NVIDIA Geforce Drivers 196.75 WHQL Revoked by NVidia


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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.

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

I am not a fanboy, I am mocking the nVidia fanboys (which is pretty obvious if your had read my post), therefore your first and last statement is completely irrelevant to my post.

Also, I did not bash nVidia, I bashed the people who claim "nVidia has better driver releases than ATI" therefore, like you, I am a fanboy hater.

Seems strange this hasn't been put on the front page. But very few places are reporting this as a story and are thus, Guilty. Does Nvidia have an injunction against it or something?

PC Magazine 03.05.10

Nvidia's New Driver Puts Video Cards, PCs at Risk!

"Nvidia responded to our request for comments with the following statement: "We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com. Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our Web site in the meantime ."

This is funny because it looks like NVIDIA is trying to melt the graphics cards of their faithful just before releasing the new GTX 480 on March 26th. Needless to say its likley to backfire.

And this really should have made the front page, its unique.

My GTX 285 has custom cooling but it was artifacting while I was playing Crysis. I saw the high temps logged in EVGA Precision, but didn't know it was the drivers until yesterday when I saw this news. In other news, since NVIDIA has failed at Crysis in the 190-196 series of drivers, I (and other aware Crysis players) still run 186.18. Its like no driver updates since June 2009, NVIDIA is really going downhill.

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

Well, they had MAJOR problems with the reliability of their mobile chips just a short while ago and they're still paying for it, they sold 7900GTs they knew were defective and quite a few of the early 8800GTs didn't last very long. I owned two of those. I'm not saying "Go Ati! It's much better!" (just thinking it, honestly *g*), but the quality of their products is progessively getting worse.

I never came back and posted but this issue must just be affecting some cards. I had RivaTuner open, uninstalled this driver and installed the one previous, did some tests, etc., and my temp, and most important my fan monitoring and RPMs etc, was all exactly the same when I had this drive installed. So I do not think it is all cards luckily. Still may go back just to be safe, but again I played about 2 hours of BFBC2 with these new drivers and nothing crazy with the temps.

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