OT: Nvidia release Game & Creator drivers.
Ghosty12
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[OT: Nvidia release Game & Creator drivers.] As above bascially will be Game Ready or Creator Ready, with switching between the two via a menu option.. The Creator Ready side will have optimizations for Blender, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Premiere Pro CC and CINEMA 4D.. It will be interesting to see what they add in future driver updates..
Oh and one last thing the drivers will be restricted to Pascal and up, so if you have anything older you will be out of luck..
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/20/rtx-creator-ready-drivers-supercharge-apps/
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Well this is confusing to a point, here I was thinking they were both included in one package.. But going to the Nvidia download site and well they are seperate downloads, so if you want both you will need to download both the GRD and CRD files..
...but none for us here at Daz even though their Iray engine is integrated into the software we use.
As the drivers are compatible with Pascal cards, you're not limited to DS 4.11.
And the potential gain in the applications listed in the highlight are just results of what gain they measured. It doesn't mean you wouldn't potentially gain also performance in other applications
I think that this deserves a testing. It would have been good to see Iray in the tested applications, but they may not even have test it because the former drivers were already optimized for it
And these drivers also focus on quality, so the question is wether they could prevent some potential issue with Iray (I don't know if some people experience any)
The mention of blender and unreal engine is already a plus for me
...have 4.11, but not the budget for an RTX. I remember in the past that sometimes a gaming specific driver would result in multiple BSODs as when I would check the Windows Event Viewer, I noticed the driver was crashing because it couldn't locate certian instructions related to the game it was modified for as I didn't have that on my system (not into gaming). When I rolled back to the previous driver (which I am still using), all was fine again
I'm installing the Creator drivers now, so I can see for myself.
I have no idea what went wrong in those drivers but what you describe simply isn't the way it works. There is no such as game specific instrustions. Drivers do come out that include optimizations for a specific game but that is simply overall performance tuning of the driver. There are no instructions added, there can't be and anyway games don't "talk" directly to the GPU driver anymore. That's what DirectX, Vulcan and OpenGL are for. They know how to talk to and use the features of all the GPU's out there while oproviding a single API to any program that wants to perform a graphics function.
...I just remember what I was in the event manager and the fail point (inverted yellow triangle followed by red stopsign and time stamp matching time of the BSOD event) was the name of a game programme as in: "search for [name] aborted, does not exist,.operation failed at [time]."
So-o-o, does it work, or not? Haven't seen any complaints about it, but then, maybe everyone else is waiting to see, too.
I don't do any gaming, but this scheme sounds like a patch job. You can't have both worlds, so you actually have to change video card drivers? Ridiculous.
I installed today and for me DS and Photoshop CC2019 all work as they should.
I have a 1060, after installing the new creator driver, Studio wasn't recognizing the card at all. Rolling back to the previous version and it's working with Studio again. Not sure if there's anything else I should be doing to get the latest version to work, but unless there are some very straightforward instructions on it, guess I'll hold off.
From what I was reading on this, the creator path just has less frequent updates. So you stay on a more stable version for a longer time. What's ridiculous to me is the idea of updating the graphics card software every time a "major" game is released, but that's just me. It didn't sound like there was any problem staying on the gamer track even if you are using it for other things, since that is what we have all been doing up to this point. Just means you run slightly higher risk of bugs in the latest version and needing to roll back for stability. If you have been doing that up to this point, I haven't seen anything in the reviews *yet* that indicate there is a major reason to switch.
"Both Nvidia's Creator Ready and Game Ready drivers will offer the same optimisations, but Nvidia's Creator drivers will undergo more testing and provide optimal levels of stability. If you are focusing on rendering stability over the best performance in new games, then Nvidia's new Creator drivers are for you. "
I have two 1080 cards, tried the new Creator driver and it slowed down opening DAZ and slowed down drawing iray screen in preview.....uninstalled the driver.