*Warning* for Nvidia WHQL 196.75 drivers

Everlong18 said:

smarteyeball said:

This is a perfect thread to link to next time someone mentions how perfect nvidia and their drivers are

Nobody's said that, just after however many problems ATI has had with their drivers, Nvidia's has a fault, which is the first major problem in, I think, a year now

lol, actually I've lost count how many have used the nvidia='Driver Perfection' as a first comment/last resort in countless and pointless fanboi arguments all over the internets.

At least you know that when ATI bring out a new release, they are only breaking a game (or several) - not the hardware itself. (As a general rule)

On the other hand, if ATI did bring out a card damaging driver - it would stay card damaging for several weeks. At least nvidia get on top of their act a lot sooner

My comment was just tongue in cheek - not meant to be taken seriously.

Packet said:

ps: remember the days when the ati video driver would corrupt the file system?

Nope - I had nvidia cards back then

Although I haven't experienced any problems with the 196.75 drivers (and I've been running them for the past couple of days), I have rolled back to 196.21 as a precaution.

smarteyeball said:

This is a perfect thread to link to next time someone mentions how perfect nvidia and their drivers are

When I first built my box in July, I put a 9800GTX+ in it and the EVGA card had a problem with the Nvidia drivers and once it spun up the fans, they would never spin back down on their own.

So, unless I'm actively gaming and such, I don't usually stay completely up to date with video card drivers. They do seem to have issues from time to time.

Even if I would uprade to that version, I wouldn't have a problem since my card is passive but thx for the warning anyway!

It has been strongly advised that you revert back to a previous driver. As I stated earlier, I wasn't having any problems but I have reverted back to my previous driver as a precaution. It could be that the issue won't affect everybody, but I suspect that those who overclock their graphics card and run programs with demanding graphics will be those most vulnerable to it.