The best drivers for gtx 970

Sevan_911 · Apr 26, 2017

hi guys
whats the best drivers for gtx 970 g1

droopyRO · Apr 26, 2017

Can heterosexual males reply too ?

ASOT said:
Go latest drivers

I always use the latest too, dose not matter if they are AMD or Nvidia.

ASOT · Apr 26, 2017

Perhaps he mean guys.. Go latest drivers

jboydgolfer · Apr 26, 2017

Sevan_911 said:
hi gays

Glorious!

i go with the drivers from within a year of the release of whatever GPU it is in question, unless some Card specific fix has been implememnted

P4-630 · Apr 26, 2017

Sevan_911 · Apr 26, 2017

okay sorry my bad

rtwjunkie · Apr 26, 2017

Sevan_911 said:
hi guys
whats the best drivers for gtx 970 g1

Honestly, opinions will vary widely. I keep all my Maxwell GPU's on one from last fall, I'd have to check when I get home. I think performance tends to drop off a little with the latest ones, which are focused on current Pascals.

Sevan_911 · Apr 26, 2017

rtwjunkie said:
Honestly, opinions will vary widely. I keep all my Maxwell GPU's on one from last fall, I'd have to check when I get home. I think performance tends to drop off a little with the latest ones, which are focused on current Pascals.

yes thats what i mean the latest drivers sometimes have problem with old gpu

rtwjunkie · Apr 26, 2017

Sevan_911 said:
yes thats what i mean the latest drivers sometimes have problem with old gpu

I believe 376.09 is what I am using.

I have not found any trouble with newer games since then, either.

Liviu Cojocaru · Apr 26, 2017

Rarely I have any problems with the latest drivers so I use the latest ones for my GTX1080 and same for my GTX 970M.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Apr 26, 2017

rtwjunkie said:
I believe 376.09 is what I am using.

FWIW

i just installed that driver and got 60 points increase on Superposition extreme test. 2113------2172

newtekie1 · Apr 26, 2017

I always go with the latest. Though I wait a few days to install them after they are released. Partly due to laziness and partly due to wanting to wait to make sure there aren't any nasty bugs.

peche · Apr 26, 2017

rtwjunkie said:
Honestly, opinions will vary widely. I keep all my Maxwell GPU's on one from last fall, I'd have to check when I get home. I think performance tends to drop off a little with the latest ones, which are focused on current Pascals.

well said, there was a performance cut down on some drivers for GTX 900 series, could not remmeber the specific driver edition but i did sure watched that here!
thanks dude for mentioning that, i was about to do a research about it, but you know, sometimes i got lost in time...

Sevan_911 said:
yes thats what i mean the latest drivers sometimes have problem with old gpu

theese drivers are made for pascal based cards (GTX 1000 series for example) some older maxwel cards are affected by some drivers, give a try with the latest ones, or also look for driver revision: 376.09 that its working well on @rtwjunkie 's hardware, i cannot advise mine cuz i dont remember which one im using with my GTX 980

newtekie1 said:
I always go with the latest. Though I wait a few days to install them after they are released. Partly due to laziness and partly due to wanting to wait to make sure there aren't any nasty bugs.

i was doing that, but some of the new ones for pascal just provide a performance cut-down on some games like BF1 and the crew ... decided to roll back to a older version i had at downloads folder!

Regards,

P4-630 · Apr 26, 2017

peche said:
decided to roll back to a older version i had at downloads folder!

peche · Apr 26, 2017

P4-630 said:
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P4-630 · Apr 26, 2017

peche said:
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They are for Win7 / Win8 though....

peche · Apr 26, 2017

P4-630 said:
They are for Win7 / Win8 though....

what do you have for w10? also i guess no matter they were for w7 & 8, guess they gonna work !

Regards,

P4-630 · Apr 26, 2017

peche said:
what do you have for w10? also i guess no matter they were for w7 & 8, guess they gonna work !

Regards,

I only have Win7/Win8 drivers...
Windows 10 drivers are different, don't ask me how exactly...

peche · Apr 26, 2017

P4-630 said:
I only have Win7/Win8 drivers...
Windows 10 drivers are different, don't ask me how exactly...

nothing moar to say!

P4-630 · Apr 26, 2017

peche said:
nothing moar to say!

You still find a lot of older drivers on nvidia.com for windows 10.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

peche · Apr 26, 2017

P4-630 said:
You still find a lot of older drivers on nvidia.com for windows 10.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Great! you just save some time!

Thanks a lot mate

newtekie1 · Apr 26, 2017

peche said:
i was doing that, but some of the new ones for pascal just provide a performance cut-down on some games like BF1 and the crew ... decided to roll back to a older version i had at downloads folder!

Regards,

I have yet to notice a new driver cause a noticeable performance drop with my older cards.

RejZoR · Apr 27, 2017

Best drivers? The latest ones of course.

peche · Apr 28, 2017

newtekie1 said:
I have yet to notice a new driver cause a noticeable performance drop with my older cards.

thats why i have stopped the updates on nvidia experience and drivers, stick whit the one that have shown less trouble

Regards,

MustSeeMelons · Apr 28, 2017

I may be lazy, but I update only when a game requires me to or if the game runs worse that it should. This way you can avoid some of the "bad" releases

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The best drivers for gtx 970

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