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New nvidia drivers cut fps in half?

Supposedly there's some decreased performance in certain games with the new drivers, although I'm not sure how much. Playing farcry earlier I noticed worse fps.
 
hmm maybe it was my video card throtlling? i tightened the screws up and hopefully ill get better performance. i was hitting almost 20 fps on militia
 
Maybe when you upgraded drivers, it turned on vertical sync for some reason. That might explain your framerate halving.
 
Originally posted by: Janooo
If NV is fixing IQ it can be expected that performance will go down.
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As I understand it, the only IQ "issue" is the angle dependent AF, which is a choice NV made when they designed the G7x core, and not anything that can be fixed without a new core. I am not aware of any serious IQ issues that would require them to "fix IQ" across the board. Are their a few issues in a few games...? Sure, but this is pretty much status quo for NV and ATI - it isn't possible to find and fix every issue.
 
Originally posted by: nitromullet
Originally posted by: Janooo
If NV is fixing IQ it can be expected that performance will go down.
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As I understand it, the only IQ "issue" is the angle dependent AF, which is a choice NV made when they designed the G7x core, and not anything that can be fixed without a new core. I am not aware of any serious IQ issues that would require them to "fix IQ" across the board. Are their a few issues in a few games...? Sure, but this is pretty much status quo for NV and ATI - it isn't possible to find and fix every issue.
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NV does something differently in HQ. If they decided to move a small percentage of the code into the standard mode you would see a hit. Just a guess but who knows what's going on in those drivers.
 
Originally posted by: nitromullet
Originally posted by: Janooo
If NV is fixing IQ it can be expected that performance will go down.
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As I understand it, the only IQ "issue" is the angle dependent AF, which is a choice NV made when they designed the G7x core, and not anything that can be fixed without a new core. I am not aware of any serious IQ issues that would require them to "fix IQ" across the board. Are their a few issues in a few games...? Sure, but this is pretty much status quo for NV and ATI - it isn't possible to find and fix every issue.
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If Nvidia set their default driver mode to HQ in their newer drivers, then a performance drop would be expected. I think I've seen the hit from HQ mode ranging from 5-15%, but nowhere near half of the performance.
 
I suspect this is related to the quality/high quality profile "bug" where past drivers sometimes didn't apply high quality even if it was selected.

If they've fixed it that could possibly explain the performance drop.
 
If you used the profiles instead of stubbornly ignoring their existance and using only the global profile as an old fashioned universal driver setting prosthetic you would never have had the profile "bug" (which only affects the global profile) in the first place...
 
Originally posted by: BFG10K
I suspect this is related to the quality/high quality profile "bug" where past drivers sometimes didn't apply high quality even if it was selected.

If they've fixed it that could possibly explain the performance drop.
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bumping up the quality never caused that kind of a performance hit afaik.

Id try uninstalling and hitting windows with driver cleaner, then installing newest officials again.
 
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