April 5, 201610 yr I'm getting a fairly impressive increase in performance, had to turn vsync off to lessen the minor stuttering. Gained a few fps, daytime textures seem more brighter and give a 'sunny' appearance. I've found Shadow Play is running smoother. Overall, very pleased. My card is only a GTX680 slightly overclocked
April 5, 201610 yr Author Bonjour Jim, I hate to add insult to injury, but I just read this: Sure, but that's make me a little uncomfortable to have start this post. I'll think twice about posting the next time. Some folks out there think they MUST update their drivers to keep up with the latest, not realizing it can do more harm than good. Patience is a virtue, right? If P3D was stutter free with a 60hz monitor, I think I would never try this new driver. Anyway thanks for warning us. Now I thing the problem related by Rick Almeida, is not a driver issue, but more a problem with the installation, and the way Windows 10 manage it. About the driver which completly destroy the GPU, sure that's a big problem, but I have difficulties to imagine that. I also read that it can destroy the monitor. Nvidia still propose this driver on their site. I hope that if this was so terrible, they would have taken it out. Cheers Claude Claude Troncy
April 5, 201610 yr Nvidia still propose this driver on their site. I hope that if this was so terrible, they would have taken it out.I agree, and let's not forget that this driver is certified WHQL by Microsoft: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHQL_Testing So, I think we can assume with some degree of certainty that the vast majority of adopters of this driver are not seeing any significant problems. As I have suggested, there are likely to be other factors at play here than simply a duff driver which, quite clearly, it is not. No graphics driver is perfect, although some appear to come close depending on how optimisations marry with the software and hardware environment where it is expected to function. Mike
April 5, 201610 yr Around 40 fps at FT CYYZ in the NGX with traffic and ASN cloudy weather isn't too bad. How do you manage to get such FPS? I can only do 20 FPS and I almost have the same hardware as you. Running latest nvidia driver. Brynjar Mauseth
April 5, 201610 yr I agree, and let's not forget that this driver is certified WHQL by Microsoft: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHQL_Testing So, I think we can assume with some degree of certainty that the vast majority of adopters of this driver are not seeing any significant problems. As I have suggested, there are likely to be other factors at play here than simply a duff driver which, quite clearly, it is not. No graphics driver is perfect, although some appear to come close depending on how optimisations marry with the software and hardware environment where it is expected to function. Mike Mike, this is absolutely, hand's down, the best driver set, to drive my GTX680 2GB card, since purchasing it. Top FPS, smooth forward animation, graphics that I have been striving for, since even getting into flight simulation eons ago. The graphics are so clear, that on ORBX properties, I can now actually see each individual grass shoot, where they have created a vegetation clump, etc. I can now see the disparity in worn asphalt, that clearly almost shows the mineral sparkle. I mean...NIGHT AND DAY over any previous driver since having installed the card. The card runs cool at P8 in idle, and is only in the mid 60'sC when under full, intense load. No artifacts....I could go on and on about how simply incredibe (to myself) this driver set is. is. I totally believe that nVidia engineers have been able to come up with a driver suite that fully--- FINALLY!----fully leverages the chip set features of my GTX680, Whatever has been done to include/support 'virtual reality'....it sure seems like it now. I guess my final comment in this post, is that I feel that I am looking at the real world, through a piece of sheet glass (my monitor screen) I still can't get over how the runway threshold at ORBX Friday Harbor looked as I turned that 90 degrees onto it, from the taxi lane, running under this driver suite. Dang! Drivers don't kill cards, or blow up monitors...what a load of crap! The card would have a TDI, or artifact shutdown, or the sim would shut down before anything like that would happen, and the card would then drop to its P8 idle state. I think that is popular myth hookie! What I think happend to those that claim 'it was x driver that did this...' was that they had a dangerous and unsupported over-clock happening, which over-heated and burned out the chip set, under this already well leveraged driver set.......it's what the owner did, and not a released, driver suite. nVidia would never pump out a driver set that of its own merit, would cause hardware damage. This driver set is an fully optimized hot rod...and it is my opinion that it should be run with a card set to its shipping clock speeds for both GPU and memory. I do not have any type of user-input overclock on my card...and the performance is simply stellar across all my flight sims, with no running problems, artifacts, card explosions, or implosions (LOL) etc. Just the best performance I have EVER seen from my GTX680. Just that.... Cheers, Mitch
April 5, 201610 yr This driver set is an fully optimized hot rod...and it is my opinion that it should be run with a card set to its shipping clock speeds for both GPU and memory. I do not have any type of user-input overclock on my card...and the performance is simply stellar across all my flight sims, with no running problems, artifacts, card explosions, or implosions (LOL) etc. Just the best performance I have EVER seen from my GTX680. Just that.... Cheers, Mitch Mitch,what are your system Specs? Thanks, Chas Win10Pro(UpgradedWin7),TrackIR5, 8GB,2-250GB SSD,P67A-GD65 MOBO,I-7 2600k/GTX 770 2GB My first sim flight simulator Take a ride to Stinking Creek! http://youtu.be/YP3fxFqkBXg Win10 Pro, GeForce GTX 1080TI/Rizen5 5600x OCd,32 GB RAM,3x1920 x 1080, 60Hz , 27" Dell TouchScreen,TM HOTAS Warthog,TrackIR5,Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals HP reverbG2,Quest2
April 5, 201610 yr Mitch,what are your system Specs? Thanks, Chas Win10Pro(UpgradedWin7),TrackIR5, 8GB,2-250GB SSD,P67A-GD65 MOBO,I-7 2600k/GTX 770 2GB Dell XPS 730x Tower Windows 7 Ultimate ---------------------------------- CPU: i7-975 Extreme at 4.3 GHz (air-cooled) Graphics Card: EVA GTX680 2 GB SuperClocked Signature 12 GB's system RAM (low latency) running at 1600 MHz Internal Hard Drives: 3 Western Digital 1TB Velociraptors (10,000 rpm) 1 Western Digital 4TB Black Series
April 5, 201610 yr I can only confirm that it works flawlessly here, 4790K, 970GTX OC'd, P3D 3.2, seriously better performance than any of the driver's predecessors. Funny thing is that I have my 970 on sale on Ebay and the latest offers were offending. Guess most buyers never tried a demanding sim like ours. Hans
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