With regards to Nvidia drivers, what is the final verdict?

 

I hear a lot of good things about the 337.88 drivers, however, those cannot be installed on the newer cards. 

 

So far I have tried all with 4SMAA and 4SGSS in NI:

344.16 - currently using, no shimmering, very rare occasional spiking in heavy clouds/OC when quickly panning w/ TrackIR

344.48 - no shimmering, occasional spiking

344.60 - some shimmer, some spiking in heavy clouds

344.65 - some shimmer, some spiking in heavy clouds

344.75 - no spiking but heavy shimmer/snowy pixellations on surfaces dependent on light reflection and movement

347.09 - ??? no runway lights

347.25 - ??? no runway lights

 

Anyone want to share their opinions on what is best to use at this point. Overall performance seemed about the same for all I have tried.  I am currently running an Asus GTX 970 Strix 4GB.

yeah the newer graphic cards come with stuff though i think.

Thanks for the info Marc. I tried the 344.11 driver but the shimmer was horrible so I went back to 347.

 

I will give the 344.16 today to see if it's better.

As an experiment, I went back to 347.75, and I noticed a 5-10 fps drop, on the same saved flight. I'm not sure if I'm hallucinating or what. But for now, I'm back to 344.16 and probably the foreseeable future. Slowly coming to the conclusion that the 9XX series card purchase may have been a bad move. The drivers are not getting any better and in fact quite the opposite. This is really unacceptable, maybe LM should pull some weight with Nvidia and get things rectified asap.   

I run better with the 347.xx drivers than the 344.xx go figure. I will still try the .16 drivers to see how it does.

 

FSX loves the 347 drivers though tweaked to run very smooth and consistent. So I'm torn whether to update or not. Decisions decisions.

I use the 344.75 with a GTX980 and have not noticed shimmer.  I do get an occasional "flash" of a scenery segment or a cloud and it is literally just a flash.  I loaded the 347.x driver and it nuked my FTX scenery in P3D with great splotches of random textures in the sky so I went back to the 344.75.

Running 344.75 with GTX970 . I do NOT use NI and keep NVIDIA CP set as default Global .  I have set DSR to 1.5 X and smoothness to 25%.  Fortunately I experience none of the issues you describe and my settings in P3D are mostly very high to max.  My CPU is O/C to 4.4 GHz and my GPU usage rarely hits over 60%  except in heavy clouds, where it will usually stay in high 90's..

344.16 - currently using, no shimmering, very rare occasional spiking in heavy clouds/OC when quickly panning w/ TrackIR

 

344.48 - no shimmering, occasional spiking

 

344.60 - some shimmer, some spiking in heavy clouds

 

344.65 - some shimmer, some spiking in heavy clouds

 

344.75 - no spiking but heavy shimmer/snowy pixellations on surfaces dependent on light reflection and movement

 

347.09 - ??? no runway lights

 

347.25 - ??? no runway lights

 

I do not have a Nvidia card, I was planning to buy 980 this weekend, but dang, this list makes it sound like their drivers suck.  I was under the impression that Nvidia drivers are really good.  I guess I will have to wait for the next card update the 980 successor.

Running 344.75 with GTX970 . I do NOT use NI and keep NVIDIA CP set as default Global .  I have set DSR to 1.5 X and smoothness to 25%.  Fortunately I experience none of the issues you describe and my settings in P3D are mostly very high to max.  My CPU is O/C to 4.4 GHz and my GPU usage rarely hits over 60%  except in heavy clouds, where it will usually stay in high 90's..

I'm back to 344.75 now and will try your DSR settings. I messed around with these before and they certainly remove the shimmering but at higher DSR settings and at cost to performance.

 

I do not have a Nvidia card, I was planning to buy 980 this weekend, but dang, this list makes it sound like their drivers suck.  I was under the impression that Nvidia drivers are really good.  I guess I will have to wait for the next card update the 980 successor.

Mind you that list is indicative of my setup so results may vary.

As far as we know LM are currently working with Nvidia to implement driver support and potentially SLI support for P3Dv2.....patience for the time being!

Just installed my 970 and have used the recommended 344.16 driver.  Performance is great with my overclocked i5.

I'm still with AMD, I'd buy a 970 if it looked like Nvidia were showing even a faint degree of interest in supporting P3D but I see absolutely no evidence of it to date :(

I use 344.80 on my 970, with no shimmering nor any blurries.

 

 My P3D settings are dialled back to the level that Core Temp shows minimal 100% usage of all CPU cores.  The 970 just coasts along.

 

Jim H.

I ended up going with the 344.75 drivers. I'm happy having my runway lights back.

 

Thanks for the suggestions.

Best performance for me has been the 347.25; however, as we all found out, no runway lights.  I reverted back to 344.75 which I used previously with good results.  SGSS in NI seemed better with the 347.25 though.  So if you don't need VASI/PAPI lights and you fly during the day I would recommend the 347.25.