Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

[MrNeeds]

Anybody had any issues with FF hanging and drivers crashing/recovering? Had it 3 times today(driver crash) and FF hanging all the time!

 

[Airbot]

With what drivers??

 

[MrNeeds]

280.26 whql

 

[GeneO]

280.26 whql

Nope, not with my GTS 450 on any version of firefox (including nightly,5.0x and 6.0x). What graphics card?

 

[MrNeeds]

260GTX 192 core, all specs are in the spec sheet (my system specs)

 

[Airbot]

280.26 whql

Why not update to the Beta 285. 27? Those 280.19 -.26's were known to have all sorts of bugs for users, including the driver stopped responding, firefox issues, etc.

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-...ideo-drivers-windows-7-a-114.html#post1577421

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-...ideo-drivers-windows-7-a-112.html#post1527954

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=206522

 

[Wishmaster]

Anybody had any issues with FF hanging and drivers crashing/recovering? Had it 3 times today(driver crash) and FF hanging all the time!

No, but there is 1 exception.

Deus Ex HR. I get the driver stopped responding error alot. But its also much more than that with this game.

Started with the newest patch. Its constantly freezingand/or locking up my system, often forcing a hard reset.

If Im lucky, and am able to CTRL+ALT+DEL (which isnt always the case) and close it out, theres a a message the display driver stopped responding.
I can not play more than 10 minutes before it does this.



Other than that 1 game, no issues at all for me.



But, I have been trying the BETA driver lately & it seems better for Deus Ex.
An occasional C2D after a couple hours or so, but much better than lockups/freezing every 10 minutes or so.

So far, everything else in the BETA driver is working very well for me too.

 

[MrNeeds]

280.26 whql

Why not update to the Beta 285. 27? Those 280.19 -.26's were known to have all sorts of bugs for users, including the driver stopped responding, firefox issues, etc.

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-...ideo-drivers-windows-7-a-114.html#post1577421

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-...ideo-drivers-windows-7-a-112.html#post1527954

Official WHQL NVIDIA 280.26 Display Driver Feedback Thread For NVIDIA Geforce Desktop/Notebook/ION GPUs - NVIDIA Forums

I'll give them a whirl, thanks Aaron

 

[MrNeeds]

It didn't work, still getting driver stopped responding and firefox hangs, having to resort to chrome at the moment.

 

[MrNeeds]

sorry for Treble post, spoke to Nvidia customer care, here's what they had to say in live chat

[09:09:40 AM] Sen: Try changing it to "Windows Classic", sometimes it works.
[09:10:07 AM] David Best: oh god, that looks bad
[09:10:30 AM] Sen: Try that as a troubleshooting, not permanent
[09:11:04 AM] David Best: i'm just testing it now, bit of youtube surfing
[09:11:08 AM] Sen: Also what is the model number of your motherboard?
[09:11:42 AM] David Best: hang on, lemme fetch it
[09:12:05 AM] Sen: Sure, take your time.
[09:12:08 AM] David Best: Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
[09:12:37 AM] David Best: i've also upgraded the BIOS recently as well
[09:13:44 AM] David Best: BIOS version is 2.053.L4 and the date is 12/30/2009
[09:14:10 AM] Sen: Okay.
[09:15:16 AM] Sen: Is the "Windows Classic" working for this case?
[09:15:33 AM] David Best: seems to be, i've been on a few sites and it seems to be quite stable
[09:17:54 AM] Sen: I checked with NVIDIA technicians, and they say this works.
[09:18:25 AM] David Best: shall i just keep it on classic until the next set of WHQL drivers come out?
[09:19:09 AM] Sen: Yes. It seems that will be the best.
[09:19:14 AM] David Best: i have a feeling it's not NV problem, it's all pointing toward Mozilla
[09:19:39 AM] Sen: Please give me 3-4 minutes, I am trying to contact NVIDIA technical team internally.
[09:19:49 AM] David Best: ok, take your time
[09:19:51 AM] Sen: Surely this is not an NVIDIA issue.
[09:24:11 AM] David Best: any luck?
[09:24:58 AM] Sen: I am sorry.
[09:25:12 AM] Sen: No other way as of now.
[09:25:19 AM] Sen: I got another information that...
[09:25:57 AM] Sen: Last week of Sept, NVIDIA is going to release WHQL version.
[09:26:28 AM] Sen: It will carry more fixes. So, please update as early as possible.
[09:26:36 AM] David Best: that's good news, hoepfully it should at least make it a bit more stable, but nevertheless, i'll be contacting Mozilla and ask about an update on their side as well
[09:26:39 AM] Sen: Also I am always here for your help anytime.

so until the next set of WHQL drivers are out in about a week, i'm sporting this sexy theme:

 

[Schroff87]

It didn't work, still getting driver stopped responding and firefox hangs, having to resort to chrome at the moment.

Try FF 7 beta 6 or disable hardware acceleration temporarily. Didn't suffer from this issue with FF but I have not used FF 6.x with any of the 280+ drivers (using 7 beta).

 

[Brink]

New NVIDIA 285.38 BETA drivers released. See first post for more details.

 

[Wishmaster]

New NVIDIA 285.38 BETA drivers released. See first post for more details.

The previouis beta (285.27) was doing very well for me. Will check this one out.

 

[MrNeeds]

New NVIDIA 285.38 BETA drivers released. See first post for more details.

The previouis beta (285.27) was doing very well for me. Will check this one out.

it's just a beta driver specifically built for battlefield 3 beta

 

[Cata]

New Nvidia 285.62 drivers released.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Catalin. First post updated.

 

[Cata]

Thank you Cata. First post updated.

You're welcome Shawn.

 

[bpward]

Hey all. I recently got a new desktop running Win7 64bit with a geforce 560 Ti. I'm not sure what driver I had originally, it is a falcon NW PC and they come "preconfigured" but I was getting occasional driver crashes when using firefox. I should have looked to see what they had put on, but I didn't even have the nvidia box in my icon tray so I'm not sure what they did.

Anyways I updated to the new WHQL 285.62 driver a week ago and it is still doing the crash from time to time. I read the 275.33 was working well for someone with firefox? I am going to install those and see if the problem stops. It is quite annoying because it causes the audio driver to crash as well, so even though the video recovers I no longer have sound (need to reboot for that).

 

[chrysalis]

275.33 is widely regarded as more stable than all the 285.x drivers.

 

[bpward]

Yep 275.33 hasn't crashed yet. I figured I'd post again just in case other have the same problem.

I wonder what it is that is done to the coding that causes steps to be taken in the backwards direction, or at least for some software.