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Game ready driver or studio driver?

Philippi_ChildPhilippi_Child Posts: 658
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I visited nvidia today to update my driver and noticed not only was there a game ready driver there is now an option to download a "studio driver'?  What is this studio driver? Is it only for people like me that do no gaming at all and for apps other than games? Thanks in advanced for clearing this up for me.

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  • evacynevacyn Posts: 989

    I went with the Studio driver. I also found this post on Nvidia forum with more detail and benchmarks (https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/b87ll7/game_ready_vs_creator_ready_drivers_head_to_head/). The final word was:

    Conclusion

    This very short post has a very short conclusion:

    Unless you absolutely need the very latest specific optimizations for very new games, there's no reason not to use the Creator Ready drivers. Right now, there's no clear advantage, but it's likely that NVIDIA will continue to improve the drivers over time.

  • novastridernovastrider Posts: 208

    Studio Drivers are simply a renaming of the old Stable Builds. Game Ready drivers are pretty much made to update GeForce Experience automatic settings, fix smaller issues for upcoming games and tests of new fixes and updates. It's part marketing, part useful for impatient gamers. Studio Drivers are pretty much the Game Ready drivers with the least bugs.

  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727

    I downloaded the game ready driver. Should I go back and get the Studio driver?

  • novastridernovastrider Posts: 208
    edited June 2019
    AnotherUserName said:

    I downloaded the game ready driver. Should I go back and get the Studio driver?

    If you aren't experiencing bugs or crashes, than it's working and there's no reason to go back.

    Post edited by novastrider on
  • Midnight_storiesMidnight_stories Posts: 4,112

    Yes I would go to developer drivers, in blender it renders 15% faster so I would assume it would be faster for Iray !

  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727
    novastrider said:
    AnotherUserName said:

    I downloaded the game ready driver. Should I go back and get the Studio driver?

    If you aren't experiencing bugs or crashes, than it's working and there's no reason to go back.

    So far, it seems to be perfectly stable to me. Ive had no issues that I know of.

  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727
    Midnight_stories said:

    Yes I would go to developer drivers, in blender it renders 15% faster so I would assume it would be faster for Iray !

    15% faster would be excellent. Would I just download over the driver I currently have (the game ready driver) or should I revert to a earlier driver before getting the studio driver?

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,482

    I went with Game Ready. Haven't upgraded to 4.11 yet, though.

  • Philippi_ChildPhilippi_Child Posts: 658

    This was from Nividia webpage the Daz Studio was mentioned

     https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-studio-driver-now-supercharge-your-favorite-creative-apps/

    Seems to me it appears that some of you chose to update the game ready all I want to do is update the driver that works well with 4.11. In a nut shell I guess if the driver chosen if that are no issues with 4.11 I guess it really doesn't matter.

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 6,054
    edited June 2019

    I'm running  GTX 1060 on windows 7 and the driver update page tells me there is no Studio driver, now can I run DS4.11 with the game ready driver?

     

    edit: ok I just tried rendering with the driver I have installed and the works fine, (which is GR as well), so that answers this question

     

    Post edited by Linwelly on
  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,006
    You can run studio with the "game" drivers. At this point I still haven't seen anything from Nvidia that says the current creator drivers aren't identical to the matching number game drivers. Only Studio requirement is being at the 418 or later driver version.
  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 6,054
    AlmightyQUEST said:
    You can run studio with the "game" drivers. At this point I still haven't seen anything from Nvidia that says the current creator drivers aren't identical to the matching number game drivers. Only Studio requirement is being at the 418 or later driver version.

    Thanks, yes I at 430.39 with the driver update, so i guess I'm fine for now.

    Now on to strand hair :D

  • novastridernovastrider Posts: 208
    edited June 2019

    Remember people; Nvidia is awesome, but a lot of the stuff they do is just repackaging the same thing for marketing, to look cool. Drivers haven't suddenly changed or diverted, Game Ready Driver will always be the latest driver, Studio is just the most recent stable 'base' version. Like Daz 4.10 (Studio) vs Daz 4.11 (Game Ready) vs Daz 4.12123231 beta (Beta driver).

    Post edited by novastrider on
  • Philippi_ChildPhilippi_Child Posts: 658

    I had 430.39 installed with 4.11 and rolled back to 419.67 camera movement just seemed sluggish with the 430.39 driver. 

     

     

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