NVIDIA GeForce 304.48 Beta Download & Discussion

[HonoredShadow]

Originally Posted by dnottis

yup, SLI is for the birds. Cant tell you how many times I went SLI and ended up being back to a single GPU. Crossfire too. its just not worth the hassle.

I've learned my lesson... single fastest GPUs for me from now on.

Well I would have had to remove this driver anyway as I could not get past many of the menu's that people have talked about that were going at 0.9fps, Deux Ex being one.

[calderes]

Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

If you're using ingame FXAA *and* MSAA then, yes, MSAA appears to break or override it (since MSAA on its own is very poor IMO). Just disable MSAA completely and use FXAA on Very High. It offers the best anti-aliasing IMO even if the penalty is some slight texture blurring.

Cool I'll give that a try. And I agree msaa does not do a good job in MP 3

[andressergio]

KEEPERS KEEPERS they solved a lot of problems for me

great job NVIDIA !!!

[ManuelG]

Originally Posted by freeman28

Problem with this drivers. 0% GPU usage editing on Powerdirector 10

Can you tell me if you verified this worked with previous drivers and if so, which driver?

[BeeJAyP]

Originally Posted by Mr_Alexander

This driver is good for me however I experienced strange bug (not sure how else to call it) in Fallout New Vegas. In Global Settings NVIDIA Control Panel Vsync section I chose "Let 3D application decide". But even if in the game I have Vsync OFF it still locked at 60 FPS. I had to put Vsync OFF in Control Panel New Vegas Profile. I tried other games and it works fine with Global Settings "3D application decide" except New Vegas.
Sorry if my English is not clear.

From what I remember the vsync setting in the game menu doesn't work, you need to edit one of the ini files manually.

The geforce.com tweak guide explains how to set it:
http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/Guid...tweak-guide/#5

[haep1]

Originally Posted by WhiteLightning

hmm i seem to suffer from this 1fps bug in deus-ex aswell. the damn game wont even load, its at 1fps!!! LOL

and steam is going nuts. saysi it needs a 8,5gb update for the game

Same problem here.
I have this problem also with Crysis 2 - which is a DX 11 game too.

[SerotoNiN]

Originally Posted by dnottis

yup, SLI is for the birds. Cant tell you how many times I went SLI and ended up being back to a single GPU. Crossfire too. its just not worth the hassle.

I've learned my lesson... single fastest GPUs for me from now on.

I agree, stuttering issues, bugs, heat issues, too much hassle. I gave it up and never looked back.

[Agent-A01]

Originally Posted by SerotoNiN

I agree, stuttering issues, bugs, heat issues, too much hassle. I gave it up and never looked back.

maybe for the minority. but i myself have had zero issues

[Darren Hodgson]

When I turned my PC on tonight I entered the BIOS, dropped my CPU multiplier from 19X to 18X (3.8 GHz to 3.6 GHz), left the voltages as they were then booted into Windows and first updated MSI Afterburner and NVIDIA Inspector then, finally, ran Lost Planet 2 DX11 Test B. It passed successfully with an A-rating. 30 minutes later I ran it again to check it wasn't a fluke and it too passed. It's too easy to say for sure yet but it looks like my CPU wasn't stable at 3.8 GHz after despite having no issues for the last three months since I increased it from 3.6 GHz.

I've now reverted back to a 19X multiplier but increased the CPU PLL Voltage from 1.84 V to 1.86 V and the QPI/DRAM Voltage from 1.300 V to 1.325 with the CPU Voltage left at 1.29375 V. I'm just waiting for some stuff to finish downloading and then I'll run Test B again.

[The Chubu]

Great! I didn't expected GTX560 Ti improvements after 6xx series releases. Though it might be that GK104 has more to do with GF114 than anything perhaps...

[calderes]

Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

When I turned my PC on tonight I entered the BIOS, dropped my CPU multiplier from 19X to 18X (3.8 GHz to 3.6 GHz), left the voltages as they were then booted into Windows and first updated MSI Afterburner and NVIDIA Inspector then, finally, ran Lost Planet 2 DX11 Test B. It passed successfully with an A-rating. 30 minutes later I ran it again to check it wasn't a fluke and it too passed. It's too easy to say for sure yet but it looks like my CPU wasn't stable at 3.8 GHz after despite having no issues for the last three months since I increased it from 3.6 GHz.

I've now reverted back to a 19X multiplier but increased the CPU PLL Voltage from 1.84 V to 1.86 V and the QPI/DRAM Voltage from 1.300 V to 1.325 with the CPU Voltage left at 1.29375 V. I'm just waiting for some stuff to finish downloading and then I'll run Test B again.

You seem like one of the heroes of this forum but allow me to comment on OCing for a sec (off topic sorry). I got my i7 930 stable at 4.29 but to go from 4.1 to 4.29 (I has just bought a nocutura and expected to be cool enough to hit 4.5 - ha!) I needed about 10 additional hours of trial and error. I had to bump the qpi voltage WAY up. 1.4v was fine at 4.1ghz but I needed something like 1.55v at 4.29ghz not to mention I needed way more core voltage. Also clock skew had a dramatic effect on both stability and GFlops score for IBT. You should be able to hit 3.8 with little problem even with C0 but you really have to keep a log on paper and IBT the hell out of it. (I had to kill HT by the way to hit those speeds - but I had 3.87ghz and HT with a super crappy closed loop water cooler so its very doable).

QPI is most important believe it or not. If I'm not mistaken I was at 1.35 or 1.4 qpi volts when I was at 3.87ghz HT/on. My ram sets the qpi to 1.4 by default. And don't believe people that say you can run high qpi - just keep it under 1.5 (1.6 is really the cutoff).

[Anarion]

This is clearly faster driver. Everything seems to run better (thanks to v-sync fix) I also gained over 200 points in 3DMark11. I now get P10230.

[Darren Hodgson]

Originally Posted by calderes

You seem like one of the heroes of this forum but allow me to comment on OCing for a sec (off topic sorry). I got my i7 930 stable at 4.29 but to go from 4.1 to 4.29 (I has just bought a nocutura and expected to be cool enough to hit 4.5 - ha!) I needed about 10 additional hours of trial and error. I had to bump the qpi voltage WAY up. 1.4v was fine at 4.1ghz but I needed something like 1.55v at 4.29ghz not to mention I needed way more core voltage. Also clock skew had a dramatic effect on both stability and GFlops score for IBT. You should be able to hit 3.8 with little problem even with C0 but you really have to keep a log on paper and IBT the hell out of it. (I had to kill HT by the way to hit those speeds - but I had 3.87ghz and HT with a super crappy closed loop water cooler so its very doable).

QPI is most important believe it or not. If I'm not mistaken I was at 1.35 or 1.4 qpi volts when I was at 3.87ghz HT/on. My ram sets the qpi to 1.4 by default. And don't believe people that say you can run high qpi - just keep it under 1.5 (1.6 is really the cutoff).

Test B ran fine at 3.8 GHz using a QPI/DRAM Voltage of 1.325 V and a CPU PLL of 1.86 V, i.e. it did NOT freeze my PC. I'll test it again later on just to make sure it wasn't a one-off though.

And thanks for kind words.

[Cru_N_cher]

Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

Test B ran fine at 3.8 GHz using a QPI/DRAM Voltage of 1.325 V and a CPU PLL of 1.86 V, i.e. it did NOT freeze my PC. I'll test it again later on just to make sure it wasn't a one-off though.

And thanks for kind words.

Are you the same guy that posted this freeze on Nvidias forum thread ?

Can someone else run Test B (the giant creature fight) in the Lost Planet 2 DX11 benchmarks using maxed settings, DX11=High and 8xQCSAA please (my resolution is 1920x1200) using these drivers as both times I've ran it my PC has frozen about half way through the test, forcing me to hard reset. Because of this I have no error message so I've no idea what the cause is though I suspect it may be the driver as I've ran this test before with other drivers without any issues. Test A runs OK by the way and other DX9 and DX11 games I've tried have been OK too. I also ran Unigine Heaven 3.0 (1920x1200, 8xAA/16xAF, Tessellation=Extreme) with no problems this month too (scored 2,317).

I'll add that my PC has been 100% stable (i.e. no blue screen crashes) since I've had my GTX 680 and now GTX 680 SLI and I've not changed any settings/drivers in months apart from installing new graphics drivers.

If yes you should make clear that this is no issue on Nvidias side but was your fault in analyzing the problems correctly.
And hopefully you understand that you doesn't help with these overly fast interpretations and posts of your systems problems in the Driver threads.
Its immense noise and helps no one and would be just a waste of time trying to reproduce, also other user like to refer such things and some seem to use such post as yours even to justify how bad they think the Driver is which is total nonsense and again helps no one and is just as bad as posting such issues without proper analyzing and testing to fast in the first place and the thread is not there to ask about general system stability issues but to find real driver issues.

[Essemito2]

I have problem with world of warcraft 64 bit dx11. randomly crash only with this new driver with gtx 680 evga signature

[calderes]

Originally Posted by Cru_N_cher

Are you the same guy that posted this freeze on Nvidias forum thread ?



If yes you should make clear that this is no issue on Nvidias side but was your fault in analyzing the problems correctly.
And hopefully you understand that you doesn't help with these overly fast interpretations and posts of your systems problems in the Driver threads.
Its immense noise and helps no one and would be just a waste of time trying to reproduce, also other user like to refer such things and some seem to use such post as yours even to justify how bad they think the Driver is which is total nonsense and again helps no one and is just as bad as posting such issues without proper analyzing and testing to fast in the first place and the thread is not there to ask about general system stability issues but to find real driver issues.

"overly fast interpretations" is what you are doing right now. He made it clear in a subsequent post that it was an CPU OC failure. Furthermore, Hodgson owns like every game under the sun and tirelessly tests them with each new driver release. Usually he is testing his games at someone else's request! You must have seen his army squirrel before (if you spend any time in these driver release forums on guru3d you would). He's been a pretty solid resource for info on new drivers. (that's all I'm gonna say - don't want to derail this post any more than we have already).

[crewxp]

hey everyone!

I just bought my first Nvidia cards (Coming from ATI 4870). Two GTX 670's I plan on putting in SLI to power 4 monitors.


I've been reading the thread, but have seen mixed reviews. Are these set of drivers the ones you guys recommend to install for best performance? I read someone mentioned drivers 302.59 as being better. Would any of you say that's true?

I plan on playing BF3 and usually like multi tasking. I'm definitely overclocking my 3930K.

Thanks again!!

[calderes]

Originally Posted by crewxp

hey everyone!

I just bought my first Nvidia cards (Coming from ATI 4870). Two GTX 670's I plan on putting in SLI to power 4 monitors.


I've been reading the thread, but have seen mixed reviews. Are these set of drivers the ones you guys recommend to install for best performance? I read someone mentioned drivers 302.59 as being better. Would any of you say that's true?

I plan on playing BF3 and usually like multi tasking. I'm definitely overclocking my 3930K.

Thanks again!!

If you don't have the Civ V latest DLC (or if you can wait to play it until the certified drivers come out) and you don't play the latest DLC for Deus Ex (which still should be ok in game) you should be fine (and you'll benefit from the performance improvements) I haven't tested with witcher 2 but someone had said something about that game too - I just got an ssd and I haven't reinstalled it yet. Max payne 3 plays great, so does BF3. Don't worry about OCing your CPU - it won't be affected by your GPU driver. Just make sure you do it right and write down all the changes you've made along the way and use IBT or prime95 to test your OC with (IBT is more rigorous).

[Renincuente]

Originally Posted by -Tj-

And some said CIV5 crashes in dx11, must be some weird bug in dx11

I can confirm this happens. Civilization V crashes at the very start (when begins to play the intro videos, but also if SkipIntroVideos=1)

The DirectX9 version loads normally (at least to the main menu, i didn't start a game)

Had to revert to 301.42 and all is fine again.

304.48 causes this: (Event Log entry follows)

Faulting application name: CivilizationV_DX11.exe, version: 1.0.1.511, time stamp: 0x4ee9bec2
Faulting module name: nvwgf2um.dll, version: 9.18.13.448, time stamp: 0x4fd62653
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00545a70
Faulting process id: 0x4b4
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd4f376cf83325
Faulting application path: H:\Games\Sid Meier's Civilization V\CivilizationV_DX11.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\nvwgf2um.dll
Report Id: ace269d9-bb2a-11e1-b6ab-005056c00008

Also, I first tried to reinstall the drivers doing a Clean Install (I also installed them this way) and I got a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT BSOD (that never happened before , and memory modules are new -just working over a month- and tested with no problems)

[Kurg]

I'm an Aion player and my cursor flicks in game with this driver, making unplayable..

Geforce GTX 275

[Infanticide]

Weird drivers:

CUDA-z on 304.48 Win 7x64 PCI-e 2.0:

Performance Information
-----------------------
Memory Copy
	Host Pinned to Device: 2144.63 MiB/s
	Host Pageable to Device: 1455.05 MiB/s
	Device to Host Pinned: 2122.77 MiB/s
	Device to Host Pageable: 1456.56 MiB/s
	Device to Device: 18.3093 GiB/s
GPU Core Performance
	Single-precision Float: 337.151 Gflop/s
	Double-precision Float: Not Supported
	32-bit Integer: 67.4577 Giop/s
	24-bit Integer: 337.112 Giop/s

CUDA-z on old 290 drivers, Win 7x64 PCI-e 2.0:

Performance Information
-----------------------
Memory Copy
	Host Pinned to Device: 5196.95 MiB/s
	Host Pageable to Device: 2041.4 MiB/s
	Device to Host Pinned: 5050.46 MiB/s
	Device to Host Pageable: 2038.94 MiB/s
	Device to Device: 23.3644 GiB/s
GPU Core Performance
	Single-precision Float: 337.211 Gflop/s
	Double-precision Float: Not Supported
	32-bit Integer: 67.6747 Giop/s
	24-bit Integer: 337.18 Giop/s

Even worse on Win 8 x64, 304.48, PCI-e 1.1:

Performance Information
-----------------------
Memory Copy
	Host Pinned to Device: 1506.54 MiB/s
	Host Pageable to Device: 1124.65 MiB/s
	Device to Host Pinned: 1507.48 MiB/s
	Device to Host Pageable: 1117.97 MiB/s
	Device to Device: 14.4924 GiB/s
GPU Core Performance
	Single-precision Float: 337.064 Gflop/s
	Double-precision Float: Not Supported
	32-bit Integer: 67.6579 Giop/s
	24-bit Integer: 337.075 Giop/s

[-Tj-]

Temporary fix for DeusEX- HR @ DX11

Looks like a issue with intro videos in full screen mode,

1.start the game in fullscreen,
2.alt+enter to windowed mode
3.skip all intro videos
4.alt+enter back to fullscreen

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...post&p=1424290

[dchalf10]

Originally Posted by -Tj-

Temporary fix for DeusEX- HR @ DX11

Looks like a issue with intro videos in full screen mode,


http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...post&p=1424290

That fix only works for a little while, every time you go to hack a computer, sell weapons, initiate conversation etc it goes back down to 1 frame and stays there. It only runs smooth when you're walking/running around and even then it sometimes drops to 1fps.

[-Tj-]

Originally Posted by dchalf10

That fix only works for a little while, every time you go to hack a computer, sell weapons, initiate conversation etc it goes back down to 1 frame and stays there. It only runs smooth when you're walking/running around and even then it sometimes drops to 1fps.

I see, what happens if you play in windowed maximized mode? Does it still lag to 1fps if you do all that stuff?

[MrBonk]

Originally Posted by Kurg

I'm an Aion player and my cursor flicks in game with this driver, making unplayable..

Geforce GTX 275

Does it flicker when you are not using it? Or does it just flat out disappear after a few seconds of not using it?