Fresh drivers! Get 'em while they’re hot
Scuttlebutt is that this one improves VR performance somehow. Sure seemed fine in a quick DCS test I just ran.
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The changelog. Good news for those Index users with 30xx cards, they’ve been waiting for months for a VR fix.
The DLSS stuff is always welcome as well, especially DOOM Eternal…
New feature and fixes in driver 471.11:
Game Ready - This new Game Ready Driver provides support for the latest new titles and updates, including the latest patch for DOOM Eternal which introduces ray-trace reflections and NVIDIA DLSS technology . Additionally, this release also provides optimal support for LEGO Builder’s Journey which includes several ray-traced effects and performance-accelerating DLSS , the latest update for Rust which adds NVIDIA DLSS technology , F1 2021 , and the new NVIDIA Reflex integration in Escape from Tarkov .
New Feature
- Added support for Windows 10 May 2021 Update (version 21H1).
Newly Validated G-SYNC Compatible Displays
- AOC AG274US4R6B
- AOC AG254FWG8R4
- ASUS VG28UQL1A
- LG 32GN650 / 32GN63T
Game Ready Driver Fixes (For full list of fixes please check out release notes)
- [World of Warcraft: Shadowlands]: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game [3206341]
- [SLI][GeForce GTX 980M]: The system locks with a black screen upon booting into Windows. no repro with 457.51. [3266090]
- [Surround][GeForce RTX 3090]: With Surround active, setting Bezel Correction disables Surround. [3286449]
- [Crossfire][GeForce Experience][FreeStyle]: Freestyle might not work on Crossfire after the game is updated. [200736765]
- [HDR]: Some specific HDMI displays might show some flickering in HDR mode. [200729987]
- [Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background. [3152190]
- [NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: Colors may appear incorrect in games if sharpen Freestyle filter is used with HDR enabled. [200658208]
- Display may flicker or lose signal when launching a game on an adaptive-sync VRR monitor in multi-monitor configuration when sharing the same display mode [3314055]
- DisplayPort monitor may not wake from sleep when connected in extended mode with an HDMI 2.1 display that is powered off. [3281998]
Game Ready Driver Important Open Issues (For full list of open issues please check out release notes)
- [Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
- [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
- DPC latency is higher when color mode is set to 8-bit color compared to 10-bit color. [3316424]
Some more info on the new driver:
Doom pretty lights
Curious about F1 2021 as well. Nice news about Proton as well.
A quick DCS CapFrameX VR comparison as was curious.
The only truly statistically relevant lines are the v466.47 vs today’s v471.11 comparison, as they use the same windows and DCS versions.
This is just a no-inputs Caucasus Hornet Instant Action / Free Flight 60 second VR sample with an i9/2080/32GB, with nothing else but the driver version changed. Shaders deleted before each run and these samples are from each 2nd warmed up run.
Looks like Nvidia carrying on the tradition of their drivers getting slower over time for anything but the latest hardware - 2080 is getting obsoleted maybe? It could also be Windows updates over this time (I’m on 21H1, 19043.1081 as of today) plus of course DCS adding things. The average FPS is sort of not a great metric, as the 95% percentile is better for VR whoopsies.
Still, from this quick look, a driver like v466.11 is probably fastest on a 2080 for both DCS and MSFS, it’s just then you lose the DLSS etc toys on other games. If you just play sims though it might pay to just say on it or roll back… Hmm.
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Yeah, a trend I see elsewhere. I’m still on 466.11 and see no reason to update, ever. At least with this dinosaur GPU I’ve got.
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Huh… interesting @fearlessfrog! I wonder if someone somewhere scientifically tested for the best drivers for a 10x0 series card…
Not exactly sims, but this kind reddit person always does an extensive 10x0 comparison on each update:
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I’ve had some DCS crash to desktops on this driver (both 2D and VR), and have now rolled back to 466.47.
Not sure if it’s just 2080 dependent, or something else on my system, but thought I’d say in-case it helps others. The DCS crash log will have the usual access denied error with a ‘CreateDirect3D11SurfaceFromDXGISurface’ call.
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Yeah, even though I said I’d never update (see above), well, I did. I know, I know. I’m weak. But so far no issues; not smoother, not sututututerier either. Perhaps my GPU is so old it is ignored? 
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