soniqstylz Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Several StarCraft II beta testers have reported their PC or video cards have died after installing the NVIDIA 196.75 drivers. The large amount of reports have prompted Blizzard Entertainment to issue an official statement on the tech support forums after identifying the source of the problem.Some players were blaming the StarCraft II Beta client's latest patch, but a Blizzard Tech Support representative quickly explained the issue is caused by the latest NVIDIA 196.75 drivers. Blizzard recommended to uninstall the NVIDIA 196.75 drivers, and to downgrade to the previous driver version: 196.21. Starcraft II Beta is not the only application affected, thus this is a worldwide alert to every gamer out there. Blizzard concluded the fans control in this NVIDIA driver is not working properly. This means every single 3D application (i.e. games) running these drivers is going to be exposed to overheating and in some extreme cases it will cause video card, motherboard and/or processor damage. If said motherboard, processor or graphic card is not under warranty, some gamers are in serious trouble playing intensive games such as Prototype, World of Warcraft, Farcry 3, Crysis and many other games with realistic graphics. More: http://www.incgamers.com/News/21293/nvidia-19675-kills-video-cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Numerous other posts about it already. Still good to know though because it is definitely causing major problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 NVidia's pulled the bad drivers off their site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispkreme Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Im running the 196.75 and my graphics card temps are at least 10C higher than normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Im running the 196.75 and my graphics card temps are at least 10C higher than normal. I'd uninstall those now before you fry your card. NVidia's pulled them off the site and they're issuing warnings about those drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted March 6, 2010 MVC Share Posted March 6, 2010 Good thing my card has a lifetime warranty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billmaster Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 I'm running BFG 9600gt factory "OCed" and installed said drivers day of release. Had no heat or other problems at all. Performance boost (If any) is barely noticeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToxicBurn Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Old news is Old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Old news is Old You registered to just post this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJC. Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Old news is Old /Troll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted March 6, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 6, 2010 Oh God. And people still say they prefer Nvidia because of better drivers. Well, one more argument against them I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emzino Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 I wonder what drivers are doing to cause such problems. Maybe forcing the cards to run at higher speeds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 I wonder what drivers are doing to cause such problems. Maybe forcing the cards to run at higher speeds? There's a bug with the fan control that causes them to not run properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted March 7, 2010 Administrators Share Posted March 7, 2010 https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/880850-nvidia-geforce-drivers-19675-whql-revoked-by-nvidia/ Thread closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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