Nvidia GeForce 302.80 Windows 8 Drivers-Certified

[RedruM-X]

After reading several posts ppl have no problems with them, I tried them again, played BF3 again, ran 10 mins longer and then game crashed again.

Don't have this problem with other drivers so really a no go.

[Altra001]

Yeah, these drivers are a no go for me also.

Running Windows 8 Release Preview and GTX680 in Sli

These drivers give me huge stutter issues in BF3 and Heaven DX11 Benchmark. Rolled back to 301.42 and all is working nice.

One other thing I did notice is that when creating my custom resolutions, the desktop wallpaper had multiple copies of it once I finished. Weird!

Oh well, happy with 301.42 for the moment.

[xankazo]

Thank you for the heads up.

[thavmym]

Originally Posted by chinobino

I can't run the 64-bit driver in Windows 8 x64 RP.

It installs but on reboot I get a BSOD with the msg;

SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (nvlddmkm.sys)

Had to do a system restore and have gone back to 296.17 WHQL (WDDM 1.2).

I ran both;

bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON

...and tried again but received the same BSOD and error msg.

The same problem with my old 9800GT.
Rolled back to 302.59

[DiceAir]

Weird issue on my GTX550TI cyclone my overclocking doesn't work. Wheeneever i overclock the card my gpu either doesn't go into 3d mode or the core clock stucks at 900MHz and don't go to my settings. before the driver update it was working fine.

[_cTn_]

same random system lockups like with the 302.71. and 302.59,
going back to the 301.42 once again

[Phroster]

Best driver for me so far, been using 300.83 before this.

I recommend trying these on Windows 8, because they enable WDDM 1.2.

Diablo 3 runs alot better, but still stutters, but they are alot less and horrible as before.

Also Max Payne 3 had some slight stutter during cutscenes, this seems to be fixed with these drivers, or has something to do with WDDM 1.2.

[noodels]

Runs fine played BF3 all day yesterday no problems

[Darren Hodgson]

I agree this is definitely the best driver for the GTX 680 so far and the stuttering is pretty much gone in most games now. Diablo III is better but as Phroster says it still isn't perfect. Unreal Engine games seem to a bit juddery when rotating the camera with a controller, e.g. in Alpha Protocol and Bulletstorm, but otherwise these are keepers for now until the R304 drivers come out in a week or two.

[thavmym]

It was proposed here (http://www.thevista.ru/page15515-nvi..._rp&comments=1), that 302.80 BSODs are related to specific video card BIOSes.

This is extremely disappointing, because I've already got another hardware related problem with Windows 8 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2693144).

[-Tj-]

Well i went back to 296.10 and wow what a difference.. Every 30x.xx so far, especially 302.xx are slower in cpu bound games and stutter compared to 296.10.

Im gonna stick with 296.10 until 304.xx driver.

[MoDeM]

Originally Posted by -Tj-

Well i went back to 296.10 and wow what a difference.. Every 30x.xx so far, especially 302.xx are slower in cpu bound games and stutter compared to 296.10.

Im gonna stick with 296.10 until 304.xx driver.

which games do you mean? Bf3. Cant think of any cpu bound game

[-Tj-]

Originally Posted by MoDeM

which games do you mean? Bf3. Cant think of any cpu bound game

Bf3 is ok here. Ok it has 50fps drops (64player map), but i see average LGA1366 or 1156 i7 (small OC) has them too. Few cpu bound; Crysis2, TeamFortress2, ResidentEvil5, LostPlanet2, SeriusSam3, Ghostbusters the game..

301.42 is faster in gpu bound games, but in cpu bound it fails, 302.xx same and 296.10 isn't the fastest either (285.xx was), but a lot better then 300/301/302.xx.

[Radical_53]

Core 2 series even had drops in CoD:BO that weren't there with newer cpus. Seems like the FSB really is a bottleneck there.

[Michalko]

black floor and skybox in CS:GO

[MoDeM]

Originally Posted by -Tj-

Bf3 is ok here. Ok it has 50fps drops (64player map), but i see average LGA1366 or 1156 i7 (small OC) has them too. Few cpu bound; Crysis2, TeamFortress2, ResidentEvil5, LostPlanet2, SeriusSam3, Ghostbusters the game..

301.42 is faster in gpu bound games, but in cpu bound it fails, 302.xx same and 296.10 isn't the fastest either (285.xx was), but a lot better then 300/301/302.xx.

interesting fact. sadly i cant try and compare for myself with my 680s ;-)

[-Tj-]

^
Yea you have IB + 2x680 GTX i doubt you will see any cpu bottleneck

Originally Posted by Radical_53

Core 2 series even had drops in CoD:BO that weren't there with newer cpus. Seems like the FSB really is a bottleneck there.

Maybe a little, but in winxp it ran really good.

Win7: min fps ~ 50-55fps

WinXP: min fps ~70-75fps

Gpu usage was higher in winXP too, I can look for that old pic comparison if you want, well if i can find it


Imo its just poor code, that's why they never returned to COD5 Waw engine.. Or a combo of all 3, my old cpu + poor gpu utilization driver code @win7 + game engine.

[Radical_53]

As I said, no problem with a modern architecture using Win7. You won't need more than WinXP to run a game like CoD, of course, but given sufficient hardware resources those games are just as fast using Win7.
GPU utilization for example is just as high as I want it to be, only the typical framerate limits (like 125) would reduce this. It's not bad coding actually but many little details going on (CPU is also used quite heavily when a new map is being loaded).

[-Tj-]

I know about 125 limit, actually i used default 91fps..


About the rest ok fine, doesn't really matter COD7 is a bad example, that winxp vs win7 just showed its not consistent in both OS.. Other dx9 games are about the same in both.

[Radical_53]

Well as I said, performance is consistent. WinXP needs less resources than Win7 so you'd only see the difference as soon as those resources aren't available. Pretty simple actually.
With modern hardware though you won't see a difference between XP an 7 normally. There were loads of benchmarks several years ago and I compared this myself when I changed my dual-booting setup to a plain Win7 installation (had XP 64-bit as an alternative before).

Black Ops, as an example, didn't like the combination of a fast graphics card with a (in relation to the card) slow cpu.

[Claude350]

After installing the driver I ran into the problem of my system not wanting to shut down when I pressed the shutdown button. Other than that the games ran well.

[AmigaWolf]

Originally Posted by ManuelG

Can you describe your install process so I can have our software team take a look? Also your complete system specs?

So ManuelG, i see you have a Geforce GTX 690 now, that's fast.

I also now have a new GFX Card a Geforce GTX 680, and wow what is he fast,
and cheap in electricity usage, thats also a big plus

Still using a Asus MB?

[-Tj-]

Originally Posted by Radical_53

Well as I said, performance is consistent. WinXP needs less resources than Win7 so you'd only see the difference as soon as those resources aren't available. Pretty simple actually.
With modern hardware though you won't see a difference between XP an 7 normally. There were loads of benchmarks several years ago and I compared this myself when I changed my dual-booting setup to a plain Win7 installation (had XP 64-bit as an alternative before).

Black Ops, as an example, didn't like the combination of a fast graphics card with a (in relation to the card) slow cpu.

And why do you care so much? I know to what point im bottlenecked

btw; my main post was about how Fermi @ 296.10 preforms better in cpu bound games (2-3 fps on avg. faster) compared to 30x.xx, not how my cpu is the bottleneck.

I use winXP only for one particular game (compatibility issues), otherwise i would ditch it too.


/ontopic;

I noticed 302.80 has better HW acceleration in Firefox with clearer fonts, also less frequent 3d clock jumping.

[sapo_joe]

Originally Posted by -Tj-

And why do you care so much? I know to what point im bottlenecked

btw; my main post was about how Fermi @ 296.10 preforms better in cpu bound games (2-3 fps on avg. faster) compared to 30x.xx, not how my cpu is the bottleneck.

I use winXP only for one particular game (compatibility issues), otherwise i would ditch it too.


/ontopic;

I noticed 302.80 has better HW acceleration in Firefox with clearer fonts, also less frequent 3d clock jumping.

Those preferring to stay on the 296.xx branch, there are new drivers on that, dated this month. See the other posts, they're excellent drivers! I'm on 296.69 now, it's better than 296.10, definitely.

[Scythed]

Installed on W7 x64 and they run even better than the previous drivers. Easily the best so far for the 670. Didn't notice any real stuttering either so it seems like that problem was gone.