Message boards :
Number crunching :
Nvidia 397.31 driver available.
Message board moderation
Author | Message |
---|---|
kwalk Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 29 Credit: 16,535,464 RAC: 3 |
Been using it for a couple days now with no know issues. |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
Been using it for a couple days now with no know issues. Just built my new rig with Windows 10 and have that driver, also no issues. Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
Mike Ryan Send message Joined: 24 Jun 99 Posts: 46 Credit: 24,363,752 RAC: 47 |
I've had two batches of 100 GPU work units garbage out with zero run time since updating a few days ago. But also coincides with the latest Win10 cumulative update (KB4093105). I'm going back to the prior driver after my entire queue clears (will be a couple of days for CPU / iGPU tasks) and see what happens. I'm beginning to think my trusty old 1060 (well, not that old) might be having issues. Though it seems to work fine for everything but SETI crunching. |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
But also coincides with the latest Win10 cumulative update (KB4093105). Never allow M$ update your Nvidia driver. DL the latest driver directly only from the NVidia site and install with the clean option. That solves the problem. |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
If it's not broken...Don't fix it.. or in this case, if the driver runs the apps, don't update them... Most updates are only released to support new games, not scientific computations... |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
I had no choice in the matter. The 2 versions I have on my data drive are for Win7. I had to download the Win10 version. I gotta remember, when downloading stuff, that I have Win10 now and not Win7. ;-o Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
I had no choice in the matter. Don't worry, Just do what i post and that will fix your problem. |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
I had no choice in the matter. Obviously, you did NOT read my complete post or you would see that I have NO problem. Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
Obviously, you did NOT read my complete post or you would see that I have NO problem Sorry, i was talking about Mike Ryan problem and quote your msg by mistake. The well know M$ Nvidia update crash. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36860 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I'm still using 372.54 for my 1060's and 365.19 for my 550 Ti's. I'm definitely one of those who will only upgrade my drivers only when it's absolutely necessary. Cheers. |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
I'm still using 372.54 for my 1060's and 365.19 for my 550 Ti's. That time is approaching for the 550Ti's since both Microsoft and Nvidia are dropping support for Fermi class cards and 32bit drivers. Of course you don't need any new drivers. The current ones work. Just make sure you keep a copy of the Nvidia driver around since it will disappear from the Nvidia site. Only thing you have to worry about are the cards dying. But then you will buy something newer. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
Not sure what class my card is but think I saw it as fermi somewhere but have saved last few Nvidia driver updates for a rainy day.. |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
Obviously, you did NOT read my complete post or you would see that I have NO problem Ah, ok. My apologies. :) Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
petri33 Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 1668 Credit: 623,086,772 RAC: 156 |
If it's not broken...Don't fix it.. The latest will be faster for any new hardware generation after the SW was compiled. The software is built to run on existing HW and it is added an option to run on any future HW. So If your GPU is like the latest hot one then you may have a good luck that the latest driver and just in time compilation feature can give you a boost. The other scenarios you can think ... You can always try. .. Petri33 To overcome Heisenbergs: "You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
The last hot hardware was your Titan V |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
latest driver and just in time compilation feature can give you a boost. Petri, are you referring to how the current Nvidia drivers work? Or to your latest special app with the embedded CUDA 9.1? Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Mike Ryan Send message Joined: 24 Jun 99 Posts: 46 Credit: 24,363,752 RAC: 47 |
I've had two batches of 100 GPU work units garbage out with zero run time since updating a few days ago. But also coincides with the latest Win10 cumulative update (KB4093105). I'm going back to the prior driver after my entire queue clears (will be a couple of days for CPU / iGPU tasks) and see what happens. I'm beginning to think my trusty old 1060 (well, not that old) might be having issues. Though it seems to work fine for everything but SETI crunching. After letting my queue run dry of all tasks and rolling back to the prior driver (391.35) I started a new batch last night (well, early this a.m.) and have successfully processed over 100 GPU tasks without them erroring out. So it looks like pretty strong evidence that the 397.31 driver could have been the issue. (Though, if that is the case I'd expect nearly everyone using that driver on similar hardware to have problems.) For now we'll carry on and see how it goes. |
IntenseGuy Send message Joined: 25 Sep 00 Posts: 190 Credit: 23,498,825 RAC: 9 |
I had problems too, rolled back a version of the NVidia driver (391.35) and smooth sailing since. |
Dave Lewis Send message Joined: 12 Apr 99 Posts: 34 Credit: 53,432,603 RAC: 108 |
Mike, I thought that I had PM'd you to ask if you'd found a solution but I may well have screwed up and not sent the message. I think that I've had the same issue as you on two occasions with compute errors with zero run time since installing driver ver. 397.31. I use Windows 7, x64 and I was totally happy about driver version 397.31 as it reportedly fixed a Windows 7 error that resulted in a blank screen from which the computer could not recover when Firefox was running in the background. The new version fixed the blank screen issue but seems to have created this new issue with Seti@Home. I've reverted back to driver version 385.41 of the Nvidia driver as it was the last released driver that did not cause the screen blanking issue. Running ver. 385.41 has since resulted in over 140 tasks successfully processed with no resulting errors. |
Mike Ryan Send message Joined: 24 Jun 99 Posts: 46 Credit: 24,363,752 RAC: 47 |
Hi Dave -- I'd sent a reply, but from my old Yahoo email account so you might have to look in a spam filter or similar. At any rate, I've now processed 255 GPU work units in the past 24 hours without erroring out since rolling back one step to driver #391.35. So my confidence that the issue is with the 397.31 driver grows every hour. The odd thing about this is that once a work unit failed, it seems something on the card "latched" into whatever state causing all other GPU tasks in the queue to also fail. (Only happened twice, so it's hard to say for certain, but that's what it seemed like.) I still find it odd that if the driver is the issue -- it seems like there would be 100's of users with the same/similar hardware having the same issues. Time will tell I guess. |
©2024 University of California
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.