Nvidia driver update

[markturner1960]

Hi, I have not cleaned out and updated my driver for a while now, I am on 536.23

What is the consensus on updating and is there a driver that is particularly recommended? I fly pretty much all the time in VR, for my specs see signature

Thank you

[LucShep]

You'll get different replies and experiences.

Like you, I have an RTX3090.
I test drivers every release, with same games on same areas to check for microstuttering, looking at frametime graphs and 1% and 0.1% lows.

The Nvidia's driver 537.58 are still notoriously the best, with 566.03 being a close second.
Especially if it's a clean driver, it'll further increase such differences, as these are lighter and have all unnecessary bloatware removed from the official ones. 

In my own personal experience, this is true on all RTX30-series GPUs, with mine and with other systems using them (RTX3080 10GB, RTX3060Ti 8GB, RTX3060 12GB), and with different CPUs (12700K, 12600KF, 10700K, 11400F, 5600X).


There is a "Clean Version" driver (already debloated) of the mentioned 537.58 in HERE.

If you really want the fully bloated "official" default version of 537.58, then it's HERE.

I would not recommend installing drivers after 566.36, where problems start to increase exponentially.
But if you're one of those guys/gals that "have to have the latest driver" but just want a clean version, there's a fella doing them and are usually all up-to-date, with every new official Nvidia drivers release, in HERE.

Or, you can debloat the official drivers all by yourself, by using NVCleanstall (link here).
If you never done this, there's a video tutorial here (there may be others around) to see how it's done.


Lastly, and as side note, never ever upgrade Nvidia drivers if the reason is only to get newest DLSS version, because you can download/install whatever DLSS version regardless of Nvidia driver version in use (drop the desired DLLs in same folder location where the game executable is):

• NVIDIA DLSS DLL --------------------------- https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-dll/
• NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation DLL -------- https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-3-frame-generation-dll/
• NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction DLL  ------ https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-3-ray-reconstruction-dll/
  
   

Edited August 21 by LucShep
updated links

[markturner1960]

Thanks, I think I will stick with current version then, as I have no issues!  

[jurinko]

I have excellent experience with the latest driver from Match 19. Rtx 4080. 

[markturner1960]

Any change in recommendations following the recent update? 

[LucShep]

6 hours ago, markturner1960 said:

Any change in recommendations following the recent update? 

For me with the RTX3090, no.

I've been thrilled to rigorously test every single new driver release from Nvidia, only to realize my previous opinion above remains the same.

[markturner1960]

resurrecting this thread as I did update to later drivers some months back as I wanted to try DLSS 4 . Do you know if itt possible to still use DLSS 4 on the older drivers? I am considering going back to 537.58 as I have been getting some crashes lately which seem to point to graphics drivers......

 

[sleighzy]

7 hours ago, markturner1960 said:

resurrecting this thread as I did update to later drivers some months back as I wanted to try DLSS 4 . Do you know if itt possible to still use DLSS 4 on the older drivers? I am considering going back to 537.58 as I have been getting some crashes lately which seem to point to graphics drivers......

 

Have you tried rolling back to 566.36? seems to be a stable one folk are using. This does not have DLSS4, but you can just replace the nvngx_dlss.dll file in DCS with an updated lib that does. Can use DLSS Swapper pretty easily for this. Still need to update the preset to use though. 

7 hours ago, markturner1960 said:

resurrecting this thread as I did update to later drivers some months back as I wanted to try DLSS 4 . Do you know if itt possible to still use DLSS 4 on the older drivers? I am considering going back to 537.58 as I have been getting some crashes lately which seem to point to graphics drivers......

 

I’d say take one of your DCS log files when a crash occurs to the Eagle Dynamic DCS Discord server and drop in the #dcs-log-analyzer channel. And/or attach here.  Might get more feedback re: reason for crashes. You may have some dcs.log.<timestamp>.zip files from previous crashes you can also drop there. 

Edited April 22 by sleighzy

[LucShep]

9 hours ago, markturner1960 said:

resurrecting this thread as I did update to later drivers some months back as I wanted to try DLSS 4 . Do you know if itt possible to still use DLSS 4 on the older drivers? I am considering going back to 537.58 as I have been getting some crashes lately which seem to point to graphics drivers......

 

Yep, you can.  
Then just use the latest DLSS DLL (or any other of your preference) and, if desired, maybe use either DLSSTweaks or NVPI to adjust DLSS presets and etc.

Personally (YMMV), I still prefer using the 537.58 drivers ("Clean Version") with my RTX3090, and then do for DLSS DLL, presets and settings (etc) as in the post linked below:

 

Edited April 22 by LucShep