nV Drivers thread.

[demo]

Been having an issue with the last few driver sets when watching youtube in full screen, the image goes green.. also noticed GPU clocks go into 3D speed when this happens..?

[Ristogod]

Been having an issue with the last few driver sets when watching youtube in full screen, the image goes green.. also noticed GPU clocks go into 3D speed when this happens..?

Not sure if this is similar, but I have this issue when I use Amazon VOD webplayer, that the whole screen on my 144Hz monitor fuzzes out. So I have to watch any AVOD stuff on my side monitors.

[Sazar]

New beta drivers released:

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/..._download.html

GeForce GTX 660:

Up to 20% in Dirt: Showdown
Up to 18% in Tomb Raider
Up to 8% in StarCraft II
Up to 6% in Sniper Elite V2
Up to 6% in Metro 2033
Up to 6% in Far Cry 3
Up to 6% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Up to 5% in F1 2012

GeForce GTX 660 SLI:

Up to 17% in Dirt: Showdown
Up to 18% in Tomb Raider
Up to 9% in Assassin's Creed III
Up to 7% in StarCraft II
Up to 6% in Far Cry 3
Up to 6% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Up to 6% in Battlefield 3
Up to 5% in BioShock: Infinite
Up to 5% in F1 2012

SLI Technology

Added SLI profile for Alien Fear
Added SLI profile for Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Added SLI profile for Dead Island: Riptide
Added SLI profile for Dragon Sword
Added SLI profile for Neverwinter
Added SLI profile for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Added SLI profile for GRID 2
Added SLI profile for Human Head 2
Added SLI profile for Remember Me
Added SLI profile for The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
Updated SLI profile for Natural Selection 2
Updated SLI profile for Resident Evil 6
Updated SLI profile for Trackmania 2: Canyon

[GravY]

downloading now.

[Dungeoncrawler]

Thanks for the heads-up.

[acroig]

Thanks for the heads-up.

Ditto!

[KAC]

Do the drivers fix firestrike in 3dmark11?

[Sazar]

Do the drivers fix firestrike in 3dmark11?

I haven't seen the comments regarding Firestrike, didn't even realise it was an issue honestly

Bumping thread so someone else can chime in.

[Dungeoncrawler]

Reduced performance in Age of Wushu - Back to 314.22.

[koralis]

Makes ground textures crawl like mad for The Secret World in TXAA mode. (works fine if shut off.)

[H001iGAN]

bf3 crashes within minutes, sometimes within seconds requiring hard reboot, 314 works perfect, a shitty very beta driver set imo

[SIrPauly]

320.14:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/62479

[koralis]

Can you test TXAA in Secret World, Sir Pauly?

[BababooeyHTJ]

How is TSW? Is it still somewhat active?

[SIrPauly]

It is an interesting game!

Downloading updates now!

[GanjaStar]

Makes ground textures crawl like mad for The Secret World in TXAA mode. (works fine if shut off.)

i guess 320.00 had txaa broken because it was flickering like mad in crysis 3 as well.

i already uninstalled crysis 3 so cant report if 320.14 fixed it.

[koralis]

How is TSW? Is it still somewhat active?

Yes, it's still alive and kicking. Granted, most active when new issues are being released. Frankly it's a steal for the $30 purchase price even if you never spend another dollar for the DLC (no subscription now so the price is $30 for everything up through issue 4 + $10 or so per issue after that, currently at 6). The quests are fantastic. Very cinematic intros, and have different categories that cater to different people... action quests, sabotage (avoid being seen, etc), investigations (may require puzzle solving/internet browsing/etc.).

I'm planning on buying it for my brother for his birthday I've enjoyed it so much. I envy his ability to play it for the first time.


The Innsmouth Academy scenes are my personal favorites due to the headmaster and his dry non-wit. Here's one example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC_YQC6h8p8


And one of the local preacher that is an illuminati wanna-be...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PORpr9TMimc

"I tried my 44, but Satan is wearing Kevlar and bible-thumping just pisses them off"





EDIT: Just tried it... TXAA is still screwed up. Guess they care more about benchmarks on new games than actually providing a good experience on older ones.


Edit 2: Hmmm... character select screen was really messed up, same as before. On the beach after login was still looking ok. Will run around a bit more and try to figure out if it's mostly fixed.

Edit 3: Beach is fine, but inside of tyler freeborn dream the roads were still messed up.

[SIrPauly]

I haven't installed the newer drivers but x4 TXAA is flickering in Secret World but x2 TXAA looks good.

[koralis]

I haven't installed the newer drivers but x4 TXAA is flickering in Secret World but x2 TXAA looks good.

No, tried txaa x2 too. The road is shimmery. It's not all textures, just some of them.

420,869 in Blue Mountain at TXAA x2.

[SIrPauly]

Not pleased by this! Sorry!

[koralis]

Not pleased by this! Sorry!

Not your fault, NVidia's. I even set my GeForce.com account back up so that I could report it for the 320.00 drivers. Was really hoping they'd get it together for the next release.

[GanjaStar]

so who is gonna test if TXAA is still broken in the newly released 320.18 whql's?

[Kain]

My 3DMark (2013) scores went up quite a bit!

With previous WHQL drivers:

Fire Strike: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/394978
Fire Strike Extreme: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/395019

With the new 320.18 WHQL drivers:

Fire Strike: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/478968
Fire Strike Extreme: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/479013

Pretty darn nice improvement.

[koralis]

so who is gonna test if TXAA is still broken in the newly released 320.18 whql's?

I'll test it this evening. Not expecting them to be fixed though. *sigh*

[SIrPauly]

The same in Secret World!

[GanjaStar]

The same in Secret World!

its kinda dissapointing that they advertise TXAA on gpu boxes and then you install latest drivers and TXAA is flickerville

[BababooeyHTJ]

Sounds like a WHQL version of 320.12 which is the buggiest driver that I've used in the last couple of years and that includes my time with AMD.

[koralis]

TXAA x2 might be better. Hard to say... not as consistant a shimmer at least. Still not acceptable though.


TXAA x4 is still horrible.

[GanjaStar]

Metro LL comparison 320.00 vs 320.18

320.00


320.18

[koralis]

its kinda dissapointing that they advertise TXAA on gpu boxes and then you install latest drivers and TXAA is flickerville

Yep. Looks like they've just given up on it if they don't care enough to have it working in WHQL drivers. Didn't take the world by storm so forget it.



SirPauly, any indication that the NVidia driver guys realize it's broken and are working on it, or just going to let it slide until they have nothing better to do (or just quietly let it die?)

[SIrPauly]

I asked Mark(Editor) at AlienBabelTech to pass the TXAA bug findings to nVidia a few days ago:

http://alienbabeltech.com/abt/viewto...5299&start=320

[koralis]

I wager this is a result of trying to deal with the screen stutter/latency issue and look good on that front. Seems like the adjustments they made could very well screw up a TEMPORAL aliasing.

[SIrPauly]

Hopefully, TXAA is addressed based on it is going to be in Assassin's Creed IV, Witcher 3, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell and Batman Origins.

[GanjaStar]

txaa should be fixed in 320.49 betas released today.

[SIrPauly]

Just checked quick and seems to be addressed -- TXAA!

[Nunz]

I was getting random CTDs in Planetside 2 with the 340.49's.

[Meteor_of_War]

I was getting random CTDs in Planetside 2 with the 340.49's.

Wow, 340.49's? Can I borrow your time machine?

[Skinner]

Just checked quick and seems to be addressed -- TXAA!

That's good news. Hopefully the perf. is also up. It's the best cure against shader aliasing.

[GanjaStar]

That's good news. Hopefully the perf. is also up. It's the best cure against shader aliasing.

I still think SMAA is king for shader AA. TXAA has a noticeable performance hit and yet its still blurry like FXAA.

[SIrPauly]

I use SweetFX to sharpen the screen with SGSSAA or TXAA!