A brief warning to fellow nVidia users and the WHQL 320.18 driver

[Ruethryl]

Bump, got this off the beta GD -

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/art...ivers-released

Supposed to have profiles specifically for ARR. Will be giving it a shot this weekend I've been having driver crash issues running 314.22 with my GTX 670 (factory OC) since phase 3 started while running the game.

[Solace]

Bump, got this off the beta GD -

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/art...ivers-released

Supposed to have profiles specifically for ARR. Will be giving it a shot this weekend I've been having driver crash issues running 314.22 with my GTX 670 (factory OC) since phase 3 started while running the game.

Likewise GTX 680 here. Crashed multiple times on me in one day.
Just seems like a driver crash..
I tried the older driver as well but had the same issue.

[Neasa]

I also had pretty frequent driver crashes, even with another 314.-something... I downgraded back to 314.07 and it stopped. Of course, I also dropped my FPS to 30 because I was concerned about how randomly my GPU usage was jumping around. I'll see what others have to say first about the new beta drivers. :x

[Dhalmel]

I also had pretty frequent driver crashes, even with another 314.-something... I downgraded back to 314.07 and it stopped. Of course, I also dropped my FPS to 30 because I was concerned about how randomly my GPU usage was jumping around. I'll see what others have to say first about the new beta drivers. :x

GPU ultilization is nothing to be afraid of, it's jumping around mostly because you're bottle necked by the CPU in some situations.


As for the new beta driver, it still scores lower 314.22 but it looks to be more stable than 320.18

I just also want to reiterate, that the benchmark performance and the actual current beta are different. Phase 3 is more optimized than the benchmark and runs better. So take the benchmark score with a grain of salt.

This new driver might fix the issue that's in the beta with 314.22 and 320.18 where the beta's graphics will stall and freeze (but the game still runs) or goes black and come back but at a reduced FPS. Keyword is might though as there's no mention of FFXIV bugfixes listed in the release notes pdf.

[Ruethryl]

GPU ultilization is nothing to be afraid of, it's jumping around mostly because you're bottle necked by the CPU in some situations.


As for the new beta driver, it still scores lower 314.22 but it looks to be more stable than 320.18

I just also want to reiterate, that the benchmark performance and the actual current beta are different. Phase 3 is more optimized than the benchmark and runs better. So take the benchmark score with a grain of salt.

This new driver might fix the issue that's in the beta with 314.22 and 320.18 where the beta's graphics will stall and freeze (but the game still runs) or goes black and come back but at a reduced FPS. Keyword is might though as there's no mention of FFXIV bugfixes listed in the release notes pdf.

Hopeful given they threw it a bone on the profile side.. either way will give it a run, it'll be obvious pretty quickly if they'v e manage to fix the root problems a bit.

[Neasa]

GPU ultilization is nothing to be afraid of, it's jumping around mostly because you're bottle necked by the CPU in some situations.


As for the new beta driver, it still scores lower 314.22 but it looks to be more stable than 320.18

I just also want to reiterate, that the benchmark performance and the actual current beta are different. Phase 3 is more optimized than the benchmark and runs better. So take the benchmark score with a grain of salt.

This new driver might fix the issue that's in the beta with 314.22 and 320.18 where the beta's graphics will stall and freeze (but the game still runs) or goes black and come back but at a reduced FPS. Keyword is might though as there's no mention of FFXIV bugfixes listed in the release notes pdf.

I just figured it might have something to do with the driver crashes... I didn't bother trying to put it back up to 60 FPS. The GPU usage would constantly jump from 60, 80, to 100%... Never seemed to stay at any one level. Dropped it to 30 FPS and it never went beyond 60%, so I just stuck with it. :x I figured it might have something to do with the usage as the driver crashes only got more frequent the longer I played.

[Dhalmel]

Hopeful given they threw it a bone on the profile side.. either way will give it a run, it'll be obvious pretty quickly if they'v e manage to fix the root problems a bit.

I'm not expecting nvidia or amd to provide specific bug fixes till the final release build or not till the beta phase 4 code is sent to them. With the beta being open it's still a good idea to provide any bugs feedback that might be related to the driver straight to them instead of SE.

[Solace]

Here's some specs on the new beta driver:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...9-some-results.

Ran some tests..
Not very promising but at least better in single gpu mode it seems..
Idk though, may be issues with it.

[Dhalmel]

Here's some specs on the new beta driver:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...9-some-results.

Ran some tests..
Not very promising but at least better in single gpu mode it seems..
Idk though, may be issues with it.

Your tests are very flawed.

[Neasa]

I know the benchmark isn't all that reliable at this point, but ew. I updated to the new drivers out of curiosity and I dropped a good 500 points. :x
I'll give 'em a real try once beta's back up, but I get the feeling I might revert anyway.