Thursday, March 9th 2017

NVIDIA Releases the GeForce 378.78 Drivers

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Raevenlord
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Remember that NVIDIA driver update that I mentioned yesterday? NVIDIA has just released into the wild. Version 378.78 of its GeForce driver suite provides the optimal gaming experience for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands and includes DirectX 12 optimizations which provide additional performance increases for a variety of titles. This release also adds official support for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and updates the SLI profiles for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Titanfall 2, and Tom Clancy's The Division. ANSEL support for Ghost Recon Wildlands is also baked into this update, which joins the likes of Dishonored 2, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Watch Dogs 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and The Witness, with Mass Effect: Andromeda support coming in at the game's launch.

Update: According to NVIDIA, average performance gains across all titles stands at around 16%. NVIDIA boasts of a 33% (no, that isn't a typo) on Tomb Raider; 16% on Hitman; Gears of War 4 sees a boost of 10%; Ashes of the Singularity makes do with 9%; and Tom Clancy's The Division will get a 4% increase.

As always, you can get your driver fix right here on TPU. Just follow the download link below.
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 378.78 Drivers

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29 Comments on NVIDIA Releases the GeForce 378.78 Drivers

#1
RejZoR
DX12 optimizations. Could this already be what they were talking about not long ago?
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#3
RejZoR
Would be nice if TPU guys could evaluate this with a quick becnhmark of DX12 titles between old and these drivers...
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#4
P4-630
RejZoRWould be nice if TPU guys could evaluate this with a quick becnhmark of DX12 titles between old and these drivers...
And DX11 for the "tile-based rendering"?
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#5
RejZoR
Well, tile based rendering is not something you can turn on or off, so it's already being used on everything, be it DX6, DX9, DX11 or DX12 games. It's how GPU pushes pixels through its rendering pipeline.
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#6
P4-630
Anyways I'm still on 376.33, waiting for positive comments on this driver....:D
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#7
TheGuruStud
*Only with nvidia or Intel math

They left that asterisk out.
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#8
Camm
P4-630Does this driver include this optimization?/
Tile based rendering has existed with those cards since launch. Just Nvidia didn't advertise the fact.
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#9
XiGMAKiD
Need a review of this driver vs previous one on that claim, stat
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#10
Xzibit
XiGMAKiDNeed a review of this driver vs previous one on that claim, stat
Need to separate game patch performance increases from driver increases, since they are measuring from the release of the game and not driver to driver.

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#11
XiGMAKiD
XzibitNeed to separate game patch performance increases from driver increases, since they are measuring from the release of the game and not driver to driver.
Well, that makes it kinda dissapointing. Thanks man
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#12
brutlern
Guru3D did a quick test with a few games, and the results are below disappointing. Some titles gain nothing, others lose 1 fps, a some gain 1-3 fps improvement (all of which can be considered within the margin of error anyway). Hitman shows a more tangible boost but considering that DX11 was miles ahead of DX12 in Hitman (with nvidia cards), DX11 is proly still better in that game. So all in all, meh.

www.guru3d.com/news-story/quick-comparison-geforce-geforce-378-66-versus-378-78-directx-12-performance.html
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#13
mcraygsx
While testing RainbowSix Siege on GTX 1070, I lost overall FPS by -2, lost average FPS by -3 but I gained wooping 7 FPS on Max. Ran Test twice to get the average.
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#14
Prima.Vera
As always will wait for the FIX driver after 1 or 2 weeks. ;)
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#15
ViperXTR
welp, disappointing i guess :\
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#16
P4-630
Just optimizations for these games only?
Meh... I expected overall improvements such as higher 3D Mark Firestrike scores and such.. No? Meh....
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#17
Vayra86
The most important excuse for frequent driver releases from Nvidia is so they can jam another GFE 3.0 install down your throat so that eventually you forget to untick that box, or get so annoyed that you'll just install it to not be constantly harassed about it.
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#18
bug
Vayra86The most important excuse for frequent driver releases from Nvidia is so they can jam another GFE 3.0 install down your throat so that eventually you forget to untick that box, or get so annoyed that you'll just install it to not be constantly harassed about it.
Nvidia had frequent releases years before anyone thought of GFE. It's annoying, I'll give you that, but I had to do customs installs for years since I don't need the 3D stuff anyway. So now instead of a checkbox, I get to untick two. Apparently "update the components already installed and nothing else" is way too complicated to implement...
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#19
Vayra86
bugNvidia had frequent releases years before anyone thought of GFE. It's annoying, I'll give you that, but I had to do customs installs for years since I don't need the 3D stuff anyway. So now instead of a checkbox, I get to untick two. Apparently "update the components already installed and nothing else" is way too complicated to implement...
Of course, I jest. But it's still painful to see Nvidia pushing their GFE harder than Microsoft pushing W10, almost. Makes you wonder why they want your details so badly.
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#20
bug
Vayra86Of course, I jest. But it's still painful to see Nvidia pushing their GFE harder than Microsoft pushing W10, almost. Makes you wonder why they want your details so badly.
If they get automatic crash reports, they can better prioritize fixes for example. But they can do that with a simple crash reporter, I don't see the point of the whole GFE. Much less the point of bundling together with the driver.

One angle could be that clueless users get a better experience on Nvidia where then have a tool that will apply game settings for them. But that's just me guessing. I really, really, really don't care about GFE.
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#21
P4-630
Well there's also a bunch of people who want to use shadowplay, well then you need to install GFE.
Personally I do install GFE, mostly for testing games with GFE's recommended settings and after that fine tune myself.
I don't use shadowplay.
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#22
nickbaldwin86
Thanks! finally the two fixes I have been waiting for!
  • [GeForce 1050 Ti][Notebook]: Blue-screen crash occurs on some notebook platforms [1877803]
  • Fixed driver installation errors for laptops with GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti GPUs.
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#23
etayorius
Weird, there are not benchmarks of these driver anywhere... at least not to my knowledge. It would be good to see how much performance is gained from these... if any. Usually TPU are the first to post AMD Drivers reviews.
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#24
CounterSpell
RejZoRWould be nice if TPU guys could evaluate this with a quick becnhmark of DX12 titles between old and these drivers...
i agree!

it would be nice for all users helping them choose the corrected drivers according to what they play!

UP!:peace:
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#25
P4-630
CounterSpellUP!:peace:
Articles in the "News" section never go up, they only go down... :p
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