Windows 8.1 and ENB

[Neovalen]

Took the plunge and updated to Windows 8.1 on my machine. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to play nice with ENB. I am also running the Nvidia R331 Game Ready Driver (For BF4).

 

Symptoms:

   Random stutter (fps spikes downward momentarily) and sound corruption. Does not occur with ENB disabled.

 

Anyone else getting this?

[Neovalen]

Wanted to post another update here. Nvidia released yet another R331 driver on 28 October which resolved this problem. That was fast.

[Aiyen]

I can only just imagine what Boris will say if you report it on his forums hehehe.

 

Also is this with or without SLI enabled :P (Seems to be a reoccurring issue with you :P )

 

Since that would always be my first suggestion.

[Neovalen]

SLI enabled or disabled, no effect. ENBoost On or Off, no effect.

[Neovalen]

After some troubleshooting with Aiyen it appears to be an ENB / Nvidia R331 driver issue. For now I will use the old driver, but unfortunately on Tuesday I will be forced to R331 for BF4... hopefully someone will have reported this to Boris by then for a fix. I'd rather jump into a pit of vipers than try to report something on Boris forum... lol.

[EssArrBee]

It is the WHQL version of 331 if I'm not mistaken, so everyone should probably update. I have really good performance with almost all games using it. Though I get that stupid sun going through walls bug from ENB again bacause I never do clean installs of graphics drivers.

[Neovalen]

Another update.

 

331.65 - Bad

331.58 - Bad

331.40 - OK

 

At least for SLI mode - doing OK without SLI on all versions. I have posted over on the geforce forums, looks like many games are affected.

[TechAngel85]

I'm seriously considering reverting back to Windows 7 or Windows 8. (not 8.1) I've had nothing but odd issues since I've updated to 8.1

• Pixelation in still images
• Pixelation in videos (both online flash videos and offline ripped videos in VLC)
• Odd "scan lines" in online flash videos
• Several video driver crashes (not since I've updated to latest driver though)

None of these issues I had before updating.

 

EDIT:

Spoke to soon...video drivers just crashed again.

[phazer11]

That's why you should wait a bit before adopting. Silly tech.

[TechAngel85]

It's been in Beta forever...figure they'd have most these types of bugs worked out already.

[deathneko11]

I'm still running windows 7 home premium and no issues here :p

[phazer11]

I'm running Windows 8 and no issues here... then again I'm on a gaming laptop it HAS to run well on it's default OS otherwise the company would receive too much flak so lol

[DoubleYou]

Actually, I'm using Intel HD Graphics on my Windows 8.1 and my graphics driver keeps crashing too, so I think that is a OS problem. I dual-boot, so that solves a multitude of problems.

[MontyMM]

I would strongly advise people to hold off on applying major Microsoft updates as soon as they are released, at least not your primary box - it's just volunteering to an MS bug detector. If the update is really worth it, I would always perform a fresh build from updated installation media.

[Violator]

I would strongly advise people to hold off on applying major Microsoft updates as soon as they are released, at least not your primary box - it's just volunteering to an MS bug detector. If the update is really worth it, I would always perform a fresh build from updated installation media.

 

As I recall there where 3 OS related updates in total for the entire live spawn of Windows 7 to 8.1 that gave some gamers issues.

So I have to disagree with your advise, at least security updates should always be installed upon release.

Optional updates should always be reviewed.

 

Running on a fully updated Windows 8.1 Pro x64 here and no issues at all.

 

I hope everyone with issues has Windows automatic driver installation and update disabled.