NVIDIA GeForce 301.24 Beta Drivers - Page 7

Cyberdyne · 04-10-2012, 03:31 | posts: 1,264 | Location: USA, Pennsylvania

@Caenyss & jimdove ; Yes and yes.

pimp_gimp · 04-10-2012, 03:32 | posts: 5,760 | Location: Tacoma, Washington

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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 see a new power supply in your future, upgrade to a minimum of the RECOMMENDED 550 WATTS with 38A on the 12v rail, and your problems should be gone. It's not Nvidia's fault you're too lazy to upgrade hardware to the recommended specification.

Mufflore · 04-10-2012, 03:37 | posts: 9,519 | Location: UK

I've had 2 strange issues with this driver during initial testing (only just installed it).
Fresh boot.

Testing X3:TC benchmark was fine.

When running Heaven 3.0, just before it finished loading, GPU temp rapidly rose to 62C within seconds and Heaven exited with an error saying the video mode wasnt available and the card had been reset.
It gave another error when running it again.
Restarted Heaven (clocks reset to max again) and this time at exactly the same place, GPU temp was 54C and it ran through perfectly, maxing out at 65C.
Heaven 2.5 ran flawlessly first time.

When running Crysis Warhead benchmark, it ran fine but the display was larger than my screen despite running the bench at 1080p.
Text was off the edge of the screen left, right and top.
The bottom was probably missing too.
It looked like it was overscanning.

The Heaven crash with very rapid temp rise might explain the PSOD problem, the card was being hugely overdriven somehow.

Virtue · *Last edited by Virtue; 04-10-2012 at 04:22.*

Wow, adaptive vsync has been impressive for me in BF3. FPS is constantly 57-61 (high/med settings 1080p), it is nothing like the frame limiter in order to keep the fps from jumping around. Game is going as smoothly as possible without any tearing at all. It's actually a much better experience than playing without vsync surprisingly.

Agent-A01 · 04-10-2012, 04:49 | posts: 5,621 | Location: USA

Quote:

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!!

LOL 430 watt psu

Mufflore · 04-10-2012, 04:51 | posts: 9,519 | Location: UK

Lol, that is crazy.

aayman_farzand · 04-10-2012, 05:35 | posts: 718

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Originally Posted by Mufflore

Have you stability tested?

460s can do 800+MHz easy. That was one of the beauty of the card. Highest I got on my one was 880 but left it at 820 for better temps.

Don1376 · **Memory**: 2x4gb 1866mhz 9-9-9-24-1

Drivers are working fine so far on my system. So far performance seems about equal to last WHQL drivers. Unigine 2.5 scored same 111.4 average fps, Batman AC still constant 60.1 fps with v-sync, DX11, all settings maxed, FXAA-High, and Physx-High. Haven't tryed other games or tested to see if the occasional PSOD is gone. About to try other games now. Keepers so far for me and my 560TI's in SLI.

Will report back if I do get a PSOD. Hopefully it's fixed.

Mufflore · 04-10-2012, 06:15 | posts: 9,519 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by aayman_farzand

460s can do 800+MHz easy. That was one of the beauty of the card. Highest I got on my one was 880 but left it at 820 for better temps.

That wasnt the question though.

aayman_farzand · 04-10-2012, 06:26 | posts: 718

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Originally Posted by Mufflore

That wasnt the question though.

aahhh I thought you were wondering if such high clocks were possible.

And btw I faced the same Heaven error you did, but that was before I restarted my system. I'm also getting this weird delay and the Windows cursor is constantly showing busy even though I am not doing anything. And apps take longer to start (SSD so its very noticeable), but once loaded runs fine.

This all started right after installing the driver, I thought the nvidia update was messing up somehow so I uninstalled it but the problem's still there.

Will look into it later, working on stuff right now. As for gaming performance, played BF3, 64p Metro map, 100-120(locked) regardless of the tons of explosions. Will try larger maps later.

Edit: FYI I installed older drivers and its still the same...hours of troubleshooting ahead...

Edit2: Fixed! HP makes bull**** printer software, it kept calling windows services (Scan to PC feature) and was consuming CPU cycles. IT has been installed all this time and decides to mess up as soon as I install these drivers.

JBCool · 04-10-2012, 06:33 | posts: 132

The driver works great for me. No internet drama here.

Mufflore · 04-10-2012, 07:22 | posts: 9,519 | Location: UK

This driver includes a USB driver during the 3D Stereo installation.
I havent seen my PCs defenses trigger on that before.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBCool

The driver works great for me. No internet drama here.

Thats great but just installing a driver doesnt prove anything

Have you run the same tests?

Only messing, there will be issues, its a beta.
Lucky you eh.

Esagerao · 04-10-2012, 07:59 | posts: 8 | Location: Italy- florence

Alan wake runs highly better
3d mark11 295.73 =11458
3d mark11 296.10= 11374
3d mark11 301.24= 11377

No installing issues stuttering or bad artifatcs....still good overclocking
keepers

LesserHellspawn · 04-10-2012, 08:41 | posts: 169

Looking promising. Solid boosts in all benches so far. And good to see that NV officially opened the 300 series drivers to all cards fast.

Ven0m · 04-10-2012, 09:16 | posts: 1,035 | Location: Warsaw, Poland

Adaptive Vsync + FXAA for older cards? I like it!

This is BIG, especially for SLI setups. Effectively these drivers may prevent me from buying 680 now.

Kronvict · 04-10-2012, 09:16 | posts: 3 | Location: Las Vegas, NV

I reinstalled 296.10 and all is well again. I guess i'll wait for wqhl 300 drivers and by then hopefully the bugs will be worked out if i cant find a fix for the beta till then.

TurboMan · 04-10-2012, 11:22 | posts: 98

I am having weird issues with this driver on my GTX 680. 3D mark 11 didn't want to start at first and gave an error about "unable to go fullscreen" or something along these lines. On a second attempt it worked w/o problems, however these drivers gave me a lower score by 30 points from 301.10 (did 2 runs to make sure). After that i tried playing a video and WMP would start in an unusually small window and then give some error. I immediately tried media player classic and the video started, then WMP will also work after that w/o errors ?! I never had issues like this with 301.10, im going back to it. This driver is not worth it and i reinstalled it twice just to make sure its not my OS...

PS: Games on the other hand are flawless but i need a driver to work everywhere, not just games...

silis · 04-10-2012, 11:38 | posts: 71

Nice stock 3dmark11 score.

mitzi76 · 04-10-2012, 12:04 | posts: 7,041 | Location: UK

I had a psod on 301.10. almost cacked my pants...thought my gpu was dying.

but i see others have experienced this as well.

back on 296.10 and no problems so far in a day or so.

avoiding betas for the moment.

lucidus · 04-10-2012, 13:32 | posts: 3,152 | Location: UAE

Quote:

Originally Posted by mitzi76

I had a psod on 301.10. almost cacked my pants...thought my gpu was dying.

but i see others have experienced this as well.

back on 296.10 and no problems so far in a day or so.

avoiding betas for the moment.

Damn .. on a 580? It was noticed mainly on the 460 & 560. Safest driver from this issue is 295.73.

TechFreaK · *Last edited by TechFreaK; 04-10-2012 at 13:40.*

^
A 580gtx can have it? lol this is new, my 570 gtx never had that before.

Ok except for a first time ever TDR with 300.99 & 300.89 (only these 300 series), I was at desktop when it happened, 301.10 fixed it..

These 301.24 are only better (smoother), no issues yet.

FordLynx07 · 04-10-2012, 13:57 | posts: 46 | Location: Philippines

Coming from 295.73 WHQL, these 301.24 Beta has the same performance on the ff. games i played: Starcraft 2, Dota 2, Mass Effect 3 and Modern Warfare 3. There is a small improvements on Battlefield 3 specially on 64/64 maps. Haven't experienced PSOD so far which was present on 296.10. I will report ASAP if PSOD is still present. The Adaptive V-Sync was a nice addition too.

rgnuyda · 04-10-2012, 13:58 | posts: 159

what if you use D3d Overrider? does adaptive v-sync still come into effect?

Year · 04-10-2012, 13:59 | posts: 11,657 | Location: ♫

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ven0m

Adaptive Vsync + FXAA for older cards? I like it!

This is BIG, especially for SLI setups. Effectively these drivers may prevent me from buying 680 now.

judging by nvidia history, even though they introduced the new features for your old cards (like avsync and fxaa), the drivers will simply keep on getting slower as they start supporting heavily the Kepler cards starting from this month, all you're going to get is bug fixes, if any.

the series 200 is pretty much dead drivers wise, while some variants of the series 400 already started the deadly process, on the other hand the series 500 will keep on getting supported nicely especially performance wise, nvidia is unlikely to stop improving series 500 anytime soon, i'm guessing another 6+ month or at least not before new variants of Kepler go on sale.

it's nothing new really and this has been true ever since the Riva TNT days.

still if your SLi setup is working fine and you're happy with it, then good for you

Netherwind · 04-10-2012, 14:05 | posts: 429 | Location: Sweden

Hey guys.

I've not been on the green team for a long time and therefore I wonder if you can simply download, update and restart the computer or do I have to uninstall the old ones, restart my computer in safe mode, run driversweeper, restart again, install the new ones and restart once more (like with AMD drivers).