nV Drivers thread.

[RicH(SAD)]

Seems you have to install Geforce Experience or the divers won't install.

[koralis]

TXAA textures are crawling again with this set. BUT I figured it out this time...

DISABLE Triliniar and Aniisotrpic optimizations... problem goes away. (also even though they allow you to tinker, leave anisotropic level and transparency alone... let application decide.)

[Cynicalking]

Yeah I got them to install by selecting geforce experience and a clean installation. Uninstalled that crap and 3D vision drivers afterwards and are working OK, didn't have time to test any games, though. Gonna have to customize my profiles in nvidia inspector first.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

[Dem2k]

I had no serious issues on installing em

Windows 8.1 did a clean install was on whatever driver was available on Windows Update before, prompted me to reboot, the drivers installed after I logged back in, my Metro glitched but a using the windows key + D to get to the desktop and it was fine getting back in.

Tomb Raider does seem smoother. I don't run with Tress FX , as I don't see it being worth the hit. Really enjoying the game actually wish I had played it earlier.

[koralis]

With the various filtering optimzations disabled I was able to take the LOD adjustment to -2 and it looks sharp. (with the exception of some scenes with gritty sand... sand looks bad in motion.)

[Hapatingjaky]

You don't have to install the GeForce Experience crap.

1.) Install the driver but cancel the install after its done extracting.
2.) go to the extracted Nvidia driver folder and delete the folders you don't want to install, make sure you keep the NVIS2 and Graphics driver folder or whatever they are called.
3.) Run the install from that directory.

This issue occurred when they started including the Nvidia Experience bloatware with the driver. This is the workaround.

[KAC]

Worth installing the new drivers? I am a bit weary given the reports.

[jimjobob]

Seems you have to install Geforce Experience or the divers won't install.

You don't have to install the GeForce Experience crap.

1.) Install the driver but cancel the install after its done extracting.
2.) go to the extracted Nvidia driver folder and delete the folders you don't want to install, make sure you keep the NVIS2 and Graphics driver folder or whatever they are called.
3.) Run the install from that directory.

This issue occurred when they started including the Nvidia Experience bloatware with the driver. This is the workaround.

All I had to do was select custom installation and uncheck the Gforce experience box same as any other driver install that you don't want every thing.

[Dungeoncrawler]

The new beta's don't like gta4

[andino]

The new beta's don't like gta4

So that's what's been going on...

[andino]

BTW, 326.19 also screws up Surround.

For some reason I can't get windows to snap correctly.

Also the time and date is missing from my windows task bar.

I've also had a few Nvidia Driver Display not responding errors with the beta.

I'm rolling back to 320.49.

[GanjaStar]

Seems you have to install Geforce Experience or the divers won't install.

weird. i always unpack the drivers, and delete all folders except physx, display driver, and NVI2. then i run the setup and it works fine, none of the bloat is even offered during installation.


Also, word on the net is that 326 set has issues with crashes in u3 engine games.

[Dave]

GeForce 326.41

Today we are releasing the Geforce 326.41 BETA display driver, the third driver from our R325 driver branch. This driver includes all of the enhancements and performance improvements of our previous two R325.xx drivers while fixing a number of bugs reported by end users with our last driver. This driver enables GeForce to SHIELD streaming and is also a recommended driver update for the Windows 8.1 Preview. For list of additional features and bug fixes, please download the R326.41 Release Notes:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/326.41/326.41-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf

Geforce Desktop GPUs:
Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 32-bit:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/64632

Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 64-bit:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/64633

Windows XP 32-bit:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/64634

Windows XP 64-bit:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/64636

Geforce Notebook GPUS:
Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 32-bit:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/64635

Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 64-bit:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/64637

Providing Feedback:
Please feel free to leave feedback for any driver related issues specific to this driver. By providing your information here, you may also help others who may be experiencing the same issue you are. The more information we receive from you and others, the easier it will be for us to reproduce this issue in our labs and provide a fix through a future driver. Please provided the following information we request as best you can. Alternately, you may provide this same information through our NVIDIA Display Driver Feedback Form from the URL below:

http://surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?pi=6e7ea6bb4a02641fa8f07694a40f8ac6

Please provide the following information as best you can:

1) Graphics card/GPU make and model:
2) Is this a driver regression? If yes, what was the last driver version which did not have this driver bug?
3) Operating System:
4) Is your graphics card manually overclocked/factory overclocked? If your graphics card is factory overclocked or manually overclocked, we recommend that you lower the clock speeds of your graphics card to NVIDIA reference clock speeds and then make another attempt to reproduce the issue you are encountering. For graphics cards which are factory overclocked, you may use a 3rd party utility such as eVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner to adjust the clock speeds of your graphics card. Our NVIDIA Products page lists the NVIDIA reference clock speeds for each of our GPUs.
5) If your issue is specific to a game or application, please provide the title and if possible version of the software
6) Describe the display driver issue you are encountering and if possible include step by step instructions on how to reproduce this bug. Please use the knowledge base article "How to provide valuable feedback to NVIDIA" as a guide to help you include information that will help us root cause the problem.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3141

7) Software/driver issues can sometimes be specific to a users system configuration. Please provide your system information so that we may attempt to match it as closely as possible.

CPU make and model:
Amount of system memory:
Motherboard make and model (if OEM system, please provide your PC make and model instead):
Motherboard BIOS version:
Monitor(s) make and model:
Sound card make and model:

8) If your system meets the driver requirements however the installation process fails or gives you an error message, please reinstall the driver with logging enabled so that we may investigate the cause for this issue. Instruction available from the URL below:

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3171

9) If you are seeing constant TDRs/BSOD in desktop apps/games, providing the logs from your crash dump files may assist us in understanding the cause. Here is a KBA with more information on collecting crash dump files:

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3335/session/L3RpbWUvMTM3NTE5NDAwOS9zaWQvN2psRGN3d2w%3D

Please send the crash dump files to [email protected]. Make sure to include description of the problem, driver version and your system specification with your email.

.

Here is a list of some of the bug fixes included with driver R326.41:

1325830 - [Remember Me]Application crashes on default launch
1330498 - Deadlight crashes when loading a game from the game menu
1329905 - Crashing in Borderlands 2 when you approach a catch a ride station with upgrade to R326.19 driver
1329680 - Metro Last Light Faction DLC exhibits low performance
1316287 - Half-Life 2 framerate drops to single digits when Ambient Occlusion is enabled in SLI mode
1323953 - Resident Evil 5 (DX10) Crashes after some time.
1328621 - Black edges in Battlefield 3 and MSAA 4x is enabled
1265807 - Brightness control stops working after the notebook is docked.
1299035 - [Nero Blu-ray player]Blu-ray playback is slow, with mixed colors, and the player crashes occasionally.
1307001 - [STALKER Clear Sky]: The game does not load during launch and presents a black screen.
1320505 - [Surround][Hitman Absolution, Diablo III, Bioshock Infinite]: With Surround enabled, the mouse cursor is restricted to one of the displays after launching the game.
1326743 - [Surround][Tomb Raider][WOW: Mists of Pandaria]: With Surround enabled, the game minimizes to the desktop after clicking any in-game menu option.
1248846 - [SLI][GeForce GTX TITAN]]FI 2012]: Game performance drops with SLI enabled.
1276491 - The GeForce Experience fails to install.
1309666 - With multiple users signed in, graphics and controls may corrupt upon resume from standby.
1324010 - GeForce Experience crashes (does not launch) when opened on the internal panel.
1318686 - With Surround, SLI performance is similar to single-GPU performance.
1313807 - Memory leak on Optimus platform may result in TDR/BSOD after multiple suspend/resume

For users with desktop TDR issues introduced in R320.xx, please use the following thread:

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/546165/geforce-drivers/geforce-r320-xx-r326-xx-display-driver-stability-feedback-thread-/

Here is a list of some bugs which are either fixed or targeted for our WHQL driver release in early August:

-No display on some monitors with Korean panels (Fixed in WHQL driver)
-TDR after leaving GPU idle for 36 hours (Targeting fix in WHQL driver)
-Faceworks demo shows DIgital Ira character with yellow beard (Fixed in WHQL driver)
-If driver without GFE is installed -> over install the driver which has GFE bundled ,uncheck GFE -> driver fails to install (Targeting fix in WHQL driver)

Here is a list of bugs that are targeted for next major driver branch. I will be continually adding more bugs to this list:
1328590 - Black artifacts on screen in Battlefield 3 when playing with Ultra preset graphic setting in Golf of Oman map
1295996 - [Surround]: 320.18: Dragon Age II exhibits lower performance after driver update
1339556 - Windows Magnifier application crashes when you close app if SLI is enabled

[Dave]

On a side note: Do you guys prefer this one thread for all drivers method or separate thread for each driver?

[Omega53]

On a side note: Do you guys prefer this one thread for all drivers method or separate thread for each driver?

Since there are hardly any issues with drivers (except some have had issues with newer ones) we tend to keep it all in here. As you will soon find out, nVidia drivers are as solid as everyone says they are

[Dave]

Since there are hardly any issues with drivers (except some have had issues with newer ones) we tend to keep it all in here. As you will soon find out, nVidia drivers are as solid as everyone says they are

is it possible to fall in love with a program? God, Nvinspector, how I have missed you

[Seyiji]

On a side note: Do you guys prefer this one thread for all drivers method or separate thread for each driver?

I prefer one thread

[Sazar]

On a side note: Do you guys prefer this one thread for all drivers method or separate thread for each driver?

I want a different thread for every single driver, part of a driver, beta/alpha/WHQL, and a different thread for every rumor about every different version of each driver

[Dave]

I want a different thread for every single driver, part of a driver, beta/alpha/WHQL, and a different thread for every rumor about every different version of each driver

and every single one of them stickied? sounds good

[KAC]

So gays, new drivers worth boning?

[andino]

I like the sticky with all the drivers releases in one thread.

[BababooeyHTJ]

After reading the release notes I don't think that I'm going to bother updated to the latest beta. It doesn't seem to do much for me.

I like the sticky with all the drivers releases in one thread.

Same here that way when the thread is bumped it pops up in my list of subscribed threads.

[koralis]

For those playing The Secret World, I just documented my trial-and-error settings with nVidiainspector and sweetfx's sharpen. (this way if I ever update the driver I can get back to it.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1337303134&postcount=371

[GanjaStar]

So gays, new drivers worth boning?

it fixes u3 engine game crashes from previous beta, so if you play some u3 crap then yes.

[Dungeoncrawler]

New beta's are out.

Nvidia GeForce 326.80 Beta

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=380615

[razvan2007]

GeForce 8800M GTS driver on Quadro FX 3600M graphic card

Hi,

Rcently I bought a HP 8710w second hand laptop, with Quadro FX 3600M graphic card on it. Operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium x64 with SP1.

My question is: where can I find a modded 8800M GTS driver or how can I softmodd my Quadro M into GeForce M?

Quadro FX 3600M is based on G92 nVIDIA GPU DirectX 10, shader 4.0, with 256 bit memory bus width and 512MB GDDR3 RAM onboard (same as GeForce 8800M GTS).

Thank you!

P.S.
I need this to play smooth one of my favorites games, UT3.

[Omega53]

Hi,

Rcently I bought a HP 8710w second hand laptop, with Quadro FX 3600M graphic card on it. Operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium x64 with SP1.

My question is: where can I find a modded 8800M GTS driver or how can I softmodd my Quadro M into GeForce M?

Quadro FX 3600M is based on G92 nVIDIA GPU DirectX 10, shader 4.0, with 256 bit memory bus width and 512MB GDDR3 RAM onboard (same as GeForce 8800M GTS).

Thank you!

P.S.
I need this to play smooth one of my favorites games, UT3.

Your best bet would be to check the techinferno.com forums. Im sure they have a way to mod your card

[Ozilon]

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/610028/geforce-drivers/whql-driver-327-02-and-beta-driver-327-24/

[Dave]

https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...driver-327-24/

An Nvidia moderator said that the developer drivers 327.24 are older than the 326.80 version and don't include many of the fixes, and more when compared to the WHQL 327.02.

from that link, i'll just wait. 326.80 have been good to me.

[BababooeyHTJ]

I'm still on 320.49. I should probably update soon.

[Ozilon]

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/geforce_327_23_whql_driver_download.html

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=4657904

[andino]

New drivers totally screws up surround... Again....

You'd think they would have at least assigned someone to, oh, i don't know, try the damn drivers in surround mode by now....

[SIrPauly]

GeForce 331.40 Beta Driver Released

Seems to have a driver HBAO+ ability for games!

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-331-40-beta-drivers-released

[demo]

That's a nice addition!

Still no Rome2 SLi

[acroig]

That's a nice addition!

Still no Rome2 SLi

Yeah but Crysis got one.

[Dungeoncrawler]

That's a nice addition!

Still no Rome2 SLi

So much for nvidia's promise about sli support in their next beta release.

Face it gays, it is time to leave this sinking ship.

People are also reporting issues if running sli with the new betas. Face it, since nvidia's competition somewhat diminished they haven't been on their A-game.

[Dave]

damnit dungeoncrawler

[Mangler]

Well, since my post vanished, I guess I have to retype the post title.

So, have any of you guys tried out hbao+ yet, does it look better than the old forced method?

[Dave]

Well, since my post vanished, I guess I have to retype the post title.

your last post was a troll post hence the deletion

[Mangler]

Only if you did not read the whole thing.