[SOLVED] Nvidia 375.26-2 drivers performance drop

janpansa · 2017-01-25 20:26:40

Since I have upgraded to the 375.26 nvidia drivers, all my games are now unplayable and really laggy. Before the upgrade I was getting 200+ fps in minecraft, now I get between 20 - 40 fps. The same happens with my other games.

Anyone else having issues ?

Anyone know how to revert back to a known stable driver ?

I dont have any cached packages for nvidia though.

My specs:

OS: Arch Linux
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.8.13-1-ARCH
Shell: bash 4.4.5
Resolution: 2560x2520
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K CPU @ 3.6GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 970
RAM: 4721MiB / 15879MiB

UPDATE

I have made a post about this on nvidia's forums here https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … ance-drop/

UPDATE

Please see my last post in this thread. Nvidia was not the cause of the problems, even though I thought so at first.

Last edited by janpansa (2017-01-29 07:58:14)

Roken · 2017-01-25 21:36:47

Quite the contrary. Now let me qualify my response, the only game I play regularly is Trackmania via wine, which occasionally complains about low framerates, though I can categorically say they are not low, and I put this down to using wine.

Other than that, I use the Unigine benchmarks to test (Heaven and Valley), and on Ultra 1920x1080 settings both are still hitting around 30 fps (which is faster than TV, and so faster than my old addled eyes). Admittedly, there's the odd glitch, which I know in a fast paced game can mean life or death, but overall, working well.

More to the point, NV drivers started dropping off (especially in unigine-heaven) but have recovered well in the last 4 or 5 updates.

Now, when Steam release Trine 2 on their bargain weekend, I'll let you know more.

janpansa · 2017-01-26 16:50:17

@Roken, interesting. Well I guess the drivers perform different depending on your GFX card. I see in your signature that you have a Nvidia GTX 680 which was released back in 2012. I have a GTX 970 which was released about 2 - 3 years later. Perhaps the issues I am experiencing with frame rate drops in the last driver versions has something to do with a piece of the driver that addresses a piece of technology or architecture only found in the 900 series cards. Or perhaps the source of the issues are directly from a technology on the graphics card that is only present in newer cards and does not talk well with the driver. Perhaps the older cards dont have the exact same architecture, so the problem does not occur.

Dont get me wrong, with the previous driver, I was playing games with high frame rates. I even have a video on youtube where I play grid on a large resolution with a pretty good fps. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv2x5mN2FxY) Although an older driver, it's the same hardware. The latest drivers are just causing me issues

Last edited by janpansa (2017-01-26 16:52:45)

T84 · 2017-01-29 00:47:34

Same here.
I tried to uninstall and re-install NVIDIA drivers and making a new xorg.file with nvidia-xconfig but it didn't work.

janpansa · 2017-01-29 07:56:01

Update, guys, I was wrong. It seems I was using the wrong game to perform my tests.

It seems that at the same time that I upgraded my nvidia drivers, openjdk also updated to version 1.8 and because minecraft uses java, that was the cause of the poor performance and NOT the new nvidia drivers.

I since installed 375.26-6 nvidia driver and it performs really well in all other games.

I also fixed minecraft and java performance by uninstalling openjdk and installing oracle jdk 1.8.

Now once again I am getting 200+fps in minecraft and all problems are solved. See image https://imgur.com/tR9ka0c

Kayden_knows_the_truth · 2017-01-30 18:01:18

+1 to poor nvidia drivers performance!
Even if it SOLVED for you, it is not SOLVED for us:) I got a huge FPS drop since i got an update to nvidia 375.26-6, soo is bug presented!!

GTX 660ti
Linux archpc 4.9.6-1-ARCH
nvidia 375.26-6

letku · 2017-02-02 16:47:41

Performance is even worse on Beta driver (378.09)

letku · 2017-02-02 16:49:24

Only solution for me now is boot the 4.4 LTS kernel, with it performance is okay..

Last edited by letku (2017-02-02 16:51:10)

letku · 2017-02-02 17:26:28

I tested Linux-ck-k10 4.9.7 with Nvidia beta ,and problems are still there, with COH2 I can't even start it, there's sound but no screen, only freezed desktop. Sometimes I get white backround and sound, hmm......

UPDATE
I got COH2 working with 4.9.7 + Beta driver ,performance is really medicore ,I got 7.2fps avg.Before I used to get around 20+fps avg on COH2 graphics peromance test.

UPDATE
Reverted back to 375.26 ,and found a way (right sequence) to start COH2 every time, my findings are that 4.9.6 is the most affected version for this regression.
With 4.4 I got approx 18-20 fps avg.
With 4.9.7-ck average framerate is 24
Even with Zen 4.9.7 I get better results than with zen 4.9.6, but those kernels haven't never been good gaming kernels, at least for me.
My other games are running reasonably well now.. After installing Beta ,and then reverting back to 375.26 made something, because before this my games where quit choppy..

Last edited by letku (2017-02-03 09:50:51)

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