What is the latest reliable nvidia driver for BOS?

[Cavemanhead]

Reliability is first priority followed by speed.  I've got a GTX 970 FTW+ 

[No_85_Gramps]

358.50 is the latest WHQL driver, I had no issues with it on a 750Ti. There is also a hotfix driver out there, 358.59, that I am using, again w/o any issues. Of course, knowing NVIDIA and MS, it can be a bit of a crap-shoot at times.

[Cavemanhead]

Thanks for info...  Hotfix means it's a patch to the WHQL driver?

[Dakpilot]

With GTX970 i found less performance with 358.50

 

rolled back to 353.82 and performance returned, was a big difference, have seen a few people had issues with that latest driver,

 

however I did have some internet problems during the installation of 358.50 so that may have caused a problem, this has been the first time ever I have had to uninstall and go back to a previous version

 

whether it was my fault or the drivers I cannot properly say, I usually always install latest WHQL driver, will wait for the next one before I change this time

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[No_85_Gramps]

I would imagine Nvidia's focus is on drivers for the 900 series cards and all else is probably in legacy mode.

 

Caveman, you can always check Guru3d.com when a new driver is released to see users opinions/issues, also Nvidia's site itself. And yes, a hotfix driver is a non-whql update.

[Cavemanhead]

Well, I was just wondering what folks werte most successful with -- fishing for comments like this one:

 

"however I did have some internet problems during the installation of 358.50 so that may have caused a problem, this has been the first time ever I have had to uninstall and go back to a previous version".

 

Serendipity would be finding a few simmers that fly BOS, DCS, COD, and P3D and have a good driver common to all those sims which I plan to be using...

 

Thanks.

[dburne]

I am currently running 358.59 with no issues. Mainly in DCS.