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Issues with recent nVidia game drivers, and fix

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Just reverted back to 477.11. Silky smooth no issues.  536.40 was so buggy I had lagging loading of textures, FSLTL was turning airports into slide shows and I had constant CTDs.

 

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Though I had not experienced CTDs after being pushed to update to 536.40, I did experience greatly reduced performance.  Prior to the update, my old i7-2600, 16 GB RAM and RTX 2060 Super kept chugging along in the 29-47 fps range with only an occasional stutter.

After the upgrade my average dropped to 20 fps (over the desert) and around 15 fps near even a small town!

I reverted back to 531.29 and everything is smooth again - locked pretty much at 30 fps no matter what the environment.  I will not change again unless it's stated as necessary to even run the sim and needed features.

Randall Rocke

I'm currently on the latest driver (536.67) and have not had any issues.

Gary M.

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System Specs: W11 Pro, Corsair 4000X Mid Tower, Z790 Aorus Master Motherboard, i9-13900KF, 64 GB DDR5 SRAM, RTX 4090, Dell AW3821DW Monitor, Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, MFG Crosswind Pedals, TrackIR

I had horrific stutters until reverting back to version 531.29. Ironically MSFS likes this driver, it runs very smooth.    

Specs: 11900K (5ghz), 64GB ram 3600mhz, RTX 3080 ti

I'm still on 536.40 running DX12 and my last few flights have been super smooth. No problems at all.

i9-10850K, ASUS TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS (WI-FI), 32GB G.SKILL DDR4-3603 / PC4-28800, GIGABYTE RTX5080 16GB WF OC 3 FAN running 3440x1440 

 

Just this morning, the 536.40 started showing problems with sound, pops and crackles. So I went to the latest 536.67, no more snap, crackle. pop. Ran great all afternoon. 

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 cores) Hyper on, Evga RTX 3060 12 Gig, 32 GB ram, Windows 11, P3D v6, and MSFS 2020 and a couple of SSD's

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1 hour ago, Tomaz Drnovsek said:

Why exactly is the driver version 535.79 recommended? Anything specific to MSFS with this version or did they just arbitrary chose one version?

Did you mean 531.29?  It was an Asobo post in the MSFS site forums and I believe linked earlier in this topic.

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2 hours ago, fppilot said:

Did you mean 531.29?  It was an Asobo post in the MSFS site forums and I believe linked earlier in this topic.

Pardon my ignorance...

How does one go about reverting back to the 531.29 if they're using the GeForce Experience program/app?

1 hour ago, MNORM said:

Pardon my ignorance...

How does one go about reverting back to the 531.29 if they're using the GeForce Experience program/app?

Found a tutorial...will try that.

1 hour ago, MNORM said:

Found a tutorial...will try that.

Would like to advise that this driver recommendation from Asobo was several driver versions in the past. The currant driver includes a fix for latency (536.67) that has been around for quite a while.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 cores) Hyper on, Evga RTX 3060 12 Gig, 32 GB ram, Windows 11, P3D v6, and MSFS 2020 and a couple of SSD's

54 minutes ago, jimcarrel said:

Would like to advise that this driver recommendation from Asobo was several driver versions in the past. The currant driver includes a fix for latency (536.67) that has been around for quite a while.

The 536.67 driver is giving problems to many people, so the recommendation to go back to 531.29 is still valid.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-536-67/601572/28

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Alvega

CPU: AMD 7800X3D | COOLER: Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240L Core ARGB | GPU: RTX 4070 TI Super 16GB OC | Mobo: ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI |
RAM: 32 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 6000MHz PC5-48000 2x16GB CL36 | SSDs: WD Black SN770 2TB NVMe SSD (WIN11), WD Black SN850X SSD 2 TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 NVMe (MSFS), Crucial MX500 2TB (Other stuff) | CASE: Forgeon Arcanite ARGB Mesh Tower ATX White | Power Supply: Forgeon Bolt PSU 850W 80+ Gold Full Modular White 

That's fine, this is one time I'm not in the "many people" group 

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 cores) Hyper on, Evga RTX 3060 12 Gig, 32 GB ram, Windows 11, P3D v6, and MSFS 2020 and a couple of SSD's

Yup. Went back even further to 531.29.

Brand new plane (A2A Comanche) flying in/out of default airports and a CTD. Argh.

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2 hours ago, Sonosusto said:

Yup. Went back even further to 531.29.

Brand new plane (A2A Comanche) flying in/out of default airports and a CTD. Argh.

With the A2A Comanche I've had 4 CTDs out of 6 flights.  I'm on the latest driver.  Haven't been able to test other aircraft, but I've never had that many CTDs so close together. Don't know if it's driver, Sim or plane related.  

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