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yosef019 · 08-27-2012, 17:40 | posts: 1,293 | Location: Israel - Haifa

Quote:

Originally Posted by ManuelG

I saw that report before but could not repro or understand exactly the issue with the build we have. What exactly is your issue?

When you put movie in power director edit tabs and try play the video it's says rendering forever
I will upload video when I make with this driver and 301.42

calderes · 08-27-2012, 17:42 | posts: 18

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Originally Posted by Uncle Dude

Single GTX 680/2600K - game installed on an OCZ Vertex 3 ssd here.

I believe he's referring to the stuttering that occurs only during in-game daylight hours, and is especially noticeable while turning. For most, it seems, there is no drop in framerate (mine stays at 60fps), and gpu utilization is nowhere near maxed. There's a thread about it in the Steam Sleeping Dogs forum, and no common thread has been found. Of course, it may not be a driver issue at all.

In an attempt to troubleshoot, I tried disabling hyperthreading, and installed four different gpu drivers (the two most recent WHQLs and 2 betas) to no avail. My cpu has been at stock frequency.

The only fix I've found has been to run the game in a window and set AO to normal, while AA is on high and everything else is maxed. The game is very smooth this way, but as soon as I go fullscreen and/or set AO to high, the stutters return.

I'll be happy to help troubleshoot if you have any recommendations. Thanks!

I'm currently using 305.67's but I will try the 306 when I get home. As for Sleeping Dogs (it stuttered really badly at first (not now though) but it may have been because of extreme aa and I hadn't used a frame limiter yet)
I have i7 930 @ 4.3 HT off, gtx680 and Sleeping dogs installed on SSD (hella fast samsung 830? 8something)

For me, high quality motion blur drops my vsync frames from 60 to ~50 in high speed driving. Normal motion blur allows steady 60fps with vsync. I also use evga precision x to limit fps to 60. (no in game frame cap) and I use the lowest in game AA and then inject SMAA and downsample using 1440 on 1080p lcd. It's true that the frame rate doesn't really matter, because there can still exist stuttering at 60 fps but I no longer have any serious stuttering with these settings.

There a few tiny stutters, but mostly it plays really really well. An example of a tiny stutter is in the apartment which you start with initially, panning the camera in a circle will produce a tinny stutter every time I pan past the kitchen...don't know why.

Now if we could just disable the high speed driving 'effect' that feels like stuttering...

BTW if you get a crash to desktop (some say with a speaker pop- I also had speaker pop) try running in windowed mode until you get past the part that crashed - then back to fullscreen. I got through a repeating crash at the wedding that way. (I do not use, nor require windowed mode for stutterless play - just used it once to avoid a crash).

VisitorX · 08-27-2012, 17:58 | posts: 13

should i install this new driver over my old one by starting the setup or deinstall my old driver first ??
i ask because when i install a new driver via setup from the newer one automaticly it deinstalls the older one and i dont know if thats so clean like when i do it the manual way..

blesner · 08-27-2012, 18:00 | posts: 2,362 | Location: SA

Still no profile for Prototype 2

marcosamerio · 08-27-2012, 18:03 | posts: 654

Looks promising

rewt · 08-27-2012, 18:03 | posts: 1,204 | Location: Americas

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Originally Posted by VisitorX

should i install this new driver over my old one

That's all I did. Working fine.

Funky Doodle · 08-27-2012, 18:07 | posts: 792

some issues fixed with this one! looks stable

SLI-756 · 08-27-2012, 18:16 | posts: 3,110 | Location: Sunny Scotland

After testing Arkham city, i'm gonna stick with 305.53 + PhysX engine 0613 which is newer than than the engine included with these.

Sr7 · 08-27-2012, 18:17 | posts: 245

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Originally Posted by blesner

Still no profile for Prototype 2

There is one but it sets SLI to single GPU. That game is incompatible with multi-GPU and the development team has been laid off (the studio closed), so they will not be able to patch the game to make it work with SLI/crossfire.

Do not expect an SLI profile that scales in the future.

Brygard2008 · 08-27-2012, 18:18 | posts: 22 | Location: In your basement

Quote:

Originally Posted by ManuelG

I saw that report before but could not repro or understand exactly the issue with the build we have. What exactly is your issue?

I have submitted the bug report just 5 mins ago.

Also it's what yosef019 said.

Quote:

Originally Posted by yosef019

When you put movie in power director edit tabs and try play the video it's says rendering forever
I will upload video when I make with this driver and 301.42

More info about it on the Cyberlink forums.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/24268.page
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23870.page
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23993.page
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23799.page

sunkid · 08-27-2012, 18:22 | posts: 226 | Location: RO

Sounds like a good driver.

lukas_1987_dion · 08-27-2012, 18:22 | posts: 288 | Location: Poland

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Originally Posted by dnottis

Does AMD acknowledge their CPUs are just sadly underpowered when compared to their Intel counterparts? Congratulations on saving a few bucks going AMD, welcome to hell.

Sleeping Dogs is one of the better recent ports and runs great.

Well... I don't have any problems with Sleeping Dogs... (GTX 660Ti and Phenom II 1100T x6 @ 4.0GHz)

When we will have Ambient Occlusion option for Fallout New Vegas? (and for Skyrim?) (Fallout 3 and Oblivion have it).

rewt · 08-27-2012, 18:32 | posts: 1,204 | Location: Americas

AO works in Skyrim for me. I play the game in Windows XP, since it's DX9 anyway.

lukas_1987_dion · 08-27-2012, 18:37 | posts: 288 | Location: Poland

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Originally Posted by rewt

AO works in Skyrim for me. I play the game in Windows XP, since it's DX9 anyway.

My bad, Skyrim have AO option in NVCP, but FNV no.

Dranzerk · 08-27-2012, 18:40 | posts: 59

I think the GTX 680 series is just terrible for some reason. I constantly see people complaining about issues that was resolved for the GTX 580 a long time ago.

Batman:AC runs smooth as butter on GTX 500series now

Which begs the question..how can you not keep the fixes from one hardware version to the next when they know what was wrong..heh

rewt · 08-27-2012, 18:46 | posts: 1,204 | Location: Americas

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Originally Posted by lukas_1987_dion

My bad, Skyrim have AO option in NVCP, but FNV no.

Ah, have you tried Inspector? For some reason I remember it working.

dnottis · 08-27-2012, 18:51 | posts: 609

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Originally Posted by Dranzerk

I think the GTX 680 series is just terrible for some reason. I constantly see people complaining about issues that was resolved for the GTX 580 a long time ago.

Batman:AC runs smooth as butter on GTX 500series now

Which begs the question..how can you not keep the fixes from one hardware version to the next when they know what was wrong..heh

I call BS on this....Batman AC never ran smooth on my 580 either. There were spots where the game just stutters badly. Its not constant but it's enough to ruin the game for me.

charliehamster · 08-27-2012, 18:54 | posts: 1,028 | Location: UK

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnottis

Does AMD acknowledge their CPUs are just sadly underpowered when compared to their Intel counterparts? Congratulations on saving a few bucks going AMD, welcome to hell.

Sleeping Dogs is one of the better recent ports and runs great.

Maybe you should do some homework before going "Intel Fanboy" on me. Many Intel users are experiencing the same problems.

lukas_1987_dion · **Thanks! -** 08-27-2012, 18:55 | posts: 288 | Location: Poland

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Originally Posted by rewt

Ah, have you tried Inspector? For some reason I remember it working.

I will try it right now, thank you!

Wagnard · 08-27-2012, 19:02 | posts: 111 | Location: Laval (Qc) , Canada

Dungeon Defenders still suffer from vSync stutter bug.

This is the only problem I have so far.

Smite vsync bug got fixed tho.

rewt · 08-27-2012, 19:05 | posts: 1,204 | Location: Americas

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Originally Posted by lukas_1987_dion

I will try it right now, thank you!

Try AO compatibility for "Fallout 3", or someone else might know another setting (it's been a while since I played that one).

NudeDragon · 08-27-2012, 19:06 | posts: 80

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Originally Posted by ManuelG

Although these drivers are BETA, they are very very close to the final WHQL driver which we will be releasing in a few days. We wanted to get these drivers out to users sooner for those who have been requesting updated drivers to use with newer graphics cards or games. Once you have had an opportunity to test these drivers, we ask that if you encounter any issues, please take a moment to fill out our driver feedback form. Please provide as much information as you can to assist us in reproducing your issue:

http://surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?...f07694a40f8ac6

Regards,
Manuel
www.nvidia.com

I'm wondering if I should just wait for WHQL. So by a few days do you mean this week? Or next week?

rewt · *Last edited by rewt; 08-27-2012 at 19:11.*

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Originally Posted by NudeDragon

I'm wondering if I should just wait for WHQL.

All WHQL does is delay driver release. It doesn't really help in any way.

In fact, sometimes Nvidia releases the same exact driver twice, once as BETA and again as WHQL.

-Tj- · 08-27-2012, 19:18 | posts: 2,405 | Location: Downtown ✈

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Originally Posted by rewt

Try AO compatibility for "Fallout 3", or someone else might know another setting (it's been a while since I played that one).

Or COD4 flag?

I prefer cod4 flag in Skyrim, its a little lighter compared to default Skyrim AO.

tyRant.594 · 08-27-2012, 19:28 | posts: 425 | Location: San Jose Ca

I just tried bf3 it seems way smoother now. This is in MP, thank god. I will test more games later.