April 7, 201412 yr For those that don't know Nvidia's much anticipated new drivers were released today that are touted to bring great performance to certain targeted applications. http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-337-50-beta-performance-driver I just ran my Xplane tests and I took a 30% FPS drop using the new drivers, so I had to rollback. Anybody else seen any major X-plane hit?
April 7, 201412 yr Before you rolled back, did you notice if they got rid of the pink edges of distant landscape during daylight hours? John John Wingold
April 7, 201412 yr Author Before you rolled back, did you notice if they got rid of the pink edges of distant landscape during daylight hours? John No, didn't check and never noticed pink edges before. No drop here, and no more red lines.... Are you running in HDR mode?
April 8, 201412 yr Yes, I am running HDR, and I did try the new drivers. I rolled back to 332.xx drivers where there were no pink lines. I believe the later drivers produce sharper graphics, but unless I fly at near or during night, the pinkies appear. John John Wingold
April 8, 201412 yr Frames are the same with the new drivers on my system. AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, RTX 4080S, Ram - 32GB, 32" 4K Monitor, WIN 11. Eric Escobar
April 8, 201412 yr OK, I went back, removed all drivers and let NVidia Experience update. This time, I got a different experience. Framerates are about the same and the red/pink lines are still there (mountainous areas show them most). Turned off HDR and they are gone. Textures appear a little sharper. John John Wingold
April 9, 201412 yr The improvement is for DirectX games, X-Plane is OpenGL so don't expect to see any difference.
April 9, 201412 yr The improvement is for DirectX games, X-Plane is OpenGL so don't expect to see any difference. OpenGL is all about the driver! NVidia improved quite alot but unfortunately introduced a bug with the pink outline (faint but still there) in HDR mode. HDR is mandatory for night flying. I hope NVidia will fix this annoying bug soon. Vu Pham i7-13700K 5.2 GHz OC, 64 GB RAM, RTX5090, SSD for Sim, SSD for system. MSFS2020, XP-12, DCS
April 9, 201412 yr OpenGL is all about the driver! NVidia improved quite alot but unfortunately introduced a bug with the pink outline (faint but still there) in HDR mode. HDR is mandatory for night flying. I hope NVidia will fix this annoying bug soon. New in GeForce 337.50 Beta drivers Performance - Introduces key DirectX optimizations which result in reduced game-loading times and significant performance increases across a wide variety of games. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here are some examples of measured gains versus the previous 335.23 WHQL driver: In all places I've read about, the improvements were made for DirectX based applications/games, both are different drivers/platforms and improving DirectX will not mean that it will do anything to OpenGL side unless they do it.
April 9, 201412 yr OpenGL is all about the driver! NVidia improved quite alot but unfortunately introduced a bug with the pink outline (faint but still there) in HDR mode. HDR is mandatory for night flying. I hope NVidia will fix this annoying bug soon. This driver is to "clean" microsofts' API (D3D) and not the OpenGL,by cleaning I mean to make the API transmit data much faster,kinda what will happen in DX12. However,for now XP10 is based in an older version of OpenGL (AS I knnow 2.X,which is like DX9..), while 10.30 is like a transtion point to a newer version (OGL 4.1 I think,which is like DX11), I bet we will see nice performance boost in 10.30 and maybe tell then NVIDIA will do some improvements to there OpenGL support which may give more performance.
April 9, 201412 yr I got rid of the pink outlines by switching off atmospheric scattering in the rendering options. Nick
April 9, 201412 yr Pink outlines? :blink: We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
April 19, 201412 yr I've found that just shutting off per pixel shading got rid of the pink lines, thus keeping HDR and the wonderful scattering intact. This of course makes for some pretty flat colors but the other option is to deal with the pink lines, which I find hard to do. Joseph Catino
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