In the meantime, PeterS has offered to help try to get refunds or exchange credits for deeply disgruntled GTX 970 owners, though he cautions that the offer basically means he’ll talk to your graphics card manufacturer on your behalf if they’re giving you a rough time about a return related to memory allocation concerns. We’re looking at sticking as much of that stuff as possible into the 0.5GB space to leave the rest available.”Įssentially, Nvidia’s trying to shove all the background crap into the secondary 512MB segment in order to leave as much free space for actual games in the main 3.5GB space. Card memory is not just used for the frame buffer, plenty of driver stuff gets loaded into it as well. “Actually I’m not sure as that’s not a simple issue with just one cause. PeterS provided more detail in a follow-up comment:
#GEFORCE GTX 970M DRIVER UPDATE UPDATE#
We’re working on a driver update that will tune what’s allocated where in memory to further improve performance.” The GTX970 is an amazing card and I genuinely believe it’s the best card for the money that you can buy.
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“It sucks because we’re really proud of this thing. Writing in the GeForce forums, an Nvidia employee and moderator going by “PeterS” said the following (emphasis mine): But an Nvidia representative says the company is working to minimize the issue regardless. The vast majority of users are unlikely ever to bump into the issue, as it should be a problem limited largely to situations where you’re gaming at extremely high resolutions and/or with anti-aliasing settings cranked. In cases where games need more than 3.5GB of RAM, some users saw stuttering and frame rate wonkiness as the GPU accessed the 512MB segment. The GPU actually taps into two separate memory pools: A primary, full-speed segment of 3.5GB, and a secondary, far slower 512MB segment. To make a long story short, Nvidia was recently forced to admit that the way the GeForce GTX 970 handles its 4GB memory allocation is… unorthodox, to say the least. There’s trouble a-swirling in graphics land.
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This post originally ran at 2:30 PM Eastern on 1/28/13 with the headline “Nvidia plans GeForce GTX 970 driver update for memory performance concerns.” The original post follows in its entirety.
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The card is not yet officially announced and therefore the following information is based on rumors and leaks.
#GEFORCE GTX 970M DRIVER UPDATE DRIVERS#
Any improvements we make in our drivers are designed to help all GeForce cards. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M is a high end DirectX 11.2 graphics card for laptops. NVIDIA GeForce January 29, Miscommunication on our part. We are always improving performance through drivers but there are no plans for an update specifically for the GTX 970.