Nvidia Driver Problem?

[longjohn119]

The first time I benchmarked the game I used the Nvidia drivers released in August which seemed to work just fine and gave me an average FPS of 101. To get rid of the nag screen I upgraded the drivers to the latest and my average FPS dropped by 20 to 81 FPS and seems to be CPU limited

I was hesitant to upgrade the Nvidia drivers because many people were having problems with the newer ones in Forbidden West with texture problems in some areas with faces. I just think the latest Nvidia drivers are broken so I'm rolling back and I'll just put up with the stupid nag screen about driver version

[Momo]

I launched the game and it told me that I had to download the latest drivers to have a better experience lol

I am using the older ones (I think I downloaded them one month ago) and it is working fine. I just had some weird hair glitches on one character during a cutscene.

[longjohn119]

I rolled back to 560.94 and this time I got 93. Each time I've run the benchmark it shows by FPS is limited by the CPU (5800X) In other words the CPU FPS matches the average FPS while the GPU FPS is about 30-35 FPS higher

I do like the way the benchmark breaks down usage by CPU and GPU which makes it easier to see where the limiting factor is which in my case seems to be the CPU. However it is kind of weird that the CPU bottleneck is worse with the latest drivers compared to the older drivers.

[Grimzy]

Originally posted by russell_john:

I rolled back to 560.94 and this time I got 93. Each time I've run the benchmark it shows by FPS is limited by the CPU (5800X) In other words the CPU FPS matches the average FPS while the GPU FPS is about 30-35 FPS higher

I do like the way the benchmark breaks down usage by CPU and GPU which makes it easier to see where the limiting factor is which in my case seems to be the CPU. However it is kind of weird that the CPU bottleneck is worse with the latest drivers compared to the older drivers.

Drivers arent always the issue, even after updating. I always update my drivers the moment new ones become available and have so far never had a single issue due to it.
It is possible some settings reset after you update the driver or game needs to be optimized again through gforce experience or nvidia app or the 3d settings in nvidia control panel.
Check those first and also make sure you do a reboot after you update the drivers.

[longjohn119]

I only update my drivers when there is a good reason to upgrade drivers such as a new game, a specific bug fix for a game i'm playing or a big feature update.

I've seen issues with several older games with both Nvidia and AMD drivers breaking older games that worked fine before the driver update. Go to either's forums and after just about every update you'll see people having problems with older games. The reason for that is Nvidia and AMD only test their drivers with newer games because it is simply impractical to test 100,000 old games.

For instance the latest Nvidia drivers drop my FPS in the benchmark by 20% from 101 with the 560.94 to 81 FPS with the latest. There are also people having tace textures and face paint popin problems with the latest Nvidia drivers in both Forbidden West and this Remaster that I'm not having with 560.94

If it ain't broke don't try to fix it ..... Eventually it will catch up to you and I've been building computers on the x86 platform since 1988

[longjohn119]

Here are the benchmark results

First run with 560.94

https://i.imgur.com/IrbDsR7.png

Second Run latest drivers

https://i.imgur.com/8cElIbP.png

Third run with 560.94

https://i.imgur.com/DwP85Wf.png

[Majestic]

Yeah make sure you do a few runs so you're not hitting run-to-run variance.