Which nividia driver has no memory leak

[kurtb 121]

which version of nividia driver is the best to use--have some issues with the latest drivers, and windows 10 updates the older drivers with a certain nividia driver although I have the defer updates enabled.

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

The leak is reported by users of the the GTX 10xx series more frequently than anyone  else and it seems confined to the 378.xx nVidia  drivers. Anything  prior to those drivers will be fine. That's why one sees recommendations to use 376.33.

http://www.prepar3d.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=123508&sid=0c12ae25ba4f06ac84e8f52db737eb91

[kurtb 121]

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[Boomer 1,619]

1 hour ago, jabloomf1230 said:

That's why one sees recommendations to use 376.33.

http://www.prepar3d.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=123508&sid=0c12ae25ba4f06ac84e8f52db737eb91

IMHO reverting to an earlier driver is fine given that frickin' nVidia does absolutely NOTHING for us anyhow.

[onebob 125]

Just done a short flight, across the English channel, Bristol to jersey.

vas recorded:-

On tarmac          1670000

at cruise fl120    1538612

at Pause            1540152

at restart            1531722

appr                    1546284

landed                1474288

(edit vas recorded is FSuipc4 values)

FSW c441

Driver  378.92

gpu 980ti

ASN2016

Rex/Mil wx gauge

F1 GTN750

Orbx ftx Eng

P3D 3.4 hf3

w7

I know its only a very short flight so what's the best time duration do I need to test vas.

bob

 

 

[GSalden 4,656]

44 minutes ago, onebob said:

Just done a short flight, across the English channel, Bristol to jersey.

vas recorded:-

On tarmac          1670000

at cruise fl120    1538612

at Pause            1540152

at restart            1531722

appr                    1546284

landed                1474288

(edit vas recorded is FSuipc4 values)

FSW c441

Driver  378.92

gpu 980ti

ASN2016

Rex/Mil wx gauge

F1 GTN750

Orbx ftx Eng

P3D 3.4 hf3

w7

I know its only a very short flight so what's the best time duration do I need to test vas.

bob

 

 

Looks good 

[Nyxx 6,993]

One way is to start sim with no weather engine, nothing running and leave it for a coupe of hours, VAS should remain the same.

 

Am staying with 376.33 as Ive long given up looking at 1GB of VAS left after a flight. Until a driver comes out that give better FPS etc for P3D I don't see the point, if its not broken etc....

[onebob 125]

16 minutes ago, Nyxx said:

One way is to start sim with no weather engine, nothing running and leave it for a coupe of hours, VAS should remain the same.

May have ago at that later.

bob

26 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Looks good 

The reason I included the pause was I use to get high vas loss during this.

some other stats Fsuipc log file

Minimum frame rate was 16.7 fps, Maximum was 30.7 fps
Minimum available memory recorded was 1429Mb
Average frame rate for running time of 8091 secs = 25.8 fps
Maximum AI traffic for session was 61 aircraft
Traffic deletions 0 aircraft
Memory managed: 4142 Allocs, 4141 Freed
********* FSUIPC Log file closed ***********

bob

[JRBarrett 3,050]

1 hour ago, Boomer said:

IMHO reverting to an earlier driver is fine given that frickin' nVidia does absolutely NOTHING for us anyhow.

Yep. There is probably little advantage to getting the latest and greatest NVidia drivers, for those whose only installed game is FSX/P3D. We are kind of a forgotten backwater in the gaming world, due to the ancient techniques the sim uses in its video engine. P3D is a bit better in that regard, but only a little.

I used version 362.00 for almost a year on my GTX970. I only recently updated to 376.33, and really see no difference in performance whatsoever.

Win10 users of course, will get the newest drivers whether they want them or not, unless they have locked down their updates to prevent that from happening.

Driver updates would be fine, even if they offer no improvement in a specific game - as long as they don't have the opposite effect, of degraded performance or memory leaks.

[virtualstuff 754]

Win10 here GTX 1070 still on 376.33...

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

2 hours ago, Boomer said:

IMHO reverting to an earlier driver is fine given that frickin' nVidia does absolutely NOTHING for us anyhow.

I don't  think that it's  so much that, but rather nVidia  issues new drivers to support just released "hot" games and often the new driver breaks things for other 3D apps. For example, the 378.xx series drivers are supposed  to improve CPU threading  for DX12 games, which is nVidia's focus at the moment.

[WebMaximus 372]

I'm still on 372.70 and it's working great both for P3D as well as other titles.

Personally I think the only reason to upgrade a driver is if you know the new version will solve a specific problem you're suffering from.

[chapstick 2,757]

The big issue for those of us who play games other than FSX/P3D is that new releases often require the latest driver. We're a tiny fraction of nVidia's base, but it still sucks being left out in the cold. 

[WebMaximus 372]

56 minutes ago, Chapstick said:

The big issue for those of us who play games other than FSX/P3D is that new releases often require the latest driver. We're a tiny fraction of nVidia's base, but it still sucks being left out in the cold. 

I've been trying out lots of brand new titles in the Oculus store using 372.70 with no issues but I guess it might be a different story with "normal" titles.

[fluffyflops 1,853]

16 hours ago, onebob said:

Just done a short flight, across the English channel, Bristol to jersey.

vas recorded:-

On tarmac          1670000

at cruise fl120    1538612

at Pause            1540152

at restart            1531722

appr                    1546284

landed                1474288

(edit vas recorded is FSuipc4 values)

FSW c441

Driver  378.92

gpu 980ti

ASN2016

Rex/Mil wx gauge

F1 GTN750

Orbx ftx Eng

P3D 3.4 hf3

w7

I know its only a very short flight so what's the best time duration do I need to test vas.

bob

 

 

Put on night environment UK. Aerosoft Heathrow,  uk2000 Gatwick,  and orbx England,  set the sim to 2200z and taxi out.  I doubt you'll even make it to the holding point.   This is of course all the ndivia drivers fault.