help regarding what driver to pick

I had to completely wipe my system and was wondering what the optimal/best driver for my gtx 1080 would be?

 

Might as well use the latest. 445.87

 

441.41

 

442.59 are stable and give good performance.

 

It's always the most recent driver available for your GPU.

 

its not.

use 442.74.

 

Snake oil stuff.

Spoiler

 

445.xx overall has
HDR issues
premier doesn't detect cuda
BeamNG broken
F1 2019 crash
NV_Cache bug
sharpening not working the same

Pascal specifically has in 445.xx
Flickering in doom eternal

Benchmarks are irrelevant.
Recommandations are usually subjective, but the nv_cache issue is cause to go back to 442.

 

442.01

 

Another vote for the 442.59 drivers, fast and stable with no cache problems like the 445.xx drivers

Untile nVidia releases the next driver which is reported to have the cache fix included.

 

For my system, Pascal based GPU, driver 442.01 is very stable.

Standard Driver at https://international.download.nvid...top-notebook-win10-64bit-international.hf.exe

DCH Driver at https://international.download.nvid...notebook-win10-64bit-international-dch.hf.exe

 

Ask 10 people, they will give you 10 different answers. 3 of them will explain why with evidence, 6 of them will explain why with their feelings and the last one will never call you back.

 

try driver for yourself, this is best way

 

There is only one way to find out.

Start with the newest and work backwards from there if you have issues.

 

442.59 for Pascal GPUs.

Based on a big test result on reddit, i will have dig up the link.

So far it's true in my case, with 442.59 games have no microstutters, and it all just feels smooth.

 

how is it compared to the newest hotfix driver, in your case?

 

Latest stable has been good so far / on my 1080 ti build

 

yeah i'm using it as well mainly for the overwatch stability, but still curious how it compares to the driver, TheDeeGee mentioned.

 

Much smoother, i tried 445.98 but it still suffered from stuttering of some sort, just didn't feel smooth.

 

thank you for the quick response, i'll give it a go tomorrow