NVIDIA Driver Update FYI

[gman5250]

I updated my NVIDIA drivers to the current rev. 364.72 yesterday. Running Win10.

Good news is, no computer crashes, no program crashes, no FSX/P3D anomalies, nothing fell off, I didn't go blind and I'm still alive. Whew.

Interesting thing in P3D 3.2, FPS jumped up by a respectable percentage and smoothness is again improved. It may be my imagination, but it looks like the color improved as well.

Color has been a sticking point with me since 3.1, which seemed very weak compared to 2.5. I had it down to Dynamic Reflections which seem to muck about with color and antialiasing when enabled. As of yesterday's driver update, color in 3.2 seems somewhat better and after checking DR it seems that the option still needs to be used with discretion, especially on models that rely on Banana Bobs GlobalEnv to develop reflection as per the artists intent.

Shot below, a 4096/32bit texture set applied to the A2A T-6 Texan, running real world weather, in a monster scenery...all sliders WFO and no DR. Consistent 55+FPS.

From my chair, I can give the current NVIDIA driver a thumbs up.

NVIDIA Driver 364.72 in Prepar3D3.2 un-retouched screen cap.

[manfredc3]

Sounds interesting.

What are the results in FSX?

[dhazelgrove]

I'd have thought you might have posted this in the P3D forum.

Dave

[gman5250]

I'd have thought you might have posted this in the P3D forum.

Dave

This blog gets more traffic.

To be more concise, I tested the driver in FSX, FSX ST, Prepar3D 2.5 and Prepar3D 3.2. All of the simulators functioned perfectly. Across the board FPS and smoothness was improved. FSX is running Steve's DX10 fixer.

Prepar3D 3.2 is my simulator of choice, therefore I took the rendering from the simulator which most effectively conveys the performance of the NVIDIA g/card with current driver.

I made note of the color improvements in P3D as a matter of observation to share with the larger community. It does not make any sense for me to post two separate blogs in order to offer my observations on the driver update.

[papab]

Yes, Thanks for being the guinea pig on the drivers.......
Will download tonight

Rick

[gray eagle]

Thanks G. for the HU.

I just installed the new drivers.

Don't know what changed but I still use Win 7 64.

[tommieboy]

This blog gets more traffic.....

I agree....I get most of my P3D news over here.

Tommy

[kdl]

There's already a newer version:
365.10

[henrystreet]

Gordon,

Thanks for being the guinea pig on the drivers.

Your comments about the color in v3.x mirror my sentiments vs. v2.5.

[Naismith]

I updated my NVIDIA drivers to the current rev. 364.72 yesterday. Running Win10.

Good news is, no computer crashes, no program crashes, no FSX/P3D anomalies, nothing fell off, I didn't go blind and I'm still alive. Whew.

Whoa there Tonto, I installed it and SWMBO went to Costco and spent over $300. I'm sure there is a correlation there somewhere.