Jesus dude, that was my entire point. My statement was in response to people like dgrdsv claiming there were visual differences and that the 575 drivers were missing/not loading shaders, despite even people like Owen saying there were no visual differences in that video. The differences are phantoms, thus the "are they in the room with us" meme.
Thank you. Ironically, even Nvidia didn't say that there *are differences, just that there *might be and they provided no evidence, areas to test, or even graphical comparisons, and they specifically called out the 575/576 drivers, which aren't even the ones I'm using. I'm using 581.47, but I tested the 581.42 and both experience the same performance uplift as the 575/576 drivers. The best part, the 595 drivers actually introduce graphical artifacts and just messed up lighting in multiple areas, so not only do you get less performance but you get a worse experience graphically.
They mentioned they changed the way the driver interacts with voltage and clocks with the 595 drivers, but basically they just shit the bed. Not only are there issues with overclocking but I've had a stable, pretty aggressive to be fair, undervolt that is Aida64, OCCT and Furmark stress tested to be 100% stable, that I've been using since 2023, and these new drivers give me the DXGI error in games I've been running fine for as long as I can remember. I had to reduce the undervolt to stop this from happening, but as soon as I switch back to ANY previous driver the old undervolt works like it always has. So not only do these drivers have issues at the upper voltage limit but at the lower as well.
I had no problem with 591.86 until Requiem but If you are still playing that you should probably use anywhere from 575 to 581, but no higher. I never liked the 575/576 drivers, so I'd stick to the 581s personally.
I went from 566.36 to the 581.47 and those are great, but according to
this guy who tests drivers for stability and reliability and has never steered me wrong, the 581.94 are the last good drivers. I did use 591.86 for a bit up until this game, and they seemed fine, but there have been a lot of issues with 590 and up, so YMMV. I was a 581.47 enjoyer for a long time and it seems I am again because of RE, so I'm just going to keep using them until some actually decent drivers come out again.
That ship has sailed. These clowns released the 595.59 as studio drivers as well, complete with all the bugs and issues the standard drivers had. Studio drivers are no longer the safe route with Nvidia.
