Nvidia RTX 30 series driver v. 512.15

[andradef 59]

Has anyone installed this game-ready driver yet (512.15)? It came out on 3/22/22. Any issues?

Thanks

[Pivot 153]

52 minutes ago, andradef said:

Has anyone installed this game-ready driver yet (512.15)? It came out on 3/22/22. Any issues?

Thanks

I installed it over the weekend and haven't had any issues yet. No pluses or minuses to equate to it. Seems about same as previous version.

[G-RFRY 1,711]

What the driver does support is NIS and it works in MSFS and P3D.

GeForce 512.15 WHQL drivers bring Nvidia Image Scaling technology (NIS) in any game (guru3d.com)

Edited March 29, 2022 by G-RFRY

[Ixoye 1,821]

I haven't had any issues with it so far with my 2080 Ti.

[pinlifter 502]

I have a 3080Ti, no issues at all with this new driver

[fppilot 4,368]

1 hour ago, G-RFRY said:

What the driver does support is NIS and it works in MSFS and P3D.

GeForce 512.15 WHQL drivers bring Nvidia Image Scaling technology (NIS) in any game (guru3d.com)

I read that announcement but do not understand what NIS does in msfs.  Can someone  better explain it, especially the benefits?

[patrice_bambou 85]

More stutters for me. Going back to previous driver (511.79).

On a FE RTX-3090.

 

[CarlosF 1,239]

2 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Can someone  better explain it, especially the benefits?

Nvidia Image Scaling 

[vcarlo 529]

Very interested to see if someone tries this desktop resolution switch on MSFS and can provide any feedback regarding what (if anything) is improved. 

With these drivers, NVIDIA also introduces Image Scaling in any game, which improves performance. Image scaling improves performance by displaying the game at a reduced resolution, then upscaling and upscaling to match the original resolution of your monitor. For games that do not support full-screen mode or do not support Image Scaling, you can change your desktop resolution to the same as the game resolution to allow Nvidia Image Scaling. To establish or switch between scaling resolutions on the desktop, it is advised that you utilize the Nvidia Control Panel.

You may enable this option manually in the control panel and then modify the game resolution to match, or you can enable it automatically via GeForce Experience.

Activate NIS

• To activate the Nvidia Image Scaling function in the Nvidia Control Panel, we open it, click on “Control 3D Settings” and activate “Image Scaling”.
• Start the game and, in the resolution, below that of your native monitor resolution. Also, put the game in full-screen mode
• You can also activate the overlay indicator, and a text label “NIS” will appear in the upper left corner of the screen. 

A green text indicator mentions that Nvidia Image Scaling is scaling and fine-tuning the game. If the text is blue, then Nvidia Image Scaling is tuning but not scaling.

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2022 by vcarlo

[fppilot 4,368]

14 minutes ago, CarlosF said:

Nvidia Image Scaling 

Humor?  The name was already clear in the announcement.  Here is what I was looking for.....

 

 

Edited March 29, 2022 by fppilot

[johnbow72 2,722]

20 minutes ago, fppilot said:

I read that announcement but do not understand what NIS does in msfs.  Can someone  better explain it, especially the benefits?

Good thread over at MS forum : https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/nvidia-nis-did-you-try-it-out-yet/471648

[vcarlo 529]

55 minutes ago, johnbow72 said:

Good thread over at MS forum : https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/nvidia-nis-did-you-try-it-out-yet/471648

Odd that

this is an OLD  thread (closed Feb 4) and yet the driver supporting NIS was just released. ???

Edited March 29, 2022 by vcarlo

[RXP 2,338]

2 hours ago, fppilot said:

I read that announcement but do not understand what NIS does in msfs.  Can someone  better explain it, especially the benefits?

What it does in practice is that the game renders at a lower resolution than the one you're displaying, which in turn boosts fps. The idea is to scale up the image prior displaying in a way which is barely noticeable from native resolution.

It is a piece of shader code for upscaling and sharpening the image, and it does it in a more effective way visually than a traditional upscaling algorithm. AMD also has an equivalent named FSR (FidelityFx Super Resolution). This news is about having this piece of shader code embedded in the driver so that you can enable it on any game transparently. These are open source shader code you can find here:

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/NVIDIAImageScaling
https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR

 

In practice, we've implemented NIS and FSR in the OpenXR ToolKit and this has been drastically changing the VR experience of many users:

 

[Max Kraus 339]

Haven't seen anything noticeably different happen, seems good driver to me (3070ti here)  

 

[yanfeng12342000 132]

7 hours ago, Pivot said:

I installed it over the weekend and haven't had any issues yet. No pluses or minuses to equate to it. Seems about same as previous version.

Have you turned on the new Nvidia Image Scaling option?