As the title states I'm curious to see what people think for the Nvidia 337.50 Beta Driver
From what I hear it the supposed to be similar to mantle, adding low-level accesses and even affecting older titles
From what I have tested it has had the biggest impact on games that are CPU intensive
(Like a heavily modded Skyrim)
I'm considerably happy with the improvement because I'm rocking a Pentium Dualcore e5800 @3.2Ghz and a 2gig Gigabyte GTX 650 OC
Nothing spectacular for me with a SLI/1080p setup.
It seems that the faster the CPU, the lower the benefits of the new drivers., though it does make slight improvements on single threaded games such as path of exile.
overall, it is a worthwhile upgrade, but nothing close to any of the results they listed, even on the games they listed.
Ill tell you one thing, my experience with BF4 is dramatically improved. Im getting 60-70s now on my 760 2GB oced and an intel core i5 3470. One thing im really pissed at is the fact that OBS now doesn't work now with NVENC.
This new driver dos not add low level access. Its just a highly refined and tweaked driver.
I have two systems. One is like Logan's editing rig (Xeon E3 GTX 760). Does not seem to do much of anything on that one. My HTPC started as a kill you console and has evolved a bit. AMD A-10 5800K with GTX 660. Seems with this one it has made a huge improvement. Sniper Elite V2 shot up 15 FPS, Far Cry 3 10FPS, Tomb Raider over 20FPS, Sleeping Dogs 10FPS, Bioshock about 5FPS and Hitman about 8FPS.
Seems like some games that have issues with DX11 like Xcom Declassified did nothing. Anyway seems to optimize for low end CPU's the best.
Agreed, now my fps doesn't drop under 80 anymore although the screen now weirdly freezes for one second now and then. With the old drives it sometimes dropped as low as 40.
I really haven't noticed much of a difference to performance but I do have a pretty high end system, so maybe i wouldn't. Only thing I have noticed is that on the old driver, when I used the Shadowplay function (record last 5 mins of gameplay) it would drop my frames intermittently from 120 - 80 for about 5 seconds in BF4, now that seems to have been fixed. HD audio driver still sucks though so still using windows one for that :D
335.23 Drivers
337.50 Drivers
That's a whopping 0.44% performance increase.
I found that rome II really gets better (havent prove it with fraps, but I could really tell the difference) , and planetside 2 gets a little better, by a 5-10 fps in middle battles (havent tried large yet), FSX stays almost the same, will prove it on war thunder to see...
amd fx-6100 @ 4.1 ghz
gtx 570
I have an 8350 paired with a Gtx 770 and I don't really see a difference. That's probably because I've only played Bf3 with it which is not super cpu intensive. And its not like the 8350 exactly bogs down the 770 in the first place so...
I have a 4820k and a 780Ti here. Star Swarm went from an average of 38fps to over 70fps. Though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. They probably put most of the optimizations in that part of it.,
That's really not very surprising, just like mantle it only really affects select games and applications. I may be wrong, but I don't think that they added any improvements for static benches like valley or heaven.
Slight increase in 3dmark 11, decrease in 3dmark 13. Games - bugger all difference, a frame here and there.
~SLI 760's~
