Question About Nvidia "Game Ready" Drivers

[ShintaroK]

So it seems that whenever I download a "Game Ready" driver from GeForce Experience, my GPU is fine for awhile, but then eventually the "kernel drivers" fail and crash.
My question is, is it okay to just roll with the drivers I have from the OEM disk by MSi?
Will this impact my performance at all?

 

[geofelt]

I don't know if "game ready" drivers are any different.
I do not install Nvidia experience. Mainly because I don't want any more tasks than necessary checking for updates.

I suggest just downloading the latest WHQL drivers directly from the NVidia web site.
In the past, some graphics cards included modified drivers necessary to run their card, particularly if it is a new gen card. I think that is no longer true.

 

[Eximo]

Are you talking in-game crashes or while doing other things.

Actually going back a few drivers isn't a bad idea right now. If you are using Google Chrome with a GTX970 or GTX980 Nvidia broke something. Constant display driver crashes. Have to turn hardware acceleration off for the moment.

 

[Eximo]

Game ready drivers are just ones that are released along with particular titles with optimizations specifically for that title. These are always the latest available from Nvidia when a product launches.

 

[ShintaroK]

Yes, Eximo. It was "kernel driver has crashed" just while on google chrome. I had the Witcher 3 Game Ready driver installed.
I see they have released 353.06 WHQL
Do you think it is safe to download this?

 

[ShintaroK]

I have an MSi GTX 970, By the way, guys.

 

[ShintaroK]

This is also a "Game Ready" Driver from what I've read.
I don't know if I should go for it, or stick with the drivers from the OEM disk. I'm thinking if It's not broken, to not try and fix it.
I don't know though.
Any advice? I don't wanna be opted out of all of these game ready drivers, but I don't know if they'll make any difference at all.

 

[Eximo]

They certainly have optimizations for Battlefield Hardline, GTA V, Witcher 3, etc. Those are the recent titles that come to mind.

Just stop using Chrome for a while or disable hardware acceleration. Seems to solve the problem for now.

There are enough posts on Nvidia's forums, I'm pretty sure they know about it.

 

[ShintaroK]

How do I disable hardware acceleration?

 

[17seconds]

Apparently the 350.12 drivers are okay with Chrome.

 

[ShintaroK]

[strike][/strike]

Apparently the 350.12 drivers are okay with Chrome.

I just download the newest drivers (353.06) and haven't run into any issues (yet)
I hope this continues to work. It isn't an issue with the card, itself, right? just the drivers?

 

[17seconds]

Definitely the drivers from what I have seen on other forums.

 

[ShintaroK]

Definitely the drivers from what I have seen on other forums.

Thank you 17seconds, I ended up crashing on unigine valley with the newest drivers, so i reverted back to the drivers from the OEM disk, and got through valley on extreme hd preset.
Do you think my best bet now would be to just stick with the drivers from the OEM disk?

 

[17seconds]

The best drivers are always the latest ones, in terms of bug fixes and performance. I would wait to try the next driver release, but keep the current ones around so you can reinstall if necessary.