Do you guys ever actually update your gpu drivers? I don't play a lot of AAA type games so I never feel a need to. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, you know?
>>722062005Nvidia's drivers are a nightmare lately and AMD is not far behind, do not update unless you have toI had one revision crashing Retroarch while playing SNES games with a CRT shaderI have a 9800X3D and a 5070 Ti, Retroarch SNES should not be crashing
>>722062005Linux does it for me
>Everything is working properly>Update>New bug causes an issueNah. I don't remember the last time I updated my drivers but new releases play perfectly.
>>722062005>Do you guys ever actually update your gpu drivers?Once or twice a year to update game support, maybe more if the driver update fixed an issue I'm experiencing.
There really aren't game-ready drivers anymore.You only update or go back to whatever version works without problems.
I only update when the studio driver does, not the game driver, less chance of an issue.
>>722062005I updated mine recently so I could use the Nvidia Smooth Motion (driver level frame generation) feature on my RTX 4070. But I found Lossless Scaling to be better anyway lol I was getting too much stuttering with Smooth Motion.
>>722062005i update nvidia drivers regularly and get regular new problems but roughly the same amount of problems solvedi don't update amd drivers because they cut off my amd card years ago lol
>>722062005I don't remember the last time updating GPU driver caused me any issues.I just don't update as soon as the new version shows up, so maybe that's why.
i do but not through the app because it will fuck up 50% of the time, better to download the actual file and do a clean update from that instead.
>>722062005Not hard to go sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
>>722062005I don't update drivers unless a new game is unplayable and I don't play new games
>>722062079I haven't had a single issue with Nvidia drivers on my 4070
>installing bloatware>not choosing "driver only"
Yes, sometimes it fixes things especially if you have a relatively recent bit of hardware or if you're playing recent-ish released titles. On Windows its pretty much about the same, but Nvidia's drivers have especially been an issue of >Previous issues fixed, but now new issues! in a way that had it happened to AMD people would be yelling like it was the ATI days again but no,NV has a reality distortion field of nearly Apple level. On Linux the driver updates for AMD things almost always go smoothly with new benefits. If there are issues, its typically someone else's fault (ie HDMI consortium can eat my entire ass for not wanting to allow a FOSS driver to have HDMI 2.1+ compatibility, so everything gets shit down to 2.0b which isn't enough for a 4K, 120hz or higher, wide gamut and RGB 4:4:4 etc.. usage). There are workarounds but it shouldn't be necessary - thankfully DisplayPort has no issues at all. For Nvidia its a toss up because its basically rewriting half of X or whatever the fuck its own way with the proprietary driver; I wish they'd just make a fully FOSS driver but Nvidia would rather give themselves a prostate massage with a red hot poker vs use an open, standard approach.
>>722062119this
>>722062005Every now and then. I don't think I've ever seen an improvement after updating drivers, but I don't think it something you should neglect either.
find drivers that work and do not fuck with them until you need to and then research how fucky the latest drivers are because there will always be some that are just awful
>>722062194i never update anything ever everything works fine, why would i update?
>>722062119thisbuilt into the kernel lmao
>>722062119>>722064283Mesa's Linux Drivers are also fucked.https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3647
>>722062005I updated when a new diver was available after oblivion remastered came out and I was looking to get a stable 60fps lol lmaobut I can't say I've ever noticed a performance improvement; I actually rolled them back after updating because my drops seemed to be slightly worseupgrading drivers when buying a newer card makes sense but besides that it seems like trouble
>>722064496>my laptop igpu is slow!!!yeah no shit poorfag, not my problem
>>722064830It's a bug that also affects desktops dumb nigger
>>722064897still not my problem
>>722062194>>722062005It feels like all modern gpu/win drivers arent tested at all or only for one system. Its kind of bonkers.
>>722064930Of course a poorfag like you doesn't have a VRR screen, so it's not your problem
Very rarely do I update drivers. Do not touch if it works. You may only need to update if you're trying to play a brand-new game and this is rarely required anyway. And stop using optional useless bloat like GSpot experience.
>>722063732There's a critical bug affecting 5000 cards where the desktop will constantly flicker if you're on a multi-monitor setup connected over displayport and they act like they don't even know it exists. Imagine if this shit happened to AMD.
>>722062005My drivers are in the kernel and mesa that's updated whenever I run nixos-rebuild
>>722065036Ugh that's pretty bad. I have only a single monitor at the moment but its good to know I was thinking of adding/upgrading. Are you seeing that on Windows or Linux?
>>722062005I love that for as long as I can remember every fucking retard on every fucking forum, no matter the issue will always go>uh yeah did you update your drivers, turn it off and on again and a bunch of other dumb braindead faggot shitand then some lying fag will chime in and go>OMG I DOWNLOADED TEH DRIVER UPDATE AND EVERYTHING IS PERFECT NOWAnd then it turns out to be a retarded security update from microsoft that caused a random specific model of mouse to bsod upon being plugged in or unplugged.
I once went so long without updating my drivers my monitor stopped working
>>722066349I refuse to believe any windows update actually does anything except slow my PC down
>>722066705It was really bad for me in the Vista days (wanted to play Halo 2 on m+k bad enough I dealt with it)I can't remember all of the issues, but the logitech bsod update was the one that really stuck with me, it's not like I was using some fucking walmart knockoff piece of shit.
>>722066349>security update from microsoft that caused a random specific model of mouse to bsod upon being plugged in or unpluggedlook man, computers are black magic. I never doubt and weird random tech support fix anymore, not since hotline miami 1 first came out and had issues with music not playing (kinda a big deal) and the fix was "have you tried disabling your printer spooler service?"
>>722062079>Nvidia's drivers are a nightmare latelyPeople keep saying this, but nobody I know is having any issues, nor have I seen any doomer youtube videos.
>updating anything everlol
>>722062005I update when the Nvidia App says one's available. The 4000 series got Smooth Motion (framegen for things that don't support framegen) support about a month ago, so I had to stay on top of it.As I checked, the Nvidia App itself just updated.
>>722068601zazed updooter
>>722062005nope. unless i am trying out a game that requires later drivers i never update. since it usually breaks things more than fixes them
>>722068601And what do you think of Smooth Motion so far? I find myself just using Lossless Scaling instead because I feel stutters using Smooth Motion sometimes
>>722062005They are updated automatically when I do pacman -Syu. Nvidia is doing big improvements on their driver so I haven't been disappointed yet.
>>722062005I used to always keep them up-to-date. Then this year, I updated to the latest Nvidia shit driver and it bricked my computer. Would freeze at the windows login screen, with the screen turning black. Had to start in safe mode, remove Geforce and the graphics drivers, install the previous version that functioned (566.36), that I still use btw, so that my computer functioned again. Fuck that shitty company.
>>722066349Sometimes a restart is all it takesIt's actually kinda funny because ever since windows 10 happened, turning off your computer no longer actually does a full "reboot", you have to actually manually select reboot.>>722067884>dumb shit like stutters being fixed by plugging in a USB controller>system clock not syncedor my favorite, a discovery of my own>monitor refresh rate was rounded down to 59.95hz and setting it to 60.01hz fixes it
>>722068902It's weird in that it wants to do half the frames, no matter what. I leave it off by default and enable it on a per-game basis (I love it in PCSX2). If you have it on by default it does this shit:>game runs at my 158fps cap normally>have smooth motion on>smooth motion is interpolating 79 of those frames PERIODThat aspect of it is gay.
>>72206916459.94 is NTSC, but flatpanels don't usually do that. Mine's at 164.99, thougheverbeit.
>>722068827you dont need to if you have a good cardany FPS over 60 is a meme to trick retards out of money
I've got an amd card and the last time I updated was earlier this year for doom the dark ages, since I figured a big game like that would need updated drivers. haven't updated since, but haven't played a big game since either. contemplating updating again for silent hill f though
my linux distro does it automatically
>>722069190Well yeah that's how frame generation works. Definitely best to only enable it on a per game basis. Emulators and locked fps games are definitely the best use case for frame gen and honestly such a game changer.
>>722062005I just wait a couple of days to a week before updating the drivers on the adrenaline client on AMD. It always worked for me.
>>722069308untrue
>>722069308it looks and feels better and i feel bad for you if you can't tell the differenceyou could lower the bar to the game being playable and be satisfied with the goy experience of playing at 24fps because there's no principle to your logic
>>722064897>100 year old issueswe're on 6.17 now and my 9070xt works perfectly.
>>722069602The issue has still not been fixed faggot
>>722062005I only update if i either have issues or am forced to by some game, only one i had that happen with is Tekken 8 when it released.
>>7220696389070xt + pg32ucdp and doesnt happen for me.
>Everything is working properly>Update>Everything is working properlyAm I the only one?
>>722069638works on my machine
I hope dem new udna cards are good and give better blender performance in cycles. Good enough for my shitty game dev uses but I wanna make pretty renders.
>>722069420DLSS framegen does as much as it can natively before topping off your framerate (higher base framerates make the result look better). I usually leave that on, because if I don't need it, it doesn't do anything. Smooth Motion bogarts your frames.
>>722069732The biggest issue I've had updating drivers in my 5 years of owning a gaming pc is my Nvidia Profile Inspector settings getting reset which meant I had to go back through and change the settings again. But that was totally my fault because I fell for the "clean install" meme
>>722069790>DLSS framegen does as much as it can natively before topping off your framerate (higher base framerates make the result look better).Sounds like you just have v sync off or framerate uncapped? If the situation you are describing occurred then the frame pacing would be all off (e.g. native fps at 100, with 20 generated frames to hit 120hz - the movement will not be smooth because some frames are getting interpolated and some aren't)AFAIK the only frame gen solution that does that currently is lossless scaling's Adaptive Frame Generation, which tends to look worse when doing 50fps -> 120hz for example instead of just letting it do 2x frame gen 50fps -> 100hz and interpolating naturally
>>722069837Yeah, those have always been a pain. Hate it when Shadowplay captures Telegram as a recordable / separate app.
>>722069729>>722069764Feel free to post where the bug was fixed
>>722062079I try not to update unless I have to, also.There was a nvidia driver I installed, restarted comp, suddenly windows cant see my 2nd monitor. Have to power the monitor off and on, then it detects it.
>>722070310only bug for retards with unstable machines ;)
>>722070621This, so much this, AMDsister...
>>722070657>issues on meme/old kernelsWOW
I updated them the other day after 4 years to get frame smoothing working with Wind Waker in Cemu, only to find out it's not supported by the 3000 series.To add insult to injury, it broke other games that were working.
>>722070947just use lossless scaling
>>722072071>saar
>>722062079for ex-nvidians on AMD:never update you gpu drivers through adrenaline and without reading the release notesalways run the cleanup utility and install the driver downloaded from AMDs websitestable doesnt mean stable. always check the known issues
>>722073574The new driver manager doesn’t even pull updates half the time, it is nice it does chipset driver updates but otherwise sucks compared to what they already had. All it seems to do is pop up to let you know privacy view is not downloaded
>>722062005On my Linux HTPC this isn't something I need to think about, it's all automatic and justwerks. (At least on my hardware. I know there are some tricky setups like laptops with switchable GPUs.)On my Windows desktop I don't update drivers (or indeed anything) unless absolutely necessary.
