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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,360

NVidia drivers getting slower

There's not much in it (I'm talking about fractions of FPS), but are the newer (last 4 or so) generation of NV proprietary drivers getting slower?

I ask because, my go to benchmark (both to make sure that the drivers are working, and to assess the improvement), Unigine Valley, seems to be getting fractionally slower with each release. On Ultra settings, I use to get a comfortable benchmark of 30 fps on Ultra - HD settings. For the first time, it's dropped below 29 fps. I always benchmark on a clean boot. Now, it's not critical for me yet, but are the drivers getting slower, or is it just a config thing?

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: NVidia drivers getting slower

Between config files, updates of all kinds and whatnot you have done to your system between 30 and 29 FPS, why are we talking about the nvidia blob getting slower specifically?

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: NVidia drivers getting slower

I think it's more likely that the nvidia blob is slower due to:

* Knock-on effects of Nvidia's bugfixes.
* The changing focus of Nvidia's optimization efforts, towards more recent cards and games.

Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,360

Re: NVidia drivers getting slower

Like I said, the differnece overall is negligiible , burt it's there. I'm not anal about FOS to the extent that it should all be that way, merelely that improvement comes at a cosŧ.

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