2 hours ago, cianpars said:

https://www.guru3d.com/download/geforce-55146-hotfix-driver-download/

Smoothest driver I've installed in ages.  A definite keeper for me:

Ryzen 5800X3D with RTX 3080 & 32 GB RAM running Ultra settings with frame generation on, TLOD and OLED at 200, TrackIR and FSLTL running silky smooth at a steady and consistent 60 FPS.

Tested these for the past couple of hours at EGGD, EGBJ, EGBB, EGLC and EGLL with ORBX Southern & Central UK and ORBX London.

Add your comments here if you try this driver.  I'm seriously impressed so far.

 

 

Resolution? Thankyou

2 hours ago, Adrian123 said:

Thats for notebook windows 10.

because?

2 mistakes in 1 post.

551.46-desktop-notebook-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch.hf.exe

Edited February 9, 20242 yr by turbomax

downloading now. help me with the FG mod, I need to install it again, right? so copy the 2 files into the MSFS folder once I updated the driver?

55 minutes ago, DAD said:

downloading now. help me with the FG mod, I need to install it again, right? so copy the 2 files into the MSFS folder once I updated the driver?

No, you don't need to do that.  The driver install does not affect anything in your flightsim directory.  You do not need to reinstall those files after any driver update.

What I like to do though is delete the Nvidia DX cache.  MSFS might not be quite as smooth for the first few minutes whilst it is rebuilding the cache, but it ensures that there are no obsolete files in that directory.

OK this is weird, I installed this driver and now just browsing the internet I have terrible stutters/pauses in mouse animation when I move it around

5 hours ago, turbomax said:

why go to some 3rd party website when it is available on the original Nvidia website?

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5519/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-version-551.46

Because it's been tinkered with, hence the title "Hotfix"

4 minutes ago, SierraHotel said:

Because it's been tinkered with, hence the title "Hotfix"

tinkered with - by who, NVidia ? 😄

4 hours ago, Lange_666 said:

Why not? Guru3D is my to go to website for hardware news and they also post driver updates. So why not?
Also, why roam each orginial website in search for the latest drivers when you can get them all somewhere else in the same place.

I too always get my video drivers from 3DGuru.

Actually its been one of my favorite tech websites for over 20 years.

 

 

ok now that we are all sharing our more or less exiting experience with this new driver, here is a very unusual, unexpected result: it sounds like an april's fool joke, but is a true story!

after installing this latest 551.46 driver, I switched to VR and for the first time ever, got an extremely distorted sound through the headphone, but to make things worse, only on the right side! left speaker was normal. this could not have anything to do with the Nvidia driver could it? after some youtube research, dismantling the right headphone and cleaning some contact pins, off to a new start and: still the same scratchy distorted sound. ok, lets reboot the pc and restart MSFS. and? still the same sound problem.

my initial attempt. disappointed because this was NOT the solution:

 

and here the solution: TADA

I briefly disconnected the VR headset from its own power supply to initiate a hard reset to its internal sound amplifier which I thought might have become instable et voila: sound is back, better than ever. or so it feels. who would have thought that a video driver update would distort the VR headset, and only on one side? Had I not immediately switched to VR but only later after flying a couple of days in 2D mode I might never have thought that upgrading the display driver would have caused this strange effect.

I tried it this driver. It seemed ok, but impossible to maintain the GeForce experience filters with the values I have assigned.

The operating mode: once in the cockpit, I set 1 or 2 set of filters via GeForce experience.

The settings seems ok, but they are corrupted when I go back to the sim and I need to go again in the filters to correct the values. But every time I return back to the sim, there is a problem with the filters values.

And I installed the driver with a new installation and rebooted the PC. Same behavior.

So, seeing this behavior, I returned back a a preceding driver (546.33) that has no problems in this area.

Patrice.

OK I just read this in the driver Hotfix description...

 

"Potential stutter may be observed when scrolling in web browsers on certain system configurations [4362307]"

 

Perversely I didnt have this problem before but after installing the hotfix driver I do..FFS!!!

 

In other words instead of fixing a problem it actually introduced the problem it said it was fixing

 

P.S. Is it straightforward to roll back to my previous driver?

Edited February 9, 20242 yr by Lonesome Cowboy Burt

I had a little bit of stutters in large airports flying the Fenix A320 with PSXT running with the previous driver and this hotfix definitely fixed it for me! Smooth as silk now. 😊

13 hours ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

OK I just read this in the driver Hotfix description...

 

"Potential stutter may be observed when scrolling in web browsers on certain system configurations [4362307]"

 

Perversely I didnt have this problem before but after installing the hotfix driver I do..FFS!!!

 

In other words instead of fixing a problem it actually introduced the problem it said it was fixing

 

P.S. Is it straightforward to roll back to my previous driver?

The only site I was noticing stuttering scrolling in web pages was on the google news site and the new driver has fixed that 

As far as MSFS is concerned, it's now as smooth as I can ever remember.

If you go into device manager, display adapters, you will be able to roll back the driver in there.  I must say that I'm surprised that you are having problems with the new driver though (have you tried a clean install and cleared your DX cache?).

Edited February 10, 20242 yr by cianpars

3 minutes ago, cianpars said:

The only site I was noticing stuttering scrolling in web pages was on the google news site and the new driver has fixed that 

As far as MSFS is concerned, it's now as smooth as I can ever remember.

If you go into device manager, display adapters, you will be able to roll back the driver in there.  I must say that I'm surprised that you are having problems with the new driver though (have you tried a clean install and cleared your DX cache?).

Thanks, I did roll back the driver last night and normal desktop usage is now fine again. I'm just confused that something designed to fix stuttering in desktop use (which I never had but was trying it in case it improved MSFS Stutters) actually introduced the thing it seems to fix for everyone else...makes no sense still.

I didnt clear DX Cache, is that in the Nvidia control panel?

 

Just now, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

Thanks, I did roll back the driver last night and normal desktop usage is now fine again. I'm just confused that something designed to fix stuttering in desktop use (which I never had but was trying it in case it improved MSFS Stutters) actually introduced the thing it seems to fix for everyone else...makes no sense still.

I didnt clear DX Cache, is that in the Nvidia control panel?

 

Nope, you need to go to your main drive/users/your user name/appdata to find that (can't remember exactly which folder from there offhand as I am on muscle memory from that point).