Nvidia Driver 496.76 and BF2042

[Optiks]

Hello everyone,

i hope this is the right forum for this.

I updated to the new Driver from the 16.11 and since then i get the directx error ingame and a sugestion to update my driver.

I know BF2042 is a mess rn but the performance improved a bit with the driver, but i can only play for like 5 mins til the game crashes.

Everything else runs fine and stress tests/benchmarks were fine too. Is it just BF or is there st wrong with the newer driver?

With the 496.49 driver i didn't get any crashes, but the game would only run at around 40fps.

[SirWendall]

Do you have anything overclocked? Do you have the latest BIOS and windows Updates?

[Optiks]

Latest BIOS, latest Windows Updates(W10 not W11)

i have an Asus Rog Strix 3080TI OC so i think there is an OC going on, but i'm not sure if i can put it in a "non-oc" state very easily

i tried underclocking a bit, not very heavy but it didn't change a thing

 

[Optiks]

core clock is 1950 and memory clock is 9502

[Optiks]

if sb is interested here is a benchmark

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/47965273

[SirWendall]

You can try running DDU and seeing if that might help. It can find hidden display drivers and delete them.

[Optiks]

already did that, but i can try again

[SirWendall]

Are you running the GPU in max power mode? The setting is in Nvidia Control Panel.

[Optiks]

no i left everything to default settings after the last use of DDU

i just installed the 496.49 again to see if there is any change

[SirWendall]

Go into Control Panel and set it to prefer max power settings

[Optiks]

yeah i had that before with the .49 driver

i enabled it now again with the .49 one and i get around 70 fps on medium which is confusing cause with the exact same settings i got 30-50 fps yesterday

haven't tried the newer driver but i think i will stick to the older one now, till i figure out whats precisly wrong

thanks for the help 

 

[Optiks]

well i feel very dump now...

after much testing i still couldn't figure out the problem

until i noticed a red flashing light on the 3080ti...

i have a corsairTX850M PSU and the card is connected with 3x 8-Pin of which one is splitted

i think the problem is the card can't get enough or the right amount of power from the PSU

so i ordered a EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P5 1000W PSU which has the capability for three independent 8-Pin Cables

let's see if this solves the problem but i'm pretty sure this is why everything is kind of weird with my system

 

Edit: i didn't see it at first cause the card is vertically monted and i mounted a corsair watercooling block on it