NVIDIA GeForce 531.18 WHQL driver Download & Discussion

Discussion in 'Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Section' started by valorex, Feb 28, 2023.

  1. Catcher40

    Catcher40 Member

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    This latest driver causes random crashes in Assasins Creed Origins this has also been confirmed on Ubisoft's forum there is no set pattern it just happens randomly. I'm using RTX 4070 TI the game uses DirectX 11, I've verified the game files and also tried reinstalling the drivers after I did a complete uninstall.
     
  2. SpajdrEX

    SpajdrEX Ancient Guru

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    What about using DXVK, is it a temporary fix for these crashes?
     
  3. Hulk12

    Hulk12 Master Guru

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    GPU overclocked may cause flicker...
     
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  4. Benik3

    Benik3 Master Guru

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    But we still have buggy drivers for years :D
     

  5. WhiskeyOmega

    WhiskeyOmega Master Guru

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    These are causing full system crashes with HDR Displays either switch it on or switching from HDR to SDR. At least on the 8K TV with 4K Side monitor . There are also STILL scaling issues where if Windows is set to more than 100% scaling apps open off screen in the wrong places. This has been going on for well over 2 odd years now and not one person at Nvidia actually thought to test scaling on 8K/4K

    Buggy is an understatement.
    I wouldnt expect to be beta testing drivers for a 2 year odd 3090 still
     
  6. s3ruX

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    Terrible driver so far to me... 3060ti/10600k

    Issues: blinking second monitor (never happened) - Nv container using cpu 5~10% after close games with dx12 - Significant high VRAM max out causing severe stuttering and frame spikes possible memory leak? - insanely high DPC latency.

    Already try clean installation (DDU) and Clean windows install.

    528.49 fix everything but the DPC latency, Nvidia don't even recognize the problem and the white knights of a multi billion dollar companies in reddit/forum says is "normal" maybe they will never fix and even call as new "feature". BTW 512.16 or older fix the dpc latency "problem/feature".
     
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  7. BuildeR2

    BuildeR2 Ancient Guru

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    THIS. The scaling above 100% on 4k/8k screens with things opening in the wrong place is sooooooooo annoying. Not sure if this is a driver issue or a combination MS/NV issue? The other thing that bugs the heck out of me is when games use my scaling percentage inversely to decide what resolutions to list in games.

    4k screen with 150% scaling = games max out at 2560x1440
    4k screen with 200% scaling = games max out at 1920x1080

    Does anybody else experience this? ^ Only a few games here and there can be fixed via the "High DPI Scaling Override" in Windows. As for this driver, Fallout 76 (yes......I know......) absolutely refuses to open. As I'm playing this with a friend I've gone back to 522.25 as it is the last driver I've had relatively few issues with.
     
  8. Catcher40

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    What is DXVK and how do I use it with ACO?
     
  9. -Tj-

    -Tj- Ancient Guru

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    It may, but it doesn't in this case.


    E.g. floor flicker glass at 21:22sec, on totally different nvidia system, so..

     
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    Is it noticeable?
     

  11. Astyanax

    Astyanax Ancient Guru

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    not here.

    Display Drivers have nothing to do with the behavior of windows dpi scaling

    Upgrade to 11 or get used to using ctrl+shift+win+arrows.

    Default behavior for Unreal / Unity Engine "bug" when the binary doesn't have a DPI v1 or later manifest.
     
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  12. WhiskeyOmega

    WhiskeyOmega Master Guru

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    This is on 11 . What display are you running on your 1080ti ?
     
  13. lawood

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    Garbage driver as usual from nvidia in recent times.
     
  14. WhiteLightning

    WhiteLightning Don Illuminati Staff Member

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    maybe it would help more if you would list the problems you run into.
     
  15. lawood

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    Well.
    They claim they fix crashing on ww2, fair enough. I never crashed once playing it but i figured I should upgrade because I play it fairly often.
    And... Starting crashing. Not even kidding, never had a single problem. And it's not even driver crashes, just game crashes...
    They also broke the benchmark tool of the same game, ppl with 531.18 cant run the bench anymore...
    The nvcontainer bug it's also very very annoying.

    Nvidia lost the ability to release good drivers, something changed.
     
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  16. XantaX

    XantaX Master Guru

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    It's not a garbage driver, find the solution in your system, imo.
    All games run fine here.
     
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  17. lawood

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    nonsense. I dont need to find solutions if older drivers works just fine.
     
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  18. Astyanax

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    75X90K, could be specific displays, or a particular feature, like Variable Refresh that makes the difference.

    what 8k display do you have?
     
  19. WhiteLightning

    WhiteLightning Don Illuminati Staff Member

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    Keep in mind that people have different hardware components. Its not a rule that everything acts the same.
     
  20. Astyanax

    Astyanax Ancient Guru

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    its an observational rule that most deviations from the norm are statistical error and related to the quality and care taken in the experiment.

    the hardware (architecturally speaking) itself is usually irrelevant , its the configuration of the hardware and the software environment that throws KMD's into disarray 9 times out of 10.

    these last few architectures and the "norm" of undervolting of late further stresses the configuration aspect, but so does having SMBus/IOCTL drivers that spam SPD sensors in ram, or set a Embedded Controller constantly don't help :confused:

    the average "real" driver bugs that affect a particular game crashwise or visually do not have an individualistic hardware component, barring some exceptions where the bug is a poorly thought reliance on the accuracy of Floating Point values returned across x86 architectures, or a developer has played fast and loose with undefined behaviors (or simply misunderstood the API structure) rather it usually stems back to the effective integrity of the hardware itself which can usually reproduce on other cards of the same silicon quality and decay.
     
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