nVidia drivers

[STRONTIUM DOG]

I never install experience, I just install driver

that's because your intelligent

 

[ebbrell]

Arrrr thanks, see wife I am

 

[CMDR John Luke Paperbone]

Just as a matter of interest, what version of nVidia drivers are you using if you have the relevant card?

I can see the latest are 441.12 and I'm toying with upgrading - which always makes me jittery - and I've never updated the drivers; consequently, mine are really old. But if it ain't broke etc.

My PC is, basically, an i7 5820K o/c to 4.4ghz, a GTX980ti and 16gb RAM.

EDITED - better English and a clarifiction on CPU

Video card drivers update woes are a thing of the past. I remember it well, you had to remove the old driver, disconnect the pc from the internet, run driver cleaner, reboot, install new driver you downloaded before, reboot, reconnect the pc to the net. Nowadays that has changed. I use nvidia experience ( think that’s the name ) to automatically download and install new drivers. In the last couple of years I’ve upgraded video card drivers every time a new one became available, and never had a problem.

So, really no need in not upgrading regularly to the lasted available vid card driver, in my opinion.

 

[Codger]

I just install the latest a few days after it lands. I let GEForce Experience do its thing and have had no issues.

 

[CMDR John Luke Paperbone]

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[Koben]

That surprises me. Do you have an info source for this? Cause if that is true I am definitely not upgrading my 2nd older gaming PC to win10 cause it has a dx-12 capable gpu.

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[Morbad]

DirectX 12 on Windows 7 is application specific, not a general port. You cannot simply run DX12 games on Windows 7 now, the developer must update the game to include what's required.

 

[Koben]

As about 50% of gaming PCs are still running Win7, Microsoft decided to allow developers to implement DX12 for it on their games. Currently WoW and Fortnite already have an DX12 option.

I do play Fortntie on Win7 and DX12 made gameplay quite smoother.

 

[Hooplah]

Nvidia drivers are now at 441.20 (recommended/certified version).

Running Windows 7 with a MSI GeForce 1660 Ti Ventus XS 6G OC (overclocked) which easily runs Elite Dangerous
in Ultra mode. I update manually as Nvidia Experience takes up a lot of memory/CPU while Bandicam is very efficient
for video capture compressing files and much lower CPU/GPU/HDD usage.

I also create a System Restore before any Nvidia drivers update. It only takes a few minutes and if anything goes
wrong I'm quickly back to the previous drivers. Better safe than sorry.

Long ago early 3x drivers caused some problems but we're way past that.

 

[Morbad]

Nvidia drivers are now at 441.20.

Well there is a 441.34 hotfix driver (with RDR2 fixes) and a 445.23 insider preview driver (which I won't install cause it's a DCH package and my system doesn't have any Windows Store components installed so I can't get the NVCPL for it) for Windows 10.