NVIDIA GeForce 304.79 Beta Download & Discussion

Discussion in 'Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Section' started by xavier2k5, Jul 3, 2012.

  1. ManuelG

    ManuelG NVIDIA Rep

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    We are not tracking that issue. Just the error where it crashes with "nvlddmkm" error. More details?
     
  2. ManuelG

    ManuelG NVIDIA Rep

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    I need to know the before/after difference. 10%? 25%? 50% slower?
     
  3. RedPyramid

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    Does part of your "maintenance" work involve translating the Dead Sea Scrolls into binary code? holy sheeite
     
  4. ManuelG

    ManuelG NVIDIA Rep

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    Can you repro this on onboard audio controller?
     

  5. -Tj-

    -Tj- Ancient Guru

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    Hi,

    Im not sure, but he's a long time player so im pretty sure he is accurate.

    Judging by his reaction i would say 30-50%.


    Im gonna re-edit this post when i know more.

    EDIT: he said ~ 25%.

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    Also can you check my side problem with FEAR1, i suffer from occasional micro stutters when i get max fps or the other way around. I somehow "eliminated" most of it by limiting the game to 2 cores and threaded optimization - off..
     
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  6. ESlik

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    Who needs the Nvidia support forum? We have "The MAN" right here!! Welcome ManuelG.
     
  7. rewt

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    For me this is the first driver where adaptive vsync options are visible in the control panel.

    Thanks for your support! :thumbup:
     
  8. wsgroves

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    Aye, I figured that to be the case. Thanks for the heads up.
     
  9. rognarok

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    I've noticed with World of Warcraft with 304.79 my CPU temps are about 10c higher and there is more CPU usage then release drivers. Roughly about 20-30% more then usual. The unusual thing is the temps stay roughly the same if I'm in a deserted area with little going, or in a 25 man raid. I only did the first boss in raid finder, and I'm not sure this is affecting performance, but it's a bit weird seeing so much of my CPU being used
     
  10. psyside

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    Hello ManuelG and first of all thanks for the great support, to have an Nvidia employ and help us directly is simply great! please report back to your HQ that we really really like this, and that you should extend the number of members to other forums as well, just like hardware companies with their hardware rep members.

    Now, slightly offtopic, can you report that we would really love to see Metro 2033 improvements, seems like Nvidia cards are not doing so great in this title, and i would love to play this game in its whole glory when my GTX680 DCII arrive in 1 week from now. In the past Nvidia has produced some stunning resluts regarding performance improvements just by drivers updgrades, so i think it should not be problem for you guys :)

    Thanks in advance.
     

  11. Bentez

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    So I've lost 400 P score points and 1000 graphics score points in 3D11 after installing 304.79 over 304.48. Has anyone experienced this? I tried reinstalling but got the same scores.. I may rollback to .48s
     
  12. Cyberdyne

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    Unless you are only using the PC for competition or something, what is the point of ditching a driver set over a single benchmark?
    Did you lose similar performance in other games? I know I didn't lose any.
     
  13. D4rKy21

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    I got some weird sound cracking in games with these drivers, sort of lag spikes :S

    This is the first driver that cause me this problem rolling back to 304.48
     
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  14. Bentez

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    I'm testing games at the minute. benchmarks only matter to give an indication of performance, though generally 3D11 is a pretty good yard stick of how good a driver is..
     
  15. jez_uk1

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    Hi ManuelG,

    When installing 304.48 myself and a friend both noticed that World of Warcraft would occasionally and randomly terminate without any error or message. The window would just vanish as if ALT+F4 was pressed. I reverted back to 301 to fix the problem.

    I've also noticed that is World of Warcraft is blurred when run in DX11 fullscreen mode on my Surround setup but only when the game is run on the center screen. i.e. Surround desktop is 5760x1080. If i run WoW in 1920x1080 it is correctly scaled on the center screen but everything is blurry. This only seems to affect DX11 mode, it's fine in DX9. I've had this problem with all drivers I've tried since purchasing the two GTX 680's.
     

  16. D4rKy21

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    @ Manuel G i have some kind of sound interruption with these drivers crackling sound effect, its like tik tik tik, in every game i just tested it with Call of Pripyat Max Payne 3 and games like Metr0 2033 Serious Sam BFE, i didnt had this problem before with beta 304.48.
     
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    @ManuelG, do you know when the first official 680M driver is up on the nvidia site?
     
  18. NeoandGeo

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    I still seem to be crashing with these after about 45 minutes to an hour of Battlefield. Same with the 304.48. The crash is weird too, it just freezes and kicks me to the desktop with the app still running. I have to alt-tab and then close it through task manager.
     
  19. skippy_watford

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    Just bought a new 680 to replace one of my 570s. Now have a KFA2 4GB 680 EX OC (68NQH6DN6DXZ manufacturers code) and I've left one of the 570s as a physx card (MSI Twin Frozr III 1280Mb).

    I've been having a huge amount of crashes. Around about one per day. I think I've determined it's the beta drivers since although they were stable when I had the 570s in SLI, after going back to 301.42 the only game that's crashed has been Crysis 2 which is notorious for being unstable. I'll give it a few more days to be sure though. With the Beta drivers basically all my DX10/11 games are crashing - DX9 games seem stable although I haven't played them too much to be sure.

    The games are freezing at random points for a second or two and then the screen goes black as the 680 resets itself and I have to ctrl-alt-del to get the task manager and close whichever game it is.

    Sometimes get an apphang windows message, although not always. But when looking in windows reliability I get the following....

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    Summary
    Video hardware error

    Date
    ‎07/‎07/‎2012 02:42

    Status
    Not reported

    Description
    A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.

    Problem signature
    Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent
    OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
    Locale ID: 2057

    Files that help describe the problem
    WD-20120707-0242.dmp
    sysdata.xml
    WERInternalMetadata.xml

    Extra information about the problem
    BCCode: 117
    BCP1: FFFFFA80078734E0
    BCP2: FFFFF8800F55BAC4
    BCP3: 0000000000000000
    BCP4: 0000000000000000
    OS Version: 6_1_7601
    Service Pack: 1_0
    Product: 768_1


    This happens in all the DX10/11 games I've played within a short while using either of the beta drivers

    Battlefield3/Batman AC/Metro 2033 and Crysis 2 (although that still crashes with 301.42 and is notorious for crashes so may be the game)

    Are you aware of other people having these crashes, as I'm also liasing with the company I bought the 680 from as it could, of course, be an issue with my card although the temperatures etc. are all fine with the card never getting higher than 75.

    Edit:The crash with Crysis 2(using 301.42) I've just noticed was slightly different in the windows reliability utility.....
    Source
    Windows

    Summary
    Video hardware error

    Date
    ‎06/‎07/‎2012 20:40

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    Report sent

    Description
    A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.

    Problem signature
    Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent
    OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
    Locale ID: 2057

    Extra information about the problem
    BCCode: 117
    BCP1: FFFFFA800E889010
    BCP2: FFFFF8800F5C84D4
    BCP3: 0000000000000000
    BCP4: 0000000000000000
    OS Version: 6_1_7601
    Service Pack: 1_0
    Product: 768_1
    Bucket ID: X64_0x117_Tdr:2_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys
    Server information: 669632d9-86ae-4f0f-9416-4db15cea15cb


    As I said any advice would be appreciated.
     
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  20. harkinsteven

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    Don't think this has been reported. But I'm constantly crashing in The Secret World Dx11. Sometimes it plays for hours then other times I crashes every 10mins. Its seems like a driver crash, my fan speed resets to default and game crashes to desktop.
    I have tried everything I can think off to stop it from happening. There's no overclock on the card except factory. I even tried to lower the core speed to stock. I bumped the card voltage to max and applied new thermal compound to the card. Nothing works.
     

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