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Download GeForce 359.06 GameReady WHQL driver
You can now download the GeForce 359.06 GameREady WHQL driver. The new driver offers some small fixes and adds SLI support for Fallout 4 - Just Cause 3 - Umbrella Corps.
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#5203838 Posted on: 12/10/2015 12:48 PM
I really, really hope the next set are based on fixes rather than being a "Game Ready only" driver... I sware, if the next release say's nothing is fixed again...
I give up 
Oh yeah, horrendous.
I really, really hope the next set are based on fixes rather than being a "Game Ready only" driver... I sware, if the next release say's nothing is fixed again...
I give up
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#5204674 Posted on: 12/12/2015 02:29 PM
Didn't know you could do that...will look into it, thanks.
Why does this bug happen anyway? I have tried setting the Just Cause 3 profile to Prefer Maximum Performance but it still downclocks the memory to 3.3 GHz. The galling thing is that it shows as 3.5 GHz during the initial title screen but as soon as I start the game it drops to 3.3 GHz.
Because Nvidia stupidly designs their hardware.
Gotta keep them temps down you know!
I have to keep my card BIOS modded just to keep the voltage from dropping when it shouldn't and crashing the driver or getting me a BSOD.
Anywho, no forced GeForce Experience yet?
Thank god.
Didn't know you could do that...will look into it, thanks.
Why does this bug happen anyway? I have tried setting the Just Cause 3 profile to Prefer Maximum Performance but it still downclocks the memory to 3.3 GHz. The galling thing is that it shows as 3.5 GHz during the initial title screen but as soon as I start the game it drops to 3.3 GHz.
Because Nvidia stupidly designs their hardware.
Gotta keep them temps down you know!
I have to keep my card BIOS modded just to keep the voltage from dropping when it shouldn't and crashing the driver or getting me a BSOD.
Anywho, no forced GeForce Experience yet?
Thank god.
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#5204682 Posted on: 12/12/2015 03:23 PM
It's not a bug the way you think it is.
When the GPU is doing specific compute work (noticed it with both CUDA and OpenCL) it's switching to P02 performance level set in bios. GPU clocks are the same as P00, but memory is indeed set to 3.3GHz instead of 3.5GHz on this plevel for the GTX980 ti. You can edit your bios to set P02 memory frequency to 3.5GHz if it bothers you as a quick fix.
I think it might be an intended behavior and it's reproducible on various titles that are using GPGPU.
Why does this bug happen anyway? I have tried setting the Just Cause 3 profile to Prefer Maximum Performance but it still downclocks the memory to 3.3 GHz. The galling thing is that it shows as 3.5 GHz during the initial title screen but as soon as I start the game it drops to 3.3 GHz.
It's not a bug the way you think it is.
When the GPU is doing specific compute work (noticed it with both CUDA and OpenCL) it's switching to P02 performance level set in bios. GPU clocks are the same as P00, but memory is indeed set to 3.3GHz instead of 3.5GHz on this plevel for the GTX980 ti. You can edit your bios to set P02 memory frequency to 3.5GHz if it bothers you as a quick fix.
I think it might be an intended behavior and it's reproducible on various titles that are using GPGPU.
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#5204961 Posted on: 12/13/2015 02:29 PM
Win7 64bit Ultimate
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
3d Main menus extremely slow. Level loading glitching and once in-game some significant slow-down when turning around. In-game cut-scenes also suffer from gfx problems/glitching/loading. Buggy experience.
To get rid of those problems follow the steps below:
1 – Go to the nVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D settings -> Program Settings Tab
2 – Select “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (darkathena.exe)”
3 – Scroll down and select “Threaded Optimization” – It will be set to “Auto” -> Change it to ”Off”
4 – Hit “Apply” and you’re good to go – game will be fluid and lag free.
P.S.: I’m using the 353.49 driver and Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 bits, but the above method should also work with other driver versions.
As a side note: the same course of action will also solve similar problems found in “The Chronicles of Riddick (sbzengine.exe)”
Regards
Win7 64bit Ultimate
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
3d Main menus extremely slow. Level loading glitching and once in-game some significant slow-down when turning around. In-game cut-scenes also suffer from gfx problems/glitching/loading. Buggy experience.
To get rid of those problems follow the steps below:
1 – Go to the nVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D settings -> Program Settings Tab
2 – Select “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (darkathena.exe)”
3 – Scroll down and select “Threaded Optimization” – It will be set to “Auto” -> Change it to ”Off”
4 – Hit “Apply” and you’re good to go – game will be fluid and lag free.
P.S.: I’m using the 353.49 driver and Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 bits, but the above method should also work with other driver versions.
As a side note: the same course of action will also solve similar problems found in “The Chronicles of Riddick (sbzengine.exe)”
Regards
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Aha...I'll try with SLi off.
and yea... This season of "Game Ready releases" has easily, by far, (in my opinion) been the worst sets of drivers I've ever seen Nvidia release.
Oh yeah, horrendous.