GeForce 442.74 WHQL driver Released

[edpatino 1,964]

3 hours ago, w6kd said:

P3D has had lots of changes since 2015, some of which have been related to the graphics subsystem.

The improvements on P3D are really stunning, as well as the frequency of the updates/upgrades. Let's only consider P3Dv4. It started with v4.0, then moved to v4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc., going up to v4.5 which indeed has already two hotfixes. The current graphics of P3Dv4.5-hf2, together with the new feature of image sharpening for Nvidia drivers has given us a simulator that is top notch regarding graphics quality, of course, among a lot of other considerations.

Cheers, Ed

[G-RFRY 1,710]

https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-directx-12-ultimate-will-help-xbox-series-x-pc-games-look-better/

 

[Shomron 251]

2 hours ago, edpatino said:

The improvements on P3D are really stunning, as well as the frequency of the updates/upgrades. Let's only consider P3Dv4. It started with v4.0, then moved to v4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc., going up to v4.5 which indeed has already two hotfixes. The current graphics of P3Dv4.5-hf2, together with the new feature of image sharpening for Nvidia drivers has given us a simulator that is top notch regarding graphics quality, of course, among a lot of other considerations.

Cheers, Ed

Interesting, can you elaborate more on the image sharpening feature?

Thanks

[edpatino 1,964]

31 minutes ago, Shomron said:

Interesting, can you elaborate more on the image sharpening feature?

Thanks

Look here:

It's a feature available to the newer Nvidia drivers (not in P3D itself). I'm using 442.19 with success. The settings have to be tested by yourself, depending on your liking and performance in your setup.

Cheers, Ed

Edited March 20, 2020 by edpatino

[pmb 5,137]

I am mostly VFR flying, and I found Image Sharpening to be a game changer in Prepar3d. As Ed states, you have to find the sweet spot depending on your system (monitor size, screen resolution, and probably more) but terrain and buildings look so much more crisp now, it's a real pleasure. NVIDIA has done a great job with this.

Kind regards, Michael 

[virtualstuff 758]

1 hour ago, edpatino said:

Look here:

It's a feature available to the newer Nvidia drivers (not in P3D itself). I'm using 442.19 with success. The settings have to be tested by yourself, depending on your liking and performance in your setup.

Cheers, Ed

Great tip will have a look 😎

[Mace 1,909]

2 hours ago, Shomron said:

Interesting, can you elaborate more on the image sharpening feature?

Thanks

Ed's link says it all, but for myself Image Sharpening, introduced a few months ago, is the best feature in nVidia's drivers in the last year or two...at least for me.   I have seen a few people post about disliking Image Sharpening, but to me it's been a positive thing.

[grandfred29 180]

Since a long time without any crash i had driver crash with this last driver

[Daniel Baker 20]

Hi there,

 

A question - excuse me if it's a little naïve: I have a 970GTX, in your opinion is there much value in this new driver for me? (Looks like I'm using 26.21.14.3200?)

 

Thanks,

Daniel

[jimcarrel 688]

On 3/21/2020 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Baker said:

Hi there,

 

A question - excuse me if it's a little naïve: I have a 970GTX, in your opinion is there much value in this new driver for me? (Looks like I'm using 26.21.14.3200?)

 

Thanks,

Daniel

I noticed on guru3d forum several gtx 970 users saying they liked them.

[G-RFRY 1,710]

Coming to RTX GPU`s for the future gaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X1RtXCvPFQ

 

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

Here's more:

https://www.techradar.com/news/does-dlss-finally-deliver-we-tested-the-nvidia-rtx-technology-across-5-games

This process  (DLSS) is not really any different than what high end OLED TVs use to upscale images. For example, since today most streaming TV and movie content is still 1080p, it would look awful on a 77" 4K TV without using AI to "understand" what the image is before upscaling to 4K.

[G-RFRY 1,710]

More still.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/download-geforce-game-ready-445-75-drivers.html

[G-RFRY 1,710]

Now on 445.75.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/154944674@N05/49691883796/in/dateposted-public/

FPS are good will test in P3Dv4.5 tomorrow.

[micstatic 4,319]

Isn't this feature  (DLSS) useless to us as the game developer has to build it into the coding?