new nvidia driver
Anonymous
23 Oct 2014 13:13:37 UTC
Topic 197760
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This is advertised as a "GeForce Game Ready Driver" - version 344.48.
here is what it brings to the effort:
The new GeForce Game Ready driver, release 344.48 WHQL, allows GeForce owners to continue to have the ultimate gaming experience. This driver brings support for Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) to Kepler and Fermi desktop GPUs. In addition, this Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience for the latest new blockbuster titles including Lords of the Fallen, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Elite: Dangerous.
new nvidia driver
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This driver brings also new incompatibilities. It doesn't support "old" cards (I guess below 450) and doesn't run on WinXP anymore. I had to install an older driver in dual cards config with 750Ti and 9600GT. I've found no difference in compute time in old and new driver.
Hi, None of the NV drivers
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Hi,
None of the NV drivers from the newer set for the GTX 980/920 support older cards, and older drivers will not install for those cards. The newer drivers seem to 'break' the ability of some [none e@h & s@h] programs that use CUDA to process information.
Seems Nvidia had depreciated some older attributes of CUDA.
Regards,
Cliff,
Been there, Done that, Still no damm T Shirt.
RE: This driver brings also
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Then I guess I'm stuck at 334.whatever forever. One box has a 440 and the other is XP.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: Then I guess I'm stuck
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Nope. The 440 is a Fermi, for which the support end has not yet been announced. The latest driver to support "legacy" cards like that 9600GT mentioned in this thread is supposed to be the 340 branch. It may recieve some more critical updates, but nothing more.
MrS
Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
I'm preparing to "upgrade" a
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I'm preparing to "upgrade" a box with a single GTX 660 card with two 750s, which I hope to be a bit more Einstein compute capability at a bit less power.
As part of preparation, I went driver shopping, and found that the current offered driver for the 750 is:
344.60 WHQL, released November 4, 2014.Has anyone got Einstein observations on that one yet?
RE: I'm preparing to
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I have two GTX 750 Ti's, each supported by a virtual Haswell core (Win7 64-bit), and have been very happy with the times, about 52 1/2 minutes for BRP4G (Aricebo), and 2 hours 32 minutes for BRP5 (Perseus). I am using the 340.52 driver, which seems to give the same results as 344.11, and probably 344.60.
http://einsteinathome.org/host/11671653/tasks&offset=0&show_names=1&state=3&appid=0
I run only one work unit at a time. You could do more, but might pick up errors and load down the PCIe bus; I generally avoid it. The BRP4Gs run at 85% GPU load, while the BRP5s use 92%.
The power is amazing: The BRP4Gs use 48% TDP, or 29 watts, and the BRP5s use 32 watts; you should probably add about 5 watts static (idle) power to these as I recall.
You can do about as well on HD 7790 cards on output, but the power will be double, though still not that much.