10-30-2020 06:08 PM
10-30-2020 06:37 PM
10-30-2020 09:46 PM
Richooal said:
No app should be "insisting" on new drivers. It should only be a recommendation. It's your system, and it wasn't built to run a single app. Dump the app that insists on updating. I'm still on 432.00 and won't change it unless I have problems.
10-30-2020 10:17 PM
TomCgcmfc said:
Richooal said:
No app should be "insisting" on new drivers. It should only be a recommendation. It's your system, and it wasn't built to run a single app. Dump the app that insists on updating. I'm still on 432.00 and won't change it unless I have problems.
I've stayed on nvidia 442.59 for a while now (5-6 months) because I seem to get the best VR performance with it. I recently bought Star Wars Squadron on Steam and after installing it I got the message that I needed to update my nvidia driver to 451.67 or later. Otherwise, the game would not start up. That's the only time I've had this happen and is one of the reasons why I uninstalled it and got a full refund. Some developers are pretty silly, lol!
10-31-2020 01:00 AM
Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
10-31-2020 02:04 AM
10-31-2020 02:15 AM
RuneSR2 said:
I was also forced to upgrade drivers due to Squadrons, which nearly caused me to refund the game.
But so far I've had no problems - using GTX 1080 and CV1. No slowdowns at all with CV1. Even played Agos last night with ss 2.0 and 8xMSAA - and perfornance was great (but the gameplay wasn't, although that's a different story).
10-31-2020 02:27 AM
Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
10-31-2020 03:37 AM
RuneSR2 said:
Using 456.55. Got worried about Tom's results, and just ran the Heaven benchmark. Got the highest result ever - well, usually I get 120 fps -. but have once registered 122 fps. I just got 123.4 fps. Thus highest result I ever got in 3 years (same overclocking all the way), lol.
10-31-2020 03:44 AM
TomCgcmfc said:
RuneSR2 said:
Using 456.55. Got worried about Tom's results, and just ran the Heaven benchmark. Got the highest result ever - well, usually I get 120 fps -. but have once registered 122 fps. I just got 123.4 fps. Thus highest result I ever got in 3 years (same overclocking all the way), lol.
I'm not a big fan of benchmark programs. I prefer to see what performance I actually get with my high demand apps like X Plane 11.50r3 Vulkan. I generally always try the latest nvidia drivers (including up to 457.09 now). I use DDU to clean uninstall before updating. So far I have yet to see any nvidia driver show any performance improvements past 442.59 with my gtx1080ti (stock clocks). With my Vive Pro the SteamVR performance graphs clearly show this, as do my in-game fps counters, and of course visuals through my headsets.
I'm not saying that you cannot get good results with later drivers (and some games require these as do the new series 3000 gpu's) but I doubt that you will see any actual VR performance improvements with any gtx10 series gpu's imho. There is a pretty good tester over at Reddit that I follow. He tests all drivers out using his gtx1070 gpu and he has come to the same conclusions. I think his reviews are worth a read. You can find his reviews here;
https://www.reddit.com/r/allbenchmarks/collection/784253fd-6f65-446d-a9f2-89d0304f2037/
Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"