Download: GeForce 442.74 WHQL driver

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2020-03-19 13:59

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/442.74/442.74-desktop-win10-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe DCH one Vulkan API 1.1.119 R442.74 (r442_70-2) / 26.21.14.4274 (3-13-2020)

#5771075

elrazor

2020-03-19 15:21

Waiting for tests of these ones, 442.59 is so smooth in games!

#5771095

newls1

2020-03-19 16:04

elrazor:

Waiting for tests of these ones, 442.59 is so smooth in games!

then unless you need the certain fixes this driver provides, leave well enough alone. GPU drivers are like BIOS updates, unless you need the certain things they fix, then leave well enough alone if you are currently happy with your performance. Least thats my opinion.

#5771097

loracle

2020-03-19 16:14

Same shit driver, i think i'll skip all 442 drivers, back to 441.87.

#5771098

cricket bones

2020-03-19 16:16

loracle:

Same crap driver, i think i'll skip all 442 drivers, back to 441.87.

Oh look, same crap comment with no elaboration.

#5771099

snave

2020-03-19 16:22

I try new drivers, regularly. I dont give a stuff about Red Dead Rododendrum and I don't care if it works or not, so I'd like to distance myself from Koul 220's remarks, which are as relevant as t"ts on a bull....

#5771100

loracle

2020-03-19 16:23

cricket bones:

Oh look, same crap comment with no elaboration.

I talked a lot before about 442 drivers, and now its covid19 time no more energy to waste, but you can do some benches and you'll see again by yourself.

#5771107

Tadeo

2020-03-19 16:38

OK which one is newer 442.77 Vulkan RT or 442.74 ?

#5771112

loracle

2020-03-19 16:46

Tadeo:

OK which one is newer 442.77 Vulkan RT or 442.74 ?

both are new drivers, but 442.77 is beta vulkan driver, and 442.74 is standard whql.

#5771124

Astug

2020-03-19 17:24

Alberto:

I smell hotfixes in the air 🙄

[Doom Eternal]: The game frame rate drops when using the Steam in-game FPS counter. [200593988] This issue also occurs with non-NVIDIA graphics hardware. Definitely.

#5771137

Astyanax

2020-03-19 18:09

Astug:

[Doom Eternal]: The game frame rate drops when using the Steam in-game FPS counter. [200593988] This issue also occurs with non-NVIDIA graphics hardware. Definitely.

Thats not a bug, @Unwinder has explained what the heck is going on there countless times, but it sinks in to nobodies head, its the same reason he disabled the Overlay for DooM 2016 on Radeons back in the day to stop the foolish radeon users claiming he was nerfing their cards. PS: Geforce started using the same render queue and had to have it disabled too because it reduced FPS.

#5771138

cricket bones

2020-03-19 18:10

loracle:

I talked a lot before about 442 drivers, and now its covid19 time no more energy to waste, but you can do some benches and you'll see again by yourself.

I don't play benchmarks.

#5771168

loracle

2020-03-19 19:07

cricket bones:

I don't play benchmarks.

maybe you'r confusing pc and playstation.

#5771177

Chastity

2020-03-19 19:19

WhiteLightning:

Vulkan API 1.1.119 R442.74 (r442_70-2) / 26.21.14.4274 (3-13-2020)

Curious, 20.3.1 comes with Vulkan API 1.2.133.

#5771182

tsunami231

2020-03-19 19:26

cricket bones:

I don't play benchmarks.

But some people do! then they think that means there game will suffer too, then we have people that dont know what margin of error is, then we have people that like to pick things apart and go on about it, dont forget about the "i'm" right and "everyone" else is wrong even when "everyone" else know said person is wrong... Ignore them or better yet use the lovely ignore function we got. since a certain other forums closed the ignore function has had more use then usual atlest for me. As for the 442.74 I sticking with the 442.58 There is nothing wrong with them all my game play as they should be if not better. no reason for to change them. They fixed the supposed "security" flaw from the drivers I was using and it has the framelimiter in the nvcp.

#5771187

Astyanax

2020-03-19 19:48

Chastity:

Curious, 20.3.1 comes with Vulkan API 1.2.133.

a public wddm 2.7 beta will be going up soon for Geforce parts.

loracle:

maybe you'r confusing pc and playstation.

I've dropped Henry Moreton a message about the cross the range 3dmark score drops.

#5771195

Astug

2020-03-19 20:08

Astyanax:

Thats not a bug, @Unwinder has explained what the heck is going on there countless times, but it sinks in to nobodies head, its the same reason he disabled the Overlay for DooM 2016 on Radeons back in the day to stop the foolish radeon users claiming he was nerfing their cards. PS: Geforce started using the same render queue and had to have it disabled too because it reduced FPS.

I just copied it from the open issues for W10, from the pdf released with this driver. I also read it as using the overlay, not the fps counter, so not a problem at all. Thanks for the info tho, didn't know that.

#5771197

loracle

2020-03-19 20:10

tsunami231:

But some people do! then they think that means there game will suffer too, then we have people that dont know what margin of error is, then we have people that like to pick things apart and go on about it, dont forget about the "i'm" right and "everyone" else is wrong even when "everyone" else know said person is wrong... Ignore them or better yet use the lovely ignore function we got. since a certain other forums closed the ignore function has had more use then usual atlest for me. As for the 442.74 I sticking with the 442.58 There is nothing wrong with them all my game play as they should be if not better. no reason for to change them. They fixed the supposed "security" flaw from the drivers I was using and it has the framelimiter in the nvcp.

first mr smart, it's 442.59, then benches are not made just like that , i'm sure developers are not so idiots, also, i give you an advice, framelimiter and all same useless things are just marketing crap, just leave all by defaults it's a way better, and buy a powerful rig, it's like cpu and gpu overclocking, u just f.a.k your pc for very little gain and more energy consumption. finally, if you ignore people and they do the same, the forum will be dead, don't think you'r better than the others, or maybe you r , but it's not good, for sharing.

#5771431

barbacot

2020-03-20 11:17

So, as you know or not: According to a post on CrackWatch in the Bethesda version of the DOOM eternal game you can find the non denuvo version of the exe in the game files - patched now but already in the wild. For me it was a unique occasion to test the theory that DRM protection is bad for performance. I bought and downloaded the Steam version - it plays fine... Checked the non protected exe - it plays smoother - not much frame gain but "It feels" better. Done with the driver posted here. Tested on my wife as lab rat: I didn't tell her what version was with the unprotected exe and the same result: she felt that the unprotected version was playing much better. Not that I encourage anything illegal here - it was just an experiment...

#5771462

FranciscoCL

2020-03-20 12:40

barbacot:

So, as you know or not: According to a post on CrackWatch in the Bethesda version of the DOOM eternal game you can find the non denuvo version of the exe in the game files - patched now but already in the wild. For me it was a unique occasion to test the theory that DRM protection is bad for performance. I bought and downloaded the Steam version - it plays fine... Checked the non protected exe - it plays smoother - not much frame gain but "It feels" better. Done with the driver posted here. Tested on my wife as lab rat: I didn't tell her what version was with the unprotected exe and the same result: she felt that the unprotected version was playing much better. Not that I encourage anything illegal here - it was just an experiment...

It was confirmed with Assassins Creed Origins. There is a version without (not bypass) Denuvo, and the game loads faster and run smoother. In any case, each game can have a different implementation of Denuvo.