NVIDIA v419.67 !!!!

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

These new drivers are outstanding, great FPS, and very smooth, also very good VR FPS too.

you're mileage may vary, considering if you know how to make your own profiles; and know how to set your profiles, to what you're game is using, to enhance your FPS.

 

https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/145534

Edited March 26, 2019 by 71st_AH_Mastiff

[Bullets]

What kinda fps gains have you gotten ?

[Urra]

Anything else besides 300+ fps gains will not make me happy.

[BP_Lizard]

1 hour ago, TunaEatsLion said:

Anything else besides 300+ fps gains will not make me happy.

 

+1

andon VR with everything maxed out.

[kestrel79]

Cool I'll give em a shot tonight. Just upgraded to a RTX 2060 and am running drivers from January right now.

[kestrel79]

What's the best way to install new nvidia drivers? Uninstall old ones, install new ones?

[BOO]

15 minutes ago, kestrel79 said:

What's the best way to install new nvidia drivers? Uninstall old ones, install new ones?

I use DDU to automate the uninstall and reinstall and do a clean install (so have to reset the setting in the control panel which TBH is mainly now just about setting power options to "prefer max power" and setting the vsync optin per game) but i dont thnk its stickly necessary. Last year i did 5 or 6 overwrites just to see if it fouled up and only did once but that could just have been one of those things. 

 

If you use something like DDU make sure you know how to reboot in safe mode on Win 10.

[Bullets]

Nvidia Experience - Downloads & installs new drivers for you and removes the old one with a click of a button! 

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/geforce-experience/

Edited March 26, 2019 by Bullets

[AndyJWest]

33 minutes ago, Bullets said:

Nvidia Experience - Downloads & installs new drivers for you and removes the old one with a click of a button! 

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/geforce-experience/

 

Yup. I've had a 1060 since October 2016,  used Experience to update drivers all that time, and never had any issues. Personally, I don't see the need to update manually.

[THERION]

1 hour ago, kestrel79 said:

What's the best way to install new nvidia drivers? Uninstall old ones, install new ones?

 

NVidia Driver Setup gives you the option to do a so called "clean" install, which means all your previous

and obsolete files are deleted, before the new driver are installed. I always do a clean install and I recommend it!

[[DBS]TH0R]

53 minutes ago, -IRRE-Therion said:

 

NVidia Driver Setup gives you the option to do a so called "clean" install, which means all your previous

and obsolete files are deleted, before the new driver are installed. I always do a clean install and I recommend it!

 

"Clean" option for the most part erases any profile settings. Cannot be compared to the DDU wipe before install.

 

Downloading 419.67, will give it a test soon.

Edited March 26, 2019 by [DBS]TH0R

[THERION]

19 minutes ago, [DBS]TH0R said:

 

"Clean" option for the most part erases any profile settings. Cannot be compared to the DDU wipe before install.

 

Downloading 419.67, will give it a test soon.

 

I did the manual and clean install on the previous versions and just this afternoon too - my profiles are still there, no

changes. I only install the graphics and physix drivers - everything else is not selected.

Edited March 26, 2019 by -IRRE-Therion

[TWC_Ace]

So, any fps improvements for non VR users? My squad mate with 1050ti got even worse fps with these...

Edited March 26, 2019 by =VARP=Tvrdi

[4driano]

I perceived nothing in VR.
Wind 7 Pro 64.
GTX 1080.

[dburne]

I usually just update the driver if the releases are close.

I do the DDU and clean install about once every 6 months or so.

[E69_Qpassa_VR]

There's even a decrease in performance of many games, check Reddit:

 

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/b5azhe/driver_41967_faqdiscussion/

Edited March 26, 2019 by E69_Qpassa_VR

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

well, not for me, but unless you know how to to use the GUI NVCP, and set your own Profile for the games you play. well you won't get the performances. 

 

Im seeing 20 to 30 more FPS in games, and VR Im getting 45 to 50fps with ASW off. in IL-2. 

[Alonzo]

4 hours ago, 71st_AH_Mastiff said:

Im seeing 20 to 30 more FPS in games, and VR Im getting 45 to 50fps with ASW off. in IL-2. 

 

What's your benchmark setup for IL2?

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

? My dog is my PC

[Alonzo]

1 hour ago, 71st_AH_Mastiff said:

? My dog is my PC

 

I guess I was too subtle. What is your scientific, repeatable benchmark process that allows you to say you gained performance with this driver update?

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

Lol the 20 years experience of installing nvidias  drivers and experiencing the improvements and impact of the performance gains on the verious games and flight sims I personally fly in. IL2, DCS. I7:8700k 4.3ghz, rtx  2080, liquid cooled, optane drives ssd. 32gb pc 3200 ram. 

The FPS counter I use is shadow play, 

[BOO]

Just to add - the new drivers work better for me to and my 1080. A few FPS perhaps and a little less jerky. HOWEVER, since i kept the old drivers, i reinstalled them. Same effect - a few more FPS (about the same as the new drivers) and a little less jerky. 

 

Over the time ive had BOS ive found that stuff often works better if you reinstal the GPU driver after a patch update.  

[Jade_Monkey]

DDU ia the way to go. In most cases NV Experience is fine, but sometimes the DDU fixes some weird behavior.

[JonRedcorn]

19 hours ago, 71st_AH_Mastiff said:

well, not for me, but unless you know how to to use the GUI NVCP, and set your own Profile for the games you play. well you won't get the performances. 

 

Im seeing 20 to 30 more FPS in games, and VR Im getting 45 to 50fps with ASW off. in IL-2. 

LOL sure. Either your previous setup was completely corrupted or you are seeing things. Nobodies getting 30 frame a second boosts from driver updates. Since you seem to know the secret settings in the nvcp why not share them with everyone instead of acting like everyones an idiot.

 

Also literally nobody else is corroborating your results, on reddit, or the nvidia website, I guess they are all just too dumb and inexperienced to know the secret sauce.

Edited March 27, 2019 by JonRedcorn

[[DBS]TH0R]

Tried the new drivers in a quick mission offline (no VR). Not nearly enough testing, or any benchmarking. Results are: nothing spectacular as OP says. Could be less stutters and perhaps an FPS or two higher, but nothing even remotely ground breaking for my 1080Ti.

 

Or it could be a placebo.

Edited March 27, 2019 by [DBS]TH0R

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

yes turn off MSAA. 

[SAS_Storebror]

Good joke.

[56RAF_Roblex]

On 3/26/2019 at 8:24 PM, =VARP=Tvrdi said:

So, any fps improvements for non VR users? My squad mate with 1050ti got even worse fps with these...

 

I am glad you said that as I use a 1050Ti as well.    I am already getting 60fps so I will just stay with my current drivers.

[TWC_Ace]

1 hour ago, 56RAF_Roblex said:

 

I am glad you said that as I use a 1050Ti as well.    I am already getting 60fps so I will just stay with my current drivers.

Roblex. I asked him again and he said that he realised perf drop wasnt from drivers. Now is ok. But he didnt see any gains just like I didnt (1660). So you can stay with the current drivers easily.

cheers

 

BTW, 30 FPS boost just from drivers is not possible. I turned off SSAO and I cant see a difference visually but the game is smoother (at least I think so). Though I never dropped below 60fps on my 1200p monitor.

Edited March 28, 2019 by =VARP=Tvrdi

[sniperton]

7 hours ago, 56RAF_Roblex said:

 

I am already getting 60fps so I will just stay with my current drivers.

I too have an 1050 Ti and now I felt it was time to update my 8 months old drivers. No problems and no significant change in performance. I'd say there's no drawback of using the latest drivers, that's all. Now I can be sure that the blinking in track replays is not related to using old drivers. 

[jaygee485]

v425.31 released yesterday.

Clean installed using Geforce Experience, thanks, Bullets, for the link.

Guess what? I got a 60fps improvement!

 

I kid you not, but it wasn't the new version that did it. My frame rate had been locked on 59 for the month or so that I've been flying with IL2.

I'd been unable to find what was holding it back but I knew it had to be some elusive setting somewhere, as I was sure my system was good enough that my monitor should reach it's claimed oc frame rate.

The  Geforce Experience install checked, or unchecked the right box somewhere, and suddenly I'm getting 120 frames. Finally!    

[dburne]

3 minutes ago, jaygee485 said:

v425.31 released yesterday.

Clean installed using Geforce Experience, thanks, Bullets, for the link.

Guess what? I got a 60fps improvement!

 

I kid you not, but it wasn't the new version that did it. My frame rate had been locked on 59 for the month or so that I've been flying with IL2.

I'd been unable to find what was holding it back but I knew it had to be some elusive setting somewhere, as I was sure my system was good enough that my monitor should reach it's claimed oc frame rate.

The  Geforce Experience install checked, or unchecked the right box somewhere, and suddenly I'm getting 120 frames. Finally!    

 

Do you have a 60 Hz monitor?

Sounds like you may have had vsync running previously if so.

 

[jaygee485]

1 minute ago, dburne said:

Do you have a 60 Hz monitor?

Sounds like you may have had vsync running previously if so.

 

 

My monitor is 100hz native, 120 oc.

 

Initially I was running vsync, as advised by several members in various threads.

In the game graphics settings the Target FPS box displayed '60' and was ghosted so I couldn't change it.

I asked for advice in 'Technical Issues and Bug Reports' and CountZero said to uncheck vsync. I did that, and was then able to change the target FPS to 120, but, my framerate was still stuck on 59. I don't know what setting was causing the problem, but it's good to finally run my monitor to it's potential.