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Do you use NVIDIA's Studio Drivers?

Do you use NVIDIA's Studio Drivers?

  • Yes

    Votes: 2,215 13.9%
  • No

    Votes: 13,758 86.1%

  • Total voters
    15,973
  • Poll closed .

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NVIDIA's Studio Drivers are optimized for creative workloads, and the official claim is that they offer enhanced stability and performance for these tasks.

We'd like to know if you use these drivers or stick to the standard gaming drivers.
 
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Is Nyes an option? On my personal rig(s) - no, no need. On my workplace workstations - yes, I am running Studio drivers since there is less hassle with them in terms of release cadence and they have been rock solid stable.
 
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I use my standard gaming drivers in my AMD because I primarily use my computer for BeamNG with friends.
 
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I don't do any creative stuff on my PC. My main rig plays games, and my two HTPCs play movies.

Besides, I don't even know what "optimised for creative workloads" means. Can you not run Blender on game-ready drivers?
 

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I do. The cadence isnt that slow. If I am having issues or playing something that for some reason needs a game ready driver I will jump to it, but I just grab them again when they catch up.
 
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Yes, I do. I actively prefer the Studio or Enterprise branches whenever possible.

But I don't think this poll will be accurate - "No" technically includes the entirety of the AMD and Intel user base, as well as folks on legacy, pre-RTX Nvidia hardware that doesn't support this driver type.
 
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Do you use NVIDIA's Studio Drivers?​

I use my standard gaming drivers in my AMD because I primarily use my computer for BeamNG with friends.
Wow
 
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I run them both..so I can't vote
Rarely update...
 
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Used studio driver once just so ark ascended stops crashing but been using gaming drivers exclusively usually.
 
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Yes, since I mainly use my GPU for video editing. The studio drivers have been stable for me for years, *except* the very latest one 572.16 - my monitors would not come back on after waking the PC from sleep. One of the monitors showed invalid refresh rate error, the other (identical model but with later firmware) just stayed black. I'm running the monitors 1920x1200 @ 60fps. If I switched them to 1920x1080 they woke up fine. So I have gone back to the previous studio version 566.36. Running on RTX 4080.
 
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I use them for STABILITY. Maybe I'm just concerned - but I'm happy with it lol. I even installed with NVCleanInstall Studio driver to unsupported GTX 960 - and it works lol:D
 
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Usually I use studio because as I understand it they have higher level of quality control, I tend to treat game ready as beta, and studio as stable, but right now I am on game ready drivers as I wanted access to the latest DLSS4 optimised drivers.
 
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Yes, I do. I actively prefer the Studio or Enterprise branches whenever possible.

But I don't think this poll will be accurate - "No" technically includes the entirety of the AMD and Intel user base, as well as folks on legacy, pre-RTX Nvidia hardware that doesn't support this driver type.
I think the poll pre-supposes responses from just Nvidia users.
 

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I change drivers 2 times a year. max 3x.
Always studios drivers.
I'm looking for stability more than 7fps more when I'm already doing 134...
If it's even possible that the ready version really allows you to have 7fps more. It's rarely an exact science.
I've never had weird messages that prevent me from launching a program or a game. Studios drivers tend to digest everything you can throw at it.
Personally, I find my account there.
 
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I think this poll should have been do you use the "pro"variant for your GPU's drivers or just included a not using Nvidia option. AMD has Radeon Pro which is meant for the same use case as NV's Studio drivers. So would have avoided all AMD users voting no.
 

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Both of my cards are workstation cards so the Production Branch/Studio Driver is just the default, although i'd anticipate anyone doing creative/production work would be better off using them over the game ready drivers.
 
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is there even a difference? i just nvcleaninstall w/e version i want, on whichever card that is architecturally supported - usually the latest gameready driver ...
 
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is there even a difference?
Besides release cadence? Not really. Well, 10-bit color support for Photoshop. That’s it.
 
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I use both since there are multiple builds here. I use the Game Ready drivers for a couple of gaming rigs and the Studio driver for another machine that doesn't have any games installed.
 
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