Interesting what supporting graphics over Thunderbolt might actually mean. People have been using graphics over expresscard and Thunderbolt for years including Nvidia Optimus to get the image back to a laptop display. Just Google "egpu" to see. If they're: a) officially supporting it b) relaxing Optimus requirements c) enabling SLI then that's particularly noteworthy
I'm getting a "Eject NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti" bug in my taskbar hidden icons. How can I Eject my GPU from my desktop gaming rig? This is irritating, and I can't get rid of it without uninstalling this driver version 361.75.
Dunno if it did or didn't; but it was only ever going to be beta drivers. WHQL drivers are always available via Windows Update because they have to go through testing at MS to get WHQL certified.
How much of an improvement, to say frame-rate, do these "game-ready" drivers bring? A couple of FPS or what? I think that would be a great article for Anandtech maybe...
I don't think that's particularly interesting. The state prior to the 1st driver for a game was unoptimized, whereas in all the years afterwards only the optimized version counts. And if you're interested in how slow "unoptimized" is: it depends. In coding you can easily make things slower by many orders of magnitude by making non-optimal choices...
For SLI users, it means the difference between using the 2nd card or not for new games (unless you want to force one of the AFR methods, which is rarely 100% effective, with artifacts and such).
It's not so much performance optimization as really tested working correctly. In the past few years, there had been bad behavior for big expected games (iD's RAGE was one of those), where customers bought the games and got many glitches and problems in the first week. Nvidia's game ready program is to avoid this, not so much guarantee best performance (this will keep improving in the next few releases). It usually supports SLI for the game on release and is glitch free. Or at least this is the goal...
Game runs perfectly fine for me with a pair of old 290's with current drivers. I haven't read anything on other forums about any game breaking AMD gpu issues with the current drivers. I'd say that's a win for AMD. What are you complaining about?
Hey Guys, im having a problem downloading the new update, when i try to on my program it freezes and doesnt do anything, but when i try the website it says it not supported, do i need windows 10?
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naturbo2000 - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
Interesting what supporting graphics over Thunderbolt might actually mean. People have been using graphics over expresscard and Thunderbolt for years including Nvidia Optimus to get the image back to a laptop display. Just Google "egpu" to see.If they're:
a) officially supporting it
b) relaxing Optimus requirements
c) enabling SLI
then that's particularly noteworthy
hyno111 - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
Means many ppl are getting a "safely remove internal gpu" bug.just2btecky - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
I'm getting a "Eject NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti" bug in my taskbar hidden icons. How can I Eject my GPU from my desktop gaming rig? This is irritating, and I can't get rid of it without uninstalling this driver version 361.75.HollyDOL - Friday, January 29, 2016 - link
Well, actually you CAN eject it... I wouldn't consider it safe or reasonable though when the machine is powered up :-)tzhu07 - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
Nvidia is apparently aware of the issue and will fix it in the next update.Harry Lloyd - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
So that stupid forcing-driver-updates-via-GFE-only thing never happened? Thank heavens.DanNeely - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
Dunno if it did or didn't; but it was only ever going to be beta drivers. WHQL drivers are always available via Windows Update because they have to go through testing at MS to get WHQL certified.529th - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
My GTX 670 still remains above idle on my 144Hz monitor when I am not gaming and nothing is going on.jasonelmore - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
your desktop is still being rendered at 144 FPS, it' takes a bit more gpu power.blppt - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
Make sure you have power mode set to "adaptive" and not "prefer maximum performance".SunnyNW - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
How much of an improvement, to say frame-rate, do these "game-ready" drivers bring? A couple of FPS or what? I think that would be a great article for Anandtech maybe...MrSpadge - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
I don't think that's particularly interesting. The state prior to the 1st driver for a game was unoptimized, whereas in all the years afterwards only the optimized version counts. And if you're interested in how slow "unoptimized" is: it depends. In coding you can easily make things slower by many orders of magnitude by making non-optimal choices...blppt - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - link
For SLI users, it means the difference between using the 2nd card or not for new games (unless you want to force one of the AFR methods, which is rarely 100% effective, with artifacts and such).frenchy_2001 - Friday, January 29, 2016 - link
It's not so much performance optimization as really tested working correctly.In the past few years, there had been bad behavior for big expected games (iD's RAGE was one of those), where customers bought the games and got many glitches and problems in the first week.
Nvidia's game ready program is to avoid this, not so much guarantee best performance (this will keep improving in the next few releases). It usually supports SLI for the game on release and is glitch free. Or at least this is the goal...
jasonelmore - Friday, January 29, 2016 - link
Still no AMD "Beta" drivers and the game has been out a couple of days.. AMD really dropped the ball on Rise of Tomb Raiderwolfemane - Friday, January 29, 2016 - link
Game runs perfectly fine for me with a pair of old 290's with current drivers. I haven't read anything on other forums about any game breaking AMD gpu issues with the current drivers. I'd say that's a win for AMD. What are you complaining about?Michael Bay - Sunday, January 31, 2016 - link
>game works as it should in the first place>win for AMD
MrYang - Saturday, January 30, 2016 - link
Hey Guys, im having a problem downloading the new update, when i try to on my program it freezes and doesnt do anything, but when i try the website it says it not supported, do i need windows 10?top1234 - Thursday, February 4, 2016 - link
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