nVIDIA GeForce Hot Fix Driver v364.96 Findings & Fixes

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This is GeForce Hot Fix driver version 364.96 that addresses the following:

- Support for DOOM Open Beta

Known issues:

- GFE may show the following error if launched without a network connection: "GeForce Experience encountered an error and must close"

Disclaimer: Use are your own risk, the latest drivers have been causing issues lately ranging from some games not running properly to cards being totally bricked. Remember, newer is not always better.

 

LOL.........from the nVIDIA Forums:

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@Papusan

Please test this driver for 24 hours on your system

 

Who is he, your personal guinea pig

 

no he is one of my best friends and he has the same system like me

 

And, if GPU's burst into flames, @Papusan can thrust his P870 in the snow to extinguish the fire!!

 

ROFL! No better picture to describe where Mr. Papusan is sitting right now overclocking the living hell out of his machine

 

THIS!
He has the best ambients!

 

Oh, I see.
Well then...

 

This thread diverted from being an nVIDIA Drivers Clowns thread to a Mr. Papusan and his ambient environment thread. He is becoming very popular

 

Thanks for the offer my good friend but I will never be a guinea pig I want to bench my monster also next week. Not have to hand in my pc for repair
Just the same way as with crippled updates from Redmond Morons. Is not interested, LOL
Nvidia + M$. = Morons. I'm not interested in being on the same level as these, HaHaaaaaaaa

@hmscott
The problem is that the snow is almost gone

 

WAKE THE HELL UP, PEOPLE! GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL!

 

Yep, true, I guess I even found leaked papers.

Code:

AGREEMENT AGREEMENT AGREEMENT AGREEMENT AGREEMENT AGREEMENT AGREEMENT AGREEMENT AGREEMENT

Dear friend,

by herein Agreement you, Papusan, take responsibility to take the same PC as what I liked
and test all new drivers for me for 24 hours long period.
And I, Phoenix, take responsibility to take all hot chicks in the bar who you liked and
test thoroughly for 2.4 hours long period after she is "ready". The cost of alcohol drinks
for her to become "ready" is on you.

All testings above should be made in private and results be notified as soon as testing is done.

Sincerely, your BFF, Phoenix.

Date _____________           Mr Phoenix' sign _____________     Mr Papusan's sign _____________

 

Not a single comment / benchmark about this driver yet, nGreedia sure seems to be scaring the living heck out of us

 

Working well here for Maxwell I (GTX860M):

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Brave Prema took the first plunge onto this driver

I'll try it soon then

 

That's a new GTX860M world record and has at the same time even broken the GTX960M world record...

 

@Ethrem @Papusan @hmscott @TomJGX @Mr. Fox

sorry guys, please excuse me but these posts from nVIDIA Forums are really entertaining:

 

I can tell you this my good friend... Nvidia isn't interested to work hard and optimize the drivers for older graphics. The Green camp is working hard for making drivers for Pascal now. Why use much of their resources on drivers for older cards? If older graphics have better optimized drivers, would fever people go over to the new cards. Pretty simple

 

nVidia's driver team works out of the Area 51 site. They're also responsible for contrails and orbs.

Sent from a 128th Legion Stormtrooper 6P

 

Each Nvidia driver release...

 

Yeah I'm just here chilling waiting for a driver that appears halfway stable so I can get my Dark Souls 3 to use my second card.

Maybe 366 family drivers might perform better =D

 

Under the current circumstances, if you want to get the second card going -- you'll certainly get about 60% boost over single GPU -- use the Metro Redux bits in Nvidia Inspector.

 

I'll give this a try. I kept looking around for profiles and such on launch, but I didn't find anything. Interesting about the Metro Redux bits. Forcing AFR1 sucked I got such negative scaling it was a joke, I didn't pass 30fps at any given point) and AFR2 gave me the same performance. Maybe I'll be able to max the game now (excepting Lighting on low to avoid driver crashes).

 

My experience with Dark Souls III goes as follows. Even with a single GPU, latest patch, and game maximised, the frame rate hovered between 40-60, with occasional dips into the 30s. With the Metro Redux bits through Nvidia Inspector, the game blazes at 60, and that's this game's limit -- both cards running at around 60% output. Unfortunately, during some sections, the scaling drops off a bit -- it isn't an official profile, after all -- and the frame rate dips to around 50, but that's still a huge step up from the alternative.

Give it a shot and let me know how it works. I certainly hope that it helps you out for the time being.

 

I'll give it a try a bit later and see. The bit of stutter and whatnot is inherent to the game, it seems. Patch on Monday seems to be geared to fix it.

Update: Okay, so it didn't make a lick of difference. Both the Dark Souls II compatibility bits and the Metro Redux bits only scale around 50% on each card (using 359.00) and there is some brokenness in animation and one point in the game I got flicker, so I'm going back to single GPU. I need scaling to at least have an average of 75% on each card for this game to be worth it.

 

HOW DID YOU GET SUCH A HIGH SCORE? I seriously can't get mine past 4600... Teach me your overclocking skills, master...

 

He overclock, LOL

 

Obviously. I meant how he managed to overclock so high that he got a 4981 score in Fire Strike when mine crashes out beyond 4600.

 

Not all processors and graphics cards aka silicone is equally good overclockers. SOME CLOCKS BETTER THAN OTHERS + He can tweak firmware

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/index.php?posts/10240245

 

That is very strange, and the performance is terrible in that case. The driver I am using is 361.91, but I can't be sure of the exact issue at play for your side because I can't even duplicate the issues you mentioned.

 

Here is my run with these drivers:

3DMark11



3DMark - Fire Strike

 

I'm still on 359.00; it's possible that by 361.91 whatever the benefits that need existing for DS3 are there. I might try an upgrade to 362.00 in that case, since I know that's rather stable, then try it. If that works I'll be happy. 359.00 is still somewhat old, but DS3 has had playable PC versions for certain popular streamers since the japanese release last month, so I assume some of the newer drivers in general must have been prepped a little.

 

Indeed, and we do have at least one YouTube demonstration of a single 880M system also running the game maximised at highly playable frame rates (never dipping below 30 FPS), generally hovering where my own experience with the stock single GPU profile hovers. Perhaps it is a driver-related matter, but again, I can't be certain. Hope the driver update yields some worthwhile benefits for you.

 

Oh, I never go below 30fps maxed on a single 780M. I simply wanted 60fps most of the time so I lowered settings. I wanted to SLI because a 690 has its minimum framerate at 60fps with SLI working.

Either way, the 362.00 drivers is probably a good upgrade for me; I get the Elite Dangerous x64 profile now.

Will try DS3 later with the profile, it is LITERALLY too hot for me to game right now.

 

I overclocked the GPU by +100 Core / +200 Mem

3DMark11 - GTX 980 (364.96) CPU 4.6 GHz-GPU OC 100-200 [W10]



Fire Strike - GTX 980 (364.96) CPU 4.6 GHz-GPU OC 100-200 [W10]

 

Try +200 Core / +400 Mem and see a better bench

 

What voltage shall I set

 

+12.5mV or +25mV. It depend on the quality on your chip. Try Firestrike first
And you can read the cpu and gpu temp in Firestrike viev details after the Bench

 

I think with .25mV you should be able to hit +240Mhz easily.

 

I vote zero voltage. Lets find out the limit of the chip on stock first. I dont believe Maxwell scales all that well with voltage.

 

I don't think his chip manage stock voltage at +200/400. Start with 12.5mV is probably the best.

 

TBH, I wouldnt recommend upping both the core and mem at the same time. You have no idea which one is the issue if firestrike crashes. It makes it harder to troubleshoot. The voltage wont really help the mem at all. So I would probably start with memory although I doubt desktop 980 with full 7ghz bandwidth would benefit all that much from it.

I generally find the limit of the stock voltage first and then up voltages to see if there any improvement from upping voltage. I believe his chip had an ASIC in mid 70s, so stock voltage should carry him for quite a bit. Ofcourse every silicon is different, and most 980 tops out around 1400ish core.

 

I mean his Asic is 69.5 or there around. Just putt mem at 500. Increase voltage if gpu crash. No reason to try mem under 400 or default.

 

You always find your max stable separately and then tune for the best performance balance between the core and memory. Quite often high memory overclocks actually hurt your maximum core overclock and the core makes a bigger difference with Maxwell because Maxwell is not starved for bandwidth...

 

+500mem gives you 2000mhz yeah? Thats probably about the limit for GDDR5 actually.

Also that, Maxwell is extremely bandwidth efficient.

 

See image from @Mr. Fox http://i.imgur.com/IXrh380.jpg See gpu voltage.
I run 1512/8004 in the bench http://www.3dmark.com/fs/8110562 +404W from single 330w

 

1.5/8 ghz is probably the absolute max GM204s can go before going under exotic cooling solutions.
When I said 980 goes to 1.4ghz OC most of the time, I meant most 980 KPEs goes up to 1.4ish ghz core. And thats a card made for breaking OC records and well binned by EVGA.
Either @Papusan had great luck or nvidia actually binned the mobile 980s well.

Hell, thats within 20% of 980M SLI.

 

What is sad is the fact that your physics score is so much higher than mine, but Fire Strike benchmark doesn't give you hardly any credit for the better physics result. It calculates the physics result, then mostly sets it aside and ignores it.

Here is my highest score with single 200W 980, which is closer to your score than it deserves to be (but look at the physics test result) http://i.imgur.com/A73fl6f.jpg

This is why Fire Strike is a nice benchmark for BGA turdbooks. 3DMark 11 is what separates the men from the boys as far as benchmarks are concerned. Nobody gets rewarded with a good 3DMark 11 score with a crappy CPU.