New Nvidia drivers released!!

WylieCoyote1511 · May 2014

For those that are interested

Skillet · May 2014

No SLI profile for ESO included. Soon.

Xupacabra · May 2014

First thing that pop up today here... already installed.

dietlime · May 2014

Skillet wrote: »

No SLI profile for ESO included. Soon.

SLI has been historically poorly supported in almost every game, offering at most a 20% performance gain over a single card; but on average less than 12%.

SLI is for people who:

1.) Happen to have two of the same card anyway.

2.) Have extremely too much money and just want to go over the top.

3.) OEM manufacturers of laptops who want to design with redundancy.

You are almost always better off buying a single, more expensive card and updating it more often, selling off the old one second-hand.

Expecting great SLI support is unreasonable, most games that support it barely gain anything from it, and it's falling from favor in the industry on the development side because the gains are often not worth the effort.

I hope a profile comes around, as I do happen to have two of the same card: but I bought them for two different computers. When one got upgraded, the other became SLI. I don't hold my breath of discount developers for lacking in SLI support.

JasonSilverSpring · May 2014

dietlime wrote: »

Skillet wrote: »

No SLI profile for ESO included. Soon.

SLI has been historically poorly supported in almost every game, offering at most a 20% performance gain over a single card; but on average less than 12%.

SLI is for people who:

1.) Happen to have two of the same card anyway.

2.) Have extremely too much money and just want to go over the top.

3.) OEM manufacturers of laptops who want to design with redundancy.

You are almost always better off buying a single, more expensive card and updating it more often, selling off the old one second-hand.

Expecting great SLI support is unreasonable, most games that support it barely gain anything from it, and it's falling from favor in the industry on the development side because the gains are often not worth the effort.

I hope a profile comes around, as I do happen to have two of the same card: but I bought them for two different computers. When one got upgraded, the other became SLI. I don't hold my breath of discount developers for lacking in SLI support.

Sorry, but I disagree. There are some games that do not scale well in SLI but there are also many games that scale in the 50% improvement or more. Getting true 100% gains is very rare, but I cannot think of many games in my Steam archive that supported SLI which only got a 20% improvement.

With forced AFR2 in ESO I already see a reasonable scaling performance.

I do agree that going with one powerful GPU will give overall better performance than 2 or more lower level ones. But, at times it is easier and more cost effective to upgrade by getting a second of your current GPU than buying a newer one.

Also, for some people using either 3D, multiple monitors or 4K resolutions a multi-GPU is very beneficial.

esoone · May 2014

dietlime wrote: »

Skillet wrote: »

No SLI profile for ESO included. Soon.

SLI has been historically poorly supported in almost every game, offering at most a 20% performance gain over a single card; but on average less than 12%.

SLI is for people who:

1.) Happen to have two of the same card anyway.

2.) Have extremely too much money and just want to go over the top.

3.) OEM manufacturers of laptops who want to design with redundancy.

You are almost always better off buying a single, more expensive card and updating it more often, selling off the old one second-hand.

Expecting great SLI support is unreasonable, most games that support it barely gain anything from it, and it's falling from favor in the industry on the development side because the gains are often not worth the effort.

I hope a profile comes around, as I do happen to have two of the same card: but I bought them for two different computers. When one got upgraded, the other became SLI. I don't hold my breath of discount developers for lacking in SLI support.

BF4 is crazy wit 3 Titan.

benrsb16_ESO · May 2014

So Wildstar not even officially out yet, and BAM! new nvidia driver release with dedicated SLI profile for it, ready for headstart.

Seriously guys... quite disappointing, to say the least: almost 2 months since release, we still seeing this crap with CPU load spiking and multiple GPUs going 99% / 0% in SLI config (yes I know the tweak about AFR2 - is by no means comparable to a native profile, just a dumbed down workaround to sort of spread the load between cards).

Sigh.

danteafk · May 2014

dietlime wrote: »

Skillet wrote: »

No SLI profile for ESO included. Soon.

SLI has been historically poorly supported in almost every game, offering at most a 20% performance gain over a single card; but on average less than 12%.

SLI is for people who:

1.) Happen to have two of the same card anyway.

2.) Have extremely too much money and just want to go over the top.

3.) OEM manufacturers of laptops who want to design with redundancy.

You are almost always better off buying a single, more expensive card and updating it more often, selling off the old one second-hand.

Expecting great SLI support is unreasonable, most games that support it barely gain anything from it, and it's falling from favor in the industry on the development side because the gains are often not worth the effort.

I hope a profile comes around, as I do happen to have two of the same card: but I bought them for two different computers. When one got upgraded, the other became SLI. I don't hold my breath of discount developers for lacking in SLI support.

You have no idea and you're jealous. Compensating your lack of money and jealousy with your own arguments which are bad.

coppersloane · May 2014

Hey, guys, maybe you could stop flicking boogers at each other for a moment and actually report on how ESO is running with the new drivers? That would be great.

theyancey · May 2014

In addition to the new 337.88 drivers GeForce Experience will auto optimize ESO.

Indarqeen · May 2014

20% gain!! thats quiet good

tanthil · May 2014

dietlime wrote: »

Skillet wrote: »

No SLI profile for ESO included. Soon.

SLI has been historically poorly supported in almost every game, offering at most a 20% performance gain over a single card; but on average less than 12%.

SLI is for people who:

1.) Happen to have two of the same card anyway.

2.) Have extremely too much money and just want to go over the top.

3.) OEM manufacturers of laptops who want to design with redundancy.

You are almost always better off buying a single, more expensive card and updating it more often, selling off the old one second-hand.

Expecting great SLI support is unreasonable, most games that support it barely gain anything from it, and it's falling from favor in the industry on the development side because the gains are often not worth the effort.

I hope a profile comes around, as I do happen to have two of the same card: but I bought them for two different computers. When one got upgraded, the other became SLI. I don't hold my breath of discount developers for lacking in SLI support.

historically, yes, if you take all the data from day one, sure 20% maybe the average increase but in the last couple of years the gain has skyrocketed, specifically with pci-e bandwidth more then doubling(mobos being built to cater to sli/xfire setups, rather then having the bandwidth for 1 card being shared between 2)

also it would be zenimax slowing down and sli support as it has been shown both nvidea and ati love to get in there and work with devs on big name games and have everything ready for release, if, and only if they are granted the support needed

Madval · May 2014

Nice tks I'll install it right now !

wrlifeboil · May 2014

Not that I care about sli but it is interesting that the v337.88 patch notes says Wildstar SLI profile added.

wrlifeboil · May 2014

theyancey wrote: »

In addition to the new 337.88 drivers GeForce Experience will auto optimize ESO.

What does your "auto optmized" eso profile settings look like?

michaelpatrickjonesnub18_ESO · May 2014

wrlifeboil wrote: »

Not that I care about sli but...v337.88 patch notes says Wildstar SLI profile added.

Not that I care about Wildstar, but that's what you call good management.

As opposed to...

Bad management.

HandofBane · May 2014

theyancey wrote: »

In addition to the new 337.88 drivers GeForce Experience will auto optimize ESO.

Is GeForce Experience actually worth using now? When it first released, I tried using it on Skyrim and it ended up turning on all the oddest settings, tanking my fps hard and causing everything to stutter badly when turning in place.

Maverick827 · May 2014

Anyone know if the latest drivers fix the invisible ghost issue?

Skillet · May 2014

dietlime wrote: »

Skillet wrote: »

No SLI profile for ESO included. Soon.

SLI has been historically poorly supported in almost every game, offering at most a 20% performance gain over a single card; but on average less than 12%.

SLI is for people who:

1.) Happen to have two of the same card anyway.

2.) Have extremely too much money and just want to go over the top.

3.) OEM manufacturers of laptops who want to design with redundancy.

You are almost always better off buying a single, more expensive card and updating it more often, selling off the old one second-hand.

Expecting great SLI support is unreasonable, most games that support it barely gain anything from it, and it's falling from favor in the industry on the development side because the gains are often not worth the effort.

I hope a profile comes around, as I do happen to have two of the same card: but I bought them for two different computers. When one got upgraded, the other became SLI. I don't hold my breath of discount developers for lacking in SLI support.

Me thinks you have had bad experiences with SLI, mine have been very good, been PC'ing with SLI since BF2. Only way to go.

theyancey · May 2014

wrlifeboil wrote: »

theyancey wrote: »

In addition to the new 337.88 drivers GeForce Experience will auto optimize ESO.

What does your "auto optmized" eso profile settings look like?

That will be different for different rigs. My view distance is 100. All options are set to on. 1920x1080 rez, full sreen. Shadow quality and particle density set to ultra. Sub sampling, texture quality, and water reflection quality set to high.

Tarwin · May 2014

HandofBane wrote: »

theyancey wrote: »

In addition to the new 337.88 drivers GeForce Experience will auto optimize ESO.

Is GeForce Experience actually worth using now? When it first released, I tried using it on Skyrim and it ended up turning on all the oddest settings, tanking my fps hard and causing everything to stutter badly when turning in place.

I'm not a huge fan of it at all. I think it only dables with the game video settings and for ESO there aren't exactly tons to play around with. I also play on a mobile GTX780 and I'm not sure if GFE understands the difference between mobile and desktop GPU's

Regardless, everything on Max set manually and the FPS rarely dip below 40 and peek at 90ish

wrlifeboil · May 2014

theyancey wrote: »

wrlifeboil wrote: »

theyancey wrote: »

In addition to the new 337.88 drivers GeForce Experience will auto optimize ESO.

What does your "auto optmized" eso profile settings look like?

That will be different for different rigs. My view distance is 100. All options are set to on. 1920x1080 rez, full sreen. Shadow quality and particle density set to ultra. Sub sampling, texture quality, and water reflection quality set to high.

I know that. Which "auto-optimized" settings were different than the settings that you were already using?

SteveCampsOut · May 2014

Well the first thing the new drivers did was change my default speakers from my Logitech Wireless headset to my 610 GT's HDMI output port for no particular reason! My TV wasn't even turned on!