Poll on Nvidia driver versions, and their effects on MSFS

The object of this Poll, is to get a survey of what the community has found to work or not work, based on your experience with trying different video drivers, and the effects those choices “may” make on CTDs and FPS.

Please vote in all 3 sections.

How can I find out what driver version I have?

Right-click on your desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel .
From the NVIDIA Control Panel menu, select Help > System Information.
The driver version is listed at the top of the Details window.

Feel free to post more detailed information about your experiences with different drivers.

Thank you for your participation.

Which do you currently use? Single choice.
  • 01 - After 511.79 - GeForce driver
  • 02 - 511.79 - 14 Feb, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 03 - 511.65 - 01 Feb, 2022 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 04 - 511.65 - 01 Feb, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 05 - 511.23 - 14 Jan, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 06 - 511.09 - 04 Jan, 2022 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 07 - 497.29 - 20 Dec, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 08 - 472.84 - 13 Dec, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 09 - 497.09 - 01 Dec, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 10 - 496.76 - 16 Nov, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 11 - 472.47 - 10 Nov, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 12 - 496.49 - 26 Oct, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 13 - 472.39 - 26 Oct, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 14 - 496.13 - 12 Oct, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 15 - 472.12 - 20 Sep, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 16 - 472.12 - 20 Sep, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
0 voters
Driver tried, and seemed to work okay. Multiple choices.
  • 01 - After 511.79 - GeForce driver
  • 02 - 511.79 - 14 Feb, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 03 - 511.65 - 01 Feb, 2022 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 04 - 511.65 - 01 Feb, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 05 - 511.23 - 14 Jan, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 06 - 511.09 - 04 Jan, 2022 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 07 - 497.29 - 20 Dec, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 08 - 472.84 - 13 Dec, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 09 - 497.09 - 01 Dec, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 10 - 496.76 - 16 Nov, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 11 - 472.47 - 10 Nov, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 12 - 496.49 - 26 Oct, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 13 - 472.39 - 26 Oct, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 14 - 496.13 - 12 Oct, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 15 - 472.12 - 20 Sep, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 16 - 472.12 - 20 Sep, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
0 voters
Driver tried, and seemed to cause issues. Multiple choices.
  • 01 - After 511.79 - GeForce driver
  • 02 - 511.79 - 14 Feb, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 03 - 511.65 - 01 Feb, 2022 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 04 - 511.65 - 01 Feb, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 05 - 511.23 - 14 Jan, 2022 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 06 - 511.09 - 04 Jan, 2022 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 07 - 497.29 - 20 Dec, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 08 - 472.84 - 13 Dec, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 09 - 497.09 - 01 Dec, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 10 - 496.76 - 16 Nov, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 11 - 472.47 - 10 Nov, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 12 - 496.49 - 26 Oct, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 13 - 472.39 - 26 Oct, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
  • 14 - 496.13 - 12 Oct, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 15 - 472.12 - 20 Sep, 2021 - GeForce Game Ready
  • 16 - 472.12 - 20 Sep, 2021 - NVIDIA Studio
0 voters
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Should we abstain from voting in section 2 & 3 if we’ve only utilized one driver?

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That’s probably fair. It looks like the results don’t show correctly. The pie chart is obscured for some reason. I just tried editing it to show a bar chart instead, and it hasn’t changed for some reason, even though the poll setup does show “bar” rather than “pie”.

I may have to delete it entirely, and re-create it. :frowning:

Apologies everyone, I had to reset it to bar. It seems like it remembered my votes though, somehow, so I just had to show vote, then vote again.

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Are you getting NaN% for your bars?

BYW, I like what you’re up to here.

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No, mine look fine.

Thank @N6722C, it was his idea! :+1:

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Hmm… I wonder if it’s an iOS thing. I tend to interact with the forum solely on my iPad.

EDIT: hang on, I scrolled up for a third time and now it’s displaying values. Weird!

EDIT2: I had to remove and recast my vote to get the bar for my version to update, too.

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LOOKS FANTASTIC – great work … displays great now cache version has caught up

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I voted for 511.79 but it doesn’t necessarily mean this driver is any better or worse than any other ones I’ve used over the years.

For “seemed to cause issues” I voted 497.09 because that driver is even mentioned in zendesk known issues for causing potential problems.

  • Crash with Nvidia GeForce driver (497.09). Nvidia identified the following issues:
  • [DX11]Microsoft Flight Simulator may crash to desktop during gameplay [3454519]
  • [DX11]Microsoft Flight Simulator may intermittently display purple artifacts on the ground textures [3454530]
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I use the latest driver that was optimized for the RTX 20 series cards, 457.30, and it works flawlessly.

I am curious what we can learn from this poll.

I always run the latest windows device driver but never install the nvidia content game drivers and have no problems, knock on wood… lol.

I usually do too however the driver that was released a week or so in optional updates gave me screen tearing so I had to roll back.

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