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NVIDIA Driver Update FYI

gman5250

gman5250

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I updated my NVIDIA drivers to the current rev. 364.72 yesterday. Running Win10.

Good news is, no computer crashes, no program crashes, no FSX/P3D anomalies, nothing fell off, I didn't go blind and I'm still alive. Whew.

Interesting thing in P3D 3.2, FPS jumped up by a respectable percentage and smoothness is again improved. It may be my imagination, but it looks like the color improved as well.

Color has been a sticking point with me since 3.1, which seemed very weak compared to 2.5. I had it down to Dynamic Reflections which seem to muck about with color and antialiasing when enabled. As of yesterday's driver update, color in 3.2 seems somewhat better and after checking DR it seems that the option still needs to be used with discretion, especially on models that rely on Banana Bobs GlobalEnv to develop reflection as per the artists intent.

Shot below, a 4096/32bit texture set applied to the A2A T-6 Texan, running real world weather, in a monster scenery...all sliders WFO and no DR. Consistent 55+FPS.

From my chair, I can give the current NVIDIA driver a thumbs up.

NVIDIA Driver 364.72 in Prepar3D3.2 un-retouched screen cap.
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Gordon,

Thanks for being the guinea pig on the drivers.

Your comments about the color in v3.x mirror my sentiments vs. v2.5.
 
dhazelgrove said:
I'd have thought you might have posted this in the P3D forum.

Dave
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This blog gets more traffic.

To be more concise, I tested the driver in FSX, FSX ST, Prepar3D 2.5 and Prepar3D 3.2. All of the simulators functioned perfectly. Across the board FPS and smoothness was improved. FSX is running Steve's DX10 fixer.

Prepar3D 3.2 is my simulator of choice, therefore I took the rendering from the simulator which most effectively conveys the performance of the NVIDIA g/card with current driver.

I made note of the color improvements in P3D as a matter of observation to share with the larger community. It does not make any sense for me to post two separate blogs in order to offer my observations on the driver update.
 
Yes, Thanks for being the guinea pig on the drivers.......
Will download tonight

Rick
 
Thanks G. for the HU.

I just installed the new drivers. :adoration:

Don't know what changed but I still use Win 7 64.
 
Gordo/GE-

I had installed the latest drivers (as of 2 weeks ago 364.xx), but then after all the threads about issues rolled back to 361.43 and have been happy ever since. Are these drivers newer than the 346.xx version which were out 2 weeks ago? I TOO USE W7 x64.

Ta!

Carl

PS- Does anyone have advice re. affinity mask settings for a 6600k on P3d v3.2?



gray eagle said:
Thanks G. for the HU.

I just installed the new drivers. :adoration:

Don't know what changed but I still use Win 7 64.
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I am unaware of any issues or what they may be about. I still have my V358.50 if needed. So far so good, I use the GFORCE GTX 660. Don't know what kind of video board your are using there.
cavaricooper said:
Gordo/GE-

I had installed the latest drivers (as of 2 weeks ago 364.xx), but then after all the threads about issues rolled back to 361.43 and have been happy ever since. Are these drivers newer than the 346.xx version which were out 2 weeks ago? I TOO USE W7 x64.

Ta!

Carl

PS- Does anyone have advice re. affinity mask settings for a 6600k on P3d v3.2?
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I've tried 4 different drivers since building my current system,and all have been good. No problems, no hassles. After reading some of the positive reports about the 364.72's I decided to give them a try on my FSX Gold few days ago. I see no difference here... they're as good as the previous drivers I tried on my 970 and I have no increase in performance. Had no problems with installing and configuring this latest set.

Greg
 
Bumping this topic because I have a recent problem.
I'm using the 364.72 with a GTX970 on Win 64 and P3D v3.2.
I don't know what I did, but the antialiasing refuses to work. It's like it ignores the setting in the game. I tried with 8x, 4x etc... no changes.
It was working fine before...

I have already tried to:
- recompile the shaders
- modify the settings in the NVidia Control Panel to ensure everything is on "application controlled".
- same in NVidia Inspector, launched as admin

Anybody had a similar problem ?
Now, there's yet a new driver available... I'm hesitating to install it.
 
gman5250 said:
I updated my NVIDIA drivers to the current rev. 364.72 yesterday. Running Win10.

Good news is, no computer crashes, no program crashes, no FSX/P3D anomalies, nothing fell off, I didn't go blind and I'm still alive. Whew.
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Whoa there Tonto, I installed it and SWMBO went to Costco and spent over $300. I'm sure there is a correlation there somewhere. :biggrin-new:
 
QUESTION: I have a year or two old hi end system, running a factory o'c'd GTX 780. My drivers are the same ones it shipped with - 335.23.

Is it worth updating them? I have never found any improvement in FSX from driver updates. Only change them when there is a problem. If it ain't broke . .
 
Daube said:
Bumping this topic because I have a recent problem.
I'm using the 364.72 with a GTX970 on Win 64 and P3D v3.2.
I don't know what I did, but the antialiasing refuses to work. It's like it ignores the setting in the game. I tried with 8x, 4x etc... no changes.
It was working fine before...

I have already tried to:
- recompile the shaders
- modify the settings in the NVidia Control Panel to ensure everything is on "application controlled".
- same in NVidia Inspector, launched as admin

Anybody had a similar problem ?
Now, there's yet a new driver available... I'm hesitating to install it.
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I had a similar problem a little while ago. I would change the AA settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel or with NVIDIA Inspector but they would never stick when I tried to save them. I tried to just install a new driver over the old one using the clean installation option followed by uninstalling first using the Windows uninstall option but neither technique solved the problem for me. Following a tip on another forum, I completely uninstalled the graphics driver using Display Driver Uninstaller (https://tinyurl.com/zaf4h2r) and then reinstalled it. Everything then worked perfectly - I downloaded the latest driver available but use whatever you're happy with. I would recommend leaving out the 3D Vision driver and GeForce Experience (it seems to cause more problems than it solves) but keep PhysX.
 
Hmm... I'll try the complete reinstall without GeForce Experience then. Thanks for the advice. :)
 
Had the same anti-aliasing problem as Daube in FSX after a driver upgrade to release 365.10.

First of all, the default driver profile for FSX is now called "Microsoft Flight Simulator 10".

Second, I got anti-aliasing back by setting the AA behaviour flag to "None" and the AA mode to "Override" in NivdiaInspector. 8xS now works again.
 
Bjoern said:
Had the same anti-aliasing problem as Daube in FSX after a driver upgrade to release 365.10.

First of all, the default driver profile for FSX is now called "Microsoft Flight Simulator 10".

Second, I got anti-aliasing back by setting the AA behaviour flag to "None" and the AA mode to "Override" in NivdiaInspector. 8xS now works again.
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What he said /\ /\
 
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