Nvidia Driver Updates

**rob-a-dogg** · February 18, 2014, 12:50 PM

What is their margin of error? +5% in performance for computer whatsits and drivers is tbh is more along the lines of "same as before".

The issue with the game for people like me is that as the campaign progresses the fps drops from 60+ on turn 1 to low 20's by turn 50 once you have a fair bit of trade going on and have uncovered a bunch of factions.

**alQamar** · February 18, 2014, 02:54 PM

tested it Wolar, thanks for posting. Unfortunately the peformance on my system was measureable slower on certain settings with this driver
have a look

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...fixes)-results

**Wolar** · February 18, 2014, 10:15 PM

You're welcome mate! I checked the link, aye. At least we are finally seeing something from Nvidia. Perhaps the next driver will have a 5-10 increase across the board and we get to see tangible benefits..

**Mr_Cyberpunk** · February 19, 2014, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by rob-a-dogg

What is their margin of error? +5% in performance for computer whatsits and drivers is tbh is more along the lines of "same as before".

The issue with the game for people like me is that as the campaign progresses the fps drops from 60+ on turn 1 to low 20's by turn 50 once you have a fair bit of trade going on and have uncovered a bunch of factions.

It'd be a measurement of Draw Calls one would think. That's the only metric I know of that they could gauge performance off of. So these drivers would reduce draw calls by 5%. What this would actually mean in terms of FPS however I don't know.. 5% is pretty damn minor, I wouldn't expect much except maybe an extra frame somewhere.

**Tenerife_Boy** · February 19, 2014, 08:23 AM

well, +5% is better than nothing! ^^

**alQamar** · February 19, 2014, 08:39 AM

Agreed, it is really enjoyable there is something coming from NVIDIA. I hope the same you said.

**Wolar** · February 19, 2014, 09:22 AM

Indeed, there is light at a end of the tunnel.. ..let's hope it is not a mirage.

**eXistenZ** · February 19, 2014, 02:10 PM

Why do they take AC3 as reference and not black flag?

**DaciaJC** · February 19, 2014, 02:13 PM

I'm more interested in this:

Up to 15% in Company of Heroes 2

CoH2 performs like crap for me. Can I expect this magnitude of improvement if I'm using a 560 Ti, or is it just for the newer cards like the 770?

**Ano2** · February 19, 2014, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by DaciaJC

I'm more interested in this:

CoH2 performs like crap for me. Can I expect this magnitude of improvement if I'm using a 560 Ti, or is it just for the newer cards like the 770?

Ditto, Rome 2 runs pretty well as of patch 9 anyway, but I can't even get COH 2 to run properly on the lowest settings. Not that I'm sure I want to. I have such good memories of COH 1.... but I digress.

**HorseArcher** · February 19, 2014, 04:50 PM

New in GeForce 334.89 WHQL drivers

Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. the previous WHQL-certified drivers (332.21). Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here are some examples of measured gains:

GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN/780Ti:

Up to 19% in F1 2013
Up to 18% in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 16% in Hitman Absolution
Up to 15% in Company of Heroes 2
Up to 10% in Assassin’s Creed 3
Up to 7% in BioShock Infinite
Up to 6% in Sniper Elite V2
Up to 5% in Total War: Rome 2

SLI Technology
Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD – created profile
Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry – created profile
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut – created profile
The Crew – created profile

http://www.nvidia.com/download/drive...px/73218/en-us

**Noif de Bodemloze** · February 19, 2014, 05:11 PM

I feel when I updated my nvidia graphic drivers. I feel now that my game is running much better now. Good improvement by Nvidia.

**Sir_Pee_Alot** · February 19, 2014, 05:20 PM

Your a day to late!

**Toho** · February 19, 2014, 05:21 PM

can someone link please?

**Sir_Pee_Alot** · February 19, 2014, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Toho

can someone link please?

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

**tarloch** · February 20, 2014, 02:06 AM

its hard to see any performance improvement when im still getting huge fps drops in siege/fort battles (14-15fps on 780 ti SC) , i guess its the dam engine. come on CA fix this, siege battles are bad enough without this huge slowdown

**Mortarion** · February 20, 2014, 05:42 AM

Im not sure why you guys are expecting to see a big perfomance increase? It says up to 5%, so even if you got all the way to 5% increase that would be like 1-2 frame at the most :p

**alQamar** · February 20, 2014, 05:07 PM

Well Mortarion, first of all no one yet delivered a set of comparisons of benchmark in Rome 2 with the new and the old driver except me. For me the driver did not positively affect the performance.
We need to accept that this is not object of the changelog. They specifically said they improved up to 5% peformance on 700er series cards, which I don't have.

I hope that a friend of mine which is technically reliable enough to run 2 benchmarks with same settings and no mods can deliver the pending comparison we need on the example of a 770 GTX.

btw: 5% can be much if you have 100 fps average, which we don't have on the targeted settings in the benchmark, we should see at least +5fps. That is not a bummer but it is a beginning.
Stay tuned.