nVidia admits Maxwell can't handle async compute well in developer do's and don'ts

Yes, the quality is EXTREMELY bad. A lot of people have absolutely broken performance and crashing and artifacting and nVidrosoft is not fixing things, but will keep pushing out game-ready drivers all year. Since the GTA ready drivers this year it's been terrible. Tons of TDR crashes just using chrome, at stock clocks, etc. All sorts of crap.

 

Huh; does that affect WHQL drivers, too? I'd been considering going nVIDIA for my next card in 2016 because of drivers, particularly Linux drivers, but I didn't think I'd have to be concerned about Windows drivers. That is pretty bad if there are crashes just when using a browser with GPU-acceleration. I've yet to see that happen in real life (with ATI/old nVIDIA cards with old drivers). Though I have seen some sites with artifacting problems with GPU acceleration enabled in Firefox and WebKit-based browsers, which I've read affects both ATI and nVIDIA cards, so I'm kind of lukewarm on browser GPU acceleration in general.

 

ALL the WHQL drivers are doing it. They've released more WHQL than beta drivers this whole year by my count.

Also I didn't say a browser using GPU-acceleration. Just opening chrome, even on idle tabs, does it. Among other things. Random crashes for no reason etc. Some people still have them though they cleared up around 355.60. The last stable driver they have is 347.88