Nvidia Drivers are Horrid!

NathanWilker · Sep 11, 2014

The performance is a lot better when you compare Nvidia to AMD GPU's around the same price point. However all of the problems that occur with the Nvida GPU's are not even worth the performance increase. From screen tearing to flickering, to random FPS drops for no apparent reason. Did I love the 20 FPS increase when overclocked on my GTX 660 compared to my 7870? Like an true gamer, of course! But at the end of the day, Nvidia really needs to step up their driver performance. No matter what I did, the problems persisted. As soon as I switched back to my 7870 all was well. Get your shit together Nvidia!

Alec Mowat · Sep 11, 2014

Nvidia is well known for their good quality drivers. They are easily the best GPU drivers out there, far superior to AMD in many ways, including ease of installation.

You have a different issue, not a driver issue.

someguynamedmatt · Sep 11, 2014

That's a great opinion you've got there. I feel like nVidia's drivers these days are more stable than AMD's. I had an HD 5770 a while ago that went through a driver crash about twice daily, and now my GTX 760 hasn't caused a single hiccup. I could say that AMD needs to step up their game based on that experience. There are a lot of things that can cause instability other than GPU drivers.

Is there a point to this thread other than trying to stir people up?

NathanWilker · Sep 11, 2014

Alec Mowat :

The only thing I can think of is that I was issued a broken GPU. Absolutely nothing else could lead to this. Believe I tried everything!

M0j0jojo · Sep 11, 2014

NathanWilker :

The performance is a lot better when you compare Nvidia to AMD GPU's around the same price point. However all of the problems that occur with the Nvida GPU's are not even worth the performance increase. From screen tearing to flickering, to random FPS drops for no apparent reason. Did I love the 20 FPS increase when overclocked on my GTX 660 compared to my 7870? Like an true gamer, of course! But at the end of the day, Nvidia really needs to step up their driver performance. No matter what I did, the problems persisted. As soon as I switched back to my 7870 all was well. Get your shit together Nvidia!

Please do not start flame wars.

Alec Mowat · Sep 11, 2014

NathanWilker :

If I had to guess, you fried it when you over clocked it. That's a hardware issue though, not software. This has nothing do with drivers.

Calculatron · Sep 11, 2014

If you're overclocking, and are experiencing those problems - they may be caused by your overclock. (Are you running stability tests?) If you are getting the same issues without an overclock, I am not sure what to say, other than it may be a driver conflict. A lot of people have to reformat their drives when switching GPU vendors.

As for Driver stability, historically, Nvidia is always given a lot of props. From what I gather, they have a consistent record of releasing timely updates. AMD hasn't been so good with their time tables, and also other things like Dual Graphics features, so they have caught a lot of flak for it.

In my personal experience, though, I have not experienced any major troubles with either.

coolcole01 · Sep 11, 2014

I have had quite a few problems with nvidia drivers almost the same for me to update the drivers it almost needs a reformat but i can sometimes get away with usung the ddu program. But when they are running right they are great.

Spectre694 · Sep 11, 2014

It sounds like the old AMD drivers weren't completely uninstalled before you loaded the Nvidia ones. Nvidia's are considered by most to be far superior to AMD's as Alec Mowat said.

You likely have a different problem

coolcole01 · Sep 11, 2014

vsync was broken for like 5 driver releases for me

Alec Mowat · Sep 11, 2014

coolcole01 :

I've been using Nvidia cards since the TNT2. I have never experienced any major driver related issues. Only hardware related, or Windows related.

coolcole01 · Sep 11, 2014

nvidia does seem to get a lot of what seems like flickering if you have a vsync conflict try disabling vsync in the game but setting it to on in the nvidia menu almost always works better.

coolcole01 · Sep 11, 2014

everyone has different problems google nvidia driver vsync problems you will find plenty of people in the geforce forums with problems

Alec Mowat · Sep 11, 2014

coolcole01 :

Are these people hardware or software engineers, or just random people on a forum with similar (but not necessarily the same) problems, making conclusions and using group-think to justify them?

Again, I've had many videocards. From TNT2, Geforce2, Geforce4, Geforce FX, 6000 series, 8000 series, 460, 660, 670.
I've had various issues, but I've never had "bad drivers".

M0j0jojo · Sep 11, 2014

If there is a bad driver, you can always do a driver roll back with Nvidia.

coolcole01 · Sep 11, 2014

I have had more than one nvidia drivers that caused instant bsod 320.49 comes to mind.

Alec Mowat · Sep 11, 2014

coolcole01 :

Sounds like pure speculation. Even if there was an issue, they release updates very often. They are miles ahead of AMD. AMD doesn't even have full Linux support yet.

coolcole01 · Sep 11, 2014

hmmmm im gonna stop responding to this i have no reason to be questioned on personal experience good day

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