Monday, November 28th 2016
NVIDIA Releases the GeForce 376.09 WHQL Drivers
NVIDIA today released its latest GeForce "Game Ready" drivers. Version 376.09 WHQL comes game-ready for "Watch_Dogs 2," the week's big AAA open-world third-person RPG by Ubisoft. This includes game-optimization, GeForce Experience optimal settings, and SLI support (if the game supports it). The company is also running a promotion, in which it's giving away UPlay keys to the game with purchases of new GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards, and notebooks with factory-fitted GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile and GTX 1070 Mobile graphics. Grab the drivers from the links below.DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 376.09 WHQL for Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10 32-bit | Windows 8/7/Vista 64-bit | Windows 8/7/Vista 32-bit
14 Comments on NVIDIA Releases the GeForce 376.09 WHQL Drivers
And if you lucky, driver borks other games.
Just find a stable driver and stick with it. You'll find even new games run great!
us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/376.09/376.09-win10-win8-win7-desktop-release-notes.pdf
removing the "us." and drilling back to "download.nvidia.com/Windows" brings me to their download site. Still nothing there.....
Won't install until I see what was fixed.
I mean, current driver is 376 MB in size. They (all graphic card makers) sold 44 million discrete graphic cards in total in 2015. Lets say 50% are NVIDIA. That's 22 million graphic cards. Lets say only half of these people update their drivers regularly. That's 11 million users. 11.000.000 x 376 MB = 4.136.000.000 MB = 4.136 TB = 4,136 PB PETABYTES! of traffic required to deliver the drivers to end users on every driver release.
With delta patching, every driver update could be like 50MB at most and I'm being very generous here, assuming they wouldn't even bother going to depths of delta patching individual files, just individual files inside driver package, only updating those that change, even if downloading them whole. You can do the math from here on. I'm assuming bandwidth they have to deal with is so cheap for them, they can't even be bothered. But frankly, it's very inefficient way to deliver stuff to users, especially those that don't have super fast connections. I mean, I live in 1st world country, I have all the fancy goods at my disposal and yet 20Mbit optical line is the peak luxury I can even get at my location at the ISP I'm currently with. I could go with national one which sucks because they are scamming greedy bastards. Bottom line, it's still fast for me and I don't care, but there are people with far slower lines and those aren't too keen to big ass drivers where only 1/10th of it is actually new content. The rest is just same files users already have...
Also, scuttle butt is to change from Optimal power setting to Adaptive.