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    nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v416.81 WHQL Findings & Fixes

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Papusan, Nov 8, 2018.

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    nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v416.81 WHQL Windows 10 - (64-bit)

    nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v416.81 WHQL Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 (64-bit)


    @Ultra Male Are yoo ready, bruh? :D You're all welcome to the new barbeque party. Let's see how much this driver will destroy for the users :p Please post results.
    [​IMG]

    Changes and Fixed Issues in Version 416.81 The following sections list the important changes and the most common issues resolved in this version. This list is only a subset of the total number of changes made in this driver version. The NVIDIA bug number is provided for reference. Fixed Issues in this Release
     [Windows Defender Application Guard][vGPU][Surround]: Edge Browser with Application Guard cannot be opened when Surround is enabled. [200443580]
     [Turing GPU]: Multi-monitor idle power draw is very high. [2400161]
     [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti][G-Sync]: Blue-screen crash may occur when exiting games when using a G-Sync monitor with a non-G-Sync monitor. [2431628]
     [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti]: Stuttering occurs with HEVC video playback. [2414594]
     [GeForce GTX 970]: When audio playback is paused, audio receiver switches from multi-channel to stereo. Increased period from 5 seconds to 10 seconds. [2327715]
     [GeForce GTX 1060]AV receiver switches to 2-channel stereo mode after 5 seconds of audio idle. [2204857]
     [SLI][NVIDIA TITAN X][NVENC]: Recording and streaming of NVENC applications do not work. [2421622]  [DirectX 11 games]: Mouse cursor causes FPS to go out of sync with windowed GSync. [2411009]
     [ARK Survival]: Improved game stability. [2420789]
     [Shadow of the Tomb Raider]: Improved game stability. [2416743]
     [Witcher 3 Wild Hunt]: Flickering occurs during gameplay. [200455193]  [Monster Hunter World]: Corruption is seen when Volume Rendering is off. [2400914]
     [Far Cry 5]: Flickering occurs during gameplay. [2400207]

    As usual... New is always better:D
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    *Display Driver Uninstaller v18.0.0.3

    Edit. ManuelGuzmanNV is late to the party...

    Official 416.81 Game Ready WHQL Display Driver Feedback Thread (Released 11/8/18)
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    If you dont mind me asking, how is the Clevo PEG driver different from the "Optimus" drivers?
     
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    Same drivers. You only need different INF MOD (PEG or OPTIMUS/HYBRID depending on your setup) if the laptop is modded with graphics cards who isn't supported. Clevo PEG (iGPU is disabled).
     
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    @Papusan So PEG is for systems that have MSHybrid graphics switching that requires reboot and Optimus is, well when the Intel and NVIDIA GPU both are on?
     
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    PEG (iGPU is disabled).No Optimus Junk.
     
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    Ask them :) I really don't know what they did but all I know is that they are modded drivers & they provide for me higher performance & FPS & higher OC Potential compared to the official ones :)

    Also I use this modded driver with https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/nvslimmer.html ;) to have the best lightweight driver :cool:
     
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    Ok here is what they do on every driver :) I got the list from there dead website http://tweakforce.com by using http://web.archive.org/ ;)
    XG drivers are tweaked to improve image quality and stability while performance may increase or decrease slightly depending on your system specs. A few XG registry tweaks include mods to the following:

    Paletted Textures In Video Memory
    Render Quality Flags
    Target Flush Count
    Texture Clamp Behavior
    Texture LOD Bias
    Use Cached PCI Mappings
    Texture Memory Space
    Downloaded Memory Space
    Texture Precache
    UMA Fast Frame Buffering
    Main 3D rendering
    Triple Buffering
    Any more information you want to know.. ask them.. :)
     
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    Most of them deprecated and not used anymore. I use nvi inspector to get enhanced quality and performance.
     
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    I would never know... :D Thanks for informing :) ! I also use nvi inspector too ;)
    but what about higher potential OC? I bet they do something on those .inf drivers to get higher OC than official ones :)

    This list that I mentioned previously said registry tweaks only and not the other things that they did... so it is not telling the full story here... :)
     
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    I use pure desktop drivers for 980M and actually can do +200 on core and memory. On mobile/bga crap drivers I was limited to 150/300Mhz on core/memory and thermal throttle at 80C. With desktop I can go much higher with upto +50-125mV overvolting.
     
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    Same but on 950m GDDR5 4GB model :) but still those modded drivers gives me +50~75 additional to the already OC'ed GPU :) while on official ones I couldn't go over 300Mhz on core & 450Mhz on memory :)

    of course with +75mv overvolted in all case :)

    [​IMG]
     
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    In nvidia inspector profile, switch CUDA P0 state to disabled to get full performance w/ boost clocks on Physx and CUDA Apps.
     
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    I'm trying new drivers now @Papusan
     
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