Nvidia driver warning **READ THIS**

[Dr. kitteny berk]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22768

Numerous gamers have reported that NVIDIA's latest WHQL-certified driver release - v196.75 - is causing GeForce graphics cards to overheat, and in some cases fail beyond repair.

The reports, many of which originate from NVIDIA's own support forums, have resulted in the GPU giant pulling its latest drivers from its website. In a statement, NVIDIA recommends users roll back to an older driver release whilst it attempts to solve the issue.

"We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com," said the company in a statement.

"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."

According to reports, NVIDIA's 196.75 driver release isn't adjusting fan speeds as required when graphics cards are put under load during demanding activities such as 3D gaming. As a result, users are likely to experience extremely high GPU temperatures, with one gamer already witnessing temperatures of up to 104°C whilst playing StarCraft 2.

[Akiakaiu]

Bah, I have them drivers. Guess it's roll back time.

[friznit]

No surprises there, nVidia's Q&A dept needs sacking given how buggy their 19x series drives have been. The last lot of completely stable drivers I've had were 186. Still on 196.21 atm and no intentention of upgrading since they seem largely ok for now, despite the odd total GPU crash in ArmA2, but I think that's an ACE2 game mod thing.

[FatherJack]

Since Win7 I've stuck with the ones through Windows update, currently 196.21, as I had awful results with some of the earlier ones, even having to do a full reinstall after one early release.

I still get issues with game startup videos showing a black screen, not codec-related, but where the resolution/refresh doesn't match the second monitor. Often it's fixed once I've gotten into the game, set the resolution and restarted the game.