[GeForce] NVIDIA 310.90 WHQL Certified Driver - Page 31

So, I have GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores. I will see an improvement with these drivers since it says "Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 306.97 WHQL drivers" right? Currently on 306.23.

Yes, you'll see performance increases across the board.

The performance improvements that came with R310 are for both Fermi and Kepler.

Oh why hello there 800x600.
How have you been since my our last reboot?

Ok, this is weird. The 'full base clock while idling' problem is not related only to waking the computer after Sleep. I did a reboot and have been browsing for a while and checked the Afterburner graph. Usage on both cards (even though SLI is disabled) went up to 99% (even though I have nothing open) for a few seconds, and then the load dropped to 0 but the clocks have stayed at full non-boost speed ever since. The hell?

I'll have to post something on the official forum.

I'm pretty much the same way. There's no way I would buy a reference 680 after using various lightning products, I enjoy overclocking and getting the most out of my wares.

As a counter point to RFC (who said something along the lines of OCing not being worth it due to risks), the risks of degradation are often overstated and limited to those who are grossly negligent. I've had two CPUs die on me as a result of overclocking, however it was due to mistakes on my part. I've overclocked GPUs for years and have never had any issues - because I know how to overclock responsibly and properly monitor things. I'm sure dph is the same.

I really feel like this must be an issue with the windows 8 driver, I haven't heard of such issues with win7. Definitely report that over to ManuelG...do you have a spare win7 x64 partition to test 310.90 out on?

My gfx cards factory boost to 1188Mhz - my OC'd core clock for daily use (games) was very mild and was set to 1202Mhz (barely above stock), and for benchmarks it was 1215Mhz - I'd be very surprised if that caused any damage, considering there are many who can go over 1300Mhz

But anyway, you seem to have totally neglected the fact that I can run older drivers and not have the gfx crash occur (even if my gfx card is OC'd). So how is it that earlier gfx driver is fine and doesn't have continual gfx driver crashes, yet the 307.xx do?

Like I said, it has nothing to with OC, it is specific to 307.xx drivers.

I appreciate your replies, you think it is OC related and that is a totally fine reply, however it is not the issue for my particular problem.

Is there anyone else who has any idea what might be causing ONLY the 307.xx gfx drivers to crash for me? Does anyone have a solution to fix the 307.xx driver crash for me? Maybe a work around to run an older driver but still benefit from the latest SLI profiles?

Any suggestion will be tried.

Thx

Why do these drivers keep crashing in BF3? I had to revert back to 310.70 cause of it.. So annoying, Bf3 has had so many issues with me.

I doubt I'll use that old 500GB WD HDD that I had Win7 on again, but I plan on saving it in case I do a back-up build or something one day, so aside from saving a few things for school first, I just took it out and put the Seagate in for Win8, so yeah I still have the full install of Win7 on that old drive. I think it could be Win8 too, because even with all of the problems I had with R310 on Win7, none of them ever caused anything like the clocks constantly idling at 1110mhz/6005mhz. Not sure. I may just wait it out until the next driver and see what happens, or revert if I have to.


Indeed. Even when going mildy crazy for my couple suicide runs I did for my +P20,000 runs, I was able to keep the core, memory, and VRM temps all at 70C or below. CPU core temps right around there as well. Now, with normal gaming, it's getting to the point where an upgrade is right around the corner so I'm getting a little more adventurous with my overclocks, but even then, running over 1400mhz for a game, temps are easily kept in the 60C's (VRM temps in the low 50C's). So, did I bring the estimated life of the GPU from 12 years down to 8 or 9? Maybe. But for what I paid and for how long I'll actually be using the hardware, it's really a non-issue. Now for people that leave the stock fan profile on the card and throw the voltage all the way up and game on a poorly ventilated case...it might cause problems. But I can all but guarentee I'll be in great shape until I have those 780s sitting in my Newegg Shopping cart

But you're right. Little bit of know-how and you're golden. I can't let that performance just sit there unused. Makes me feel like I'm missing out on something.
Edited by dph314 - 1/18/13 at 9:10am

I upgraded to these drivers a few days ago and have no issues to report.