Rogue13x
I updated my 3080 to 511.23 a few days ago and my gpu won't seem to engage anymore.  Temps never go above 39c, fps is in the 20s.  I went into device manager and did the rollback, and that didn't fix it.  I downloaded and installed 472.12, which seemed to be the last game ready driver and that didn't fix it.  I posted on the nvidia forum early yesterday and haven't received a single response.  Really hoping someone can help.  Do I need to do some sort of reset?  I'm not very tech-minded so if there's a solution a step-by-step would be much appreciated.

msebae
EVGA 3080 TI FTW3 - installing 511.23 completely breaks my GPU - 3DMark Time Spy benchmark crashes immediately upon starting and Cyberpunk 2077 runs at 7 FPS! Reverting back to 497.29 and CP 2077 is back at 60 FPS. ****?

UPDATE - I rolled back to older driver 12/15/21, and reinstalled 511.23 with a CLEAN INSTALL and this time it worked. Not a good installation experience, I've never had to do a Clean Install on Nvidia before.

UPDATE UPDATE - Precision needs to be turned off when installing 511.23 otherwise it will drop Power Target to minimum and cause the performance FPS degradation I saw - not a good user experience.

Minor (hopefully just cosmetic) issue: Nvidia driver tells me I'm running Windows 10, even though I'm on Windows 11. This was a problem with the previous 497.23 driver, so not new in 511.23. 

ObscureEmpyre

vapetrail

msebae
EVGA 3080 TI FTW3 - installing 511.23 completely breaks my GPU - 3DMark Time Spy benchmark crashes immediately upon starting and Cyberpunk 2077 runs at 7 FPS! Reverting back to 497.29 and CP 2077 is back at 60 FPS. ****?

UPDATE - I rolled back to older driver 12/15/21, and reinstalled 511.23 with a CLEAN INSTALL and this time it worked. Not a good installation experience, I've never had to do a Clean Install on Nvidia before.

UPDATE UPDATE - Precision needs to be turned off when installing 511.23 otherwise it will drop Power Target to minimum and cause the performance FPS degradation I saw - not a good user experience.

Minor (hopefully just cosmetic) issue: Nvidia driver tells me I'm running Windows 10, even though I'm on Windows 11. This was a problem with the previous 497.23 driver, so not new in 511.23. 

I'm so glad i checked here and saw your comment, 3 hour livechat with Nvidia support and they said I should just RMA. You saved my night! :)

Did you check the power slider in PX1?

vapetrail

ObscureEmpyre

vapetrail

msebae
EVGA 3080 TI FTW3 - installing 511.23 completely breaks my GPU - 3DMark Time Spy benchmark crashes immediately upon starting and Cyberpunk 2077 runs at 7 FPS! Reverting back to 497.29 and CP 2077 is back at 60 FPS. ****?

UPDATE - I rolled back to older driver 12/15/21, and reinstalled 511.23 with a CLEAN INSTALL and this time it worked. Not a good installation experience, I've never had to do a Clean Install on Nvidia before.

UPDATE UPDATE - Precision needs to be turned off when installing 511.23 otherwise it will drop Power Target to minimum and cause the performance FPS degradation I saw - not a good user experience.

Minor (hopefully just cosmetic) issue: Nvidia driver tells me I'm running Windows 10, even though I'm on Windows 11. This was a problem with the previous 497.23 driver, so not new in 511.23. 

I'm so glad i checked here and saw your comment, 3 hour livechat with Nvidia support and they said I should just RMA. You saved my night! :)

Did you check the power slider in PX1?

I couldn't get PX1 to open after installing the new driver but I can say the gpu was at 100% util with low clocks and power goin in reported by HWinfo64 (with windows and nvidia power plans on max performance). I uninstalled PX1 then ran DDU and tried installing 511.23 again and I got all my performance back.

sWi7zLe

Nereus
 
Looks like I'm still staying with 472.12.. lol.
 
 

I keep going back to this one, don't have a lot of faith in nvidia drivers anymore.

sWi7zLe
I've not tried the new one, I think i was on 497.29 and i was playing Cyberpunk yesterday and got a rather big drop in fps when driving about and went back to 472.12 as a test.
But the fps drop was the same and then I experienced a lighting bug from when Cyberpunk was released... so I think i may give 497.29 another go!

sWi7zLe
I guess, but is it worth upgrading drivers each month? Maybe when a new game us released and supposedly the drivers are made for them. But I'm quite selective in my game purchases these days. Main games I'm waiting for being Dying Light 2, Stalker and Atomic Heart which are quite a way off... oh and FF7 when it comes to steam!

What do new drivers actually offer?

vivithemage
Do you guys do clean installs? I usually do not, so I was curious if it was worth doing a clean install. 

ObscureEmpyre

vivithemage
Do you guys do clean installs? I usually do not, so I was curious if it was worth doing a clean install. 

By “clean installs,” do you mean clicking the clean install checkbox when updating drivers, or completely nuking the previous driver using DDU prior to installing a new driver? The former just wipes the NVCP settings, which is what I used to do, and DDU completely removes any trace of a driver from the system, which is what I started doing a while ago. It only takes a couple of minutes to run DDU and the end result is the same when it comes to the NVCP settings.

ObscureEmpyre
511.23 offers DLDSR (Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution). DSR, if you’ve never used it, allows you to render games at a higher resolution than what your monitor can handle, then downscales them to match your monitor’s resolution. It’s meant to make games look even better. Adding deep learning to DSR is icing on the cake. I gave 511.23 a shot with DLDSR turned on while playing GTA V, and it looks gorgeous!