R355 also contains the new OpenGL extensions announced earlier this week, as well as a couple of new EGL extensions and support for OpenGL in EGL contexts. (I don't think Windows uses EGL for anything anyway?)
Next time I'll be buying myself a NVIDIA. A year later - there is still no OpenGL 4.5 support for any AMD cards. I am really unhappy how much is AMD lagging behind.
And really why isn't there an EGL support in all Drivers on Windows and Linux too?
There's a new way of building/packaging the driver in R355 branch. Presumably this is part of the plan to support KMS on Linux, but I don't know whether this has any implications at all for Windows.
After updating to 255.60, The GeForce Experience application has new optimized profiles. These new profiles seem to universally enable Nvidia Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing. I am running a GTX 780 TI and was under the impression that MFSAA was a Maxwell 2 feature only. All the games run fine, and I really cannot tell if it is enabled or not.
I doubt it. I feel like there'd be talk about it if it were the case.
Hey, Ryan! Since you write "The first consumer driver", does that mean that Quadro drivers had GameWorks VR for some reason? Or do you mean internal testing drivers?
Is there something inherently wrong in sticking with a 5yr old card if it works for his use cases? Is the age of NVidia hardware a good justification for SW bugs if the driver explicitly supports that hardware?
In any case I have a gtx965m and the new driver gives me black screen when I start up Guild Wars 2. Rolled back, so it's not really a big problem for the time being.
these are the most broken drivers nvidia has released in a while Sli on windows 10 is impossible and sli has to be disable du to running out of memory directx problem
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jwcalla - Thursday, August 13, 2015 - link
R355 also contains the new OpenGL extensions announced earlier this week, as well as a couple of new EGL extensions and support for OpenGL in EGL contexts. (I don't think Windows uses EGL for anything anyway?)Zingam - Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - link
Next time I'll be buying myself a NVIDIA. A year later - there is still no OpenGL 4.5 support for any AMD cards. I am really unhappy how much is AMD lagging behind.And really why isn't there an EGL support in all Drivers on Windows and Linux too?
mosu - Saturday, August 22, 2015 - link
read this: link http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop...bug77 - Friday, August 14, 2015 - link
There's a new way of building/packaging the driver in R355 branch. Presumably this is part of the plan to support KMS on Linux, but I don't know whether this has any implications at all for Windows.Spoony - Friday, August 14, 2015 - link
After updating to 255.60, The GeForce Experience application has new optimized profiles. These new profiles seem to universally enable Nvidia Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing. I am running a GTX 780 TI and was under the impression that MFSAA was a Maxwell 2 feature only. All the games run fine, and I really cannot tell if it is enabled or not.Spoony - Friday, August 14, 2015 - link
Correction: That would be 355.60. Obligatory editing feature comment.mapesdhs - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link
Obligatory support for your editing comment. :)toyotabedzrock - Friday, August 14, 2015 - link
Does it add directx12 for Fermi?casperes1996 - Friday, August 14, 2015 - link
I doubt it. I feel like there'd be talk about it if it were the case.Hey, Ryan! Since you write "The first consumer driver", does that mean that Quadro drivers had GameWorks VR for some reason? Or do you mean internal testing drivers?
Ryan Smith - Friday, August 14, 2015 - link
I mean internal testing drivers.Oxford Guy - Saturday, August 15, 2015 - link
Hopefully it will once again fix the periodic mouse freeze issue that has reappeared with my 460.Oxford Guy - Saturday, August 15, 2015 - link
So much praise is heaped on Nvidia's driver's but I have had plenty of trouble with them.foxtrot1_1 - Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - link
That may be because your video card is a low-end model from five years ago.Hyper72 - Thursday, August 20, 2015 - link
Is there something inherently wrong in sticking with a 5yr old card if it works for his use cases? Is the age of NVidia hardware a good justification for SW bugs if the driver explicitly supports that hardware?In any case I have a gtx965m and the new driver gives me black screen when I start up Guild Wars 2. Rolled back, so it's not really a big problem for the time being.
ketacdx - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link
Now if only they would finally fix the menu flickering on Windows 10 4K@60hz HDMI 2.0, I'd be a happy boy! loldamianrobertjones - Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - link
Did you actually laugh out loud??PrZZZ - Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - link
these are the most broken drivers nvidia has released in a while Sli on windows 10 is impossible and sli has to be disable du to running out of memory directx problemi tought a site like Anandtech was aware of that
damianrobertjones - Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - link
Hmmm. Is it really broke? Goes off to search...