@gerwin , yeah , 344.75 is one of the best ! That's why I mentioned it first . But there are users that just want newer drivers no matter what . I guess there's plenty of folks thinking newer is better . But sometimes we really do need newer ones , so I'd line them up in that order : 344.75, 347.26 , 347.09 , also may look at 361.77. This is the only one from 36.x.x.x. that doesn't have glitches if used with VGA or DVI display and quite fast . And this is it for XP , no more drivers , good or bad. I do not consider 368 driver at all . Why ? 368.81/91 are mega-glitchy , also not supported officially.
For me WDDM 2.0 (or Nvidia) finally fixed what I assume is the same problem being discussed in this topic. Specifically the broken stuttery mess that affected any windowed and "none-exclusive fullscreen display mode" software prior to WDDM 2.0. (Adobe Flash Player software in Firefox is an excellent example of the issue)Over the years I have extensively tested multiple clean installs of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 and for me every windowed program seemed to have trouble presenting video frames for each VBLANK period in each of these operating systems. The DWM under these operating systems had an issue where software was extremely prone to either presenting a new video frame too early or too late, resulting in visual stutter due to either duplicate frame rendering or skipped frames (Stutter is unrelated to performance issues).And yes, I've tested numerous display driver versions (often a clean install of them) and multiple video cards like a Geforce 8800GT 512MB, 250GTS 1GB and my current 560Ti 2GB. I also tried replacing the PSU, RAM and removing the soundcard. The only thing I didn't try was replacing the Motherboard, CPU and/or computer monitor.After many years of avoiding the issue by only playing games in Exclusive Fullscreen Display Modes, it was finally eventually fixed a couple months after Windows 10 was released with the release of WDDM 2.0 display drivers for Fermi video cards! Annoyingly the fix is extremely unlikely to be backported to an older O/S so I have to stick with Windows 10 for a stutter free desktop (Or Windows XP for excessive screen tearing).Technically you can switch to a Aero Lite/Basic desktop theme under Windows Vista and 7 or use some Command Prompt commands in Windows 8.1 to disable the vsync portions of the DWM but this arbitrarily breaks vsync functionality in all windowed software (and the taskbar/start menu rendering in Windows 8.1 breaks), no matter what I tried in this mode the windowed games and software would always exhibit notable screen tearing due to a lack of vsync! If the program I'm trying to run supports its own vsync implementation it will work fine under Windows XP, proving that the newer operating systems are somehow completely breaking vsync if the DWM is somehow disabled or impaired.I expected to be in a minority here with this stutter issue as I'd expect a lot more people to be annoyed by the stutter if it affected everyone. I guess there are other people out there with a similar issue.There was a way to get rid of the stutter but it required developers to change how their software handled Vsync, a guy made a excellent prototype of the BSNES emulator (for me) demonstrating this and it worked excellently on my computer. I had no success in getting developers of software that lacked a fullscreen exclusive display mode to add one and I had no success in getting any developers to change their vsync code (Beyond the one guy that was interested enough in making a prototype).Basically developers had to do something like this (Not a recommended solution for graphically intense software):
NVidia GeForce 64-bit Desktop Display Driver 344.75 (2014)
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