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[CMetz]

I updated my Nvidia driver last night when the new one became available... My framerate under DX9 has skyrocketed. It still dips a bit during firefights, but I'm running at least 6 FPS better with an even more noticeable difference during less GPU intensive moments. I have not tried DX11 yet, but will update on that.

For example, was getting about 44 FPS while plodding around on Tourmaline tonight before the new driver. I just spent most of my game at 56-60 FPS while walking around, dropping only to 44-46 during firefights. All settings very high.

My system:
AMD FX-8320
Asus GTX 770 OC
16 GB Ram (1600 Mhz)
Asus M5A78 series Mobo
Win 8.1 home

Is anyone else having more success with the new Nvidia driver?

[Jabilo]

I will give them a go, but since closed beta I have never seen a fps increase in MWO from an Nvidia driver release.

I also have a 770 though so lets pray for a miracle. I will report back!

[Goose]

The feedback that I crave …

Did you just install it, or use DDU?

[CMetz]

I just installed it using a clean install in the Nvidia utility. Here is my continued feedback using DX9 (wanted to get a round on most of the maps first).

Alpine- modest FPS bump
Tourmaline- Excellent FPS bump with improvements during firefights
Frozen City- Maybe a frame or two, not much improvement
River City- modest FPS gains
HPG- modest FPS gains

Overall I'd say its a nice driver update. Will report back with DX11 when I get to trying it. Anyone else have anything to report?

[Goose Igaly]

I certainly hope to see an increase. I play with an i7-930, GTX 465, and used to play on high but have had to steadily drop the settings down as the game has progressed. I'm currently running on low settings pulling an avg of 20fps. Breaking my heart.

[Jabilo]

I performed a clean install and used DDU.

For me I am afraid that there are no fps gains and I am still getting frame drops in to the 30s despite neither my GPU or CPU being at full load (since last patch).

On the other hand it did "feel" a bit smoother, which might indicate an improvement to the consistency of frame timings. This could of course be wishful thinking.

Performance is certainly no worse, so I encourage every Nvidia owner to upgrade their drivers and see for themselves.

Only tried 2 x games at DX9 so far. If I try DX11 or if I have any other interesting results I will report back.

Edited by Jabilo, 11 March 2014 - 02:02 PM.

[Goose]

Goose Igaly, on 11 March 2014 - 01:59 PM, said:

I certainly hope to see an increase. I play with an i7-930, GTX 465, and used to play on high but have had to steadily drop the settings down as the game has progressed. I'm currently running on low settings pulling an avg of 20fps.

Breaking my heart.

You, Sir, should be elbow-deep into user.cfg setting …

[Bront]

Goose Igaly, on 11 March 2014 - 01:59 PM, said:

I certainly hope to see an increase. I play with an i7-930, GTX 465, and used to play on high but have had to steadily drop the settings down as the game has progressed. I'm currently running on low settings pulling an avg of 20fps. Breaking my heart.

Clear your shader folder under Mechwarror Online/USER

[Durant Carlyle]

Installed the new driver with the Clean Install option.

Played in DX9 mode. Definitely more FPS on all maps at the start, and seemed smoother in heavy combat.

Will try DX11 mode and report back.

[Deathlike]

I don't see much of a difference performance wise (I need to play with it longer to be sure). Running exclusively DX11 and played a few matches. I'll probably have a better feel sometime later this week.

[METAL SEPARATOR]

Watch for placebo! The new drivers can give you that. Although I myself haven't tried them yet.

[1Sascha]

Didn't really notice anything with the new driver - I guess mainly due to the fact that with the change to DX11, FPS have changed quite a bit anyway, so I'm lacking a solid base for comparison.

I did however notice that DX11 gives me FPS deep in the yellow with certain options set to high or more. Almost like MWO used to run on my old C2Q-system that I retired last summer. I reduced Texturing, Shading, Shadows and Environment to Medium or High and that brought me back into 70 - 80 FPS territory.

But: Whatever you do when you install, don't use the freakin' installation option in Nvidia Experience. I don't know why I even used it this time - usually use the old-fashioned way of downloading and installing manually.

But when I did it through "Experience", it hung up on me on "preparing installation" for about an hour or so. I got fed up waiting, killed the process and that messed up the installation (related to temp-files not getting deleted and being unable to do so manually due to lack of rights, even though I run everything as admin). After that, the installer would always stop with an "installation cannot continue"-message. Great.

Only way to fix this was to remove everything related to NVidia using DDU (thank God for that thing).


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Edited by 1Sascha, 13 March 2014 - 07:47 AM.

[Marvyn Dodgers]

Haven't been ingame to check performance yet, but this is the first update that has actually worked for me in months . . .