nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v398.11 WHQL Findings & Fixes

nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v398.11 WHQL Windows 10 - (64-bit)
nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v398.11 WHQL Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 (64-bit)

@Phoenix Are yoo ready, bruh? You're all welcome to the new barbeque party


398.11 WHQL (June 5th, 2018)
Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Vampyr and Jurassic World Evolution.

New Features

Ensures the best possible gaming experience on HDR-capable G-SYNC displays.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

• Warhammer: Vermintide 2

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

• Jurassic World Evolution - GOOD
• Railway Empire - Not Recommend
• Sea of Thieves - Not Recommend
• Vampyr - Not Recommend

Fixed Issues in this Release

• [SLI][Hitman Pro: DirectX 12]: With SLI mode enabled, the game crashes if in-game HDR is ON and Windows HDR setting is OFF at lower resolutions.
• [Call of Duty: WWII][Surround]: With Surround enabled, the center Surround display is blank during gameplay.

• Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v398.11)

As usual... New is always better


Display Driver Uninstaller v17.0.8.6


Official 398.11 Game Ready WHQL Display Driver Feedback Thread (Released 6/5/18)

 

Might be good for pascal but many others with older laptop cards are getting black screens, same bug as with these last drivers here: and same error on very latest drivers (read page 2):

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...play-driver-feedback-thread-released-6-5-18-/

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...ers/help-driver-397-93-caused-black-screen/2/

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1056673/geforce-drivers/problem-with-geforce-driver-397-93/

One user had his laptop apparently permanently damaged.
"driver power state failure?" is not a good error to have for frying video cards.

Looks like 1050Ti is busted too.

 

Another reason to avoid new driver for another year.

 

Nice seing DDU Developer @wagnard pop up in the 398.11 feedback thread. Highly needed due what we have seen lately

 

Yep he's here as well. @wagnard
I wonder why none of them complain about AMD Crimson drivers?

 

@Papusan

From Mr. Manuel's forum:

 

When will you test it? From what I seen, the 398.11 feedback thread contain only 2 pages

 

People are now afraid from Mr. Manuels BarbecueWare Drivers

 

See... A working antivirus software. On level with Eset?

 

ESET does not block any driver installations, it has not any false positives and never interferes with your machine, that's why I like it.

 

Then why coudn't it catch the new malware from Nvidia? You should ask what he used

 

Probably Panda or F-Secure or Avira

 

First time I've ever seen this happen...

 

When pigs fly...

 

I downloaded the actual file from nvidia and it installed no problem.. shrug

 

*INF MOD 398.11*​

GeForce_397.96_Win10.exe​

 

So what do j95's mods bring to the table? My machine isn't compatible, but I was wondering anyways…

 

After last driver I am not sure I want to update my drivers anymore.

 

giving these a try. will report any issues

 

They have yet to fix the 'Notebook' black screen issues with the new branch, but at least they now think that they found the problem, which they refused to even publicly acknowledge before:


https://forums.geforce.com/default/...thread-released-6-5-18-/post/5812836/#5812836

 

And here's the hotfix:


http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4678

 

Hi Prema. Have they fixed the erratic load issue that you mentioned which seemed to have killed quite a few cards, including the 1080 in P775TM? I'm giving anything newer than 390.77 a wide berth until you give green light

 

Try modded Vulkan development driver which @j95 posted at Prema's website.

 

Maybe they changed Windows drivers to Linux drivers or maybe they were watching Darker Than Black Anime and testing, if the blacks were darker/lighter than the blacks they saw in their coloring book.
@Phoenix and @Falkentyne Do you see any speedup/improved colors on DP 1.3/HDMI 2.x TV/Monitors after applying the FW patch. Do make sure you have stock vBIOS.
Manuel from gfe forums said, any speedup/quicker animations is a placebo effect while Sora says its only a GOP update. https://www.nvidia.com/object/nv-uefi-update-x64.html
FWIW, I am excited since my card's GOP hasn't been updated in over 3 yrs eventhough I got an older AW BGA instead of newer AWs.
Maybe @Papusan can try on his 980?

 

man, just booted to a black screen. only opening and closing the lid fixed it.

 

@thegh0sts

Prema posted the hotfix driver for booting to black screen.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4678

 

Hey mate does Metabox offer delidding and Liquid metal now? Last I bought from them they weren't even Prema partner, but Prema BIOS was free then anyway.

 

No idea...

The update doesn't include an MXM UEFI vBIOS for Maxwell and the included and cross-compatible Pascal update is over 3 months older than Clevo's shipping vBIOS...

 

I think its time for nvidia to pull a string from Apple's ios12 thread.

 

I don't believe so.

 

Here are a couple benchmarks from the new driver...These are from the rig in my signature (Spoiler). Personal bests on both so the driver did help some.

Both benchmarks were ran at (GPU) 2100mhz core and 6055 Memory. CPU was at 5.1ghz
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/12807821

EDIT...3DMark11


Superposition


Edited....I had Firestrike for the first results when it was 3Dmark11

 

398.11 working fine on my machine. Very stable. I used the WHQL without the "geforce experience". Having some minor issues with pixel ghosting/video corruption, which I've posted in the Clevo P6XXSX owner's thread, but I think it may have something to do with the vBIOS as it is 100% duplicated in Linux with different driver versions. I'd definitely appreciate some advice on this if anyone has the time.

 

Hi @j95 , quick question. If ever I will install your bloatware free driver and install geforce experience separately, would it affect performance? I have tried running 3dmark firestrike with and without geforce experience. It shows that without geforce experience I am gaining more firestrike gpu graphic score. Thank you for your time.

 

I use stock driver with modified setup.cfg from j95. So far so good.
Even with DSE disabled, my gpu refuses to be detected by modded j95 drivers.

 

@0lok , @Vasudev
BIOS -> disable "Secure Boot"
Disable DSE:
cmd (admin) bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy -> reboot -> keep holding 'F8' -> select "Disable driver signature enforcement"

Extracted driver package -> copy 'setup.cfg' -> delete sub-folders as shown above.

Display.Driver folder -> copy both nv_dispi.inf & nvdmi.inf -> run setup.exe -> custom installation -> check "Clean install" option.

GeForce_398.18_Win10_HF.exe​

nv_dispi.inf_v398.18_Win10_AW_Optimus_Hybrid.zip​

 

So secure boot is problematic? I use secure boot just to get rid off slow boot process, it takes 15-20secs to startup.
As always DSE is disabled and currently I'm on Vulkan development driver which is beta driver and performed better than Nvidia's Day One driver for win 10 v1803. OpenGL,Vulkan and DX11/12 performance is top notch with this beta driver. Also, CUDA acceleration is way faster.
I'll try your modded drivers and report back. Thank you for your time.

 

Thank you very much.. was able to install your modded inf..

 

I installed it using secure boot w/o any issues. But, I had lower benching scores, lower performance on CUDA simulations and even gaming. In 3dmark I get Driver version not recognised. I feel its because of Hf driver from nvidia which are beta.
So I went back to 397.97 in your SW mod section which had better performance. Only issue with 397.97 is 3dmark flags it as Invalid driver version, otherwise benching scores are 2997 on Timespy, 8300 on firestrike on 980M.

 

397.96 with proper Optimus/Hybrid support.

GeForce_397.96_Win10​

nv_dispi.inf_v397.96_Win10_AW_Optimus_Hybrid.zip​

 

Okay thanks.
Was Optimus buggy in nvidia stock driver?
These days I'm using desktop driver on my most issues are somewhat reduced aside from Windows 10 issues causing frequent stutters.
This driver should be WHQL, its best driver to use.
Thank you.

 

Nope, I always remove Hybrid support.