Topic: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

Just don't big_smile

Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

Hmmm i have those installed whats so bad about them?

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Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

Some users of GTX 560, GTX 560 Ti, GTX 580 and GTX 980 Ti tell about issues with flickering or about error: unable to init GPU-based renderer [code 0x3FFFB]
It is connected to OpenCL-part of NVIDIA driver ver.378.49
More info:
GPU acceleration broken in new nvidia driver 378.49?
Latest NVIDIA Drivers Have Broken SVP.

Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

Ah ok thanks luckily i dont have issues.

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Here on a 525M it was flickering to black (with some red from the image remaining tho?) constantly on the interpolated frames.

Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

There's a guy on Facebook saying

if playing 1080 works fine.. but if 720p the flickering appears..

Anyone can confirm this?
I still can't reproduce the issue on my Quadro M2000.

7 Reply by petejones (edited by petejones 25-02-2017 05:47:23)

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Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

I get crazy flickering on all videos with the 378.13 drivers on a GTX 460 using Arch Linux. I downgraded to the 375 drivers and now its working.

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Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

I have the new hotfix driver 378.72 with no flickering issues

9 Reply by pan3o (edited by pan3o 18-02-2017 18:45:33)

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Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

Latest Nvidia drivers v378.66 doesn't work for me with SVP (like the previous one). It seems that PhysX also doesn't work (GPU-Z shows no PhysX support from GPU, FluidMark shows only CPU PhysX).
Any workaround?
Regards

Edit: Works with new hotfix

10 Reply by Larwood (edited by Larwood 20-02-2017 09:19:52)

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Seems the latest drivers fix it, but if they don't or you don't want to update the fix seems to be to turn on "optimise for compute performance" (under "manage 3d settings") and set physx to use your GPU (under "configure surround, physx", you should do this anyway regardless of SVP)

11 Reply by Tinky (edited by Tinky 11-03-2017 19:37:54)

Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

Hi,

378.66, is it ok?

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Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

No. Both 378.49 and 378.66 are with issue.
Use driver ver.378.72 or versions older than 378.49.

Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

What about 378.96?

Is there currently an issue with anything 378.49 onwards or just the two versions listed in this post?

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Re: DO NOT use NVidia 378.49 drivers!

We have no information about issues with 378.96 version from our users. It seems all is ok with it. wink