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47 minutes ago, Cyberspirit said:

I mean is the newest one stable or should I get the one before? 

 

Newest is not always best. I just updated for the sake of benchmarking their new DX12 improvements and I found out it performs even worse than the old one (in my case).

If you always play newest games, stick to newest drivers.

It doesent really matter that much anyway.

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5 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Newest is not always best. I just updated for the sake of benchmarking their new DX12 improvements and I found out it performs even worse than the old one (in my case).

If you always play newest games, stick to newest drivers.

It doesent really matter that much anyway.

Well, there is no reason to go out of your way to install any previous vesions unless you are experiencing specific problems and are troubleshooting. Yes sometimes newer drivers might hinder performance one some titles while performing better at others, but from what I've seen that's very minimal. Only time I would worry about using something other than the latest is when my GPU is a little dated, because Nvidia is known to break their older lineups with newer drivers. 

 

So yeah. No real need to ask here if the latest patch is "okay". Just install it and see for yourself, it's easy to roll back if you are indeed experiencing problems with the games you're playing.

 
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1 minute ago, SaladFingers said:

Well, there is no reason to go out of your way to install any previous vesions unless you are experiencing specific problems and are troubleshooting. Yes sometimes newer drivers might hinder performance one some titles while performing better at others, but from what I've seen that's very minimal. Only time I would worry about using something other than the latest is when my GPU is a little dated, because Nvidia is known to break their older lineups with newer drivers. 

 

So yeah. No real need to ask here if the latest patch is "okay". Just install it and see for yourself, it's easy to roll back if you are indeed experiencing problems with the games you're playing.

 
 

Yea, I haven't meant it like that. If I reinstall Windows or get new GPU I always get the newest driver possible. I just meant that I don't really bother immediately updating to the newest one once it gets released. I usually even skip several new version before updating, unless I have issues.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/52j9k3/latest_stable_driver/

 

currently using 376.53 no issues so far

 

EDIT: BTW if you have issues with your driver installation, use Display Driver Uninstaller (download from Guru3D) and use it to disable the windows 10 automatic driver update thing and uninstall your graphics driver/s

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26 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Yea, I haven't meant it like that. If I reinstall Windows or get new GPU I always get the newest driver possible. I just meant that I don't really bother immediately updating to the newest one once it gets released. I usually even skip several new version before updating, unless I have issues.

Well yeah there's no reason to rush... Most of the time it's optimizations for newly released titles anyway.

 
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On 2017. 03. 13. at 11:14 AM, SaladFingers said:

Well yeah there's no reason to rush... Most of the time it's optimizations for newly released titles anyway.

 

On 2017. 03. 13. at 10:52 AM, rattacko123 said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/52j9k3/latest_stable_driver/

 

currently using 376.53 no issues so far

 

EDIT: BTW if you have issues with your driver installation, use Display Driver Uninstaller (download from Guru3D) and use it to disable the windows 10 automatic driver update thing and uninstall your graphics driver/s

 

On 2017. 03. 13. at 10:47 AM, WereCat said:

Yea, I haven't meant it like that. If I reinstall Windows or get new GPU I always get the newest driver possible. I just meant that I don't really bother immediately updating to the newest one once it gets released. I usually even skip several new version before updating, unless I have issues.

 

On 2017. 03. 13. at 9:51 AM, Rohime said:

newest.   If you have any problems then ask the question again describing the problem

 

Alright thanks everyone :)

I got the latest driver and everything seems fine so far.

Make sure to quote or tag people, so they get notified.

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