GEFORCE GAME READY DRIVER v397.31

Doing alright with them on 980Ti so far, though I install per Kyle's old instructions on how to trim the fat from nvidia drivers, so it's a bare bones driver install. Was playing FF XIV last night, haven't tried my modded out Skyrim yet. Even if I did have any driver problems I wouldn't bother posting on Geforce, as any single negative comment about nvidia brings the wrath of Sora who will flame and troll you until you are prompted to buy an AMD card.
 
ceraf said:
And here I thought only AMD had install issues...
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I haven't had a problem with AMD for years. Well, when I was installing drivers for the 2200G it needs the latest Windows 10 update, but other than that, nothing.

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What is wrong with nvidia driver team. They have a month between driver releases and still screw it up!

Dunno if i want to install these on my 970. Almost half a gig for drivers is also beyond insane.
 
I'm always a risk taker with things like this. No issues on my 1080 thus far.
 
Ranulfo said:
I've gotten lax with video card drivers in that I often just install the latest when they come out. With AMD its been because of a weird bug in win7 on some systems with wake up on sleep mode not working properly. Knock on wood that system of mine with the problem has been stable for several months now. Anyway, the age old wisdom that don't upgrade unless there is a problem or reason to seems wise more and more these days no matter who it is. Reminds me of that snafu samsung had a couple of years ago with a firmware upgrade on one of their ssd drives. The Magic software said to update... people updated and got bricked drives.

Unless I have a game that isn't running very well or at all, I'll wait for a day or two on new drivers. My laptop with a 1060 will be just fine for a bit with old drivers.
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Isn't there a group that takes drivers and improves them by ripping out the useless crap and tweaking the necessary stuff to make them better?

I remember downloading drivers from them years ago when I had problems with the drivera for the card in my old XPS and this 4870, and they helped immeasurably.
 
Peter2k said:
No one said anything about games and apps making the driver crash, buggy games on this release

Except the game ready driver for Far Cry 5 actually made the game crash, which was confirmed
So I was hoping the newer version would fix that as well

Nvidia put Vulkan 1.1 in there (supposedly) but that's more an additional driver in the package

The pure stripped down driver without installer won't even install
GPU is just disabled in hardware manager as "having a problem"


Btw

Even if they redid the whole driver from the ground up, as you claim, doesn't mean one should skip quality control
Were talking 1060 cards here, not 5 year old cards
Also those are certified drivers

Fun to see what that is worth

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Thing is drivers became bugged not so long ago

That was way way after DX12 support
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Now we see how well marketing/business types can code...
 
EODetroit said:
Played Battletech nearly unconsciously until past 3AM last night. Game is goooood.

In related news, didn't use these drivers and didn't seem to need them either.
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Also up waaaay too late playing Battletech.

I did install the new drivers listed here and run a 1060 6gb.

No issues whatsoever so far at 1440p with the install or performance. I’ll keep an eye out if something pops up.
 
Evga 1080ti, downloaded driver, opted for clean install, physx and driver only, no issues to report.
 
Nenu said:
Has nothing to do with installation issues and those that also occur on DX11.
The blanket you are using isnt big enough to cover this situ.
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This would explain games crashing the driver, but that's not the issue I have had.

We are talking instability during boot initialization of drivers and on the desktop!

Besides, very few of my titles actually support Vulcan or DX12. I actually don't own any game with Vulcan support, and only one I can think of with DX12 support (Civ 6), and I run it in DX11 mode as it performs better.
 
well AMD drivers check for a modified bios and won't start on polaris cards. You then have to run a driver patcher and reboot to get around it. It's annoying, but easily fixed.
 
like i always say about nvidia due to the generation-crossing, never ending surround and sli issues - their in house testing is legit.

not like they have billions of revenue to hire people to handle such paltry tasks.
 
Updated last night, and started getting artifacts on some animated 2D textures (e.g. UI elements). So far it only occurs in Heroes of the Storm on the multi-kill pop-up. Confirmed it on both my GTX 1080, and my sister's GTX 1060 rig.

To be fair, there was a big update to the game as well around the same time. So it's unclear which is the cause of the artifacting.
 
Gigabyte AORUS 1070Ti. Installed these drivers moment they were available (like I always do) and have zero problems.

Express install over previous drivers
 
Buddy was having trouble installing it.

I went and installed it using the custom option for clean install (without using DDU or some other program) and seems to be fine.

I had some issue with VLC player but attributed it to trying to push the undervolting on my RAM. Will have to up it back to 1.34v and test again.
 
working good here so far. not one issue to report. using gtx 1060 6gb. sorry to hear folks having issues.
 
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