Got 15 FPS increase with new Nvidia driver that was released today

[roninhg 12]

The NVIDIA driver that came out today GeForce 337.88 gave me about a 15 FPS increase. I was at around 30 average in Balota today before I installed the new driver version, now I'm averaging 45 FPS in Balota. Not saying you'll get the same, but definitely wanted everyone to know that it definitely helped me.

The release notes DO specifically mention DayZ in them.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/337.88/337.88-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf

Hope this helps others like it did me. Much smoother game now.

Edited May 27, 2014 by roninhg

[Irish. 4886]

Profile Updates

SLI Profiles

 

• DayZ - disabled NVIDIA Control Panel AA

 

3D Vision Profiles

 

• DayZ - Good

 

Performance Boost

Introduces key DirectX optimizations which result in reduced game-loading times and 

significant performance increases across a wide variety of games. Results will vary 

depending on your GPU and system configuration. 

 

NVIDIA Control Panel

Shader Cache: 3D Settings->Manage 3D Settings Page

Added Shader Cache setting to reduce CPU usage by saving compiled shaders to a disk 

cache. This may improve performance and reduce the time it takes for a game to load.

[Jfiles 439]

YEt again Nividia fucks my AMD card again...I wish I got that much of an increase. Sniff Sniff*

[KamiOfKOS 50]

You have that bugged mantle and audio dsp and counteless bugs whit amd, arent u happy :p ?

Anyway the boost is compared to 335 branch driver as whit all 337 driver, so always big jumps ;)

[Irish. 4886]

Just confirmed. Marked increase for me as well.

 

Spikes of 69-80+ fps and average of about 55fps now for me.

Edited May 27, 2014 by lrish

[DropBearChick 1216]

Just confirmed. Marked increase for me as well.

 

Spikes of 69-80+ fps and average of about 55fps now for me.

What are your specs

[Irish. 4886]

What are your specs

Utter Shite. ;)

 

Before I got between 40-60 fps (average of 45 tops), and it varied. Now it seems to be stable around 55 and peaking around 80fps. 

 

Core 2 Quad 3.0ghz Q9650

GTX550 ti

8gb RAM

128gb SSD

 

(very side, sidenote: I can run watchdogs on near max settings and get 45fps the entire time.. never below.)

Edited May 27, 2014 by lrish

[Feuerbart 14]

I noticed the increase as well!
Installed the new driver yesterday and then played experimental for the first time. Game was really smooth, I'd thought that came from the experimental patch...

[Hetstaine 10852]

Fuck. Yes.

[KamiOfKOS 50]

I can run watchdogs on near max settings and get 45fps the entire time.. never below.)

No wonders... Watchdog use nvidia gameworks, the game has been heavily optimized by nvidia itself.

[St. Jimmy 1631]

Very interesting. Moar results and specs! :)

[Mos1ey 6301]

I read the patch notes yesterday and have been looking forward to testing the new drivers out. Might take them for a spin just now and see how they get on. :D

Edited May 27, 2014 by Mos1ey

[brumey 116]

got myself a used 660ti last week!

 

looking Forward to testing after work!

[Etherious 907]

No increase for me. *shrugs* Oh well. :P

[Tovervlag 344]

I tested this patch in the beta and it crashed my computer. I hope it won't with this update.

[hiniberus 122]

I had to rollback my drivers about 3 weeks ago because they had f-'d my computer up. I got Dual 560TI's :3 I'm sad panda that DayZ doesn't use them both though :c at least, I don't think so. It's still Alpha so wouldn't be a surprise :{

[Mos1ey 6301]

No performance increase for me unfortunately. 40-70 FPS with everything maxed and post-processing disabled.

 

Also I was rubber-banding all over the place, which hasn't really been an issue for me up until now. Is that a problem with the new exp. build, or maybe just the server that I was playing on?

[yorkmorgan 191]

Also I was rubber-banding all over the place, which hasn't really been an issue for me up until now. Is that a problem with the new exp. build, or maybe just the server that I was playing on?

Experimental has got alot of rubberbanding because the server framerate has become so low due to having to keep track of so much (animals, zombies, players, loot, physics) that when a player runs around corners at speed the server cannot keep up with your quick changes of direction as you go around the corner and so it just 'sees' you running in the wall instead of going around it. Then you just carry on thinking your in one place while the server still 'sees' you running into that wall. Then when you get far enough away you and the server communicate to check where you are and thats when server puts you back to where it 'sees' you, eg 'rubberbands' you.

 

You can prevent it happening if you walk slowly around geometry and take big arcs around corners. When they optimize the server more it will go away. 

 

About the new driver, does anyone know if it has a sli profile configured or if we have to configure one manually like before?

[Mos1ey 6301]

Experimental has got alot of rubberbanding because the server framerate has become so low due to having to keep track of so much (animals, zombies, players, loot, physics) that when a player runs around corners at speed the server cannot keep up with your quick changes of direction as you go around the corner and so it just 'sees' you running in the wall instead of going around it. Then you just carry on thinking your in one place while the server still 'sees' you running into that wall. Then when you get far enough away you and the server communicate to check where you are and thats when server puts you back to where it 'sees' you, eg 'rubberbands' you.

 

You can prevent it happening if you walk slowly around geometry and take big arcs around corners. When they optimize the server more it will go away. 

 

About the new driver, does anyone know if it has a sli profile configured or if we have to configure one manually like before?

 

Yeah, I was mainly having issues while looting towns and moving in and out of buildings. Hopefully we'll see a fix soon.

 

As for the drivers - there was a lot of SLi stuff in the patch notes but I didn't pay much attention as I'm only running a single card.

[hiniberus 122]

No performance increase for me unfortunately. 40-70 FPS with everything maxed and post-processing disabled.

 

Also I was rubber-banding all over the place, which hasn't really been an issue for me up until now. Is that a problem with the new exp. build, or maybe just the server that I was playing on?

 

What card do you have though?

[Mos1ey 6301]

What card do you have though?

 

EVGA GTX 780. :)

[ZomboWTF 527]

No performance increase for me unfortunately. 40-70 FPS with everything maxed and post-processing disabled.

 

Also I was rubber-banding all over the place, which hasn't really been an issue for me up until now. Is that a problem with the new exp. build, or maybe just the server that I was playing on?

 

FPS is also heavily depennding on server performance in arma and its brother games

 

try a good running server where you are not rubberbanding and maybe then you will see the increase

 

i'm gonna go install that driver when i get home from work today :P

[Mos1ey 6301]

FPS is also heavily depennding on server performance in arma and its brother games

 

try a good running server where you are not rubberbanding and maybe then you will see the increase

 

i'm gonna go install that driver when i get home from work today :P

 

Apparently the poor server performance is due to the new goodies in the current experimental build, which makes sense. It was taking me an age to open doors or vault as well, general signs of a slow server...

 

I'd probably see better performance on the stable build, but I want to find an AK. What can you do...

[hiniberus 122]

snip-

"...but I want to find an AK. What can you do..."

 

 

Wait :D

[Mos1ey 6301]

Wait :D