I FINALLY Found The BEST NVIDIA Driver (+20% FPS) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Nvidia shipped a few new drivers since
2. 0:01last month, and my subscribers kept
3. 0:03asking me which one is actually the best
4. 0:05for their GPU. So, here's my updated
5. 0:07list of the top three best Nvidia
6. 0:09drivers. I'll show you what each one
7. 0:10fixes, what's still broken, which one
8. 0:12fixes DLSS5, and the free Nvidia app
9. 0:15switches that give you more performance
10. 0:16and stability on any of them. And
11. 0:18honestly, some of Nvidia's drivers have
12. 0:20been full of problems. Nvidia already
13. 0:22had to push a hot fix for browser
14. 0:23[music] flicker. And people still hit
15. 0:24the same bugs after the fixes get
16. 0:26listed. If you're subscribed to my
17. 0:27channel, you already saw my comments
18. 0:29full of your problem reports, sometimes
19. 0:31even bugs Nvidia said it fixed. So,
20. 0:33let's start with benchmarks. I played
21. 0:34all three drivers on my own rig in
22. 0:36multiple games, multiple runs each. And
23. 0:38here are the two best examples to show
24. 0:39how bad the situation is. Doom: The Dark
25. 0:41Ages first. The May Driver averages 49
26. 0:44FPS 92 50.14
27. 0:48again. In the worst moments, the May
28. 0:49Driver and 14 both hold 40 and 0.92 dips
29. 0:53to 38. Now, Cyberpunk 2077. The May
30. 0:55driver averages 51 and 0.92 gets 50.14
31. 0:59gets 49. In the worst moments, the two
32. 1:01older drivers hold 37 and.14 gets 36. So
33. 1:05all three sit within 2 FPS of each
34. 1:07other. That's basically nothing. Thank
35. 1:09you Nvidia for such a massive FPS boost.
36. 1:11So FPS isn't a reason to pick one of
37. 1:13them. What matters is what people ran
38. 1:15into on each one. So let's go through
39. 1:16them. The first driver on the list, last
40. 1:18month's driver, 0.92. It's a game ready
41. 1:21driver with three fixes, zero of them
42. 1:23for games. Its own release notes list
43. 1:25three open issues like Assassin's Creed
44. 1:27Shadows crashing to desktop and the
45. 1:28Judgment games not launching at all. The
46. 1:30big fix on it was browser flicker and
47. 1:32people still see that flicker in Edge
48. 1:34and in Chrome. In Doom and Indiana
49. 1:36Jones, both Vulcan games, someone says
50. 1:38VSSync with G-Sync locks his FPS at one
51. 1:40number and that it's been broken for
52. 1:42several drivers now, but plenty of dudes
53. 1:44are totally fine on it on 50 series and
54. 1:4640 series cards alike. So 0.92 is the
55. 1:48driver a lot of you already have. And on
56. 1:50chunk of those PCs, it runs fine. And
57. 1:52the newest driver, point4, has black
58. 1:54screens in the reports, but also a fix
59. 1:56people actually confirmed. 14 is game
60. 1:59ready for Control Resonant, Gears of
61. 2:00War, Eday, The Witcher 3 Remastered, and
62. 2:03ion 2. It lists three fixes and only one
63. 2:05open issue, but since installing it, a
64. 2:07few people get random black screens and
65. 2:09flicker, mostly on 50 series cards. One
66. 2:11Fortnite enjoyer still gets driver
67. 2:13crashes, and he went back to an older
68. 2:15driver again. So much for updating for
69. 2:16the new games. I filmed my whole
70. 2:18previous Envy UV video on 14. So, if you
71. 2:21undervolt with NVUV, listen up. As I
72. 2:23said in that video, when Game Re replay,
73. 2:25NVUV's crash autofix is on, every driver
74. 2:28crash cuts that game's clock by one
75. 2:30step. So, the game keeps running slower
76. 2:32long after the bug is fixed. The fix for
77. 2:34monitors that won't wake from sleep is
78. 2:35on the list, but one owner screen still
79. 2:37stays black after sleep. And that Doom
80. 2:39and Indiana Jones FPS lock isn't fixed
81. 2:41here either. And the bug where the
82. 2:43prefer maximum performance setting
83. 2:45doesn't apply simply vanished from the
84. 2:46open list with no fixed line anywhere.
85. 2:49Forcing maximum performance is bad
86. 2:50advice anyway. But deleting a bug from
87. 2:52the list without fixing it, typical
88. 2:54Nvidia experience. Assassin's Creed
89. 2:56Shadows still crashes here, too. But the
90. 2:58good stuff is real. A few Samsung
91. 3:00Odyssey G95NC owners confirmed their
92. 3:03monitors finally work again over HDMI,
93. 3:05and the Judgment games that wouldn't
94. 3:07launch are listed as fixed, too. Other
95. 3:08people played a whole week on.14 with no
96. 3:11issues at all. So.14 is the one with
97. 3:13[music] the support for new games, and
98. 3:14also the one with the fresh black
99. 3:16screens. And if both of those scare you,
100. 3:18there's a third option, the old May
101. 3:19driver 596.49.
102. 3:22It's an older driver game ready for
103. 3:23Fortza Horizon 6 with two fixes and zero
104. 3:26open issues. One of those fixes is
105. 3:28supposed to make frame generation with
106. 3:30VSync smoother. It also already has
107. 3:31Nvidia's May security fixes, so it's
108. 3:34still safe to use. People who've been on
109. 3:35it since May say they've had zero
110. 3:37issues. A few 40 series users even call
111. 3:39it the only stable driver so far, but
112. 3:41the May driver isn't perfect either.
113. 3:43Some 50 series users got black screens
114. 3:45on their monitors. And in Doom and
115. 3:47Indiana Jones, frame generation still
116. 3:49feels uneven on it. So that smoothness
117. 3:51fix doesn't work in those two games. It
118. 3:53also has no game ready support for
119. 3:54anything that came out after May. Still,
120. 3:56it's the only one of the three with zero
121. 3:58open issues. Now, an important notice
122. 4:00about DLSS5 because one of these three
123. 4:03can't run it at all. Official DLSS5
124. 4:05needs driver 66.64
125. 4:08or newer. So 0.92 and.14 both run it and
126. 4:11the May [music] driver doesn't.
127. 4:12Officially, it's for 50 series, and an
128. 4:14Nvidia spokesperson says they plan to
129. 4:15bring it to 40 series. Older cards run
130. 4:17it through the DLSS5 mods, and on 20 and
131. 4:2030 series, that costs about half your
132. 4:22FPS, and every new driver can break
133. 4:24those mods. Mod versions 4.6 and 4.7
134. 4:27fail on every driver since 64. DLSS5
135. 4:31Autopilot, the free app that installs
136. 4:33it, recommends an older version that
137. 4:34still works. And the newest mod versions
138. 4:36work on 142. Honestly, that's annoying.
139. 4:39I ran Cyberpunk with DLSS5 on point4
140. 4:42myself and it works fine. And if a game
141. 4:44crashes with DLSS5 after a driver
142. 4:46update, turn the mod off first before
143. 4:48you blame the driver. So, which driver
144. 4:50belongs on your card? If you're on 0.92
145. 4:52and your games run fine, stay on it.
146. 4:54Same if you're still on 888 and happy,
147. 4:56stay there. If you play one of the new
148. 4:57game ready games or want the Judgment
149. 4:59games to launch, install.14 [music]
150. 5:01DLSS5, 0.92 is my pick. If your FPS in
151. 5:05Doom or Indiana Jones gets stuck at one
152. 5:07number, your browser flickers, or
153. 5:08Assassin's Creed Shadows or Hitman crash
154. 5:10on you, go to the May Driver. On the May
155. 5:12Driver, turn frame generation off in
156. 5:14those two games. If your black screens
157. 5:16started with 14, go back to 0.92. To
158. 5:19switch, grab the installer from Nvidia's
159. 5:21own driver page. Wipe the old driver
160. 5:23with DDU, the clean driver remover, and
161. 5:25install it clean. Envy UV users. After
162. 5:27any driver switch, rightclick replay,
163. 5:29open show replay adjustments, and click
164. 5:31clear all. And don't switch for FPS
165. 5:33alone. 16 series up to 50, the picks are
166. 5:36the same. Only DLSS5 depends on your
167. 5:38card. And on a 10 series card, your
168. 5:40driver is the security one Nvidia made
169. 5:42for it, 582.66.
170. 5:44And if you'd rather know which of
171. 5:45Nvidia's drivers are safe and which ones
172. 5:47will [music] nuke your PC, subscribe
173. 5:49because I install every new driver on my
174. 5:51own rig before I tell you anything. And
175. 5:53once you've picked your driver, five
176. 5:54free switches in the Nvidia app give you
177. 5:56more performance and [music] less input
178. 5:58lag. No paid tool needed. I'd start with
179. 6:00resizable bar because it probably gives
180. 6:02you more FPS in games Nvidia never added
181. 6:05to its list. On auto, the driver only
182. 6:07opens your card's full memory to games
183. 6:09on that list, so every other game
184. 6:10probably loads textures slower. Open the
185. 6:12Nvidia app, click graphics, click
186. 6:14program settings, and pick your game.
187. 6:16Under driver settings, find resizable
188. 6:18bar and set it [music] to enabled. The
189. 6:20row now reads enabled, not auto. Nvidia
190. 6:22picks the games, not you. Funny how that
191. 6:24works. If one game loses FPS with it,
192. 6:26set that game back to auto. Now, a
193. 6:28switch for a little more performance in
194. 6:30all your games at once. It cuts extra
195. 6:32texture work your eye never sees with no
196. 6:34difference you'd notice on screen. Click
197. 6:35[music] global settings. Scroll down
198. 6:37under driver settings and click show
199. 6:38legacy settings. Find texture filtering,
200. 6:41anisotropic sample optimization, and set
201. 6:43it to on. That row now says on. If far
202. 6:45away floors start to shimmer in your
203. 6:47games, go back to this row and set it to
204. 6:49off. And this next one [music] means
205. 6:50fewer frame drops right after you switch
206. 6:52drivers. After every driver update, your
207. 6:54games rebuild their shaders, the game's
208. 6:56graphics code. They do it while you
209. 6:57play, and a lot of frame drops right
210. 6:59after an update come from that. With
211. 7:01[music] this switch, the driver rebuilds
212. 7:02them while your PC sits idle instead,
213. 7:04and the text right under the switch says
214. 7:06so. Still in global settings, click the
215. 7:08button next to shader cache. Under
216. 7:10automatic shader compilation, click on,
217. 7:12then click apply. The switch now reads
218. 7:14on. Your first games after your next
219. 7:15driver switch should have fewer frame
220. 7:17drops. I'd rather my PC does that work
221. 7:19while I'm away than in the middle of a
222. 7:20match. It uses your processor while the
223. 7:22PC sits idle, so if the fans bother you,
224. 7:25set it back to off. Next, the one for
225. 7:26games like Doom, Minecraft, or Red Dead
226. 7:29Redemption 2, where your worst drops
227. 7:30probably get smaller. Same page, find
228. 7:32Vulcan OpenGL present method and pick
229. 7:35prefer layered on Agi swap chain. It
230. 7:37sends those games to your screen the
231. 7:39same way DirectX games do. Now the row
232. 7:41shows prefer layered on HGI swap chain,
233. 7:44not auto. This really should be the
234. 7:45default. If one of those games drops
235. 7:47more FPS after this, open that game in
236. 7:49program settings and [music] set its
237. 7:50present method to auto there. And last,
238. 7:52less input lag with the switch recycled
239. 7:54channels always get wrong. Low latency
240. 7:56mode. It keeps fewer finished frames
241. 7:58waiting in line, so what you do with
242. 8:00your mouse probably shows up on screen
243. 8:01sooner. Find low latency mode and set it
244. 8:04to on, not ultra, on because ultra is
245. 8:06the one those channels tell you to use,
246. 8:08and it causes more problems than it
247. 8:09fixes. The row now reads on instead of
248. 8:12off. And if a game has its own reflex
249. 8:14switch, I'd turn reflex on inside that
250. 8:15game instead. You can now run whichever
251. 8:17driver you picked with more FPS, smaller
252. 8:20drops, and less input [music] lag. Drop
253. 8:21a comment with the driver you're
254. 8:22running, whether DLSS5 worked on it, and
255. 8:25what broke since your last update.