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Message 40879 - Posted: 15 Apr 2015 | 6:58:21 UTC
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Download NVIDIA Driver 350.12
Release Date: 2015.4.13

Just in time for the highly anticipated title Grand Theft Auto V, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience. With support for GeForce SLI technology and one-click game setting optimizations within GeForce Experience, you'll have the best possible performance and image quality during gameplay. In addition, this driver is aligned with today's launch of the world's fastest gaming GPU; the GeForce GTX Titan X.

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Message 40880 - Posted: 15 Apr 2015 | 13:03:48 UTC - in response to Message 40879.

This new driver has CUDA7.0 support, but until the GPUGrid app is updated to CUDA7, don't expect any performance increase.
At the moment there's no need to update to this driver from the GPUGrid's point of view.

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Message 41107 - Posted: 18 May 2015 | 15:57:04 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 352.86
Release Date: 2015.5.18

Just in time for the highly anticipated title The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience. With support for GeForce SLI technology and one-click game setting optimizations within GeForce Experience, you’ll have the best possible performance and image quality during gameplay.

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Message 41111 - Posted: 19 May 2015 | 11:03:18 UTC - in response to Message 40880.

This new driver has CUDA7.0 support, but until the GPUGrid app is updated to CUDA7, don't expect any performance increase.
At the moment there's no need to update to this driver from the GPUGrid's point of view.

352.86 upgraded CUDA to 7.5.** (new 7.5 CUDA toolkit is near - 980ti release timeframe)

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Message 41224 - Posted: 1 Jun 2015 | 11:54:42 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 353.06
Release Date: 2015.5.31

Just in time for the highly anticipated title Heroes of the Storm, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience. This driver is also aligned with the launch of the new flagship gaming GPU, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. In addition, this new Game Ready driver provides a number of new gaming features and benefits based around G-SYNC technology, Dynamic Super Resolution, and enhancements for the latest new titles.

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for Heroes of the Storm, including support for GeForce Experience 1-click optimizations

New GeForce GPU
Supports the new GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU, based upon the second-generation Maxwell architecture

Gaming Technology
Supports G-SYNC technology in windowed mode, offers both G-SYNC (V-SYNC on) and G-SYNC (V-SYNC off) options, support for Ultra-Low Motion Blur (ULMB) in the NVIDIA Control Panel, provides Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) for notebooks with discrete GeForce GPUs, and optimizations and bug fixes which can provide increased performance for Kepler-based GPUs.
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Message 41385 - Posted: 22 Jun 2015 | 16:15:02 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 353.30
Release Date: 2015.6.22

Just in time for the highly anticipated title Batman: Arkham Knight this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience. With support for GeForce SLI technology and one-click game setting optimizations within GeForce Experience, you'll have the best possible performance and image quality during gameplay.

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Message 41593 - Posted: 30 Jul 2015 | 7:25:35 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 353.62
Release Date: 2015.7.29

NVIDIA has been working closely with Microsoft on the development of Windows 10 and DirectX 12. Coinciding with the arrival of Windows 10, this Game Ready driver includes the latest tweaks, bug fixes, and optimizations to ensure you have the best possible gaming experience.

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Best gaming experience for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Windows XP.
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Message 41594 - Posted: 30 Jul 2015 | 9:16:43 UTC - in response to Message 41593.
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I'm using 352.62 on W10 after upgrading from W7.

After the install Boinc didn't see any NV drivers but those came in the form of a Windows update, and after a reboot tasks began running again.
Did get a driver fail/recovery and a failed WU today though. The Windows error message popped up on the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
GPUGrid task error was, SWAN : FATAL Unable to load module .mshake_kernel.cu. (719)
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Message 41595 - Posted: 30 Jul 2015 | 11:08:24 UTC - in response to Message 41594.

I'm using 352.62 on W10 after upgrading from W7.

After the install Boinc didn't see any NV drivers but those came in the form of a Windows update, and after a reboot tasks began running again.
Did get a driver fail/recovery and a failed WU today though. The Windows error message popped up on the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
GPUGrid task error was, SWAN : FATAL Unable to load module .mshake_kernel.cu. (719)


Same problems here, a reboot seems to have brought the gpu back online for me too.

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Message 41664 - Posted: 14 Aug 2015 | 14:02:41 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 355.60
Release Date: 2015.8.13

Just in time for the preview of Ashes of the Singularity, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience. This driver also supports the Beta version of the GameWorks VR software development kit (SDK). As a result, users will be able to enjoy the benefits of GameWorks VR with supporting applications and headsets for the first time.

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for Ashes of the Singularity preview.

GameWorks VR Support
Supports Beta release of GameWorks VR SDK, including support for VR SLI, Context Priority, Direct Mode, and Front Buffer Rendering. Learn more at developer.nvidia.com/vr.
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Message 41669 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015 | 12:16:45 UTC - in response to Message 41664.

Your links should either include the Windows 10 version, or you should just link to the driver search page. Windows 10 NVIDIA drivers are a separate package than their WinVista/7/8 drivers.

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Message 41671 - Posted: 17 Aug 2015 | 6:24:11 UTC - in response to Message 41669.

Your links should either include the Windows 10 version, or you should just link to the driver search page. Windows 10 NVIDIA drivers are a separate package than their WinVista/7/8 drivers.

You're absolutely right, Jacob :)
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Message 41672 - Posted: 17 Aug 2015 | 6:25:06 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 355.60
Release Date: 2015.8.13

Just in time for the preview of Ashes of the Singularity, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience. This driver also supports the Beta version of the GameWorks VR software development kit (SDK). As a result, users will be able to enjoy the benefits of GameWorks VR with supporting applications and headsets for the first time.

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for Ashes of the Singularity preview.

GameWorks VR Support
Supports Beta release of GameWorks VR SDK, including support for VR SLI, Context Priority, Direct Mode, and Front Buffer Rendering. Learn more at developer.nvidia.com/vr.
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Message 41720 - Posted: 1 Sep 2015 | 6:42:07 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 355.82
Release Date: 2015.8.31

The latest GeForce Game Ready driver, release 355.82 WHQL, ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Mad Max.

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Best gaming experience for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Mad Max.
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Message 41884 - Posted: 23 Sep 2015 | 7:17:22 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 355.98
Release Date: 2015.9.22

This new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience in Killing Floor 2. This driver is also aligned with the new flagship gaming GPU for notebooks, the GeForce GTX 980. In addition, this Game Ready driver also includes updated features and functionality for the GameWorks VR software development kit (SDK).

Game Ready
Best gaming experience for Killing Floor 2.

New GeForce GPU
Supports the new GeForce GTX 980 for notebooks, based upon the second-generation Maxwell architecture.

GameWorks VR Support
Updated driver support for GameWorks VR SDK, adding notebook support, VR SLI enhancements, and bug fixes.
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Message 41889 - Posted: 23 Sep 2015 | 8:14:08 UTC - in response to Message 41884.

New GeForce GPU
Supports the new GeForce GTX 980 for notebooks, based upon the second-generation Maxwell architecture.

It sounds like they produce too much of this chip (the desktop high-end GPU market is saturated by the GTX 980 & GTX 980 Ti).
But 165W TDP is an excess regarding laptops.

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Message 41976 - Posted: 8 Oct 2015 | 12:46:29 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 358.50
Release Date: 2015.10.7

This new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience in the Star Wars: Battlefront Open Beta. This driver also brings support for the latest OpenGL ARB extensions as well as OpenGL ES 3.2. In addition, this Game Ready driver also includes updated features and functionality for the GameWorks VR software development kit (SDK).

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience here: Star Wars: Battlefront Open Beta

Gaming Technology
Supports OpenGL 2015 ARB extensions and OpenGL ES 3.2

GameWorks VR Support
Updated driver support for GameWorks VR SDK, adding VR SLI enhancements, and bug fixes. Learn more at developer.nvidia.com/vr.
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Message 42110 - Posted: 5 Nov 2015 | 18:19:37 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 358.87
Release Date: 2015.11.4

Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

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Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for Call of Duty: Blacks OPS III, Anno 2205, and the new War Thunder patch with GameWorks.
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Message 42139 - Posted: 10 Nov 2015 | 17:07:45 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 358.91
Release Date: 2015.11.9

Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for Fallout 4, Star Wars: Battlefront, and StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void.
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Message 42190 - Posted: 19 Nov 2015 | 18:29:03 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 359.00
Release Date: 2015.11.19

Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate and Overwatch: Beta.

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Driver support for GameWorks VR 1.0, including Multi-Res shading and Windows 10 support. Learn more at developer.nvidia.com/vr.
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Message 42281 - Posted: 2 Dec 2015 | 16:01:29 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 359.06
Release Date : 2015.12.01

Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for Just Cause 3 and Rainbow Six : Siege.
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Message 42476 - Posted: 22 Dec 2015 | 10:19:03 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 361.43
Release Date : 2015.12.21

NVIDIA continues to work closely with VR headset and game developers to deliver amazing VR games and applications. This Game Ready driver includes the latest GameWorks VR tweaks, bug fixes, and optimizations to ensure you have the ultimate VR gaming experience.

Gaming Technology
Support added for GameWorks VR 1.1 including VR SLI support for OpenGL applications and support for the latest Oculus SDK.
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Message 42487 - Posted: 24 Dec 2015 | 9:38:57 UTC - in response to Message 42476.

FYI
I encountered a big problem with installing the latest NVIDIA driver - 361.43 - on my laptop ASUS

ASUS ROG G741JM

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3]
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M (2048MB)

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Error message at startup : Kernel-Security-Check-Failure

Multiple problems at laptop startup
Trouble when browsing Google Chrome
BOINC Manager 7.6.9 no longer runs ! :(
I have uninstalled the driver 361.43 and reinstalled the old driver 359.06
No problem with the driver 359.06
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Message 42701 - Posted: 27 Jan 2016 | 16:28:12 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 361.75
Release Date : 2016.01.27

Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tom Clancy’s The Division (Beta).

Gaming Technology
Beta support on GeForce GTX GPUs for external graphics over Thunderbolt 3.
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Message 42824 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016 | 9:35:56 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 361.91
Release Date : 2016.02.15

Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for ARMA 3, Street Fighter V, Monster Hunter Online, and HITMAN (Beta).
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Message 42871 - Posted: 1 Mar 2016 | 18:30:01 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 362.00
Release Date : 2016.03.01

Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Far Cry Primal, and the latest update for Dying Light.
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Message 42946 - Posted: 7 Mar 2016 | 16:31:11 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 364.47
Release Date : 2016.03.07

Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for Tom Clancy’s The Division, Hitman, Need for Speed, Ashes of the Singularity, and Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Gaming Technology
Support for Vulkan API.
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Message 42968 - Posted: 9 Mar 2016 | 17:48:42 UTC

Nvidia Yanks Problematic GeForce 364.47 Driver Update
Maximum PC - ‎40 minutes ago‎



Nvidia this week released a Game Ready driver (version 364.47) that was intended to deliver the best possible performance for Ubisoft's latest Tom Clancy title, The Division, but has since pulled it offline after reports of various problems.

http://www.maximumpc.com/nvidia-yanks-problematic-geforce-36447-driver-update/

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Message 42991 - Posted: 13 Mar 2016 | 2:56:50 UTC

364.51 drivers were released on Thursday, as a replacement/fix for the catastrophic installation issues in the 364.47 drivers.

HOWEVER...

I have noticed full-system-freezes with 364.51. So, for right now, I'd stay away from any R364 driver. I'm using 362.00, the last R361 driver, as a workaround.

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Message 42994 - Posted: 13 Mar 2016 | 7:56:57 UTC - in response to Message 42991.

Thanks Jacob!
I was going to post the update but you were faster than me :)
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Message 42995 - Posted: 13 Mar 2016 | 9:56:59 UTC

A general advice to avoid this kind of problem:
It it ain't broke, don't fix it.
From GPUGrid's (or any GPU project's) point of view there's no point in updating the NVidia driver every time they put a new version (even a new major version) on their website. It won't make your GPU crunch faster. The GPUGrid app is built on CUDA 6.5, which is an older release (other projects use an even older release; the current one is 8.0). Perhaps the GPUGrid app will be updated in the future, and then we have to update the driver, but until then I would refrain from doing so. Even the latest game titles will work with older drivers, however there could be 5-15% better performance if the driver is optimized for that game.

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Message 42996 - Posted: 13 Mar 2016 | 12:55:35 UTC - in response to Message 42995.

You're right, Retvari! As usual... ;)
I'm just updating this thread for that the volunteers to know that a new NVIDIA driver is available.
But it's true that it is not absolutely necessary to update systematically.
This thread is updated for informational purposes.
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Message 43035 - Posted: 17 Mar 2016 | 22:50:23 UTC
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I run the latest everything. I consider it my job to find the bugs, so normal users don't suffer :-p

I'm even directly responsible for getting some of the NVIDIA bugs fixed, for pre-Fermi GPUs working on projects, and for a couple other bugs. Fun!

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Message 43102 - Posted: 29 Mar 2016 | 8:38:45 UTC

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Message 43322 - Posted: 8 May 2016 | 9:44:21 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 365.10
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Message 43323 - Posted: 8 May 2016 | 9:52:35 UTC

Please note!

From Jacob - Forum Number crunching - Thread Nvidia OpenCL problem for 364.* drivers

I have confirmed that today's 365.10 drivers do NOT fix the OpenCL problems -- PrimeGrid miscalculation and Poem@Home TDRs.

I'd recommend users to stick with 362.00, and projects to take action to prevent issuing OpenCL tasks to R364 users.

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Message 43420 - Posted: 15 May 2016 | 7:48:14 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 365.19
Release Date : 2016.05.13

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Message 43427 - Posted: 15 May 2016 | 11:25:04 UTC
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:)

I have confirmed that the new DOOM 365.19 drivers do NOT fix the PrimeGrid OpenCL/CUDA miscalculations. They DO fix the POEM@Home OpenCL TDR/Crash problems.

I'd recommend users to stick with 362.00, and projects to take action to prevent issuing CUDA or OpenCL tasks to R364 users.

Note:
For both of these issues, I am the main user working with NVIDIA to solve them. And I'm told from my NVIDIA contacts that we can expect the miscalculation fix to land in the next driver, due later this month. So, maybe THEN I can finally upgrade to R364 :)

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Message 43437 - Posted: 16 May 2016 | 7:08:47 UTC - in response to Message 43427.

Thanks for the heads-up Jacob :)
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Message 43507 - Posted: 23 May 2016 | 16:01:31 UTC - in response to Message 42991.

364.51 drivers were released on Thursday, as a replacement/fix for the catastrophic installation issues in the 364.47 drivers.

HOWEVER...

I have noticed full-system-freezes with 364.51. So, for right now, I'd stay away from any R364 driver. I'm using 362.00, the last R361 driver, as a workaround.

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Thanks again for pointing this out. I have 14 - 750Ti and 1 - 670 GPUs running GPUGrid. (Seems that a couple of the more eliteest users here want to exclude these GPUs, however some of us don't have IT dept budgets to plunder.) Out of the thousands of WUs that these modest GPUs have completed successfully in the last 9 months (until very recently almost always in under 24 hours) there have been 3 "Errors while computing", all on one machine but not always on the same GPU. This last time I caught it. Turns out that I still had 364.47 drivers running on that box and sometimes when work was low here a SETI WU would run. The SETI cuda WUs were OK but the opencl_nvidia app sometimes can cause the GPUGrid WU to error. I also have AMD GPUs running opencl_ati Moo in a couple machines along with the GPUGrid NV GPU. Haven't any problems with that app.

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Message 43508 - Posted: 23 May 2016 | 16:18:07 UTC
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:) R364 has been all over the board, in types of problems, for some users, including me. I'm expecting R368 in the next week or so, to fix most of the issues, while introducing new ones!

EDIT: Apparently R368 was released 3 hours ago. Time to test!
EDIT 2: Apparently, it is R367 actually, with a version of 368.22. Fun!

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Message 43525 - Posted: 24 May 2016 | 15:09:22 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 368.22
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Message 43535 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 0:19:16 UTC
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What I've seen so far indicates that 368.22 fixes the problems (including one CUDA problem) if it will install properly - but the installation fails on some hardware/Windows combinations in a way that makes the computer unbootable.

It installed properly on my Windows 10 computer and is running without errors.

However, on my Windows Vista computer (Intel Q9650 CPU, GTX 560, 8 GB memory, 64-bit Windows Vista SP1), the screen went black perhaps halfway through the installation, and stayed that way until I turned off the computer about an hour later. Attempting to reinstall 362.00 ended with messages that newer versions of some parts were already present, and were not changed. The computer has gone downhill over another 6 hours and now will not boot, either normally or in safe mode. While I was still able to run the hardware diagnostics, they reported no errors. System Restore will not run.

I've already reported this to Nvidia, but can any of you suggest what to do to make that computer run properly again?

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Message 43536 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 0:46:39 UTC - in response to Message 43535.

While I was still able to run the hardware diagnostics, they reported no errors. System Restore will not run.

I've already reported this to Nvidia, but can any of you suggest what to do to make that computer run properly again?

Did you do a CHKDSK? It looks like a disk drive failure to me. It may be that the driver problem corrupted the disk, but in either case you may have to re-install your OS.

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Message 43537 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 0:49:33 UTC - in response to Message 43535.

What I've seen so far indicates that 368.22 fixes the problems (including one CUDA problem) if it will install properly - but the installation fails on some hardware/Windows combinations in a way that makes the computer unbootable.

It installed properly on my Windows 10 computer and is running without errors.

However, on my Windows Vista computer (Intel Q9650 CPU, GTX 560, 8 GB memory, 64-bit Windows Vista SP1), the screen went black perhaps halfway through the installation, and stayed that way until I turned off the computer about an hour later. Attempting to reinstall 362.00 ended with messages that newer versions of some parts were already present, and were not changed. The computer has gone downhill over another 6 hours and now will not boot, either normally or in safe mode. While I was still able to run the hardware diagnostics, they reported no errors. System Restore will not run.

I've already reported this to Nvidia, but can any of you suggest what to do to make that computer run properly again?


See my reply here:
http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/forum_thread.php?id=1205&postid=11079

368.22 does not support Vista. 365.19 is the latest Vista driver.

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Message 43538 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 1:16:41 UTC - in response to Message 43537.
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See my reply here:
http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/forum_thread.php?id=1205&postid=11079

368.22 does not support Vista. 365.19 is the latest Vista driver.

This seems like another large NVidia FAIL. If the drivers don't support Vista, the installation program should not continue.

Sorry Robert, if you don't have a backup you may need to reinstall Windows, in which case you might want to try either a newer Windows version or perhaps Linux if you want some challenge in your life.

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Message 43539 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 1:18:42 UTC

I agree completely.

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Message 43540 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 2:29:48 UTC
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My backup device hasn't worked for the last few years. My last usable backups appear to be from 2010.

I've been trying Cygwin under Windows as a way to start trying Linux; it still looks rather difficult to do much.

I don't have a usable way to take it to Windows 10 quickly, but do have a set of DVDs to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. I might try that if it allows me to put Windows 7 on a separate hard drive that is almost ready to install.

I've decided that Windows 10 has very poor methods for finding programs that do not happen to be in a reasonable place on the Start menu.

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Message 43541 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 3:05:48 UTC - in response to Message 43540.

I don't have a usable way to take it to Windows 10 quickly, but do have a set of DVDs to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. I might try that if it allows me to put Windows 7 on a separate hard drive that is almost ready to install.

You could start from a Linux boot disk and try deleting whatever NVidia files you find, try Hiren's boot disk:

http://downloads.tomsguide.com/Hiren-s-Boot-CD,0301-51033.html

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hirenscd2bootableusb/

There's lots of recovery options and utilities on the above startup disk/USB. Since you have a Win 7 DVD, that might also be a good option. Win 7 is about as good as Windows gets IMO. Didn't like 8, 8.1 was a bit better, not enthusiastic about 10.

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Message 43544 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 9:04:01 UTC - in response to Message 43540.
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I've decided that Windows 10 has very poor methods for finding programs that do not happen to be in a reasonable place on the Start menu.
There are two ways to circumvent this:
1. click on the start icon, then immediately type in the name of the application you're looking for.
1a Click on all applications on the bottom of the start menu, and then scroll down
If you right click on the icon of the app, you can pin/unpin it to the start menu. You can resize the start menu by grabbing its border.
2. create a shortcut on your desktop to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"
you can pin this location to the quick access

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Message 43552 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 10:28:56 UTC

Robert, you may be able to perform a Repair Installation on Vista if you have a Vista media disk.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html
You might also be able to boot to a W7 disk and use some of the disk tools or commands to check for problems, or just boot to a command prompt and delete what you can of the driver.

You might also want to try removing and reinserting the GPU:
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Message 43553 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 10:50:39 UTC - in response to Message 43535.

I've already reported this to Nvidia, but can any of you suggest what to do to make that computer run properly again?
You should try to press F8 (repeatedly) at system startup, right after the BIOS passes the boot to the OS.
Then you should select the "Enable VGA mode" or something similar.

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Message 43555 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 10:59:12 UTC - in response to Message 43540.
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My backup device hasn't worked for the last few years. My last usable backups appear to be from 2010.

I've been trying Cygwin under Windows as a way to start trying Linux; it still looks rather difficult to do much.

I don't have a usable way to take it to Windows 10 quickly, but do have a set of DVDs to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. I might try that if it allows me to put Windows 7 on a separate hard drive that is almost ready to install.

I've decided that Windows 10 has very poor methods for finding programs that do not happen to be in a reasonable place on the Start menu.


One other option is to look for a 'Restore Point', that should get you back up and running to the last time your pc was actually working. You may have to go into Safe Mode to do that though.

Once you get something working, in Windows, look for the backup program Macrium Reflect, it lets you do free backups on a schedule. I use it on all of my pc's and do every pc every month that way. I have a hard drive hooked up to one of my pc's and thru simple networking all my pc's back up to that one drive.

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Message 43560 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 12:37:47 UTC - in response to Message 43535.

... and now will not boot, either normally or in safe mode.

Robert did say he's tried to boot in safe mode but that it wouldn't start.

I presumed he tried all the likely options but if Safe Mode only was tried I would try Last Known Good Configuration next and then Zoltan's suggestion - it's the one people forget to try, "Enable low resolution-video (640 X 480)". If it boots, uninstall/hack out the failed driver and install a working version, clearing the registry.



BTW Robert, Windows 7 Ultimate to W10 wasn't a free update last time I checked!
Ultimate is considered the Enterprise version, so you would have to pay for the upgrade.
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Message 43561 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 12:56:42 UTC - in response to Message 43560.
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.. and now will not boot, either normally or in safe mode.

Robert did say he's tried to boot in safe mode but that it wouldn't start.

I presumed he tried all the likely options but if Safe Mode only was tried I would try Last Known Good Configuration next and then Zoltan's suggestion - it's the one people forget to try, "Enable low resolution-video (640 X 480)". If it boots, uninstall/hack out the failed driver and install a working version, clearing the registry.


"Last Known" is a good suggestion. As are the "VGA-only" or "Low-resolution safe mode" options. If he has access to those, he should try them, in order to then run DDU.


BTW Robert, Windows 7 Ultimate to W10 wasn't a free update last time I checked!
Ultimate is considered the Enterprise version, so you would have to pay for the upgrade.

Incorrect.

See here, for lots of upgrade FAQ info:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/upgrade-to-windows-10-faq

...including:
What edition of Windows will I get as part of the free upgrade?
Windows 7 Ultimate --> Windows 10 Pro
The free upgrade offer to Windows 10 will end on July 29, 2016.

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Message 43564 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 13:07:07 UTC - in response to Message 43552.

Robert, you may be able to perform a Repair Installation on Vista if you have a Vista media disk.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html
You might also be able to boot to a W7 disk and use some of the disk tools or commands to check for problems, or just boot to a command prompt and delete what you can of the driver.

You might also want to try removing and reinserting the GPU:
Turn the system off, remove the GPU, start up the system, let it fail. Turn it off again and then insert the GPU. When it boots up again it might detect the GPU and install default display drivers or prompt for the drivers.


That link calls for steps that require preparing a DVD on the Vista system you want to repair. Since it will not boot, that cannot be done.

I found the Vista media disk. I tried everything it offers that does not require losing all my data. None of it appeared to help, but I'm now able to boot to a command prompt, which did not work before.

I'll see what the W7 upgrade disk offers later.

Do you mean removing and reinserting just the GPU, or the whole graphics board?

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Message 43565 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 13:13:52 UTC - in response to Message 43560.

BTW Robert, Windows 7 Ultimate to W10 wasn't a free update last time I checked!
Ultimate is considered the Enterprise version, so you would have to pay for the upgrade.

Ultimate is not the same licensing as enterprise. Ultimate should be a free upgrade to Windows 10 (with valid key), Enterprise is not (so far). Ultimate is a consumer product, Enterprise is supposed to be only for large corporate accounts.

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Message 43570 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 15:40:35 UTC - in response to Message 43565.

My bad, there is no Ultimate version of W10 and thus you can't update to that but you can to W10 Pro. The Enterprise update (business range) is available if you have Software Assurance (or similar/whatever they may call it now).

One thing I can hopefully advise on correctly is that if you try to update straight onto new hardware (say you replace the HDD with a SSD and try to use the W7/W8.1 key) it will likely fail and you may need to reactivate your W7/8.1 key again before trying again. Better to keep existing hardware, update and activate W10 before changing the hardware (changing a drive might require you to install W10 again, but once W10 has been activated you can do this as many times as you need).

Back to the topic,
No issues with 368.22 Beta since it's been installed and the computer restarted, however the start menu didn't work properly immediately after the installation (which was a driver update rather than clean install). As with an earlier beta when I went to restart after installing the drivers I couldn't click on menu items, such as Power, Restart.
Used shutdown /r from a command prompt - just in case anyone experiences that problem.
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Message 43571 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 15:46:03 UTC - in response to Message 43560.

... and now will not boot, either normally or in safe mode.

Robert did say he's tried to boot in safe mode but that it wouldn't start.

I presumed he tried all the likely options but if Safe Mode only was tried I would try Last Known Good Configuration next and then Zoltan's suggestion - it's the one people forget to try, "Enable low resolution-video (640 X 480)". If it boots, uninstall/hack out the failed driver and install a working version, clearing the registry.


One of the programs I ran from the installation DVD that tried to do a repair and SAID that it wasn't able to do anything actually restored my ability to do normal boots, and safe mode boots with command prompt.

Geforce Experience now says that the currently installed driver is 362.00 and offers to install 365.19.

I'll try to start BOINC and see if it agrees that 362.00 is installed, before I make any other changes.

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Message 43572 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 15:46:18 UTC - in response to Message 43570.

One thing I can hopefully advise on correctly is that if you try to update straight onto new hardware (say you replace the HDD with a SSD and try to use the W7/W8.1 key) it will likely fail and you may need to reactivate your W7/8.1 key again before trying again. Better to keep existing hardware, update and activate W10 before changing the hardware (changing a drive might require you to install W10 again, but once W10 has been activated you can do this as many times as you need).
Theoretically the 2nd release of Windows 10 (November 2015. aka v1511) accepts the product key of the corresponding previous versions, but only until the free upgrade period ends.

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Message 43573 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 15:52:33 UTC - in response to Message 43571.
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BOINC started and agrees that 362.00 is installed. I'm going to let it run a while before I do much more.

In case you're wondering, the GTX 560 in that computer is still inadequate for GPUGRID. So is the GT 440 in my other desktop.

By the way, using safe mode with command prompt, I was able to find some directories related to driver versions older than 362.00, but none that appeared to be related to 362.00 or more recent. Where on the hard drive should I look to find the CURRENTLY INSTALLED Nvidia driver?

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Message 43575 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 16:53:18 UTC - in response to Message 43573.
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BOINC started and agrees that 362.00 is installed. I'm going to let it run a while before I do much more.

By the way, using safe mode with command prompt, I was able to find some directories related to driver versions older than 362.00, but none that appeared to be related to 362.00 or more recent. Where on the hard drive should I look to find the CURRENTLY INSTALLED Nvidia driver?

What I would do at this point:

1) Uninstall your NVidia drivers
2) DL and run Display Driver Uninstaller - http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
3) Reinstall V362.00

Since we know that v365.** has issues, hopefully NVidia will release a fixed version that works with Vista. Not that I recommend running Vista...

BTW, feel free to delete all those old NV driver directories under C:\NVIDIA\Display Driver
NVidia just lets them pile up and they're both useless and huge.

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Message 43577 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 17:25:28 UTC - in response to Message 43573.

Good to hear you made some positive progress Robert.
When you ran Setup Repair it automatically ran command line tools such as FIXMBR and FIXBOOT and that allowed the system to startup correctly.

I suggest you do some backups before doing anything else.

Sounds like the 362 driver is installed but if in doubt reinstall it again as suggested. I would delete the 365.19 download, any of it's extracted files, and make sure automatic updates are off, just in case it tries to install the same driver again.

On W10 the NVidia folder is,
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation

On Vista temporary locations where NVidia files are extracted/stored are,
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C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Temp or windows\temp

The drivers are installed into the windows\system32 directory,
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Message 43578 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 18:50:15 UTC

Beyond, the 362.00 folder now appears there; it didn't under safe mode with command prompt.

skgiven, backups to what? My disk server no longer works, and backups to DVDs stopped working for me years ago. Setup Repair apparantly did the fix, but then told me that it had not been able to fix anything.

C:\Windows\System32\drivers contains many files, none of which have names that make them look likely to be Nvidia drivers.

Apparently, the program for creating restore points will create them only on the last drive you list as a place to put them, but the program for using restore points will ignore all those which aren't on the C: drive. So if you list more than one drive as places to put them, don't expect them to work.

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Message 43579 - Posted: 25 May 2016 | 20:48:07 UTC - in response to Message 43578.

skgiven, backups to what?

Firstly what do you want to backup? Your files, the system or just create restore points and a last known good configuration?
If your i7-2600 system is on the same network, you could create a shared folder there and backup (some things) to it, or a USB stick/external drive, or even the cloud (possibly) - totally depends what you want/need to backup, but if the system is any use and you want to keep it as is then you should be backing up something IMO.

Setup Repair apparantly did the fix, but then told me that it had not been able to fix anything.

I know, I've been there, that's what it does automatically and not verbosely. It didn't perform a full repair, but would have fixed the MBR or boot settings. Maybe after that was fixed it didn't need to perform a full repair.

C:\Windows\System32\drivers contains many files, none of which have names that make them look likely to be Nvidia drivers.

The files will start with 'nv' and the 'File description' will tell you what they are, however if you have a working NVidia 362 driver then you don't want to delete them. For example,
    nvhda64v.sys (NVidia HDMI Audio driver)
    nvlddmkm.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, version...)
    nvraid.sys (NVIDIA nForce (TM) RAID Driver
    nvvad64v.sys (NVIDIA Virtual Audio Driver)


The date will tell you when they were installed.

Apparently, the program for creating restore points will create them only on the last drive you list as a place to put them, but the program for using restore points will ignore all those which aren't on the C: drive. So if you list more than one drive as places to put them, don't expect them to work.

Use the C drive for restore points. Backups are not restore points. You can backup the restore point. Normally full system (full metal) backups or just your files should be backed up to a second and preferably external/network drive (share). You might be able to extend C to a drive partition on a second disk (disk management), should that be needed and even if a restore point was on another drive (C became corrupt) you could copy the external backup to C (after repairing C). I'm not sure if you Want/Need to do any of that but it's an example of what I might do if I wanted to maintain the system. These are just a suggestions/potential advice. It's your system, so you can do what you want with it.
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Message 43596 - Posted: 27 May 2016 | 7:54:33 UTC - in response to Message 43538.

I have problem with 368.22
I have new card gtx 960 and after some hours of running when I start 3dmark 11 apears artefacts
I have to wate for a while to run 3dmark properly
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Message 43597 - Posted: 27 May 2016 | 8:30:43 UTC - in response to Message 43596.

I don't use that test software and I don't want to install it just to find out (it's not free, though there is a limited free version but that might come with a catch).
Can't say if it's a problem with 368.22 or not. Could be a defected card or just a glitch/compatibility issue in the test software. If you can game and crunch successfully I would say the card is usable though. It might need better cooling/fan control, a reduced clock or voltage adjustment... If you don't overclock and get artefacts with games using 368.22 Beta and other drivers (WHQL) then it's more likely the issue is with the card, but I don't know it's history.
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Message 43748 - Posted: 8 Jun 2016 | 15:03:10 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 368.39
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Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you’ll have the best day-1 gaming experience for your favorite new titles.

Game Ready
Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for Mirror’s Edge Catalyst and Edge of Nowhere.

Gaming Technology
Supports the new GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card which delivers the incredible speed and power of NVIDIA Pascal™—the most advanced GPU ever created. This is the ultimate gaming platform.

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Message 43996 - Posted: 17 Jul 2016 | 6:33:16 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 368.81
Release Date : 2016.07.14

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

VR Game Ready
Provides the optimal experience for new and upcoming Virtual Reality titles including NVIDIA VR Funhouse, Everest VR, Obduction, Raw Data, and The Assembly.

Gaming Technology
Supports the new GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card which delivers the incredible speed and power of NVIDIA Pascal™—the most advanced GPU ever created. This is the ultimate gaming platform.

Ansel Support
Supports the new Ansel technology now available in Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, which allows you to compose your shots from any angle, capture in 2D, 360° and adjust with post-process filters.

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VR Ready GeForce GTX 1080, 1070, and 980 Ti customers can download NVIDIA VR Funhouse from Steam today!
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Message 43998 - Posted: 17 Jul 2016 | 9:43:57 UTC - in response to Message 43996.

If anyone tests it: it would be good to know whether the new driver restores the GPU-Grid performance to the level of 359.00.

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Message 44236 - Posted: 19 Aug 2016 | 12:54:18 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 372.54
Release Date : 2016.08.15

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Message 44248 - Posted: 21 Aug 2016 | 9:05:53 UTC
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From now on one must also consider this:

https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4341&nowrap=true#44190

Microsoft Windows XP/Windows XP 64-bit driver support for GeForce GPUs has been deprecated with driver branch R370_00 and onward. Driver 368.81 is the last driver to support Windows XP/Windows XP 64-bit.

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Message 44372 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016 | 11:44:17 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 372.70
Release Date : 2016.08.30

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Message 44375 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016 | 14:36:25 UTC - in response to Message 44372.
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Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

Thomas, you never tell us the one thing we care about: are these new drivers as fast at GPUGrid as 359.06? So far all the subsequent drivers are slower. Why not address that problem instead of some game? We've been asking about this for a LONG time.

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Message 44378 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016 | 15:50:48 UTC - in response to Message 44375.

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

Thomas, you never tell us the one thing we care about: are these new drivers as fast at GPUGrid as 359.06? So far all the subsequent drivers are slower. Why not address that problem instead of some game? We've been asking about this for a LONG time.

Hi Beyond,
The purpose of this thread is solely to inform you that a new driver has been made available to NVIDIA users.
I don't have time to check the performance of each driver or find out about it.
As team founder, I have many things to manage on multiple BOINC projects but I'm sure someone can answer for me and certainly much better than me :)
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Message 44379 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016 | 16:32:53 UTC - in response to Message 44378.

Hi Thomas,

For some reason or other I assumed that you're affiliated with the NVidia driver team. Not true? A problem is that people see this and assume that since it's posted on the forum these new drivers are good for GPUGrid. It causes problems for people. Here's an example from a few days ago:

https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4364

I doubt if most here could care less about what games are improved. What we care about is running DC projects and specifically GPUGrid. Maybe I'm wrong.

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Message 44380 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016 | 16:37:59 UTC

I want it all (I am a gamer too), and I'll speak up (and solve) any driver that doesn't work properly for GPUGrid.

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Message 44381 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016 | 16:58:14 UTC - in response to Message 44379.

Hi Thomas,

For some reason or other I assumed that you're affiliated with the NVidia driver team. Not true? Maybe I'm wrong.

Yes, you're wrong :(
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Message 44382 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016 | 16:59:00 UTC - in response to Message 44380.

I want it all (I am a gamer too), and I'll speak up (and solve) any driver that doesn't work properly for GPUGrid.

Thanks so much, Jacob... as usual :):):)
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Message 44383 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016 | 18:25:12 UTC - in response to Message 44381.

Hi Thomas,

For some reason or other I assumed that you're affiliated with the NVidia driver team. Not true? Maybe I'm wrong.

Yes, you're wrong :(


Too bad, I was hoping we had an insider to help communicate our needs to NVidia. Care to apply for a job, you'd have our undying gratitude. :-)

(BTW, piecing two quoted sentences from different paragraphs together is not a wonderful idea.)

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Message 44601 - Posted: 30 Sep 2016 | 6:11:44 UTC

Sorry for the delay in the announcement!

Download NVIDIA Driver 372.90
Release Date : 2016.09.21

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Message 44635 - Posted: 7 Oct 2016 | 6:51:43 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 373.06
Release Date : 2016.10.06

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Message 44809 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016 | 10:29:11 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 375.57
Release Date : 2016.10.20

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Game Ready
Provides the optimal experience for Battlefield 1, Civilization VI, and Titanfall 2.

Game Ready VR
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Message 44810 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016 | 10:32:47 UTC

Just a heads up on these new 375.57 drivers:

I think they do work alright for gaming and for crunching, BUT:

They cause the following issues on Windows 10:
- Dragging a tile on Start, will cause it to hang. Workaround: Sign out
- Reading a mail, in the Mail App, causes it to crash.
- Playing .gifs or zooming images, in the Photos app, causes it to crash.
- Sometimes get corruption in streaming videos, like a YouTube video.

NVIDIA is saying that they will be releasing a hotfix driver very soon, to correct these issues where the drivers are causing OS components/apps to crash.

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Message 44811 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016 | 11:21:14 UTC - in response to Message 44810.

Thanks so much for this heads-up, Jacob :)
So it's better to wait for the next driver.
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Message 44812 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016 | 13:30:48 UTC - in response to Message 44810.

NVIDIA is saying that they will be releasing a hotfix driver very soon, to correct these issues where the drivers are causing OS components/apps to crash.

Thanks Jacob. You're saving us from some headaches (NVidaches).

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Message 44814 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016 | 17:40:32 UTC

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Message 44819 - Posted: 23 Oct 2016 | 2:25:02 UTC
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New 375.57 "game ready drivers" provide the best possible causes to crash in windows 10 or other OS))) ..ouch.. im just stop on my most imp. two hosts with nv gf. just minute before inst. that new "magic" from NV.. but im run other project now for weeks..nvmind..)) im wait here on gpugrid for nvidia 8,5 dev and new tasks for 1080..my new combo two 1080...

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Message 44826 - Posted: 23 Oct 2016 | 23:26:19 UTC
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Ahem.
375.63 drivers were released today. I bet they fix the problems I noted before. I'm installing them now.

Edit:
Yes, they appear to fix the issues I noted earlier. There are no release notes, or even references to the prior R375 driver. Shady dealings, NVIDIA.

Now, if I can just figure out why my Firefox crashes randomly lately, when I click on textboxes sometimes. Grrrr. Why am I such a bug magnet? :)

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Message 44828 - Posted: 24 Oct 2016 | 8:43:57 UTC - in response to Message 44826.

Download NVIDIA Driver 375.63
Release Date : 2016.10.23

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Message 44977 - Posted: 28 Oct 2016 | 17:22:00 UTC

Download NVIDIA Driver 375.70
Release Date : 2016.10.28

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Message 44981 - Posted: 28 Oct 2016 | 18:20:49 UTC

Three new driver updates in the last 8 days. Maybe nvidia might want to do at least a little testing...

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Message 44988 - Posted: 28 Oct 2016 | 20:30:09 UTC - in response to Message 44981.

Perhaps they are just adding fixes but I find it very testing and I'm not willing to play crash-test dummy ATM; every time we update the tasks take longer!
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Message 45276 - Posted: 15 Nov 2016 | 23:45:52 UTC - in response to Message 44988.

I noticed the updates are only for GTX drivers and never for Quadro or other types of NVIDIA drivers. Also, you post the link to the main update screen occasionally and not the actual driver page. And lastly, you link to the UK version or the French version instead of to the main ".com" version. None of the links remain consistent on this page. It would be nice to link to one place or to the actual driver in a few languages and also add when new Quadro, Tesla, and GRID drivers come out as well.

Just a suggestion, not intended as any type of mandate. I was trying to find the pre-360 Quatro driver and came here thinking I'd find it and had to search until I found a 358 Quadro from October 2015 after narrowing down searches for my laptop card.
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Message 45278 - Posted: 16 Nov 2016 | 5:42:55 UTC - in response to Message 45276.

The link of the posted page is in english for a very long time.
And once on the page, you have the possibility to select your material manually or to have it detected automatically.



If you want to participate in the feeding of this thread, you can also do it.
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Message 45279 - Posted: 16 Nov 2016 | 5:47:01 UTC
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Download NVIDIA GEFORCE GAME READY Driver 375.86
Release Date : 2016.11.15

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

Game Ready
Provides the optimal experience for Tom Clancy’s The Division Survival DLC, Battlefield 1, Steep: Open Beta, and Civilization VI.
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Message 45281 - Posted: 16 Nov 2016 | 6:01:52 UTC

I will open a new thread more precise :)
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Message 45374 - Posted: 24 Nov 2016 | 7:43:49 UTC

THREAD CLOSED - A new one has been opened here
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