nV Drivers thread.

[Meteor_of_War]

No pun intended!

[GravY]

Latest drivers are causing troubles with my dual display.. blacking the second monitor out, or coming out of a game and blacking both monitors forcing a reboot.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Quite frankly, I'm glad that I waited on windows 10. I'll update at some point when I'm bored but it be another couple of months.


The only issue that I had at windows 7 launch was Nvidia's drivers.

[GravY]

Turned out my issue is with DSR.. Need to look into it.

[badboy]

Geforce experiance with gamestream co-op is out

http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience/gfe-beta

I cant test it because my nvidia card died and I need to use my amd card until I get a new one

[Seyiji]

Geforce experiance with gamestream co-op is out

http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience/gfe-beta

I cant test it because my nvidia card died and I need to use my amd card until I get a new one

Just tried a bit of Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Versus with FiggyG. PA to OK seems pretty legit with a bit of lag but that could be due to the guest's connection speed. If anyone wants to have a go at testing I'm here. Currently in DOA5 even though Figgy had a controller connected he had to use the keyboard. That could be due to the game only seeing 1 controller connected on my end since i was the host.

I sent Nvidia feedback about that issue.

[andino]

So, I went and added myself back to the windows insider program and set Windows 10 to the FAST update thingy.

Got Windows 10 build 10547 and ***POOF*** SLI is fixed with the 355.82 drivers...

I'm not BSOD anymore. All my stress tests that gave me BSOD in the previous builds are now running like butter....

[Meteor_of_War]

Microsoft thanks you for for being a beta tester.

[MNB4800]

Just tried a bit of Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Versus with FiggyG. PA to OK seems pretty legit with a bit of lag but that could be due to the guest's connection speed. If anyone wants to have a go at testing I'm here. Currently in DOA5 even though Figgy had a controller connected he had to use the keyboard. That could be due to the game only seeing 1 controller connected on my end since i was the host.

I sent Nvidia feedback about that issue.

Yeah... I want to fight! (check Sig)

[Megaman]

355.98 are out

[andino]

355.98 is pretty stable on my setup as well...

I did go ahead and download and install the 356.04 drivers...

Got them here https://developer.nvidia.com/gamewor...driver-support

[andino]

****.....

Never mind....

Going back to the 355.60

[GanjaStar]

damn, you sure have some patience andino. Personally, if I bought 2 980ti's, and i had issues that took more than an hour to fix, i'd return that **** straight away.

the amount of money those two gpu's cost, they should be plug and play, nothing else required.

[Meteor_of_War]

****.....

Never mind....

Going back to the 355.60

What is the issue you are having now with the new driver?

[andino]

I'm getting System_Service_Exception in dxgkrnl.sys BSOD's in SLI and Surround.

I've opened up a ticket with Nvidia on the issue. They are supposed to be analyzing the dump files and getting back to me either today or tomorrow.

I've tested all the system and everything is working flawlessly when SLI and Surround is turned off. Turn Surround on and the system falls apart.

The only stable drivers that I can find are the 355.60's. They allow me to watch videos without green screens and BSOD's. The draw back to them though is that they have lower FPS in games because of the SLI Memory Management errors in them.

[andino]

damn, you sure have some patience andino. Personally, if I bought 2 980ti's, and i had issues that took more than an hour to fix, i'd return that **** straight away.

the amount of money those two gpu's cost, they should be plug and play, nothing else required.

Turn off SLI and they are a dream though.

I know it's a simple driver error and that it'll get fixed soon.

[Meteor_of_War]

Well at least you have a recent stable driver to roll back to.

Feel my choice to go single card this time was the correct one.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Well at least you have a recent stable driver to roll back to.

Feel my choice to go single card this time was the correct one.

I don't regret it either. It'll also make future upgrades more rewarding at a more palatable price.

[Meteor_of_War]

It'll also make future upgrades more rewarding at a more palatable price.

Well to be fair that's what I already did the last time with my 670's.

But I had such a good experience with SLI over the past couple years that I was intending to go multi-GPU from the get go this time. Was going to do 2x GTX 980 because of the price drop, but instead opted for a 980 Ti and I have been plenty happy so far.

[Rummy]

New drivers seem great for me. Had an issue with GFE not downloading drivers, reinstalled GFE and is working well now.

[andino]

So, I just got an e-mail from nvidia.

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your patience while we’ve been looking into these issues.

1) Microsoft is aware that their automatic updates may cause issues with some drivers. Please see KB3073930 for a workaround that they provide for this.
2) Regarding the issue where you see a BSOD and receive a System_Service_Exception error in dxgkrnl.sys. Microsoft is also aware of this issue and at this time it’s considered an OS bug. We are working closely with Microsoft but we can’t comment on a date when Microsoft may release a fix.

I realize that you also experienced other problems as you described. The crash dumps that you shared are being analyzed and we’ll let you know the outcome.

Regards,
--Peter

[andino]

Got bumped up to Level 2

Hi Andy,

The case was escalated to me. I've discussed this issue with our development team and their analysis of the crash dump signature match a known issue we are currently investigating. We believe this is the same issue but will conduct more analysis to confirm. They've confirm it's a BSOD in the same component and the steps to trigger the crash is very similar. We are working closely with Microsoft on this issue and hope to have a fix soon. I'll keep you posted as the bug is updated by development. Please continue to update to newer Win10 build as they become available. At this point I'm not clear if the fix will come from our drivers side and/or OS side, but as soon as I know I'll update.

Best regards,
Ray

So, to this point, we have determined that when going out of Surround that somehow the monitor refresh rates get screwed up. Monitor 1 is 144 Hertz and monitors 2 & 3 go to 60 Hertz. When entering back into Surround the refresh rates are not getting checked. So having 2 monitors at differing refresh rates really screws up Surround and causes BSOD's.

If you manually adjust the refresh rates before going into surround it helps out some. Green screens on internet videos go away and video files on the computer work. Still get random BSOD but they are much less frequent.

[|MaguS|]

355.98 is pretty stable on my setup as well...

I did go ahead and download and install the 356.04 drivers...

Got them here https://developer.nvidia.com/gamewor...driver-support

Tried these, For some reason my card wont go into 3D Mode and keeps the clocks at 2D level (around 500mhz), these suck.

[GanjaStar]

358.50 whql game ready driver for battlefront 3 beta is out

win10 64bit link

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/92218/en-us

[bill dennison]

358.50 whql game ready driver for battlefront 3 beta is out

win10 64bit link

http://www.nvidia.com/download/drive...px/92218/en-us

win 10 only ???

[BababooeyHTJ]

No

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/92212/en-us

[andino]

New drivers DO NOT fix SLI or Surround issues.

[GanjaStar]

win 10 only ???

nope, but I posted a link for the OS enthusiasts should be using

[bill dennison]

nope, but I posted a link for the OS enthusiasts should be using

yea I got it for some reason it does not show under gtx 980 4gb and 8.1, but does under titan x and 980 ti

http://www.geforce.com/drivers

and i'm on win 10 with my amd fury x
it is windows 10 with nv drivers and sli i'm scared of

[Hapatingjaky]

There is nothing wrong with SLI???

[GanjaStar]

yea I got it for some reason it does not show under gtx 980 4gb and 8.1, but does under titan x and 980 ti

http://www.geforce.com/drivers

I've always found the nvidia site's all drivers section better than geforce.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

[Meteor_of_War]

There is nothing wrong with SLI???

Apparently there is with Windows 10 and SLI+multi monitor. andino has gotten official response from Nvidia they are working on the problem with Microsoft.

[andino]

More from Nvidia.

Hi Andy,

I can certainly understand your frustration, and I am sorry we don't have a solution yet. Development has confirmed that the bug is in the Windows OS. Microsoft is fully aware of this issue and we've been work closely to provide all the crash dumps and debug data. As far as I know this issue is already fixed but we don't know when the fix will be released to the public. Unfortunately we have no control over Microsoft update schedule so we're unable to provide any ETA. I can certainly ping the development team again to see if there is any update, but historically we don't get such details. I wish there was I can do, but at this point my only suggestion is to consider running system with SLI/Surround disabled in order to work-around this issue, at least until a fix is available. I'll update again as soon as I hear back from development.

Best regards,
Ray

Hi Andy,

The fix won't be available from any of our graphics driver updates. This is a bug in the Windows OS that will need to be fix by Microsoft. Are you able to workaround the issue with SLI/Surround disabled, and just run with all monitors enabled in standard extended desktop mode? This is by no mean a solution but possibly something to workaround the issue until fix is available.

Best regards,
Ray

So the wait is on MS to fix the issue.

[andino]

There is nothing wrong with SLI???

Be sure to check. From my understanding when you put the cards in SLI the monitor refresh rates are screwed up. It doesn't mean much to people with one monitor. When you have multiple monitors then the fun begins. Seems that one monitor will always be at like 60 hertz and the others will be at max refresh rate. That is a big no-no and screws up gaming... Also, screws up other parts of windows 10. So I get watchdog.sys and dxgkrnl.sys BSOD's whenever I am in surround or SLI....

[bill dennison]

Be sure to check. From my understanding when you put the cards in SLI the monitor refresh rates are screwed up. It doesn't mean much to people with one monitor. When you have multiple monitors then the fun begins. Seems that one monitor will always be at like 60 hertz and the others will be at max refresh rate. That is a big no-no and screws up gaming... Also, screws up other parts of windows 10. So I get watchdog.sys and dxgkrnl.sys BSOD's whenever I am in surround or SLI....

so you are still getting BSOD's with just SLI without surround ?

I had no problem with my 290x's in cf with win 10, miss cf need another fury x

think i'll still wait to switch both to win 10 till I stop hearing about nv driver problems even with just one screen

[andino]

so you are still getting BSOD's with just SLI without surround ?

I had no problem with my 290x's in cf with win 10, miss cf need another fury x

think i'll still wait to switch both to win 10 till I stop hearing about nv driver problems even with just one screen

Yeah...

If I am in SLI I still get the BSOD's....

[Hapatingjaky]

Yeah...

If I am in SLI I still get the BSOD's....

You have more underlying issues with your system.

I haven't had one problem with SLI on Windows 10 or TRI-SLI in any title so far. I did however have a memory leak issue back durring the public preview. But that was back in April...

[GanjaStar]

the 3 asus 144 screens probably don't help for andino.

[Hapatingjaky]

the 3 asus 144 screens probably don't help for andino.

He's having issues even with one screen.

[GanjaStar]

He's having issues even with one screen.

Ah, missed that part.