Nvidia releases GeForce Game Ready 375.86 WHQL drivers

[HEXUS]

But many are complaining about slower memory clocks and flickering graphics.

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[pastymuncher]

They need to pull these. I downloaded it last night and installed the same way that I always do. Tick custom install, select just the gpu and physx driver, select clean install and let it do it's thing. Fired up a game and noticed the pc only pulling 152w instead of the normal 230w for that game. Shut the game down and fired up afterburner with it's OSD and started the game again to find my 1070's memory clock stuck at 810mhz. I have gone back to 375.75 again now and everything is as it should be.

[this_is_gav]

You do wonder just how much testing Nvidia are doing. That's at least two of the most recent driver updates that have had fairly severe bugs, and this one should have been blatantly obvious the moment anyone fired up a game.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

That might explain an oddity I noticed - downloading the 375.70 drivers to see if that is the reason.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

That might explain an oddity I noticed - downloading the 375.70 drivers to see if that is the reason.

Nope,Planetside 2 just being Planetside 2.

[aniilv]

The flickering has been around for years. Im 99% sure its how NVIDIA "cheats" by not displaying full graphics and gaining few fps so they look better against AMD. Really, ive used nvidia for good 5+ years and graphic glitches/flickers have never been as bad as now.

By the way, if you want to play BF1, you have to update driver or game just refuses to start, even though i bet it would work fine. The changes only affect dx12, which nobody uses since its horrible compared to dx11. It seems to only benefit high end systems. Funny since dx12 was supposed to benefit the crappy systems, not the way around. And somehow I also don't think it's DICE fault, when looking how bf4 performed on mantle - it was great. So when very CPU bottlenecked game like bf1 can't repeat that with dx12 it somehow makes me think dx12 will be a fluke. Or everyone will need new hardware, like with mantle. Also defeating purpose.

[Ttaskmaster]

You do wonder just how much testing Nvidia are doing.

I'm sure they're doing all the relevant WHQL tests required... which are either woefully inadequate, and/or they're not actually *looking* at how their drivers perform...

[EvilCycle]

I installed the new drivers and while my game was still playable, I did notice it had lost a lot of frames (I didn't check the exact figures but I felt like I was suddenly playing at 30fps) - I reinstalled 375.63 and is all is fine again. (I also noticed that installing the new drivers knocked off my "max pre-rendered frames = 1" setting in nvidia control panel, so I have set that back to what it was too as my cpu runs cooler and the game runs slighter faster with this option on, unsure if the bf1 patch has changed the original default setting as IIRC it was set to 3 within the game somewhere which was causing performance issues for some, will have to test this bit out properly.

[EDIT] - 375.95 hotfix drivers are now available from the nvidia website, reports suggest all is well ...other than some users still seeing flickering on SLI setups.