NVIDIA Geforce Drivers 196.75 WHQL Revoked by NVidia

[Mr. Black]

Have watercooling myself so this doesn't affect me :)

[tiagosilva29]

Overheated chips, diminished performance, and in some extreme cases, death of the GPU

Looks like the default behavior of all these modern GPUs.

[RadishTM Veteran]

Time to change to the previous set ....

[Maximum Error]

i wondered what was happening with my PC yesterday. was playing crysis and kept getting huge points of stuttering and slow frmae rates. Never had it before this driver release.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

I did a bit of research on this, and apparently it is not affecting all cards according to the users on Guru3D forums.

So I have RivaTuner open, my temps right now are as they always are, so I will be keeping a close eye on things and see if it really gets out of hand.

I just love the performance these drivers give on Battlefield Bad Company 2, so I am going to be one of those people that takes the risk and keeps them installed for now, but the absolute first sign of my temps being abnormally high, I will go back to the previous drivers without any hesitation.

But I played BFBC2 for a good two hours or so yesterday, and saw nothing out of the ordinary at all.

[franzon]

I suspect this bug is also present in 196.21 drivers, because my graphics card is died in January :crazy:

[tsupersonic]

I suspect this bug is also present in 196.21 drivers, because my graphics card is died in January :crazy:

I didn't notice anything until 196.75, and I monitor my temps all the time.

[neo158]

I'm still using the 195.61 drivers, after the issues with the 196.21 drivers and now this, don't think i'll be upgrading the drivers just yet.

[John Freeman]

Bit strange as im not seeing any abnormal temps and fans seems to be amping up properly when under load.

[Motoko.]

Have other vendors had such existing problems?

[Piggy]

Uninstalled. Thanks.

[way2quik]

I always keep my video card updated. Surprisingly I have 196.21 installed. Thanks.

I notice when I play The Last Remnant that the fan would not stop 1/10 times. I had to force myself to restart the computer.

[Kronir]

I installed these drivers yesterday and have had no issues. Then again, I never trust automatic fan speeds; I always manually set mine to 100% anyways. And in my tests, the drivers have been otherwise good. :D

[Xtreme2damax]

No issues here and I've never changed anything other than the 3D settings and increasing Digital Vibrance. This release fixed my issue with washed out graphics With Prince of Persia Warrior Within and Sands of Time when fog is enabled on the Geforce 9xxx series, an issue I reported over three months ago.

[Denis W. Veteran]

I'm a bit surprised to hear reports of cards cracking and smoking above.

When I first got my XFX 8800 GT card the fan's control didn't work to begin with; I was playing COD:MW on a dead silent stock fan until about 20 minutes in when artifacts came up, followed by a system freeze. :p That's about it though, no smoking of the sort.

[JonathanVP]

well if you registered your product with XFX. i think your card is under lifetime warranty with them. send it back to them

THis just happened to me a couple of days ago! I was installing this damn driver and burning a DVD then all of a sudden, I heard my video card fan go really high and blam! Dead XFX 9800 GT video card!!!! Got a support ticket with XFX and awaiting a RMA so I can send the video card back. Good thing I got this ****ty ATI video card as backup! Beware of this driver!

[Motoko.]

As of late of what I'm reading I'm going to conclude Nvidia makes sh*t products. They dropped the ball on pretty everything except the mobile and integrated market.

[BoneyardBrew Member]

Thanks for the heads up, I installed them just the other day after seeing there were performance improvements in Left 4 Dead.

I didn't seem to have an issue for the period of time I was using these drivers, but I'd rather not take a chance.

[CroSonts]

Temp dropped from 76 > 60 after uninstalling the drivers. I was wondering why my room was so hot for no apparent reason. :/

[Motoko.]

Temp dropped from 76 > 60 after uninstalling the drivers. I was wondering why my room was so hot for no apparent reason. :/

Look at it this way, there's nothing better in the winter season than having your room toasty which is just enough for your card to grill a cheese sandwich.

[Sikh]

I was almost about to post in the original topic. I updated, and noticed big improvements in L4D2 and BC2. Bad thing, today just now turned on my computer and couldnt here my PC(its all silent but i keep my gpu at 65% instead of 40 preset never changing auto setting).

Anyway, I look at HWmonitor and HOLY **** A FULL 121C(249F). WHAT THE ****. Ive been using my pc for 1/2 hour now and didnt realize it didnt keep my fan setting. Im using EVGA Precision and it works well to set fan settings.

SOO Lucky i didnt play a game and have 2 fans pointing at my GPU or I would of been ****ed. But regardless, HOLY ****.

Thank god I noticed now, gonna be uninstalling and downgrading. This is also the first time ive EVER went with a firmware update. Usually I dont update my firmware if I dont have to, hell i was on version 186 or whatever because thats the disc that came with my GPU and didnt bother updating because it worked.

But anyway I say downgrade now people. This explains the Extreme SLI overheating.

On a side note: FIRST time ive had issues with nvidia and there drivers. So its not a bad taste in my mouth.

[protocol7]

As of late of what I'm reading I'm going to conclude Nvidia makes sh*t products. They dropped the ball on pretty everything except the mobile and integrated market.

They dropped the ball on those too. Laptop GPUs failing on motherboards due to overheating. Same thing ATI had with the Radeons years ago.

[Nagisan]

And people like to claim that nVidia has better driver releases than ATI.....

Now, I am not trying to say ATI releases perfect drivers.....I have never had an issue with ATI drivers but I do know people have had issues with them. But I have never seen a case with ATI that has caused drivers to completely kill a GPU......protect your investment and go with ATI cards + drivers. :P

[Tekkerson]

And people like to claim that nVidia has better driver releases than ATI.....

Now, I am not trying to say ATI releases perfect drivers.....I have never had an issue with ATI drivers but I do know people have had issues with them. But I have never seen a case with ATI that has caused drivers to completely kill a GPU......protect your investment and go with ATI cards + drivers. :p

Could we please stop bashing this or that company? I think it's safe to say everyone is pretty much sick of fanboys and it's getting old.

Nvidia has never had any major issues all these years, at least not that I know of considering I've had nvidia cards for years now. I still think their cards are solid and their driver releases have always been great. Not all cards are affected and surely it's just being blown out of proportion.

Either way I'm an nvidia costumer and I know they're always reliable, EVERY company has a hiccup every now and then. Google, Microsoft, you name it. This hasn't changed my opinion and will most likely still be buying nvidia products, or whatever is the best out there (considering nvidia is ahead most of the time).

We already had previous posts saying "go ati! it's much better!", you've made your point please move on :)

[rajputwarrior]

im still running the drivers, but my 8800gt is not running the stock heatsink/fan anymore. replaced it with an artic cooling accerelo. happy i did becuase performance wise these drivers are great!