Nvidia 358.50 - Crap!

[Jonathan Cave]

I downloaded the nvidia driver today v358.50 and it turned my fine pc into a slow input laggy piece of crap - i personally dont recommend you download this as it seems to cause problems.

example : i play cs:go @ 60 fps (Gsync) and it resulted in it running at 45 fps with really bad input lag.

 

[renz496]

Haven't download the driver myself. Personally too lazy to download latest driver. Also this is game ready drivers for Battlefront which i have no interest with. So i think will stay with current 355.80

 

[Baumy15]

I downloaded the nvidia driver today v358.50 and it turned my fine pc into a slow input laggy piece of crap - i personally dont recommend you download this as it seems to cause problems.

example : i play cs:go @ 60 fps (Gsync) and it resulted in it running at 45 fps with really bad input lag.

well then downgrade your driver

 

[Cons29]

personally i dont download each and every new driver, esp if i dont have any issues with my current one.

 

[17seconds]

Kind of hard to believe that a WHQL driver would be so unstable. Did you uninstall your old drivers, or just install on top?

 

[renz496]

To me WHQL and Beta does not make much difference. Have few bugs introduced by WHQL drivers in the past and fixed by beta drivers so i don't really care much when it comes to WHQL vs beta. But since around late last year i think beta drivers becoming rare for nvidia.

Right now i just hope nvidia can be ready with Fallout 4 drivers on time.

 

[17seconds]

Yeah, totally ready for Fallout 4. I thought WHQL drivers went through some additional testing in order to get certified. You would think somewhere along the way during testing, someone would say these are "crap".

Kind of funny, but I usually check out the Guru3d driver page to read the comments to see if a driver is any good. Earlier today, they had about 9 pages of comments, but I only see two comments there now. I wonder if things went off-topic a bit. But, before that, I did read a lot of comments suggesting these weren't the most stable drivers. I'm about to try them out, so we'll see.
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-358-50-whql-driver-download.html

 

[renz496]

Well they are certified by MS.....i doubt MS ever check ir the driver will work on every game that ever existed. As long as the driver work fine with windows i think it should be good enough to get the cert from MS. That's why in the past nvidia release their WHQL candidate early as beta drivers so they can launch the said driver at the same day as game launch day. A week later the same drivers without any modification at all being re-released once again as WHQL.

Anyway hopefully FO4 will be good. After Crysis 2 'comfy couch' edition i'd try my best not get too excited over all the hype

 

[Jonathan Cave]

Kind of hard to believe that a WHQL driver would be so unstable. Did you uninstall your old drivers, or just install on top?

I always do an advanced install and check 'clean install'

i CANNOT wait for fallout 4 also

 

[17seconds]

I used DDU first, since I actually was having some problems with the previous graphics driver. Then a clean install of the latest. So far, so good, and my original "Graphics driver has recovered" error seems to be gone now. I still need to get in some gaming action, but so far no problems.

DDU is really a nice and simple to use piece of software. I think it took all of two clicks to get it to restart the PC in safe mode and then uninstall every trace of my previous drivers.