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Nvidia driver 418.81 Seems really good with FreeSync!


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Greetings!

 

For those of you using Freesync monitors, I'm having much better luck now with 418.81. The old version (417.71) was buggy and G-Sync would disable when the monitor went to sleep; this one seems good :)

 

It doesn't seem to disable G-Sync by itself anymore, and has kept working overnight. Still testing but so far so good. Woohoo! :thumbup:

 

Couple things in mind, I disabled all the goofy Nvidia trash in Task Scheduler, such as the 5 or so Nvidia Telemetry tasks. I'm also using the default Windows 10 monitor driver, not the HP one that's for my monitor (HP Omen 32") so it just shows up in Device Manager as "Generic PnP Monitor".

 

All's good so far--give 418.81 a try! DCS World is delightful just to fly around with adaptive refresh--no little stutters, just nice fluid movement.

 

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Posted the link for the drivers and other info in the 418.81 thread

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=231605

 

 

Definitely working great with my FreeSync monitor! I can now let my PC sleep, and when I wake it up, G-Sync/FreeSync is still working! Woohoo!

 

It's so nice in flight simming, I wish they had done this years ago. I'm keeping a copy of this driver for old times' sake just in case they break it with a new one :)

 

Anyway, if anyone is having problems, I'm running my monitor with the default Windows 10 monitor driver (says "Generic PnP Monitor" in Device Manager) if that helps any. I suppose I could try the HP Omen driver, but why bother? Everything's working great now, Imma leave it alone for now :) I'm not even sure why monitors have drivers...

 

So it's confirmed, 418.81 is killa :thumbup:

 

Peace and happy warfare

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418.81 is a superb performer. Gave the Hornet a spin last night and imho, I gained some performance ( was not locking at 60Hz for that test ).

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These drivers are a no-go for me. Couldn't select my monitors native refresh rate and text looked funny. Rolled back and everything came to normal again.

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These drivers are a no-go for me. Couldn't select my monitors native refresh rate and text looked funny. Rolled back and everything came to normal again.

 

 

That's not right. 418.81 should work perfectly with your GTX 1080 Ti. It's an excellent driver and does a mighty fine job supporting FreeSync.

 

Did you uninstall the old driver with DDU and do a complete, fresh install of the new driver?

 

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These drivers are a no-go for me. Couldn't select my monitors native refresh rate and text looked funny. Rolled back and everything came to normal again.

 

hmm.give that a 2nd clean & fresh try, many report only the best from 418.81 + 1080ti combo.

 

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hmm.give that a 2nd clean & fresh try, many report only the best from 418.81 + 1080ti combo.

 

:)

 

 

It'll run like a whole new sim man, if you use G-Sync/FreeSync with it it'll even be really nice and fluid right down to the lower framerates at all max settings. I'm not kidding, you really should give it a solid try and get it working.

 

 

418.81 + 1080Ti + G-Sync/FreeSync =kickass :)

 

 

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The drivers have a bug, which was later supplemented.

 

2503360-Apex Legends 0x887A0006 DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG error with game crashing to desktop

2500396-Windows 7/8.1: Random TDRs after updating to driver 418.81

2503738-418.81: Driver breaks GPU acceleration with apps that use iRay/Octane

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The drivers have a bug, which was later supplemented.

 

2503360-Apex Legends 0x887A0006 DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG error with game crashing to desktop

2500396-Windows 7/8.1: Random TDRs after updating to driver 418.81

2503738-418.81: Driver breaks GPU acceleration with apps that use iRay/Octane

 

 

Gotcha, so in other words, it's no big deal. Only 3 bugs is a "perfect" driver :thumbup:

 

 

 

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That's not right. 418.81 should work perfectly with your GTX 1080 Ti. It's an excellent driver and does a mighty fine job supporting FreeSync.

 

Did you uninstall the old driver with DDU and do a complete, fresh install of the new driver?

 

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hmm.give that a 2nd clean & fresh try, many report only the best from 418.81 + 1080ti combo.

 

:)

 

heh, did as you guys said, a 2nd time using DDU with windows safe mode and this time around looks a success. :thumbup: I was lazy last time and used NVIDIAS "clean installation" option only. :D

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Gotcha, so in other words, it's no big deal. Only 3 bugs is a "perfect" driver :thumbup:

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It was nice :) to have only three mistakes, but if you work only well.

 

Issues and updates:

2079538-Random DPC watchdog violation error when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips -> Use the following tool to enable MSI mode as a temporary workaround (only apply changes to each NVIDIA GPU installed):

https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/MSI-utility/releases

2107201-Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox/Steam

2449346-The Witcher 3 will BSOD with Bad Pool error randomly during gameplay

2451459-Batman: Arkham Origins: Physx fog rendering incorrectly

2453173-ARK Survival may crash with bad pool caller error and eventual BSOD

2488424-RTX 20 series: Event ID 14 error in event viewer when Digital Vibrance setting is changed

2496987-DSR is not available for monitors with 4k2k timings

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