NVidia and You(?) (complete with poll)
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:57 pm
Disclaimer: Okay, let's start off that this is going to look messy as a post.
Point form:
I'm curious as to what experiences people are having, and under what circumstances.
I think it would be neat to see what cards and drivers people use.
Please specify what older drivers you use and why (problems with newest drivers, etc).
Please list card, OS (x86/x64), driver verison. And any additional info you feel necessary.
Also please mention things about current driver support. (crashes, limiations, sli-related, multiple monitor-realted, etc)
The PDF "release notes" never really seem to give me any real information except for specific games and/or players for circumstances that I would never use the drivers for (mostly related to M$ software players/functions, etc). Even if they did release more technical information, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't know what it means.
But, I'd like to hear what developers and advanced users think about the current state of NVidia drivers.
I was initially going to ask what the latest hubbub is about the recent driver updates for 36x.xx and newer.
..I just lost my train of thought.
(thouht x) recent driver issues -> (thought Y) ??? -> (thought Z) find out what people are using, how, and why. and etc.
I saw these comments so I'm curious for more background on them.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=485&p=4770#p4768
Since most of them seem to be fore video game updates, I'm not too hyped to update on same-day release of newer drivers.
Although, the recommendation is probably most relevant to user's OS.
Lately I've just been going blindly into driver updates.
Sorry, if this seems convoluted and disorganized.
As of this post, latest NVidia driver is:
364.47 March 7, 2016
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Me, I'm using:
Windows 7 64-bit build 7601 [Service Pack 1]
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
R362.00 (r361_74-13) / 10.18.13.6200 (2-23-2016)
DGDecNV v2051 (32bit) [slipstream: Mar 02, 2016]
AviSynth+ 0.1 (r1779, MT, i386)
I do basic processing with dgnv in avisynth.
I don't use QTGMC.
About the only plugin I use that depends on NVidia driver is...
KNLMeansCL.
EDIT2: I also use SVP (Smooth Video Project) constantly, which will use NVidia opencl. And barely ever crash.
Only issues I face with SVP is if I rapidly seek without letting it refresh (to be expected).
EDIT: And the biggest problems I have so far are memory issues in Avspmod. (not out of memory, using SetMemoryMax(512/768) all the time.
But that might be more about the instability of MT versions of AVS+. Largley on seeking rapidly in Avspmod.
OR it might be more about recent python updates and compatibility with whatever version avspmod was built for at the then time.
I don't believe I've had much random crashes in avspmod when using AVS_260.
Point form:
- your card, OS, driver
- your issues with certain driver versions
- your recommended driver version(s)
- info lots of info
I'm curious as to what experiences people are having, and under what circumstances.
I think it would be neat to see what cards and drivers people use.
Please specify what older drivers you use and why (problems with newest drivers, etc).
Please list card, OS (x86/x64), driver verison. And any additional info you feel necessary.
Also please mention things about current driver support. (crashes, limiations, sli-related, multiple monitor-realted, etc)
The PDF "release notes" never really seem to give me any real information except for specific games and/or players for circumstances that I would never use the drivers for (mostly related to M$ software players/functions, etc). Even if they did release more technical information, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't know what it means.
But, I'd like to hear what developers and advanced users think about the current state of NVidia drivers.
I was initially going to ask what the latest hubbub is about the recent driver updates for 36x.xx and newer.
..I just lost my train of thought.
(thouht x) recent driver issues -> (thought Y) ??? -> (thought Z) find out what people are using, how, and why. and etc.
I saw these comments so I'm curious for more background on them.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=485&p=4770#p4768
admin wrote:In another domain, did you guys see the latest POS nVidia driver? I'm almost to the point of ditching nVidia and going full bore with Intel MSDK. Woe is me, what to do? Patience is a virtue and all that, but it just keeps getting worse and worse.
I'm also interested in hearing what versions of the drivers people recommend.admin wrote:Trust me, do not upgrade to 364.xx!Groucho2004 wrote: I'm still using 350.12, no problem whatsoever.
Since most of them seem to be fore video game updates, I'm not too hyped to update on same-day release of newer drivers.
Although, the recommendation is probably most relevant to user's OS.
Lately I've just been going blindly into driver updates.
Sorry, if this seems convoluted and disorganized.
As of this post, latest NVidia driver is:
364.47 March 7, 2016
---------------------------------------------------
Me, I'm using:
Windows 7 64-bit build 7601 [Service Pack 1]
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
R362.00 (r361_74-13) / 10.18.13.6200 (2-23-2016)
DGDecNV v2051 (32bit) [slipstream: Mar 02, 2016]
AviSynth+ 0.1 (r1779, MT, i386)
I do basic processing with dgnv in avisynth.
I don't use QTGMC.
About the only plugin I use that depends on NVidia driver is...
KNLMeansCL.
EDIT2: I also use SVP (Smooth Video Project) constantly, which will use NVidia opencl. And barely ever crash.
Only issues I face with SVP is if I rapidly seek without letting it refresh (to be expected).
EDIT: And the biggest problems I have so far are memory issues in Avspmod. (not out of memory, using SetMemoryMax(512/768) all the time.
But that might be more about the instability of MT versions of AVS+. Largley on seeking rapidly in Avspmod.
OR it might be more about recent python updates and compatibility with whatever version avspmod was built for at the then time.
I don't believe I've had much random crashes in avspmod when using AVS_260.