NVIDIA GeForce 301.42 WHQL Drivers

martinmsj said:
I did notice I got some chop on cut scenes in Diablo but I'm not sure if its the Adaptive vsync or the power feature I turned on.
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Diablo has very badly implemented Vsync, even with NVIDIA's turned to Adaptive.

I would use D3DOverrider, it fixed my drops to 20fps(!) on my 680.
 
Rizen said:
What exactly were you experiencing? Can't really help you when you describe your problem as "everything went to hell".
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i started getting lots of lag in games. Tried BF3 and it wouldn't get about 28 FPS on fraps with ultra settings. Diablo 3 became unplayable. everything got so slow. And upon booting up my computer, it would show an all gray screen for about a minute before letting me get to my desktop if it let me get there at all.

Had to go into safe mode, uninstall the driver and then load up one i was using before. if you have any ideas what is causing any of that and how to fix it I would love the help! i really wanted to try adaptive vsync.
 
well i can say the drivers work fine on my 8800GT's with SLI enabled(you have to re-enable it after the drivers are installed but meh). haven't really played many games since installing them but the adaptive AA thing works in league of legends as far as i can tell.
 
A video or some system specifications would help. I have been running a valiant GTX 560 Ti 1GB underwater and it has been more stable that I could ask for and is quite the performer on my 1080P monitor when I get the GPU core cranked to 960mhz. Maybe I'll be adventurous and pursue a stable 1ghz core clock :)

Sorry for your issues. Something else seems to be bringing your PC to a halt. I have never had a GPU switch go so wrong. You indicate everything got so slow. This means it was performing adequately at one time? Complete system specifications would be of great assistance in diagnosing your issue Pingis.
 
True. Everything was great before. I switched from 6870 crossfire to gtx 580 matrix. No overclock. The rest of my system is 2500k with asus Maximus gene-z. 4.6ghz overclock. 8 gigs of ram. Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. 850w xfx psu. Thats all i can think of right now. Before I tried to update drivers all my games played great. Playing at 1080p on an asus vg236he.
 
Excellent drivers for me and my 690. Made BF3 even more buttery smooth. ArmA II is even crisper. This is nice upgrade from the .34 drivers.
 
EdZ said:
With any luck this has also fixed the black-screen issue with the MadVR MPC-HC renderer that were introduced with the 300.xx series drivers.
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u ever search ? it has nothing to do with the driver. It's MADVR all u have to do is to change one setting. it's old news.
 
No problems with my evga 580 classified. Skyrim looks and runs better than ever. Adaptive sync works pretty well but did see tearing once in a couple hours of play. Much better than previously. Thumbs up for me. I did reboot after installing the driver on top of the old ones even though there was no prompt to reboot.
 
I'm having weird problems with these latest drivers. I'm running triple 30's in portrait and first thing I noticed is that BF3 errored out. Tried Diablo 3 and the game runs in windowed mode even though I have full screen enabled. Firefox errors out immediately and refuses to start. And when I try to open device manager, it displays an mmc.exe error. I ended up going back to 296.10. Anyone else running into simliar problems? The beta did the exact same thing.
 
Uninstalled previous drivers completely, ran driver sweeper, ran the custom clean install and it was all gravy. Ran bf3 on max and d3 (adaptive sync on) for a couple hours OC'd. Going to let it run unengine while I'm at work. Only complaint is the fan curve that was given by precision x is much louder than the stock fan speeds but I'll just have to tweak it later today. Can't wait to see the final speed bump when I reinstall my rma''d H80 and my 2600k back to 4.8ghz.
 
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Redmasc, i'm having the similar issues. i just uninstalled all previous drivers, ran driver sweeper and installed the latest .42 drivers. FPS in D3 is in the high 20's now. I'm just gonna give up on these and wait. Thanks everyone who gave advice.
 
Pingis said:
i started getting lots of lag in games. Tried BF3 and it wouldn't get about 28 FPS on fraps with ultra settings. Diablo 3 became unplayable. everything got so slow. And upon booting up my computer, it would show an all gray screen for about a minute before letting me get to my desktop if it let me get there at all.

Had to go into safe mode, uninstall the driver and then load up one i was using before. if you have any ideas what is causing any of that and how to fix it I would love the help! i really wanted to try adaptive vsync.
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I would recommend doing a complete uninstall of your previous drivers, then reinstall 301.42. When you install the new drivers, select the Custom Install option, and then select the checkbox to do a "Clean" install, which should wipe your registry of any legacy NVIDIA drivers.

I am using these on my system and haven't had any issues. I know its a headache when you run into a roadblock, but the above method should at least get you on a clean slate.
 
Carbon_Le said:
Maybe its not the drivers....could be the user. :eek:
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No guy. I've been doing this long enough to know it's not me. Seems it's one of the cards. MSI feels the same way so they granted me an RMA. If a new card does fix it then I owe nvidia and their driver team an apology.
 
so now that FXAA is included in the Nvidia Control Panel does anyone know what level of FXAA it uses- Low, Medium or High?...it most games that have FXAA in the game settings it lets you set the degree of FXAA but in the Nvidia Control Panel there is only the option to turn it On or Off

I heard that FXAA High was the equivalent of 8X MSAA so that is why I was wondering what level it uses in the Control Panel...anyone know?
 
lawless2142 said:
The newest posts on the driver thread for this at Guru3d indicate this still has the "50mhz" clock bug from the previous beta. If you don't know what that is, it's where on many 400 & 500 series GPU's, your card clocks down to it's lowest speed after exiting a game and stays that way. So far the only solutions have been minor overclocking or forcing clock rates with 3rd party utils, or rebooting. This is a show stopper for me.
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So youre saying you could have fixed it in the amount of time that it took to write that post?
 
charlievoviii said:
u ever search ? it has nothing to do with the driver. It's MADVR all u have to do is to change one setting. it's old news.
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So what do you have to change? I searched a bit in the past few months, but I haven't found a solution to that.
 
Hmmm... I've gotten black screens while doing pedestrian activities. I changed the power management mode to maximum performance. Hopefully that will that will fix the problem.

More info: I have 2 outputs: my PC monitor and a HDTV. When my PC monitor turns off and comes back on all windows that were minimized will now maximize on the HDTV. Highly annoying. Luckily I have an app that moves all maximized windows to one monitor.
 
These drivers have been nothing more than a nightmare for me and my new gtx 670. I have seen other people having problems, issues, and or crashes. Is this related to a certain graphics card or just random?

I am also having problems with flash and other things causing me to crash. Just not having a good experience with these drivers, done a "clean" install and nothing just laughs in my face and continues to take a shit on me.
 
These seem to be good on my 690. The last drivers I used were the 301.34 and about 2/3 of the time when I would shut my computer down it wouldn't turn off; now that problem is fixed.
 
Wish I had never downloaded these drivers. A pox on Nvidia for the evil they inflicted on me. Oh well, at least they gave me a valid reason to reinstall windows so that I could setup that raid I have been meaning to setup.
 
I've been updating AMD drivers for so long I didn't know how to update NVidia drivers from .10 to .42. So I found these 2 posts & Driver Sweeper. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=169555 & http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=230389 & http://phyxion.net/item/driver-sweeper.html ... I followed the first posts' directions & used the Driver Sweeper in safe mode. I installed .42 & checked the fresh install box & everything seems to be working OK so far. But I still had to add that RMPcieLinkSpeed line to the registry to pcie 3.0 speeds to show up in gpuz on my x79 mobo, I guess they still haven't fixed the link speed yet. :D :(
 
These drivers suck for my GTX560ti448 as well. Getting random crashes during gaming and the flash crashing as well.

I haven't had a good driver for my card since the 296 flavor. Should have never tried the 300s. Some type of crazy deep registry monster going on with the power control of my card now. Like a virus screwing up my card.
 
well i can say the drivers work great with my SLI 8800GT's and the adaptive V-sync works pretty damn well to for those of you still running old ass cards like me. :D
 
Work great with my GTX 570. No issues here.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
well i can say the drivers work great with my SLI 8800GT's and the adaptive V-sync works pretty damn well to for those of you still running old ass cards like me. :D
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Reminds me I got a 8800 GTX back from RMA months ago that I never plugged in and tested...

These drivers have been great so far on my GTX 580 SC. No BSOD on nvlddmkm.sys. Yet.
 
Drivers working perfectly on my GTX 670. Haven't had a ton of time but tested: BF3, Mass Effect 3, Bastion, Diablo 3.
 
KENNYB said:
Hmmm... I've gotten black screens while doing pedestrian activities. I changed the power management mode to maximum performance. Hopefully that will that will fix the problem.

More info: I have 2 outputs: my PC monitor and a HDTV. When my PC monitor turns off and comes back on all windows that were minimized will now maximize on the HDTV. Highly annoying. Luckily I have an app that moves all maximized windows to one monitor.
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No black screens since I changed the power management mode.
 
GoodBoy said:
This actually sounds more like a hardware problem. Might see what the warranty is on your card and report the issue to the manufacturer before the warranty expires.
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The purple screen stuff was a known issue, I had it on both of my 560's as well.
 
lawless2142 said:
The newest posts on the driver thread for this at Guru3d indicate this still has the "50mhz" clock bug from the previous beta. If you don't know what that is, it's where on many 400 & 500 series GPU's, your card clocks down to it's lowest speed after exiting a game and stays that way. So far the only solutions have been minor overclocking or forcing clock rates with 3rd party utils, or rebooting. This is a show stopper for me.

On a side note, I was extremely surprised at just how good a framerate I could get with a GTX 460 @ 50mhz in Source games. Almost 20fps! :).
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xorbe said:
Install MSI AB, add 1MHz on boot-up automatically? Sure it's silly and annoying, but easily worked around, yes? Show-stopper is when it TDRs every 10 minutes using a web browser, and the only solution is to peg the card to 3D mode burning an extra 70W of power. (That should be fixed these days for non-faulty cards.)
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This "50MHz Issue" is affecting my GPU, as well. I haven't tried the 1MHz auto-overclock with MSI AB, but I'll give that a shot this weekend. So thanks to you both for expressing and eloborating on this problem and a work-around.

That being said, does anyone know if nVidia is addressing this to include a permanent fix in a future driver release?
 
A couple weeks ago I read a little bit in their forums. One was that they (nv) hadn't reproduced the issue yet. Another was that a user (supposedly) solved it with uninstall, driver sweep, and reinstall (but you never know what happens 2 days later).
 
xorbe said:
A couple weeks ago I read a little bit in their forums. One was that they (nv) hadn't reproduced the issue yet. Another was that a user (supposedly) solved it with uninstall, driver sweep, and reinstall (but you never know what happens 2 days later).
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I find it really hard to believe that NV hasn't been able to reproduce it. Of course, they could just be saying that so they can buy themselves more time to get it fixed, since it may not be easily addressed. Who knows...?

I've gotten it with both the 301.42 WHQL and 301.24 beta, so perhaps I'll try out the 1 MHz OC thing. If that doesn't work, then I'll do a full-blown safe mode driver sweep and reinstall.
 
Anyone else running a 120hz monitor? My 670dcu2s will make my monitor go black for a short time (backlight included) when initializing any game engines. This includes when I alt+tab. Annoying but not a dealbreaker. I have tried messing with power settings to no avail. This seems to only happen with SLI enabled.
 
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