NVIDIA 349.90 DirectX 12 WDDM 2.0 Windows 10 ONLY Drivers

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

 

So... yeah... via Windows Update on Windows 10 Technical Preview it installs beta test drivers for DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.0 which is awesome... but they're more like an alpha driver than a beta.

 

For instance... it seems to think the amount of VRAM my EVGA GTX 680 2GB Superclock's have varies between 10GB and 12GB at random when I reboot hahaha... pretty sure 2GB + 2GB = ~12GB is not logical math.

 

If you want to try the drivers yourself? Have fun but this driver is ONLY for Windows 10 Technical Preview and most GTX 600 series and up GPUs.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5033236&postcount=60

 

the original Guru3D thread where that driver came from (that also shows what GPUs are currently supported in this alpha driver)

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5033236

 

My test results:

 

or...

 

 

but NVIDIA Control Pannel says...

 

 

and what Dying Light says before it crashes...

 

 

So yeah... at your own risk and such hahaha... but still, it will be interesting to see what happens when 3DMark releases their DirectX 12 API Overhead test if NVIDIA follows suit with a more stable driver.

[Swndlr]

considering im running Win10 rn, this is cool, i guess

ill experiment

[Maslofski]

is there even anything to use dx12 with out yet?

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

 

is there even anything to use dx12 with out yet?

Not yet no... but March 26th is when 3DMark releases their API overhead tests which will use DirectX 12. Maybe shortly after we'll see StarSwarm DirectX 12 version too!

 

But oddly enough? Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor never crashed when I exceeded my VRAM! performance tanked terribly instead.

 

 

and...

 

 

 

 

Lol... even better but sadly the screenshot didn't work? I managed to hit 2.8GB and was getting 2 frames per second on the main menu! The game almost stopped thinking... on the main freaking menu haha. It must've been trying to get more information loaded whilst losing information at the same time so it just kept loading and loading and loading...

 

I also think that Cryengine gets the info for video memory straight from NVIDIA Control Panel or whatever way that GPU-Z gets it since playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance... it never exceeded 2048MB! So yeah, I guess for certain games it will actually vary how it detects the video memory limitations of a setup... hmm...

[clementk]

i was testing new windows 10 with sli 780's and don't ... gta was running at 8 FPS with windows system take 50% CPU usage and gpu's using 2 - 10%... don't know if its nvidia drivers or windows 10 but its not good for sli yet