Dave3d
Hey everyone.
 
I am on windows 8.1, and just got my card today (YAY!), but I am wondering what others experience is with GAMING with the new card(s).
Is anyone having BSOD's, or games not working properly?
I have read 'some' reviews that said 'some' games were not stable, but that was with the initial driver release. I see they have NEW drivers now, and not just the launch drivers.
I dont want to install the card and not be able to game (I can bench anytime, so thats not a problem).
I just want to know if most of the games are stable or not on (whatever driver everyone says is stable) the latest driver, or the initial release drivers, or did I miss one in-between?
I have the 2080 (dag nabbit, no TI, why if I were younger....myah...heh), whether that makes a difference or not I have no idea, NO review site said anything about the TI being more stable than the non-ti, or the other way around.
 
Again, Windows 8.1, NOT windows 10.
 
Thanks a bunch!
You guys n gals are awesome!
 

 
Am I reading this correctly, you have not installed the card yet?

Interesting. I checked also and I don't see Win 8 or 8.1 drivers. What about the disc that came with the card?
 
EDIT: Found them.
 
https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/411.63/411.63-desktop-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql.exe

I'd just test them both since there are only two.

Look up, I posted the download link for the driver.

I went to EVGA's driver link for the RTX 2080. They only had the 411.63 listed, so I manually put the 411.70 into the link and it worked.

No. it's a Win 8 and Win 7 driver rolled into one installer.

Sweet! Looking forward to how it does and the pictures.

Well, a buddy of mine called and we talked all night, so I didnt get to do much.
But, I DID get a chance to play some Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and also did the in-game benchmark.
 
On the Titan X (same machine, same 2560x1440p IPS monitor with G-Sync @ 144hz, or 120hz ULMB, I was getting this:
Ingame benchmark:
Average fps of 38.5
With msi Afterburner on 100% fan speed, 38.6 fps
Dips all the way down into the low 20's, highs of low to mid 60's
77-83c with fan on 100%
 
With the 2080 (and I upped a couple things, I dont remember what they all were except: Dedicated Fullscreen, I couldnt have that on before. Hairworks was on the highest setting whereas before it was on the lowest setting.
Ingame benchmark:
Average fps of 78
Do NOT need any afterburner or any other program to do the fans (although I am going to try their 'easy oc' software just to see if it does anything except heat up my room even more, lol).
Dips down to 39 fps, highs of 111 fps
67c is the highest temp recorded so far.
 
And, thats not the whole thing.
The game is buttery smooth. Even when it dips to 39 fps, I dont 'feel' it, nor do my eyes detect any 'stutter' or 'hitching' at all.
My mouse actually works as it should, and doesnt feel like I am trying to drag it through mud anymore.
I am getting the correct meshes, colors, textures, shadows, and AA actually works now instead of flickering every single leaf, or every single rock, or every tree, or every rope or step.
 
I can actually see the difference between rocks and trees from more than 6 feet away from Lara.
I can see subtle differences in shadows, in skin color/tone, even eye color!
I am NOT getting ANY flickering anymore!!! (same cable, also as same exact system, just switched cards out and new driver).
The system boots to  windows in maybe 15 seconds now, and doesnt take 2 minutes to just get to the login screen.
Seriously, that titan x (POS) couldnt even get a 2005 game to run correctly, let alone a newer game (and when my buddy came up, he put his 1080ti in my system and it ran JUST like this 2080 does, as one would expect a video card to actually run without having to jimmy-rig everything, and having to reboot, and log off/on, shut game down and relaunch it, etc ad-infinitum).
 
Its not all roses though.
I had this weird sound issue, that I didnt have before. I have my headset plugged into a pci-e x4 USB 2.0 card, in an x4 slot.
I have a Corsair Wireless 2100 headset, 7.1 virtual surround, plugged into that x4 usb card.
Well, when I booted up with the 2080, I wasnt hearing anything at all. I rebooted, and I could hear, but it was all robotic, and garbled like. I launched the Corsair sound ui (running in the systray at bootup), and switched it from 7.1 to 5.1, and I got sound, but it was all hissing now. I changed it back to 7.1, and the Corsair ui crashed (it has NEVER crashed, not once in the 3 years I have had this machine).
So, I went into the MS sound, and had to set everything up there, and it sounded fine after that.
I havent gotten the Corsair drivers to launch after that happened though, so it is basically using the MS sound now. :(
 
And, I DO see a new icon in the Device Manager (I am assuming it is the USB C port, that I have nothing attached to, that a user reported not working a couple days ago).
I am sure its that port on the video card that if you dont have a VR set or something hooked up to it, that it wont install the driver for it.
I think there was some kind of issue with that usb c port being recognized but no driver, and maybe that messed up my usb 2.0 card somehow.
I am sure a re-install of the usb drivers for the usb 2.0 card, and an uninstall of the Corsair software with reboot, then a reinstall will fix the issue for the headset.
 
Its just weird that a pci-e usb card with a usb sound (headset) would get mixed up with the video card (although, the video card is pci-e also, and does have usb on it, and it does have sound through the video card (although I did NOT install the nvidia sound drivers, nor the miricast sound drivers, nor the Nvidia Experience).
 
So, JUST based on that 1 benchmark and playthrough of the 1 game, I am going to say it actually beat out the 1080 TI when it was on my system (the 1080 TI wasnt really as smooth gameplay wise as this 2080 in just tomb raider), although I have yet to play the other 2 games I played with the 1080 TI.
 
I am SUPER glad that I got the 2080 instead of the 1080 TI (although I wish I could have gotten a 2080 TI instead, even if was one of those 'ColorfulGaming' brand cards, lol), even though I have and probably will have more issues that time and drivers will get rid of.
 
2080 recommended for gaming on a 2560x1440 144hz G-Sync IPS panel using DisplayPort with an older system (see rig specs, 3 year old system).
:)
 
 

Not so.
My threads keep getting moved to dead sections of the forums, even though they are relevant to ALL cards, like this Nvidia driver series.
I have had mostly ALL EVGA video cards since they have come out, as well as some EVGA motherboards, and I still have the EVGA 1600wattG2 psu in this very system, I still have my EVGA gtx 780 and 770, as well as my EVGA Titan X (the only video card from EVGA that ever gave me any problems at all), but all of a sudden I can not ask for driver help, nor can I post anything in the video card section, because I bought ONE video card that is not EVGA's. So, basically, I can not help others, who have the same exact hardware (remember, the chips are all binned, and everything is the same except the pcb layout and power stuff), but ALL of my threads are getting moved now.
there is some very good info in this thread that can help others, like not being able to see any windows 8 or 8.1 drivers, and I have tried to help others since I actually have a video card in the 2080 series now by (I WAS going to post benchmarks vs my Titan X maxwell (a card NOONE compares with anymore) like I did with Shadow Warrior, but why? Nobody really comes here to this section. Everyone is helping everyone else on the 2080 section (heck, posts about actual Nvidia products vs EVGA products is discussed, but NOT moved here to this section, but left in the 2080 section, but all of a sudden I am NOT an EVGA customer (although I currently own, what, 8800, 9800, 280, 580 (I think my 580 is EVGA, but I put a custom cooler on it so its hard to know), 770, 780, Titan X, 1600watt G2, and have had in the past various EVGA motherboards as well as little things like SLI connectors, but all of a sudden I am NOT an EVGA customer because I bought a competitors 2080 instead of EVGA's (mind you, I still have the 1600G2 in my system right now running, and I have the 780 and 770 in OLDer computers, that still work and run things like my Printer machine), and I CANT talk or post about anything about 2080's or it gets moved here, or even worse places in the forums?
I dont know.
If this keeps up I will just move on from here and go to a forum that doesnt play games with their CUSTOMERS who are trying to HELP other people, and asking for help like DRIVERS for the new 2080 video cards (those drivers are for every brand, not just EVGA).
It seems that people want me to leave this community or something, when I try to be truthful and helpful (and yes, sometimes mad about that titan, but thats over now, new card no problems).
I know that the 2080 is a HUGE launch, for both Nvidia and EVGA, and I am excited about ALL things 2080 right now, AND I am an EVGA customer, so how are my posts any different than anyone elses here who has say an Asus Strix 2080 TI, but has an EVGA motherboard, and can discuss things in the EVGA 2080 forums, but I can not?
Its not right.
I am not pointing any fingers, and I am not mad, I am just frustrated and confused as to why some people can talk and others can not?
But, you cant treat your CUSTOMERS like this and not expect to be reminded that just because a person that doesnt have YOUR video card, is STILL a CUSTOMER who has YOUR other PC hardware, and its not right that certain people can talk/post/create threads and posts (even those who have NO 2000 series at all!) in the 2000 series section while others cannot.
Its just not right.
-THIS is how you LOSE customers, not win them back.
Very disappointed, and sad, because I like almost everyone here, and this is one place I USED to be able to come to to talk about enthusiast products.
I guess I will just go back to Hardocp, where people respect people.
:(

Just for Record for all the RTX Graphics Cards:

Operating System Support

• Windows 10 64bit
• Windows 7 64bit

No Windows 8 or 8.1 Driver Support for RTX Series of Graphics Cards.
 
 
"My threads keep getting moved to dead sections of the forums,"
This because your Threads are not Relevant EVGA Hardware.
 
"like this Nvidia driver series."
This then should create a Thread over on NVIDIA's Forum.
 
Area's of the Forum are set to support EVGA Hardware Not other OEM Products.
This is where Non-EVGA Hardware Threads Belong under General Hardware area of the Forum and why it was created and by far not a "dead section of the forum"
 
"I dont know if I can upload pics here in this section or not, as mine is not an EVGA card."
Yes you can upload or post Pics under General Hardware 



 
As Posted from https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2854562
"Sorry evga, but you have lost a lifetime fanboi."
"I will be going with Zotac or Asus from now on"
So maybe you should post on their Forums as well for Public Support and Help.
Just saying is all.