10 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

I can't believe people still listen to him. He says this on virtually every new driver release and recycles all of his usual stuff. Still, he gets the clicks he wants I suppose.

Thats' true to an extent Bob but I've learned a few things from him regarding Cleanups, DLSS upgrades, frametimes, etc. The annoying part is that he uses a 30 or 40 minute video to tell you what he could tell you in a 10 minute one - but it's all about the advertising revenue, I suppose.

Not at home. Cant remember what driver I am on, but the last 2 or 3 were miserable for me.

Found one that works and will stick with it until it stops working.

Like others I have rarely seen any improvement by updating my graphic drivers.

Pretty easy to revert back though if you are so inclied

Edited May 28May 28 by Ron Lefebvre

2 hours ago, St Mawgan said:

What made you update to 566.36?

I cannot remember. All I know is that they worked perfectly on my old PC, so I installed them on the new PC when it arrived.

This latest "absolutely staggeringly good" driver actually caused some new stutters for me. This was after a clean install and a delete of all NV caches and the MSFS Rolling Cache.

I've just done a further cache delete and it seems to have settled a little more now.

But this video, like all of his, is just based on nothing whatsoever. There are so many gullible people on his video comments who believe their getting "insane smoothness now" with this driver.

This guy could post a video saying that if you run on the spot for 5 minutes with an egg in your mouth, then relaunch MSFS you'll get DOUBLE FPS!...... and some here would still post and promote his videos.

Edited May 28May 28 by JYW

This is the best one for a long time for me. Definitely a keeper.

3 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I have never noticed any difference when updating graphics drivers. This is why I am still using 566.36.

1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

I cannot remember. All I know is that they worked perfectly on my old PC, so I installed them on the new PC when it arrived.

I'm also using 566.36 with my 3090 running both MSFS2020 and 2024. This driver is known to be the most stable for 3000-series and older cards . The drivers that came after it, although they provided DLSS improvements for 4000-series and 5000-series cards, proved less stable for 3000-series and older cards. I tried many newer drivers that would eventually end in a sim crash and I would revert to 566.36 and it would deliver a stable and crash-free experience. Since I don't rely on DLSS and use TAA instead with 24 GB of VRAM available, 566.36 is ideal for me.

As long as I had a 3090, I used driver 566.36. It's the "reference" and, most importantly, it allows the use of game filters with NVIDIA_app_v11.0.1.184. But for those using 40xx or 50xx cards, driver 566.36 is unfortunately definitively obsolete.

1 hour ago, xsever said:

I'm also using 566.36 with my 3090 running both MSFS2020 and 2024. This driver is known to be the most stable for 3000-series and older cards . The drivers that came after it, although they provided DLSS improvements for 4000-series and 5000-series cards, proved less stable for 3000-series and older cards. I tried many newer drivers that would eventually end in a sim crash and I would revert to 566.36 and it would deliver a stable and crash-free experience. Since I don't rely on DLSS and use TAA instead with 24 GB of VRAM available, 566.36 is ideal for me.

I do not use DLSS either, but I am jealous of that 24GB VRAM!

4 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

I can't believe people still listen to him. He says this on virtually every new driver release and recycles all of his usual stuff. Still, he gets the clicks he wants I suppose.

I chuckled when I saw this post because it is true...he says that with almost every new update. That said, he does provide useful information and is mildly entertaining. But I did stop watching them because...well...he says the same thing with every update. LOL!

Also, this dude does performance tests on Caribbean islands where just about everyone with a decent system will have good performance even on high settings.

He needs to do these tests in more dense areas for real data.

I'm always somewhat skeptical of his "best one yet" claims, especially when the testing is conducted in areas with minimal graphics and CPU impact, such as island-hopping routes. As for his cache-cleaning recommendations, I rarely perform those tasks myself, yet my 2024 simulator runs quite well without any noticeable issues. In fact, I would describe my sim performance as very smooth overall.

8 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I have never noticed any difference when updating graphics drivers. This is why I am still using 566.36.

I thought I'm the only one left. Me too. That driver is canonical

Edited May 28May 28 by History

IslandSimPilot sent me a message on the PMDG forum to say that earlier drivers than the 570.xx drivers apparently have some pretty serious security flaws, and Nvidia also (apparently) mentioned that anything earlier than the 593.xx drivers are also susceptible. Whether this is true, or just scare mongering from Nvidia I do not know.

Oh, and he also says "hello" to all of his friends here at AVSIM

Edited May 29May 29 by Christopher Low

7 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

IslandSimPilot sent me a message on the PMDG forum to say that earlier drivers than the 570.xx drivers apparently have some pretty serious security flaws, and Nvidia also (apparently) mentioned that anything earlier than the 593.xx drivers are also susceptible. Whether this is true, or just scare mongering from Nvidia I do not know.

Oh, and he also says "hello" to all of his friends here at AVSIM

I'm going for the 610.47 build today. 🫡

dd

People still stand on one leg whilst touching their nose and rubbing their hair (DDU etc) when installing a new driver? Some of the advice in here, I forgot I was in 2026 for a moment…