NVIDIA GeForce 301.24 Beta Drivers

[---TK---]

Originally Posted by zimzoid

These drivers work fine on my system, never have any drivers issues anyway, why is that?

you might of skipped some of the bad drivers maybe

[Year]

Originally Posted by FatBoyNL

I think you're quite wrong here.
Tearing happens when the FPS is above the refresh rate. That's why ppl have been putting (normal) vsync on for ages. But it can cause stuttering when FPS are below the refresh rate, due to jumping from 60 to 20-30-45 FPS.
When normal vsync is off, no tearing should occur when FPS is below the refresh rate of the monitor. Am I right?

Adaptive vsync is not a kind of 'inversed tearing vsync' or something like that: it should not cause tearing at lower framerates.
It may be implemented badly and even cause stuttering or tearing, but adaptive vsync is definately not intended to show that kind of behaviour by definition.

You may prove me being wrong here, but please don't be such a patronizing kid while you're at it

no patronizing at all, was playing with you by making it sound serious (in a sarcastic joking way) lol

anyway sorry.

yee, you're wrong for reason, vsync will cause lag if the framerate is low enough which is why adaptive vsync disables vsync when framerate falls below your monitor refresh, that's in order to improve your performance/smoothness.

when framerate is high (60fps or close to your monitor refresh), vsync will be automatically enabled, that's because performance is high enough to sustain the vsync.

hope it's clear now.

[Noisiv]

Originally Posted by zimzoid

These drivers work fine on my system, never have any drivers issues anyway, why is that?

dunno, im in the same boat as you.
alpha, beta, quadro, notebook driver... can't seem to crash this mofo no matter what

I do like to read OMGOMG post and guess which ones are Edelman

Originally Posted by Anarion

Some say it did not work. I haven't tested it in ME3 with this driver. For me, the old ME1&2 flag does not work in ME1 any more (and other flags cause some minor issues; ME3 flag worked but the performance was beyond horrible).

0x080100C5 is working fine from what I can see, but it's only MSAA, so it leaves plenty to be desired.
why not just use 0x000000C1 and 4xMSAA + 4xSGSSAA - it's less hit then new 8xMSAA

[samtroy]

These new drivers have the same stuttering issues like the 301.10 drivers! Just play Assassin's Creed: Revelations and you can tell.

So back to 300.83 for me.

NVidia, fix your damn drivers!!

[Cryio]

Here are my two cents: What's with all the fuss surrounding FXAA/TXAA when we can have our awesome near universal applicable SGSSAA?

[---TK---]

Originally Posted by samtroy

These new drivers have the same stuttering issues like the 301.10 drivers! Just play Assassin's Creed: Revelations and you can tell.

So back to 300.83 for me.

NVidia, fix your damn drivers!!

maybe its your psu in your sig? 28 amps on the 12v rail or did you upgrade?

[progrox]

I love FXAA. Hardly any performance hit and it looks pretty (to my eye).

Don't go around blaming people's hardware when they experience issues with the new drivers and the older ones have always worked fine.

Can someone comment on whether or not these have fixed video playback / madVR ? The 301.10 only showed a black screen.

[---TK---]

^^^^that psu has 28amps on the 12v rail and on 336 watts on the 12v rail, if he upgraded fine, if not that may be a problem. only trying to help the guy unlike you

[Darren Hodgson]

Originally Posted by samtroy

These new drivers have the same stuttering issues like the 301.10 drivers! Just play Assassin's Creed: Revelations and you can tell.

So back to 300.83 for me.

NVidia, fix your damn drivers!!

I'm playing that game on maxed settiings, 8xMSAA, 1920x1200, v-synced and triple buffered and I haven't noticed any stuttering with the 301.10 or these new drivers.

[DeusEXMachina]

Originally Posted by samtroy

These new drivers have the same stuttering issues like the 301.10 drivers! Just play Assassin's Creed: Revelations and you can tell.

So back to 300.83 for me.

NVidia, fix your damn drivers!!

None drivers fix stuttering in AC Revelations for me, every set I try is always the same problem

[---TK---]

so it says in the nvcp that you can use fxaa with regular aa? any real benefit on this? I just did a heaven 3.0 run with and without and didnt notice any difference with 8xaa, just a small performance hit. fxaa by itself did not look so good but much less of a performance hit

[sykozis]

Originally Posted by progrox

I love FXAA. Hardly any performance hit and it looks pretty (to my eye).

Don't go around blaming people's hardware when they experience issues with the new drivers and the older ones have always worked fine.

Can someone comment on whether or not these have fixed video playback / madVR ? The 301.10 only showed a black screen.

He complained of the same condition with the 301.10 drivers as he's complaining about with these drivers. Given his PSU doesn't produce enough amperage, it's likely that it's his problem. With 430watts and 28amps on the 12v rail, he's 10amps short of the recommendation of 550watt and 38amp....

[Mufflore]

Originally Posted by DeusEXMachina

None drivers fix stuttering in AC Revelations for me, every set I try is always the same problem

Check cpu use on all cores.
If any core reaches around 90% it can cause stutters.

[angmar]

Originally Posted by Dranzerk

Well these are terrible drivers. Let me rehash what has happened so far with my GTX 580 SLI

Around %50 mark get a BSOD. Reset computer and does "NO BOOT DRIVE" message. So go into bios and drive is missing. Reset computer boots into windows fine. Try to reinstall driver again, this time monitor just goes dark at around %75 and does nothing for around 5min mark. Reset computer, go back into windows and "old" drivers are back.

So i think we are back in the 90s and uninstall old drivers first, try to install these..i get message "No compatible driver found" message. No **** nvidia? Install old drivers back and everything is normal.

wtg nvidia. fail again.

sounds like a personal problem...installed just fine over the old drivers for me...as they always do.

[sykozis]

Originally Posted by Dranzerk

Well these are terrible drivers. Let me rehash what has happened so far with my GTX 580 SLI

Around %50 mark get a BSOD. Reset computer and does "NO BOOT DRIVE" message. So go into bios and drive is missing. Reset computer boots into windows fine. Try to reinstall driver again, this time monitor just goes dark at around %75 and does nothing for around 5min mark. Reset computer, go back into windows and "old" drivers are back.

So i think we are back in the 90s and uninstall old drivers first, try to install these..i get message "No compatible driver found" message. No **** nvidia? Install old drivers back and everything is normal.

wtg nvidia. fail again.

Sounds like you have a harddrive or motherboard failing....

[IDSG89]

well, for now everything seems fine with this drivers, great performance, no bugs and the PSOD seems fixed (tested about 10 youtube videos, at 360,480 and 720p), in the previous drivers those videos had problems resulting in PSOD, i will do further tests, but for now everything is working fine

[---TK---]

PSOD? just curious

[Mufflore]

Pink Screen Of Death.

[---TK---]

oh, itsnt that more common with 460/560 cards I hear about? never experience it myself

[progrox]

To get madVR working with these drivers, you have to uncheck 'Use a separate device for presentation'. All seems fine so far.

[IDSG89]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

PSOD? just curious

Pink Screen Of Death

Some 560/560ti (and others card as far i know) had problems watching videos (youtube or hd videos) with previous drivers (confirmed on 296.10 301.10)

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...324_144733.jpg

[Spets]

So far so good, driver is working fine. Surprised to see some more performance gains in the release notes.

[Icanium]

Originally Posted by progrox

I love FXAA. Hardly any performance hit and it looks pretty (to my eye).

Don't go around blaming people's hardware when they experience issues with the new drivers and the older ones have always worked fine.
Can someone comment on whether or not these have fixed video playback / madVR ? The 301.10 only showed a black screen.

Your GPU utilization can change with different drivers. Changing GPU utilization would not be a problem with the recommended ( Minimum of a 550 Watt power supply. Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 38 Amps.) If this driver improved GPU utilization above what could be provided by a 430 watt psu, be happy that TK is here to help.
Consider the following from the release notes:

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 296.10 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

[PirateNeilsouth]

So far no Pink Screens of Death with this driver which happened with the 301.10s while watching a video. The only Time ever to get a PSOD i might add

[Caenyss]

Originally Posted by jimdove

do we disable aa and vsync in the games if we want to use fxaa and adaptive vsync (from control panel)?

bump.