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[Dicehunter]

Windows 11 strikes again, Latest security update KB5074109 lowers game performance for Nvidia users -

"Gaming Performance Drops: Numerous users, particularly those with NVIDIA graphics cards, have reported a significant drop in gaming performance, with frame rates decreasing by approximately 20 FPS after installation."

Windows 11 Update KB5074109 Critical Security Fixes and Major Bugs for AVD and Gaming

Analyze Windows 11 update KB5074109. Covers 114 security patches and battery improvements, but also critical bugs affecting Azure Virtual and gaming.

www.technetbooks.com

 

[NeverBackDown]

DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D In 300+ Benchmarks Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

With memory being very expensive Phoronix ran over 300 benchmarks ddr5 4800 vs 6000. Only 1% difference averaged out. Confirming what AMD said about speeds with the new 9850x3d. It is very load type dependent. Ironically the AI tests showed next to no difference. Lol.

 

[WYP]

DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D In 300+ Benchmarks Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

With memory being very expensive Phoronix ran over 300 benchmarks ddr5 4800 vs 6000. Only 1% difference averaged out. Confirming what AMD said about speeds with the new 9850x3d. It is very load type dependent. Ironically the AI tests showed next to no difference. Lol.

Makes sense. The whole point of X3D is to increase the L3 cache hit rate and make memory matter less. If a game really likes X3D, it will not rely on DRAM very. The impact should be very game-dependent. Will be fascinating to look at this later.

 

[Dicehunter]

Nvidia's Dynamic MFG is apparently coming in April -

MFG und G-Sync Pulsar ausprobiert: Dynamic MFG und 6x erscheinen im April - Hardwareluxx

Multi Frame Generation ausprobiert: Dynamic MFG und 6x erscheinen im April.

www.hardwareluxx.de

 

[Dicehunter]

Possible Blackwell Titan or 5090 Ti card incoming, Likely an RTX Pro 6000 with half the memory.

https://videocardz.com/newz/rtx-titan-blackwell-or-rtx-5090-ti-nvidia-reportedly-is-developing-a-new-rtx-50-series-halo-gpu-for-q3-2026

 

[Dicehunter]

Death Stranding 2 coming to PC next month

 

[Dicehunter]

Metal Gear Solid 4 finally releasing this August on PC with the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2, System requirements -

Minimum:

• • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 11（64-bit OS required）
  • Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9600K
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 34 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Recommended

Recommended:

• • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 11（64-bit OS required）
  • Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10500
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 34 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Required

 

[Dicehunter]

Official Death Stranding 2 requirements, So looking forward to this !

 

[Dicehunter]

New Nvidia 595.59 driver is up, Article - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/resident-evil-requiem-geforce-game-ready-driver/

Studio driver - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/results/264994/

Game Ready Driver - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/results/265122/

GRD Highlights

Game Ready for Resident Evil Requiem

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Resident Evil Requiem. In addition, there is Game Ready support for Marathon which features DLSS Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• The Ascent: Intermittent black bar on top of screen on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5859818]
• Total War: THREE KINGDOMS: Green artifacts appear on GeForce RTX 50 series [5745647]
• FINAL FANTASY XII The Zodiac Age crashes with fatal error after driver update [5741199]
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) displays image corruption after driver update [5733427]
• Quantum Break: Performance drops significantly on Act 4 Part 1 [5607678]

Fixed General Bugs

• Blackmagic Design: AV1 decode crash with multiple obu in one packet [5671098]

Studio Highlights

NVIDIA Studio Drivers provide artists, creators, and 3D developers the best performance and reliability when working with creative applications. To achieve the highest level of reliability, Studio Drivers undergo extensive testing against multi-app creator workflows and multiple revisions of the top creative applications from Adobe to Autodesk and beyond.

Applications
The February NVIDIA Studio Driver provides optimal support for the latest new creative applications and updates including RTX optimizations for FLUX.2 Klein which can double performance and reduce VRAM consumption by up to 60%.

Fixed Application Bugs

• Blackmagic Design: AV1 decode crash with multiple obu in one packet [5671098]
• The Ascent: Intermittent black bar on top of screen on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5859818]
• Total War: THREE KINGDOMS: Green artifacts appear on GeForce RTX 50 series [5745647]
• FINAL FANTASY XII The Zodiac Age crashes with fatal error after driver update [5741199]
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) displays image corruption after driver update [5733427]
• Quantum Break: Performance drops significantly on Act 4 Part 1 [5607678]
• Total War: Three Kingdoms: Artifacts may be observed during gameplay when Screen Space Reflections is enabled [5745647]

Fixed General Bugs

• Color banding observed with SDR content when Windows Automatic Color Management enabled [5754551]
• Asus G14 may freeze on startup when Asus Ultimate Mode is enabled [5754849]

 

[Dicehunter]

Resident Evil Requiem showing performance degradation on the latest currently available Nvidia driver.

576.88
Current - 99 FPS
Average - 189 FPS
1% Low - 88 FPS

591.86
Current - 85 FPS
Average - 153 FPS
1% Low - 78 FPS

Nvidia's driver department the last few months has been pretty bad in terms of quality.

 

[Damien c]

Driver department?

I bet they are using ChatGPT or similar for it, save themselves a couple of thousand dollars a month.

 

[Dicehunter]

Driver department?

I bet they are using ChatGPT or similar for it, save themselves a couple of thousand dollars a month.

IF they are using AI to help them code It'll be their own inhouse AI, Which would explain why drivers have been sub optimal for the last year.

 

[NeverBackDown]

They aren't using AI to do drivers in the way everybody thinks. AI is nowhere close enough to do such a complicated task. I'm sure like many companies they have a very small use case and have had AI do very specific things for quite some time.

Personally don't see a use case for drivers to need AI in development, bar the installation of the newest AI data for dlss.