***PSA***NVidia 352.86 Drivers Do Not Work With X-Plane

[ohsirus 241]

http://developer.x-plane.com/2015/05/nvidia-352-86-drivers-do-not-work-with-x-plane/

 

NVidia 352.86 Drivers Do Not Work With X-Plane

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Ben Supnik

I’ve received a few bug reports about this today: NVidia’s new 352.86 WHQL drivers for Windows do not work with X-Plane 10. I’m contacting Nvidia now to figure out what has happened.

In the meantime, to fly X-Plane, use the previous 340.52 WHQL driver.

I’ll post more when I learn more; we’ll resolve this with either a driver update or an X-Plane update, based on what has actually gone wrong and which can happen first.

 

[HiFlyer 9,343]

Nvidia has been so eager to cater to the latest big budget titles, that they seem to be dropping the ball on other things.

[Scramjet333 39]

Oh, snap. But I run both The Witcher 3 and X-Plane... Here's hoping Nvidia releases a fix soon.

[Phantom88 3,282]

Yea,I couldn't even get XPlane to boot up,Had to roll back.

[ohsirus 241]

Update: NVidia was able to suggest a work-around in our shaders that avoids what I think is a driver bug. Since we can cut an X-Plane build faster than NVidia can re-release their drivers, I have cut X-Plane 10.36 rc1.

You can get 10.36 rc1 by running the updater and checking “get new betas”; the updater will run even with the newest NVidia drivers.

10.36 rc1 is identical to 10.35 except for version number and a single shader change, but it’s also highly untested; I wanted to get it posted ASAP to accelerate the process. So please give it a try and file a bug if it doesn’t work like 10.35 (but working with the new NVidia drivers.)

[CoolP 283]

Awesome dev work on the quick fix. That's what I call fast.

 

And thanks for the hu in general, Vincent. :smile: Greetings to all Witcher fans.

[Paraffin 2,197]

I can confirm that this 10.36r1 update solves the problem with that latest nVidia update, at least on my machine. All working fine now.

 

Thank you!

:smile: And greetings to all Witcher fans.

 

Yeah, I didn't want to admit to why I didn't want to roll back. But there it is. 

 

Everyone happy on this local HD and SSD now.

 

[bursco 14]

Ran updater for beta and says the d/l size is 128gb - have it on a ssd250 with 58gb remaining - how do I d/l the ver 10.36r1?

Like Phantom88 will not load - do not want to reinstall other driver - using it for other progs.

 

I like xplane too.

 

Denis B

[JohnMc 0]

Hi,

Like bursco I ran the updater and it wanted to download 20GB data. I will wait and see if there is a leaner fix than this.

Keep up the good work,

John.

[bursco 14]

Tried again for curosity and its jumped to a 360gb d/l - whoops???

 

Denis B

[mdavis 10]

I have the luxury of a pair of big 4TB drives, but the pain of a slow DSL internet connection.  Perhaps I can trade with someone ...

[Old_As_Dirt 160]

Hold on a few - This should help

 

Update 2: Sigh…this is what happens when I try to rush out a patch. The 10.36 patch’s free space calculation is totally borked. This will be fixed some time today. (This will be the third time I cut a patch.)

[bursco 14]

Hold on a few - This should help

 

Update 2: Sigh…this is what happens when I try to rush out a patch. The 10.36 patch’s free space calculation is totally borked. This will be fixed some time today. (This will be the [/size]third time I cut a patch.)[/size]

Thankyou sir - will take a look later - very quick response

 

Denis B

[torfih 49]

Downloaded the beta update (10.36rc1, 135mb) and installed the NVIDIA driver (352.86) and it works, sort of. X-Plane crashes sometimes after a while and seems a little unstable. But hey! this is Beta.

What I really like is the fact that there are dedicated guys working on this great Sim, keep up the good work, thank you!!

Edited May 20, 2015 by torfih

[mtaxp 666]

A bit off-topic but not completely

While Ben is in talks with Nvidia  (as I believe 10.36 is a termporary solution until nvidia fixes their drivers) , I saw in the comment on the blog that wasn't  aware of the problem with threaded optimization/newer drivers and stutters.

Personaly Im not suferring from these anymore , but if somebody is , please file a bug report about this , that drivers which are newer than 337.88 are causing some stutters.

Ben said that threaded optimization in theory , may increase performance , however right now as we can see it causes stutters , so if Nvidia will be aware of this and in talks with Ben they might fix all of those issues in their next drivers.