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[Theonik]

No issues here. 980Ti on W7.

 

[OmegaDL50]

I just got a new GTX 1070 not too long ago, so this news just jumped out at me.

So maybe it's best to ask in this topic what is the current most stable driver Nvidia released so far for Win 10 x64 Anniversary Edition?

I figure I stick with that until a confirmed proper update comes out that doesn't cause any issues.

 

[KainXVIII]

Thanks god that i only have gtx 970, so no issues

Spoiler

yeah, i know :-/

 

[SilentRage47]

Same issue with a 1080 in Deus Ex, no problems in the others games I played with new drivers (Overwatch,Dota and Mirror's Edge Catalyst)

 

[Arex]

no issues yet so far, 980ti on w10, updated from 362 due to DeusEx.
The game's crashed a couple of times but I think that's the game's problem not the driver.

 

[KurtSloane]

980ti here, on these drivers and I have experienced some graphical oddities.

Arma 3 players are reporting weird texture load in issues and they are being attributed to a driver issue with Nvidia cards.

Going to roll back one version and see if it makes the difference.

 

[Abstrusity]

My 7950 is dying and I should've upgraded by now, but I broke my arm and have to repay some finaid stuff, so that put a damper on things pretty quick. Guess I should keep watching this.

 

[nkarafo]

I didn't notice any issues so far on my GTX 960.

I wonder what's the variable that triggers those issues for others though.

 

[Nzyme32]

Hmm

3) AO and texture errors in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, AO blooming as black smudge and some textures distorting not unlike the aforementioned MEC issue. Easily triggered by opening a menu (main, inventory, quick selection wheel, etc) and returning to play. Usually fixed by moving the camera, sometimes requires restart.

I have an issue on GTX 1060 with AO in Deus Ex MD that is somewhat similar. AO will cause the objects at a distance to look as if they have a "pouring" liquid effect on them. Also faces / hair and people tend to smear when after something I haven't identified triggers the effect. Not sure if it is the same issue. Might try a driver roll back to test this out

 

[Renmyra]

No problems in Dota/WoW on my GTX 1080. W10 AU.

 

[RS4-]

Nvidia has fucked up like 4 or 5 drivers in the past year. I think 2 of them were severe.

 

[Mareg]

I have next to no issues on GTX 1070 windows anniversary edition.

What I did is update to anniversary edition. It came with its own set of Nvidia drivers.

I then used DDU in safe mode. DDU has a registry patch that hampers windows update from patching it's version of Nvidia drivers back. That way you know you're starting on a clean slate.

Then I installed 372.54 Windows 10 anniversary edition drivers in advanced mode. I went with only drivers and PhysX.

Very stable. I've had one crash since and it was a known issue with Batman origin whereas I got drivers stopped and recovered after the Nvidia logo. Had to reboot on that one because of the black screen. Otherwise flawless in everything I throw at it.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

The drivers have become very hit and miss. I'd stuck with 362.00 for months on end since any others managed to produce problems.

 

[BigBoss007]

I'm fine.

You all guys have awesome PCs

 

[Spaghetti]

No problems so far, fingers crossed.

980, Windows 8.1.

Sometimes a driver install is a game of Russian roulette, though luckily I've been safe through four Nvidia GPUs.

 

[Grassy]

No issues with 980 Ti SLI and Windows 10 Anniversary here. I did have an issue after the initial Windows 10 Anniversary update where every game upon launching would be running at half my monitor's refresh rate, and I'd have to alt-tab to desktop and back in to fix it, but the latest Windows update seems to have fixed that.

 

[Tecnniqe]

Nvidia have been trying their best to take 'worst drivers' home from AMD the last year or so with blue screen drivers to boot killing.

Quite scary considering how big they are and the issues right now with every other driver.

 

[Woo-Fu]

I keep a directory with the last 5-10 driver packages, just in case. Rolling back is something I end up doing once or twice a year.

 

[epmode]

That might explain why the Mankind Divided ambient occlusion setting is so borked on my Titan X, but only when set to Ultra. The shadows flicker like crazy.

I haven't noticed any other problems.

Windows 10 64 bit

edit: Oh wait, I also saw some strange pixels on your co-worker's face in that first in-engine cutscene at the subway. You know, right after the intro mission. The problem went away but something was definitely wrong.

 

[Deleted member 325805]

Fuck I wondered what this was, I've only been playing Deus Ex HR so I figured it was the game, it doesn't happen all the time, usually only when there's a light source behind the model and I'll get white spots dancing on the character.

 

[EatChildren]

Very interesting to see numerous others are having issues, but even then there's no consistency. Either way, something definitely broke in the 372.54 drivers, if just how it's using certain hardware.

 

[Drazgul]

I've mostly been playing Witcher 3 with my 1070 (and regular browsing etc. of course) and I've had zero issues with the drivers. Still on Windows 7 though, that might be a factor as well.

 

[Drogean]

980ti with the drivers here on WIndows 10 (non anniversiary update).

Now i normally have zero issues with drivers EVER, but some things i've noticed even after a complete DDU clean install

I'll start by saying i've had zero issues in any games like OP. No flickering, black dots, artifacting - I've experienced nothing.

However, a few things that seem way too coincidental that started happening after installing a few days ago:

1. MPC-HC madvr can no longer run even-with-default-settings without dropping frames/lagging like crazy no matter what settings i choose. I literally had everything maxxed out before installing these.

2. Weird video driver crashing that causes my monitor to "disconnect" from my graphics card, as if the computer isnt even on.


I think its time to roll back

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

980ti anniversary edition here.
Installed driver, got a black screen with a mouse cursor. Rebooting would either give me the mouse cursor or a never-ending spinning circle . Rolled back and tried clean install. Same thing. Rolled back and I'll stay that way for now.

 

[The Lamonster]

Who is running the driver rollouts over there at Nvidia? It's embarrassing; every couple months...

 

[Edvardelis]

Windows 10 x64 and ASUS GTX 1080 STRIX here. I haven't had any issues to speak of. Maybe this is the card they tested the most with?

 

[BriareosGAF]

I keep a directory with the last 5-10 driver packages, just in case. Rolling back is something I end up doing once or twice a year.

Welcome to PC game development. Although it's not as bad as when I did Linux game dev back in the late 90s, early 00s, when I had over 20 versions of gcc installed locally plus custom patches due to ongoing C++ shenanigans (you have a function local static with a destructor in a manually loaded and unloaded DLL? guess you shouldn't register the destructor with atexit()...).

 

[sirap]

I would roll back asap. The last driver mess-up (the ones that came during Dark Souls 3's launch month) caused my OG Titan to shit itself.

 

[Mithos]

Hope they solve it (in a timely manner), haven't gone passed the 361.43 drivers yet, but -20-25% discount codes have started to showing up for hardware on some websites and it would drop the price of a 1060 enough to pick one up relatively soon (and I guess I'd need to update to get proper 1060 support in the drivers).

 

[Kamina]

Oh look, another GForce driver that was pushed early, most likely without QA, to meet a game release.

 

[Parsnip]

I haven't had any issues with 372.54 drivers. Win10 AU, GTX 1070 MSI Gaming X.

 

[Garuda1One]

Hmm, suggest you roll back. Haven't had any issue with 372.54.
Have a 1080 playing deus ex right now without that kind of issues.

 

[CrichtonKicks]

They broke Fallout New Vegas too, there's something fundamentally wrong with this release.

Did it happen to introduce heavy stuttering? For shits and giggles I booted New Vegas for the first since December yesterday and I was getting hitching all over the place.

 

[Slackbladder]

I seem to be luckily unaffected. I have a 1080 and this driver and except one crash in DE:MD it's been fine. I just got Mirrors edge Catalyst so I'll try that out.

 

[Dick Justice]

Haven't noticed any major graphical glitches on my 970. Only thing is in Hitman, when I open a door, the texture looks kinda fuzzy when it's moving, like some kind of ghosting effect.

 

[Vuze]

I had this happen to me once

Apparently some other people with Firefox and 372.54 have encountered it so I assume it's driver issue too. Scared the shit out of me anyway.

Interesting, I thought these were one-time occurances in Deus Ex MD. I have witnessed both of these issues once. The former in Dubai, the latter in the game menu.
Never outside of the game though.

4790k, 1080, win10 pro 64bit

 

[runnin_blue]

Yep, I noticed graphical issues in Fallout 4 after updating my drivers. Pip boy was unreadable for one, faded and glitchy. Funnily enough (after getting advice from Steam forums), letting Nvidia Experience optimize the game fixed the issue. GTX 770 here.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

I ran into ambient occlusion problems on Fallout 4 using the latest Nvidia drivers yesterday. I just started the game and couldn't see my pip-boy's screen when I got it. I searched and found out you could fix it by changing the setting from SSAO to HBAO+ in the launcher. When it was on SSAO it was like there was a dark smudge over most of the screen. Could only see the edges. I thought it was intentional at first, like maybe my ancient pip-boy's screen had a lot of dirt on it. GTX 970, BTW.

 

[Dimmuxx]

No issues in Win 10 AU with Asus strix OC 1070. I'm currently playing Deus Ex: MD on it.

 

[Soltype]

1080ftw and w10 au, no problems on my end.

 

[Lister]

Interesting, I thought these were one-time occurances in Deus Ex MD. I have witnessed both of these issues once. The former in Dubai, the latter in the game menu.
Never outside of the game though.

4790k, 1080, win10 pro 64bit

This is the blackout effect I mentioned a few pages back. Scare me too. Thought Jensen was blacking out, then thought my GPU was melting Hasn' happenend to me since though.

 

[shiyrley]

Zero problems with my Gigabyte G1 1070 (samsung VRAM). Windows 10 anniversary update

 

[MaLDo]

Looking at how inconsistent those reports are, maybe is a problem with the shader recompilation. If for some reason that driver version is not reported as always some games could use the old compiled shaders for users that replay some parts of the game. For those playing new levels or new games, the problem is not visible.

 

[Sky87]

Regarding the Deus Ex ''Black crush'' issue, alt tabbing seems to fix it. As for every other problem reported in here, can't say i've run into any of it. I'm on a 1070.

 

[ISee]

980
Win 10 Pro (build 10586, not AU afaik)

No problems.

 

[Sykotik]

I've had consistent problems with the display driver crashing on my 980ti Hybrid @stock.

It's always been this way so I don't have a known driver I can just roll back to stop it. It wouldn't be an issue if it would actually recover, but it ends up downclocking it, too. I have to restart to get the performance back.

Sometimes I don't even get a gimped recovery, it just stays black screen until I restart.

 

[Shane89]

Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Edition, 4k all the way and not a single problem.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Haven't noticed any issues on my 1060

 

[RenegadeXV8]

Nvidia have been very poor for the last 12 months. Hit and miss repeatedly.

I'm at the point where I don't dare touch a new driver for at least 2 months after release until I'm sure it either works or its shit-ness has been fully documented and fixed.

Get it together Nvidia.

Try having multi-monitor + G-Sync. Every other NV driver breaks something, to the point where I don't update my drivers until several other people with the same setup can confirm it's fine.

Funnily enough, this one seems ok so far. 980Ti + W10.

 

[lostsupper]

Had issues with Dark Souls 1 with this driver. Rolled back and they're gone.

Glad you avoided the RMA, OP.