Best Driver Listing for Games NVIDIA & AMD

[pugz]

Hello World,

 

     I've tried searching the treads and feel we should have a comprehensive listing of which drivers of both green and red team are best suited for performance and reliability in each respective title. (Admin or anyone let me know if i've missed a thread or what not) I know the manufactures have their own recommendations of which drivers to use but I have alot of dis parody of what is expected and real life performance of each driver, let alone blindly updating drivers only to brake a game that was quite happily working before in the hope of a slight performance increase. For example, I am currently trying to finish the Witcher 3. The only driver I can use to play the game for longer than an hour is NVIDIA driver 352.86 where as the newest driver is 364.51 can't even run for 10 minutes. Running 3D vision is impossible on this driver, yet capable on 358.87 using HELIX mod. Performance is increased in driver 353.06 yet it is unstable in certain sections of the game. This is increasingly frustrating having to upgrade your drivers to do the simple VR STEAM TEST to allow multigpu config as previous drivers did not have the SLI profile.  Although via trial and error, internet searches and hair pulling, everything is fixable but time consuming and laborious. I am happy to run the database of driver listings if needed, I just need input as I run titan blacks and wish this list to grow other than cards that the minority own. This information will and always FREE and ACCESSIBLE to anyone if needed. Any input at all will be appreciated and if this is viable we should start a new thread with a desired format such as GAME/BENCHMARK TOOL,GPU, DRIVER,PERFORMANCE/STABILITY,(OPTIONS I.E. 3D VISION). I think also base clock speeds on each cards respectively as overclocks are too unpredictable due to either air or watercooling, silicon lottery and other factors(although i'm open to opinions on this or even a separate list). Tell me i'm dumb and someone already has a compete list of games and their respective best driver and you will have saved me a load of time and effort... 

[don_svetlio]

The latest Nvidia driver are crap - just wait it out. It's always best to use the latest drivers

[pugz]

Thats my point. You can't even use the latest driver, yet even their recommended driver still isn't even the best one to use. A community based approach may be the best way to go. 

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, pugz said:

Thats my point. You can't even use the latest driver, yet even their recommended driver still isn't even the best one to use. A community based approach may be the best way to go. 

There are far too many to do such a list. Just use the last one that works for you. I use 361.75 with 0 issues

[pugz]

The majority are A titles causing issues and running the last driver doesn't help with switching between games or applications especially if you haven't used them in a while and you are left scratching your heading wondering "what driver did i use again?". I have a journal now of drivers that are best suited to me only because i have spent the time listing it in a diary as i'm sick of going back and forth. An online database of this would be simple to manage as long as the sources submit the correct data. I have access to nearly every GPU on the market but i simply don't have the time to test them all. 

[Praesi]

Ok, just let me test all drivers with all Games i have. Be back in ~12 Month's.

[pugz]

That's not the point at all. Some people don't have all day to play games and work out the best driver as i'm going back and playing games that i haven't finished or even games now on sale that have been out for a while. Although developers have made their own patches to titles this doesn't take into effect changes which hardly list the exact changes except "best gaming experience for whatever" which is crap. I'm not asking people to test every scenario. Just list the last stable driver using that game at that time. Simples 

[Praesi]

-364.51

 

-Black Desert

-The Division

[pugz]

Cheers

[Humbug]

AMD user here.

R9 290

I always use the latest driver that AMD has, whether it's beta or WHQL. That has served me very well so far; rock solid stability and silky smooth frame-rates.

[pugz]

2 hours ago, Humbug said:

AMD user here.

R9 290

I always use the latest driver that AMD has, whether it's beta or WHQL. That has served me very well so far; rock solid stability and silky smooth frame-rates.

Cheers  What titles are you currently playing?

[LogicalDrm]

I don't see point in this listing. Latest drivers work with majority of games. And those few newest titles which haven't had optimization added yet will get it in next update. While drivers keep anything done with previous version.

[pugz]

On 21/03/2016 at 7:04 PM, LoGiCalDrm said:

I don't see point in this listing. Latest drivers work with majority of games. And those few newest titles which haven't had optimization added yet will get it in next update. While drivers keep anything done with previous version.

Did you cut and paste that from the NVIDIA website? Yep that's exactly why I posted, cause i've never had an updated driver cause an issue with hardware. I should use that on my clients, I'll make a fortune out of them.