New NVIDIA drivers
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This last time I ‘upgraded’ to the new drivers, my rig $#!+ the bed, and I was down for the week missing good stick time. The NVIDIA setup is too problematic, and I wish I could just get a good stutter-free config that’s guaranteed to work PnP with minor, guaranteed tweaks. I’m at least operational, and I want to keep it that way for a while.
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This last time I ‘upgraded’ to the new drivers, my rig $#!+ the bed, and I was down for the week missing good stick time. The NVIDIA setup is too problematic, and I wish I could just get a good stutter-free config that’s guaranteed to work PnP with minor, guaranteed tweaks. I’m at least operational, and I want to keep it that way for a while.
Your video card setup is close to mine and I don’t have any issues with running 344.11 drivers. You have to be particular in how you set up SLI (Nvidia Inspector for me) and how you un-install and re-install drivers (Nvidia un-install of the old ones is no bueno IMHO) so when I have to go through this process it takes me probably 10-15 minutes to set it up but the payoff is stutter free performance in triple screen Nvidia Surround mode. A well spent 10-15 minutes to be able to run the most recent video drivers for other gaming goodness to me.
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Your video card setup is close to mine and I don’t have any issues with running 344.11 drivers. You have to be particular in how you set up SLI (Nvidia Inspector for me) and how you un-install and re-install drivers (Nvidia un-install of the old ones is no bueno IMHO) so when I have to go through this process it takes me probably 10-15 minutes to set it up but the payoff is stutter free performance in triple screen Nvidia Surround mode. A well spent 10-15 minutes to be able to run the most recent video drivers for other gaming goodness to me.
I think me driving a total of 7 monitors, with 3 of them 27inchers in single NV Surround screen mode (5760x1080), limits some of my configuration options (Windows shows 5 monitors available). I am not running SLI since that further limited how I could attach and drive 4 other monitors for touch screen side cockpit panels and the front console with the extracted gauges/MFDs with the Cougar MFD option. I tried adding a 3rd video card to drive the 4 basic monitors (not the NV Surround set), but the mobo didn’t accept it. I’m in the config you see in the signature.
Never the less, if you would please, I’d be very interested in screen captures of your NVIDIA settings, as well as what you had to do with the HW set up, and Inspector software. I continue to have stuttering, even with the shadows turned off. Mostly it’s near the ground with a busy airbase, or when there are a lot of aircraft in the air around me. Very distracting.
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Tried these n344.11 drivers and they messed up my Dlink monitors not recognized anymore. Previous drivers did not do this. I tried several times and ended up rolling back the earlier ones and presto DLink monitors recognized.
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I think me driving a total of 7 monitors, with 3 of them 27inchers in single NV Surround screen mode (5760x1080), limits some of my configuration options (Windows shows 5 monitors available). I am not running SLI since that further limited how I could attach and drive 4 other monitors for touch screen side cockpit panels and the front console with the extracted gauges/MFDs with the Cougar MFD option. I tried adding a 3rd video card to drive the 4 basic monitors (not the NV Surround set), but the mobo didn’t accept it. I’m in the config you see in the signature.
Never the less, if you would please, I’d be very interested in screen captures of your NVIDIA settings, as well as what you had to do with the HW set up, and Inspector software. I continue to have stuttering, even with the shadows turned off. Mostly it’s near the ground with a busy airbase, or when there are a lot of aircraft in the air around me. Very distracting.
Good point as I also changed up to using my laptop to drive the 4th monitor for MFDE as my experience has been that MFDE runs better in server/client than in stand alone mode. The main system ran just fine running four monitors prior to this change. The only reason for the change was MFDE itself. So I am currently only driving the three monitors at 6010x1080 off of the main system.
I could link to you my current setup but most of the modifications made under NVidia Inspector are SLI based which won’t help your setup. I have seen some people talking about successful newer driver setups without SLI but you would have to research and test to see what works.
One of my things for NVidia is I don’t install anything but the driver and PhysX. I don’t need the 3D drivers, the HDMI audio, and definitely not the NVidia Experience. So what I do is to manually (through windows programs and features) un-install the PhysX and the video drivers then after a few reboots while windows sets up it’s own video driver then I run the updated NVidia setup and make sure to select the clean install and only having the driver and PhysX selected.
I then re-build my NVidia Inspector profile for BMS. I know it has a save and load feature but I haven’t had any success at that actually working. I.E. I have attempted the save and load feature of inspector but the stuttering remained. I then deleted the loaded profile and re-built it manually then it works fine.
Even so I can PM you screen shots of my adjustments that allow me BMS goodness and you can test to see what helps or doesn’t for you.
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Good point as I also changed up to using my laptop to drive the 4th monitor for MFDE as my experience has been that MFDE runs better in server/client than in stand alone mode. The main system ran just fine running four monitors prior to this change. The only reason for the change was MFDE itself. So I am currently only driving the three monitors at 6010x1080 off of the main system.
I could link to you my current setup but most of the modifications made under NVidia Inspector are SLI based which won’t help your setup. I have seen some people talking about successful newer driver setups without SLI but you would have to research and test to see what works.
One of my things for NVidia is I don’t install anything but the driver and PhysX. I don’t need the 3D drivers, the HDMI audio, and definitely not the NVidia Experience. So what I do is to manually (through windows programs and features) un-install the PhysX and the video drivers then after a few reboots while windows sets up it’s own video driver then I run the updated NVidia setup and make sure to select the clean install and only having the driver and PhysX selected.
I then re-build my NVidia Inspector profile for BMS. I know it has a save and load feature but I haven’t had any success at that actually working. I.E. I have attempted the save and load feature of inspector but the stuttering remained. I then deleted the loaded profile and re-built it manually then it works fine.
Even so I can PM you screen shots of my adjustments that allow me BMS goodness and you can test to see what helps or doesn’t for you.
That would be great. Thanks. I have a couple laptops that might just work for C/S MFDE config. I might have a few more options available if I have one less monitor to push, and then be able to go to SLI. Appreciate the collaboration…
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That would be great. Thanks. I have a couple laptops that might just work for C/S MFDE config. I might have a few more options available if I have one less monitor to push, and then be able to go to SLI. Appreciate the collaboration…
PM sent.
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Anyone have troubles on start up and going to 3d world with geforce experience 2.1.2?
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I don’t even install GeForce experience. I do the very minimalistic install that I can to keep driver bloat to a minimum.
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I don’t even install GeForce experience. I do the very minimalistic install that I can to keep driver bloat to a minimum.
the only reason why i have it to begin with is shadowplay.
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I´am running Falcon BMS on Nvidia 2xgtx670 SLI Surround 3 X 27" (5760x1080) + 22" (1680x1050) for MFDE and i have never been able run without the setting (Cockpit Display to External windows) checked (window mode)… But after installing 344.11 drivers i get problem with stutter again.
So i uncheck (Cockpit Display to External windows) and now I can run Falcon BMS in fullscreen mode without any problems.
344.11 drivers is the best solution for my setup.
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For me disabling tripple buffering in BMS config and in the driver improved a lot the stutters issue. GTX-780 and extracting displays with the default extractor (windowed mode of course).
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Got these nVidia drivers working fine. Had to install newest DL drivers with clean install. No difference noticed for BMS.
Edit: I had to turn on SLI and also AFR2 settings in nVidia Inspector again, after driver install or the stutters were back.
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@ TheRandomSqueak
Strange you say that. I ran 344.11 and had to go back to 340.52
Every time I attempted to launch falcon I kept getting some sort of error message. It was only with 344.11. But we do have different gpus so maybe thats the problem???
Just a question …
What is your OS?
When you revert to the older driver, how do you prevent Windows to download and install automatically the latests? … because on my Win8.1, it is automatic and I do not see how to prevent it! https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?20147-Real-bad-stuttering-on-the-ground&p=293799&viewfull=1#post293799
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@ TheRandomSqueak
Just a question …
What is your OS?
When you revert to the older driver, how do you prevent Windows to download and install automatically the latests? … because on my Win8.1, it is automatic and I do not see how to prevent it! https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?20147-Real-bad-stuttering-on-the-ground&p=293799&viewfull=1#post293799
Dee-Jay
I read in your prev post you have turned off windows updates, however the newer nvidia drivers can also auto update I believe, something to do with 'GeForce Experience or some such. Have you tried this tool;
Cleans out any remnants, auto boots your OS into safe mode. Also when installing fresh always choose ‘Custom (Advanced)’ option and put a check in ‘Perform clean install’ box, and only install whats needed. For my part I only ever choose, drivers and Physx. Hope this might help.
Good luck
Fubar2Niner
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Gonna give a try.
And found how to inactivate drivers auto updates from Windows settings.
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Thank you very much!
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I have been installing new drivers as they come up hoping that one day the stuttering would be fixed with focus shadows on. The driver version 344.11 seems to have smoothed them out pretty good now. I messed with the settings trying to make it better and noticed a new setting in the Nvidia control panel called shade cache that wasn’t there before. It is set to on and the description sounds like it was specifically made to help with stuttering due to shadows. This driver helped me. It may be worth trying to see if others can turn the focus shadows back on.
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1. NVidia Driver v344.48 is out!
2. There’s also a new version of Display Driver Uninstaller 13.5.1.0 (10-31-2014)Cheers
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NVidia Driver v344.60 is out!
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NVidia Driver v344.65 WHQL is out!