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I always change these settings in Global when I install drivers

Ambient Occlusion to Quality
Single Display Performance Mode
Prefer Maximum Performance
Texture Filtering to High Quality
Triple Buffer On
Vertical Sync On

everything else at default, Not had a problem at all with these on any driver.

The only time I use the program settings tab is when a game doesn't have a  MSAA or AF ingame option so I force it.

  its not a good idea to globally force ambient occlusion on at all.  it can cause issues in some games. it best to use the in game option if available and if not then try on a  game by game basis. not that you would even be able to tell that its on other that performance tanking in some games. triple buffering from the control panel has no impact on DX games. and its silly to force vsync on globally.  and I will never understand why some people force prefer maximum performance on either.  all that does is force the card to needlessly run at full clocks when there is no need for it to.  

I prefer them to be both on it game, I have aero glass on too but don't see how that relates to those settings
 
as for the AO that depends on the game, some games have in game based AO settings, where as others games don't so the driver adds it
 
Also maniac you are wrong, I never had fps drops to 30 automaticly when dropping to 59 or lower

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I prefer them to be both on it game, I have aero glass on too but don't see how that relates to those settings

as for the AO that depends on the game, some games have in game based AO settings, where as others games don't so the driver adds it

Also maniac you are wrong, I never had fps drops to 30 automaticly when dropping to 59 or lower

 
No disrespect bro, but the NVCP Vsync setting works in a certain way and has done so for a very long time.
While this -can- be effected by other settings (particularly when also enabled with in-game Vsync settings) and frame buffer size, its behaviors are -extremely- well known and documented.    
 
Your are completely incorrect
Here is one of the best descriptions http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_9.html
 
Quote
"There is however a more fundamental problem with enabling VSync, and that is it can significantly reduce your overall framerate, often dropping your FPS to exactly 50% of the refresh rate. This is a difficult concept to explain, but it just has to do with timing. When VSync is enabled, your graphics card becomes a slave to your monitor. If at any time your FPS falls just below your refresh rate, each frame starts taking your graphics card longer to draw than the time it takes for your monitor to refresh itself. So every 2nd refresh, your graphics card just misses completing a new whole frame in time. This means that both its primary and secondary frame buffers are filled, it has nowhere to put any new information, so it has to sit idle and wait for the next refresh to come around before it can unload its recently completed frame, and start work on a new one in the newly cleared secondary buffer. This results in exactly half the framerate of the refresh rate whenever your FPS falls below the refresh rate."
 
Its has been this way for a very very long time
Telling me I am wrong, does not make you right... it just means what your running and your hardware config does not fall into the buffer/timing issue.  
 

maniacvvv

MikeWhoP
have multi color problems with my gtx 660 ti can you call me to help me

Normally I would PM you my number...

But I have recently received death threats to both myself, my wife and my children
While this user has had multiple accounts banned, at this time I am not giving my number out to anyone who was not a member of these forums before June 2 2013

I am sorry but your account was created after that date, please call EVGA's 24/7 free Tech support line for assistance  

That's sick, and I'm sorry to hear that Maniac. I hope the police are onto it - death threats are bad enough to adults, but to children! Wow. That could be jail time depending where you are. At the very least the perp needs psychological help.
 
 

Hello, I can report that these drivers have worked perfectly for me and I have been stress testing to ensure stability. I've crashed only due to excessive overclock. I performed extensive install operations correctly for new drivers, and only have installed GPU Drivers and PHYSX Drivers, performing a clean install with precision and RTSS shut down(uninstalled actually) beforehand. This is my normal driver upgrade procedure.

Excellent advice in this thread...
 
I only change NVCP global settings to single monitor and prefer max performance as well.  Unfortunately I haven't been uninstalling Precision with driver updates, just disabling start with windows.  Will update my methodology according the method given by maniac.

maniacvvv

MikeWhoP

have ulti color problems with my gtx 660 ti can you call me to help me

Normally I would PM you my number...

But I have recently received death threats to both myself, my wife and my children
While this user has had multiple accounts banned, at this time I am not giving my number out to anyone who was not a member of these forums before June 2 2013

I am sorry but your account was created after that date, please call EVGA's 24/7 free Tech support line for assistance  

 
Wow, brother, 
Didn't know peeps get that scarry on here. Sorry you went through that. hopefully the culprit was collected and dealt with.  I agree with the rest of the guys I omitted the "GeForce Experience" part of the software update, and have experienced no issues.  it could be the culprit.

guess ill be more careful texting you Maniac :) Hope this bull gets cleared up.As always you can call or text me if you ever wanna talk ,always have a good time when we chat.Plus we can talk about AB Sim and everyone at evga ...jk

no issues since it's released.  
 
24/7 power on

I'm not saying everything in the article is right, but when I installed the drivers I didn't use GF Experience, or have AB/Precision X installed. It may simply have been other software on my system giving me issues, but I saw artifacting(In BF3) and driver crashing on both my GTX 285 Classified and a GTX 480, both of which I know function perfectly. (Now running 314.22 with no issues.) I actually spent 2 hours on with EVGA tech support for the 480, and even they couldn't figure it out. I only solved the issue by wiping the 320.18 drivers and using 314.22. 
 
I'm not saying the drivers are definitely the issue, but that was the issue for me. Also on OCN a lot of guys are having problems as well, but again I'm not saying it's all fact. I'm also not trying to win a peeing match here, so please don't take it that way. (Not to anyone in particular.)
 
http://www.overclock.net/t/1399104/mc-nvidia-320-18-whql-display-driver-is-damaging-gpus/0_30

What happened to you?  Please explain and did you do the full driver install or custom?

Not sure if it related.. but i do notice some big random lag with this driver. 

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Guys, I am on a 570 and have no issues what so ever with 320.18 drivers.  I get my 780 tomorrow.  Will I have issues with 780 even if I have no issues with 570?

yes you will have issues...

ambassador_pineapple

So fix is to use which drivers?

 
You have to modify the INF file of the 314.22 drivers to give support to the 780, look at this guide to find out how
 
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=377158

320.18 driver caused my Pc to impregnate my wife then it stole my car and crashed it into a bus of nuns .Nvidia you owe me now....
 
 
 
 
 
(ya sarcasm )