Nvidia driver 10/22/24

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I do not recommend upgrading to 566.03 that was released today.

I installed it and immediately had issues with Diablo 4 dropping from 120+ FPS to 50-60 constantly even when lowering to High settings and switching DLSS to Performance.

Ryzen 5 7600x
RTX 4070ti
32gb DDR5

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i am so happy reading this. thot i was going crazy.
yup major stutter and issues on 566.03 update. game is unplayable.

MSI Gaming laptop
Rtx 3060

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I posted the article about this. NVidia has a known driver issue with certain games right now, and d4 forced a lot of players to update the driver if they didn’t have a driver that was within a certain version range, so it borked a lot of players computers. I was met with immediate lash back saying that it wasn’t the cause of crashing and that it was SB’s, but as a tech I was using error code for analysis, not cojecture like everyone else.

You weren’t alone. Some in that thread did find help by rolling back. The main cause SO FAR has been identified as a power issue. For a lot of people, it involuntarily changed a lot of settings in your Nvidia control panel back to defaults which defaulted people to a low power profile and when the video card would ask for more power, it would experience VDroop and BSOD or crash the game. Glad other people finally figuring it out that never found my thread. Too bad the game’s still busted fundamentally…

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Pro tip - never upgrade your graphic driver unless:

  • Your game declares that it doesn’t support your current driver, OR
  • Your current driver has known issues with your game, OR
  • The driver you upgrade to states that it includes a performance improvement for your game
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Thanks for the heads up

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Anytime you update your drivers you have to give the game/gpu time to rebuild the cache it previously had. I had this same issue back when I played Competitive Fortnite. You have to spend some time exploring all locations again. This will always be the case because updating your driver will always wipe all pre-existing caches.

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while i understand what you mean here. help me understand why my D4 worked perfect 10 days ago. (till this new patch)
coz vessel had just released and there was no stutter issues exploring Nahantu. and in my laptop’s case. it was a fresh install for the first time ever.

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Yup and if like me you dedicate a boatload amount of cache that is a lot. But no stuttering here still my cache medium is not same as game and very fast. I always split location of virtual, caching and actual software/game.

With that said the game still crashes, because memory leak, once getting close to 50Gb committed (even though it has access to 48Gb+ free it still want to load virtual). Or due to the other various issues which still seem random.

Zak

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Because then the game was new and no cache existed, it was building it as you go which is less intensive then removing old, rebuilding new.

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FWIW it’s been an improvement for me over the 10/1/24 ones. Less lagging running into new areas.

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well i walked though an area. it stutters a lot. i restart the game. and walk through same area again and it works perfectly. so you make sense

but i just did a DDU and fresh install. shouldnt that fix that?? isnt cache gone now? im still having the stutter issue in the new areas

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Why are you getting a frame rate of only 120 fps with an RTX 4070i? I have an older system with a i7 6700k, physical Hard Drive (mind you a good WD Black 6TB), and an RTX 4070 and average around 350 fps. I am using a 2560x1440 resolution so that could make a difference but still 120 fps seems low.

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Does anyone know of a version to revert back to to get the game to work properly? I don’t think I had updated in a while and wasn’t sure the previous version I was on.