nv color settings still broken.

 

What's the difference between the "Desktop" and "Notebook" versions?
I'm downloading the desktop version right now because I don't think the notebook version will like a 210W TDP GTX 1070
or am I wrong?

If the magic smoke comes out however.........I'm serious. (I just ran Heaven for 1 hour at 210W TDP with no boom. Voltage only dropped once or twice per loop momentarily due to exceeding 210W briefly.

 

I'm using desktop version since couple of months which removes TDP limits and OC limits unlike BGA driver crap.
I'm downloading it for RS4 support. Wish me luck @Papusan

 

Read... http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...24-findings-fixes.814748/page-2#post-10699173

 

Can you elaborate? I thought you need to flash a modded vBIOS for that?

(I'm not talking about clockblocked drivers like Nvidia did in the past).

 

Its @Prema vBIOS. I'm using 980M.

 

Gotcha. It sounded like you were saying the desktop driver removes the TDP and OC limits, instead of the vBIOS. I had a 980M with the Prema mod and it had unlocked TDP and OC limits on stock notebook driver.

 

Yeah the desktop driver does that too. Only issue is you need to overvolt to get sustained clocks that surpass my 122W limit even on Vsync.

 

@Phoenix I expect you will jump righ into a Hotfix or new WHQL nvidia driver once you get your new toy
NVIDIA GeForce 397.31 WHQL Drivers Put GTX 1060-Powered Systems Into Endless Restart Loop
by Chino Thursday, April 26th 2018 18:02 Discuss (15 Comments)
NVIDIA released their latest GeForce 397.31 WHQL drivers yesterday. The new 397.31 drivers came game-ready for recently released titles BattleTech and Frostpunk while also provided support for features like NVIDIA RTX and Vulkan 1.1. However, numerous GTX 1060 owners have reported on the official NVIDIA forums that they were unable to complete the installation of the 397.31 drivers. Users were prompted to restart their systems to complete the installation process, but once they have done so, they were presented with the exact screen over and over again putting their systems into an endless restart loop. While NVIDIA is investigating the bug, GTX 1060 owners are encouraged to roll back to a previous version of the drivers as a stop-gap solution. The workaround consists of rebooting the affected system in safe mode and running Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) to completely remove the 397.31 drivers. Users can then proceed to install the previous 391.35 drivers normally.

 

Awaiting Hotcake Fix Driver in 3....2....1....

Classical nGreedia Swiss Cheese

GEFORCE DRIVER 397.31 - FATAL ERROR

 

Funny, I had this happen the other night when I tried an old driver. I think it was 388.31 or the one before it, 388.13 possibly. But it ended up installing after 2 reboots.

 

MAGIC SMOKE FISHER PRICE TISSUE PAPER DRIVERS BABY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! boom boom vrroommm!!!!!!!!

Ok I'm just ....uh.......happy? (not about that though).

 

Unfortunately I had to uninstall these drivers.

With 391.35 I was able to stream on twitch and play games 3 hours straight no problem.

With 397.31 I was able to play for an hour then it crashed while streaming, hard restart/gpu crash. Started up the same game without streaming and it crashed again.

Testing out a different set and so far it works better.

This is full uninstall/DDU/Gsync disabled/Battery Boost disabled etc..

 

Abowe. From my post #3 LOOL

 

I'm using 397.40 vulkan right now which uses a 396 branch (older) as opposed to 397 but they're a separate set.
https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver




I help a lot of people on twitch with settings so I usually test new updates/drivers all the time so I can rollback or troubleshoot better

 

Hey i modified my bios, and successfully flashed my new bios back on with the programmer. I'm on 150 TDP now. Should I use the desktop driver to? I thought they were the same, only different maybe because the desktop has less cuda cores or something.

4K gaming holds 1,860 Mhz steady with +0 offset lol. Before hand, I could add +120 and it still would bounce from 1720-1847.

 

Not sure if it matters which. Check Papusan's posts.

 

Ok I’m using the desktop driver. I think it’s the same honestly. I think I’ve got about a 8% improvement if that with the 150tdp, temps are definitely higher I’m getting in to the 70’s for the first time. I’m crashing at much lower offsets than before.

Also, could you achieve better memory overclocks with higher TDP?

 

Beats me. I'm stable at 650-700 offset. 700 sometimes gets whacky if temps get high.

 

No I meant I had to run a lower Core offset since the TDP increase, but the overall boost is higher! I'm running the memory at +835 usually. It took me almost 3 days to get this TDP mod to work. its scary for sure. My heart dropped about 60 times during the process. Kind of tricky with all the steps.

 

Yes, you had to run a lower core offset because you were just TDP Throttling when you tried to reach the higher offset before and then being throttled back, and afterwards, you're reaching a higher core clock speed with the same voltage as before, which happens to wind up being insufficient voltage for that speed, and since it didn't throttle back because of TDP, it tried to run at that speed and crashed.

For example, I can do +250 mhz (maybe slightly more) offset with 115W (stock) TDP. At 150W TDP I can do +225 mhz. But at 200W TDP I can only do +155. Because the clocks it boosts to and doesn't throttle at, with +225, don't have enough voltage. 1.062v can't be maintained because of Pascal cancer Temp throttling even if you lock it. And the CFG edit to unlock adjustable voltage unlocks the slider, but the vbios ignores it.

So yeah

 

This driver is a bust because it prevents rainbow six siege from starting, something to do with my gpu not supporting dx11.

EDIT: GPU-Z marks the driver signature for 397.31 as "BETA" and all of the checkboxes below the SLI field are unchecked.

NVIDIA royally screwed the pooch on this!

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RS3 or RS4?

DDU "Clean and shutdown". Instead, install my INF mod (nv_dispi.inf + nvcvi.inf), check "Clean install" option.

 

Never seen ManuelGuzmanNV aka @pidge so active in any of the later Game Ready WHQL Display Driver Feedback threads as the latest one, LOOOL. Rather call it equal Classical Micro$h4ft Swiss Cheese.

 

Maybe its just a placebo effect, but playing Rise of the Tomb Raider on highest possible settings (except texture quality which I left on High because Very high needs more than 6 Gb VRAM) with custom refresh rate 100 Hz G-Sync seems to be slightly smoother at lower framerates than with the previous driver.
Windows animations on Windows desktop seems to be slightly smoother too.

OS is the latest Windows 10 1803 with fresh install from USB (not updated from WIndows Update).

 

I feel like I must be the only person that extremely rarely has any issues with nvidia drivers. I just do the express install all the time. Games seem to keep chugging along as usual. Sometimes bugs are fixed. Sometimes perf is better in some games. Every once in a while some bug makes it through but unless I'm playing that game I probably don't know. Things are never perfect, but they seem to do a good job given a monumentally difficult software and hardware engineering task.

 

You are not the only one . Other than the occasional bug here and there, I never had a problem with either AMD or Nvidia drivers in the past 15 years. But that doesn't mean bugs don't exist, it is just that our usage scenarios may be a little bit limited.

 

hmmm...i see that the previous version of 397.31 was only 2mb smaller than the current version of 397.31....WTF????

 

There are multiple versions of this driver?

 

If the old installer was corrupted it wouldn't have run but it did and completed an install successfully.

 

Sounds like the first file got corrupted for you for some reason because if this was widespread you bet the GeForce forums and Reddit would've exploded.

 

Only downloaded

 

so they updated the driver?

EDIT: OK, so GPUZ is now displaying the information correctly.

 

Gave me much more consistent performance in Battletech so I'm happy with it.

 

Check hashes of the files using HashTab or hasmyfiles

 

i deleted the old version so i can't do a hash check on that one.

 

your file is blocked, make sure to unblock it before extracting otherwise every file within that EXE has a blocked status

 

I haven't started extract the file. Why should I hurry up use it? You see it's from Nvidia?

 

apparently wolfenstein 2 crashes with this driver.

 

OK, so after extended use the drivers cause Rainbow Six: Siege to not load at all.

EDIT: I wonder if it is because I did not reinstall the drivers after updating Windows 10 to 1803?

 

OT: What do you usually have to reinstall after upgrading your Windows version?