nvidia 352.86 new driver

[Grooveriding]

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windo...n8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.exe

Update for Witcher 3.

 

[imaheadcase]

Put a link to website to download it..no direct links. lol

 

[psolord]

thanks

 

[Grooveriding]

Stuttering in W3 for me with SLI, I might just have gotten used to running one card in anything else I've been playing lately though. Game is crushing TX SLI with Hairworks and everything else turned on.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

Just installed it and noticed they moved the HDMI output format and dynamic range options to the "change resolution" section.

They also added an output colour depth option that wasn't in the drivers at all previously, this allows me to output 12bpc in addition to 8bpc. My Sony W600 correctly reports input as 12-bit from my 780.

 

[Majcric]

Stuttering in W3 for me with SLI, I might just have gotten used to running one card in anything else I've been playing lately though. Game is crushing TX SLI with Hairworks and everything else turned on.

Define crushing Titan X sli. What rez are you running? and what kind of FPS are you seeing?

On a side note, How do you feel about the visuals vs the performance.

 

[Grooveriding]

Define crushing Titan X sli. What rez are you running? and what kind of FPS are you seeing?

On a side note, How do you feel about the visuals vs the performance.

2560x1600. It's fine with just Geralt on screen, but with several NPCs at once with Hairworks and lots of activity, it dips to 40fps for me.

Hairworks is actually pretty impressive. It looks good. The screenshots didn't do it justice, but in actual gameplay it's pretty nice. I'm trying to dial in settings before I settle in to play through as much of the game as I can tonight, but I can't find anything to lessen the load back up to a steady 60 other than turning off the Hairworks. It's a good looking game, and the performance is reasonable. The starting area of most new games is always tuned to be really visually impressive though, going to have to wait to see a bit more of the open world appearance.

Probably going to just leave it on and take the framerate. I have a new 2560x1440 monitor coming, so that should get me another few frames with the lower resolution.

 

[Majcric]

Thanks. I'm glad to hear the screenshots haven't done it justice. As from what you just told me and everything I've read thus far it seems the Witcher 3 is easily one of the most demanding games out, if not the most demanding. So I'm glad to know it will have some nice visuals to back it up.

 

[Azix]

The reason hairworks is that demanding is probably the tessellation (method probably used because AMD not good in that). If you can somehow reduce that in the driver options and keep hairworks, might look good enough and run good enough. Someone said it is possible to reduce tessellation in catalyst so that could be helpful for the AMD people.


I was basing my opinion of hairworks on videos, so not sure I would be impressed.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

I was running a half year old driver, looking at the fps in the nilfgaardian camp this new driver gives maybe 5% more performance on my gtx 670, pretty much useless.

At least it didn't get worse.

 

[cmdrdredd]

2560x1600. It's fine with just Geralt on screen, but with several NPCs at once with Hairworks and lots of activity, it dips to 40fps for me.

Hairworks is actually pretty impressive. It looks good. The screenshots didn't do it justice, but in actual gameplay it's pretty nice. I'm trying to dial in settings before I settle in to play through as much of the game as I can tonight, but I can't find anything to lessen the load back up to a steady 60 other than turning off the Hairworks. It's a good looking game, and the performance is reasonable. The starting area of most new games is always tuned to be really visually impressive though, going to have to wait to see a bit more of the open world appearance.

Probably going to just leave it on and take the framerate. I have a new 2560x1440 monitor coming, so that should get me another few frames with the lower resolution.

Same for me so I'm going to stick with 1080p for this game to keep a locked 60fps.

 

[Majcric]

You would probably better off just reducing in game setting rather than compromising your native resolution.

 

[cmdrdredd]

You would probably better off just reducing in game setting rather than compromising your native resolution.

Not when I hook up to a 55" TV and my 5.1 system. That's native 1080p. I don't usually game sitting at the desk anymore. I'm more comfortable relaxing in front of the gaming TV with a real A/V system.

 

[tviceman]

hairworks on: http://gfycat.com/DigitalGloomyFrenchbulldog
hairworks off: http://gfycat.com/PolishedNecessaryHeifer

Damn that is impressive. Too bad it costs a huge hit in performance.

 

[futurefields]

i wonder if tressfx could have done the same thing but more optimized

 

[tviceman]

i wonder if tressfx could have done the same thing but more optimized

tressfx in Tomb Raider looks like garbage compared to hairworks in Witcher 3.

 

[Red Hawk]

tressfx in Tomb Raider looks like garbage compared to hairworks in Witcher 3.

I would hope that two years later we're getting better effects. I'm just curious why AMD hasn't iterated on TressFX and implemented it in other games.

 

[desprado]

Not when I hook up to a 55" TV and my 5.1 system. That's native 1080p. I don't usually game sitting at the desk anymore. I'm more comfortable relaxing in front of the gaming TV with a real A/V system.

Me too i have 50inch tv and would be playing this game on that.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I would hope that two years later we're getting better effects. I'm just curious why AMD hasn't iterated on TressFX and implemented it in other games.

AMD neglects all their tech because they can't afford to dedicate resources to it.

 

[BFG10K]

I had three driver stopped responding errors in the last hour at the desktop. When I uninstalled the driver, it caused my Titan to stop outputting a signal until I rebooted my machine.

This is an appalling effort from a company that usually puts out excellent drivers.

 

[AdamK47]

I had three driver stopped responding errors in the last hour at the desktop. When I uninstalled the driver, it caused my Titan to stop outputting a signal until I rebooted my machine.

This is an appalling effort from a company that usually puts out excellent drivers.

But the drivers are WHQL. That means they should always be stable at the desktop. Microsoft does extensive testing for WHQL certification.

 

[BFG10K]

But the drivers are WHQL. That means they should always be stable at the desktop. Microsoft does extensive testing for WHQL certification.

To my knowledge WHQL doesn't test driver interactions with Inspector which I had running at the time.

A quick google search showed at least one person having similar problems with EVGA precision running, so it sounds like a problem with nVidia's proprietary API.

 

[Fox5]

This release broke SLI in GTA5 for me, I had to go back to the previous drivers.

 

[lavaheadache]

I had three driver stopped responding errors in the last hour at the desktop. When I uninstalled the driver, it caused my Titan to stop outputting a signal until I rebooted my machine.

This is an appalling effort from a company that usually puts out excellent drivers.

I too had 2 or 3 dsr errors on the desktop after installing this driver with my Titan Z, but went to bed right after. Still haven't turned the rig back on

 

[YBS1]

I haven't had issues with the drivers themselves, but the latest two version of GeForce Experience haven't been working for me. Getting a "Geforce Experience has encountered an error and must close", every time I attempt to open it.