I don't really know where this comes from. However if you look at the release notes there is rarely anything kepler related in new drivers. I'm sure there is some trickle down performance improvements and the like though.
I figure if there is truth to it more people then not wouldn't support a brand that drops support at the sight of new products.
Luckily for me i haven't really bought any new games recently but i intend to after i upgrade,so the claims aren't effecting me unless i buy games before the upgrade.Titanfall is my newest game with the newest i tried being being COD AW on free Steam weekend.
Figure i wait for good sales and patches for many of the games to mature before i buy.
It's not like the red team is any better.... For example, my newer 4870 has basically no official windows 8.1 support from AMD other than crappy wddm drivers while my older 8800GT still has official drivers from Nvidia.
I have a spare G10 bracket and a H105 to put on the top card. What's holding me back is the 'Warranty Void' sticker thats on one of the GPU HSF screws....
My card is Asus Strix 980.Update: my 2nd MSI GTX 970 Gaming, that I just installed tonight, is completely different, in a good way.
For those of you not reading the whole thread, my first one was bad, with audible and annoying coil whine even just using GPU-accelerated Firefox or Chome. It was insanity-inducing, and just the sort of reason the whine is a big deal.
So far, with v-sync on, a couple parts of 3DMark, any in-game (IE, not menu) of the The Witcher 2, and Borderlands 2 after the fan goes back to off, it makes some buzzing, but not too loud. So it might be OK, once closed up and moved to its normal position. V-sync off makes noises that would be good for torturing somebody, in most everything I've tried (I haven't changed any game settings, yet, so they were at what was playable on a GTX 460), but I :wub::wub::wub: v-sync.
To test, I had my case open, and my head about 1ft away from the side of the case. No fans not on the video card itself exceeded 500 RPM this whole time, so there wasn't much to mask any noise it might be making. I will need to test some more, in the coming days, to be sure, but I think this one will be acceptable.
Day 2 update: with the case closed, and back to its normal spot, that circumstantial buzzing is extremely faint, rather than prominent, to the point that I hear my tinnitus and heartbeat when straining to see if it's still there, and what little higher pitched whine was occasionally present is completely inaudible. The fan noise character is less than ideal, but even when the GPU is allowed to get to 95C (highest it's gotten, because I was being mean to it with my case fan settings, to try to get it to go loud), the fans didn't need to go to but 60%, and were just above a, "whisper quiet," level. You'd have to be crazy, like myself, to even consider changing the cooling to something quieter (which I won't do until the fans get old enough to have bearing noise, just the last X video cards I've had...).
Well, I think it's probably the card. I have had a card crash numerous times until I replaced it and it was all good afterwards. Also there are many people who run 970/980 cards with no problems related to the driver myself included. It could be anything though, but I've found hardware to be the first source of problems for me.
I've no issues with 347.09. Both on the 970s I have now or the 670s I had previously. I think it's been 5 years or more since I've had a new game be unplayable due to driver.
Also Dragon Age Inquisition has a memory leak bug that eventually crashes the game. Unrelated to the GPU. I've gotten that one.
It is practically the same crap as always, Nvidia does not understand that what we want or at least in my case is a good gaming performance at a minimum at 1080p and 60fps rather useless options like DRS and nonsense of these, it seems incredible that in one months have only made a driver with two nonsense and nothing else, is are laughing at us and this is going to end soon.
In my opinion the whole system of the Nvidia drivers and directx combo is broken from the ground up. There should be low level access to the chip for everyone and the drivers should be transparent and written for the specific gpu not for the specific game. You will never have a perfectly stable system if this won't change.
The performance hit resulting from higher resolutions is the same regardless of your monitors display resolution. I referenced Techpowerups 970 SLI Review when I downsampled Crysis 1, and found performance to be right on target with their benchmarks.
I never bought the first Crysis,i did toy a ton with the demo with benching and still do occasionally but i noticed from 900p to 1080p nearly all the higher end cards get to like 80-84fps and that is it?
From the single 970,to the 690 to the 980 to the 970 sli and all cards between at 900p get the same,i guess this is a max framerate delivered by their stock 4770k?
Yeah, Crysis 1 is very much CPU limited at this point.
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