Re: I ran into a performance issue with driver 340.52 on ESO.
2014/07/31 07:39:52
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Oxymoot, I am sorry you are having issues with this 340.52 driver as well however I am also glad that I am not the only one. Although I do believe are issue are different as I am not having any reliability issues with this driver. On the 3d power setting I always keep mine set at the maximum power setting, with the use of a high end water cooling solution there is no need to choose any other setting. The problem with 340.52 is for some reason it is capping the GPU usage in the game ESO. This actually might be good thing for most people as stability would increase if you were air cooling, overheating, or have old or undersized power supplies, but I am water-cooled and stability is not my issue. Outside of gaming if I use all four of my GPUs for security penetration testing and at 100% load for 24 hours my GPU temps never exceed 11 degrees above ambient room temp. To put that in perspective let’s say room temp is 22C then the max my cards will go to is 33C. Power is also not my issue I use twin 1500 watt power supplies that connect into dual 30amp 220v circuits via dual L6-30 twist lock connections. I split the power supplies between the motherboard and the first 2 GPUs on one supply and then on the 2nd supply I have the 2 remaining GPUs and all the peripherals. In my case with 340.52 I am not having any reliability related issues and no crashing of any kind however I did not have these kind of issues on any of the resent NVidia drivers that I have tried. I am only seeing 340.52 cap on all 4 of my GPU usage in ESO not to exceed 50%. This is why I had to revert my driver back to 334.89 and now I get 80%+- GPU usage in game. I understand this is only one driver I just hope somebody from NVidia looks at these forums and sees this might be an issue and fixes it for future version. I would be very happy to provide diagnostic output if requested by NVidia.