Tuesday, July 18th 2023
NVIDIA GeForce 536.67 WHQL Drivers Released
NVIDIA today released the GeForce 536.67 Game Ready drivers. The drivers introduce support for the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB graphics card that's being launched today. The drivers also add optimization for "Portal: Prelude RTX" Among the couple of issues fixed with this release are a bug with GeForce Experience Freestyle filters that were causing games to crash; and increased DPC latency observed in Latencymon for RTX 30-series "Ampere" GPUs. Grab the drivers from the link below.
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 536.67 WHQLGaming Technology
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 536.67 WHQLGaming Technology
- Introduces support for the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB.
- Portal: Prelude RTX
- Applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters cause games to crash [4008945]
- Increase in DPC latency observed in Latencymon for Ampere-based GPUs [3952556]
- For notebook computers, issues can be system-specific and may not be seen on your particular notebook.
- [Halo Infinite] Significant performance drop is observed on Maxwell-based GPUs. [4052711]
- [Battlefield 2042] Game stability can decrease when applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters. [4170804]
- This driver implements a fix for creative application stability issues seen during heavy memory usage. We've observed some situations where this fix has resulted in performance degradation when running Stable Diffusion and DaVinci Resolve. This will be addressed in an upcoming driver release.
39 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce 536.67 WHQL Drivers Released
anything that alters the display will cause a spike, like enabling or disabling another display, changing to fullscreen exclusive etc etc
That link mentions Because they're opening a browser that's using 3D acceleration, it's changing the 3D profile of the GPU and locking it to a higher state
Seems like Nvidia lowered the VRAM clocks to get idle power consumption down, but on some setups it's too low?
This shouldn't cause issues anywhere except an idle 2D desktop, since any load whatsoever would keep the VRAM clocks higher
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Only on my Asus OLED 27" 240
Now the tables have turned and the internet praises this update and i curse its devs.
Not even a partial activation of ecores does help.
I has has to be all of them before i can understand what the rest is praising.
I'm at a loss on what´s going on.
msi is active with undefined priority for my 4090.
mine looks nothing like yours, do be careful not to crop things so much that its out of context... if i was unfamilar with latencymon i'd have zero idea what you were showing or why
IF is stable at 1867 for me. I have tested stability before with y-cruncher. 1900 wont boot and 1933 boots but throws WHEA errors so i know 1867 is max stable.
I have very good airflow inside my case so high VDIMM is not an issue.
An my sticks use B-Die. I know later revisions introduced Hynix too but that's not my concern.
Nope. Clearly Nvidia driver fault. I closed all background apps, reset BIOS to optimized defaults and selected balanced power plan.
None of those made a difference. With a few minutes of running and starting up a game the DPC latency spiked to 3400+ like before.
Win11 install is fresh (from yesterday) so that, too is not an issue. I even used 536.40 instead of 536.67 in case the newest one had a bug or something.
Any more excuses for Nvidia's poor drivers?
And yes, if you've got similar hardware and the same software and only you have the problem that's a pretty big clue. The problem is either unique to your hardware, or your software.
Either something's not right at a hardware level, from overheating to a faulty device (Any attached device can be responsible here, from a USB device to a PCI-E riser to a network card. ANYTHING can cause the PCI-E bus or OS to have a delay, and have it show as the nvidia driver since it's waiting on external events/data to continue its job.
You can bark up the wrong tree, or you can do a default generic install of the OS on a clean drive and see how that performs, and if the issue still exists you need to investigate your hardware - hows your chipset temps? VRMs? GPU's VRAM temps? Use a thermal probe and don't rely on software measurements if something doesnt math up right.
Clearly it's hardware. Nvidia hardware. Cant wait to upgrade my GPU at the start of next year. Hopefully that will end this saga once and for all.
As it stands i doubt i can do anything to fix this without a GPU swap. I do have an old GTX 950 from the Maxwell era laying around. I could try and see if putting that in, instead of 2080 Ti changes something.