June 18, 200916 yr Hi AllAgain a new test with new Nvidia Driver 186.18 WHQL.And the stutters with my GTX280 are back.... No more to say!Perhaps others are more lucky than me with this driver.
June 20, 200916 yr Same result with 8800 Ultra. All aspects suffered serious degradation, as with all 185's and 186's. Gratefully reverted to 182.50's.GeoffreyQ6600, Asus Striker Extreme, 2 GB DDR2 800, XP SP3, FSX Acceleration
June 20, 200916 yr Installed the 186.18 drivers today and also ugraded nHancer to 2.5.1. No problems. Pretty much the same as the previous drivers in FSX. No problem with stutters.I get stutters with high autogen settings when flying in mountain areas with a lot of forests, but this isn't caused by the drivers. It's caused by too high display settings.
June 21, 200916 yr I agree with Ulf. No problems here and in fact received a small performance boost with the 3D Mark Vantage benchmark. One of the display driver settings I have found that reduces stuttering drastically is the Texture filering - Negative LOD bias. The default is Allow but changing it to Clamp will help reduce stutters. As Ulf stated, you need to lower some scenery settings too.Best regards,Jim Young
June 23, 200916 yr Author Why should it be the settings if I only change the driver? Whit 182.50 everything is smooth and with all newer ones there are more to extreme stutters.Perhaps with a GTX285 the new drivers will run FSX better than my GTX280.
June 23, 200916 yr Why should it be the settings if I only change the driver? Whit 182.50 everything is smooth and with all newer ones there are more to extreme stutters.Perhaps with a GTX285 the new drivers will run FSX better than my GTX280.For whatever reason, it seems that sometimes you need to re-apply nHancer settings after changing driver versions. Having said that, personally I'm not sure that 186 adds anything to 185 and this is one of the areas where "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a good rule to apply.Tim 14900ks, RTX4090, 64Gb@6000-30-36-36-T2, Samsung 990Pro 2Tb , Dell G3223Q 32" 4k Gsync + 27" secondary monitor. Thrustmaster Airbus Edition throttles etc, TPR pedals, MiniCockpit FCU, WinWings FCU, WinWings Orion 2 F15E, WinWings A320 sticks.
June 25, 200916 yr Why should it be the settings if I only change the driver?How did you remove the old driver?Whit 182.50 everything is smooth and with all newer ones there are more to extreme stutters.Perhaps with a GTX285 the new drivers will run FSX better than my GTX280.Agree with Tim...I have found with vid drivers + FS especially..."If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a good way to go.Go with what works for your setup. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
June 26, 200916 yr Author I always remove old video drivers with the following steps:1. Uninstall the drivers via Add/Remove Programs2. Reboot3. Use Driver Cleaner from Guru3d4. Reboot5. Install the new Driver 6. Reboot7. Check nHancer Settings8. Do a Testflight
June 26, 200916 yr I always remove old video drivers with the following steps:1. Uninstall the drivers via Add/Remove Programs2. Reboot3. Use Driver Cleaner from Guru3d4. Reboot5. Install the new Driver 6. Reboot7. Check nHancer Settings8. Do a TestflightThat is a good routine; I just wanted to make sure you did it the right way, to rule out driver registry / uninstall issues.With that ruled out...the only conclusion I can logically draw is that the 186's you are using have optimizations that hurt your card in FSX. I have just about come to the same conclusion with the 185.85 driver, too. I would go back to what worked for you...that's what I am going to do as well. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
June 27, 200916 yr Author I always go back to 182.50 until there "hopefully" will be a better driver for my combination of hard- and software.
July 6, 200916 yr I've been having some flaky issues with dual-monitor and FSX, so I tried "upgrading" drivers from 182.52 to 186.18 today (2GB eVGA GTX 285 running on Vista 64).It stuttered worse than Hank Paulson testifying to Congress. I also noted that dxdiag was reporting only 745MB of total available video memory, where it reports something like 4080 MB with the 182.52 driver installed.I reverted back to 182.52 and I'm back to smooth ops (but on one monitor in FSX for now).RegardsBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
July 8, 200916 yr I've been having some flaky issues with dual-monitor and FSX, so I tried "upgrading" drivers from 182.52 to 186.18 today (2GB eVGA GTX 285 running on Vista 64).It stuttered worse than Hank Paulson testifying to Congress.I found the same thing to be true on my setup. The 185's were TERRIBLE. I went back to 180.something and my sim is once again smooth and fast. Wouldn't be the first time that an older driver worked better than a newer driver on my 8800GTX card. Same was true in the past with my 7800GT. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
July 8, 200916 yr is it possible that you have your settings so high that you've actually ran out of video memory with the new drivers, and hence the stutters? That's what happened to me. :)
July 9, 200916 yr is it possible that you have your settings so high that you've actually ran out of video memory with the new drivers, and hence the stutters? That's what happened to me. :)No, that's not possible with me. :( Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
July 9, 200916 yr Mace: so you have stutters despite the ram usage is fine? I would guess the cards defective then... after all they did have heat issues prior to the 512 release. :(
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