Nvidia drivers fries your card

el Kuarlos · 5 Mar 2010 at 20:12

Well, I didn't personally custom build it. I can't find the PCI or AGP slots, I'll bet their on the insides of my comp. I looked through one of the openings and saw the word Intel, maybe that's important. I guess it doesn't matter what driver I'm using because I have no recollection of installing NVIDIA WHQL 196.75 unless it's an automatic update or something. I think I'm safe. Thanks anyway Medievaldragon.

LOL!

forest4 · 5 Mar 2010 at 20:18

Greebo said:
This will hurt them big style. And how many people who have downloaded the new drivers don't realise that they have been pulled and should go back to the old ones.

Not to mention how Windows Update will automatically install the bad Nvidia driver.

forest4 · 5 Mar 2010 at 20:26

OrphanBoy said:
Okay fair enough. It just narks me off the amount of times I've seen drivers acting dodgy software wise despite going through long QA processes from several companies.

This also includes games that I've worked on and QA haven't spotted obvious bugs, yet my housemate's QA process is bulletproof with an army of Japanese testing his games

Seriously. Its like all these big testers do is open MS Word and check the temps. Um, hello? Its a gaming card :rolleyes:

Dr. Evil says:
"Just what do I pay you people for, anyway? Throw me a bone here!"

RizlaKing · 5 Mar 2010 at 21:00

Not impressive at all and AWPC if only one user has had his card screwed by this then thats one too many these were not beta drivers they were official certified drivers and given how much resource nvidia supposedly put into drivers this should never have happened.

You can spin it anyway you like but this is a disaster for nvidia and trying to deflect from it by mentioning supposed fermi perfomrance is a bit of a joke there is only the uniengine benchmark out there to say anything of fermi's performance. That isn't exactly looking that good and even worse if stories of difference in performance of the 5870 nvidia used and the ones everyone else seems to have.

Someone that shouldn't took their eye off the ball and end users have suffered even if it is only in the thousands thats a lot of people without a pc because of a driver. Somehow i feel your perspective would be very different if your cards had been affected.

forest4 · 5 Mar 2010 at 21:27

Hehe, yeah, just imagine all the 5870 owners right now. I bet they are tweaking their 5870s and running uniengine benchmark over and over, trying to beat Fermi.

Greebo · 5 Mar 2010 at 21:40

forest4 said:
Hehe, yeah, just imagine all the 5870 owners right now. I bet they are tweaking their 5870s and running uniengine benchmark over and over, trying to beat Fermi.

Lol. I just have with my 5850 (overclocked) and it beats the 480GTX results.

Unless Nvidia plan to sell the 480GTX for under £200 I ain't interested.

drunkenmaster · 5 Mar 2010 at 21:56

forest4 said:
Hehe, yeah, just imagine all the 5870 owners right now. I bet they are tweaking their 5870s and running uniengine benchmark over and over, trying to beat Fermi.

Unfortunately I'm too busy playing games, as I have done for 5 months now, on my £200 card which looks like it will overclock past performance the 480gtx can achieve.

If anything, it willbe 480gtx owners(all 6 of them worldwide) who will be running uniengine over and over, what with it being the only "clear" win right now, 10.3's and release clocks on a 480gtx might change that aswell though.

AMG · 5 Mar 2010 at 22:17

whoa....well mistakes happen just some hurt more than others

weres all the Nv fanbois....

saying that one can use a 3rd party app to control the fan anyways so its not really that deadly to the card thinking about it

Marine Iguana · 5 Mar 2010 at 22:20

My cards are fine MSI afterburner controls the fans so what's the fuss all about

Greebo · 5 Mar 2010 at 22:34

AMG said:
saying that one can use a 3rd party app to control the fan anyways so its not really that deadly to the card thinking about it

Marine Iguana said:
My cards are fine MSI afterburner controls the fans so what's the fuss all about

Fine if you do. However many, many people don't and just install the latest certified drivers and then find their card borked. Hardly fair?

It wouldn't have bother me when I still had my water cooled GTX260 but it would have affected at least two mates who have 9600 and 9800 cards if I hadn't warned them.

Worse than that for them, there cards aren't bfg etc and out of warranty and they know very little about computers and wouldn't notice them overheating anyway.

As for stating "what's the fuss about?" I may as well state that om the grounds that I have a 5850 and it won't affect me.

titaniumx3 · 5 Mar 2010 at 22:34

Marine Iguana said:
My cards are fine MSI afterburner controls the fans so what's the fuss all about

Does it come with the official drivers, this MSI afterburner?

rounddodger · 5 Mar 2010 at 22:47

Greebo said:
Lol. I just have with my 5850 (overclocked) and it beats the 480GTX results.

Unless Nvidia plan to sell the 480GTX for under £200 I ain't interested.

Don't forget to downclock that CPU of yours to 3.3Ghz..

Leeroy123 · 5 Mar 2010 at 22:50

Pile of crap, those drivers are fine.

Orcvader · 5 Mar 2010 at 22:58

It looks like it only affects Blizzard games :O

Randomface74 · 5 Mar 2010 at 23:05

I think the driver isn't sensitive to GPU. So if a new process GPU comes out, it's naturally cooler, therefore the driver can change the way it increases fan speed in proportion to temperature - to result in a quieter card. But... I think that has the effect of making chips made using an old process too hot.

I think this latest issue is an indication that they're adjusting the drivers for Fermi, and have no intention of properly maintaining the driver support for older cards.

Cyber-Mav · 5 Mar 2010 at 23:10

strange, these drivers are working fine for me.

however my gtx260 i believe uses its own bios for fan speed manipulation so drivers wont control the fan on that card unless i do a manual over-ride.

will test this on my 8800gt and see if the fan speed is low or turns off.

Jotunkaiser · 5 Mar 2010 at 23:15

Its not effecting everyone though, I'm using them drivers and tbh its working great.

AMG · 5 Mar 2010 at 23:27

I see your point, its seems not everyone is effected by looking through the posts in this thread

thats why I said its not that too deadly...its not like they go up in a puff of smoke within 5 minutes 5 gaming

Marshall Blyth · 6 Mar 2010 at 00:06

marc2003 said:
meh. i don't even bother installing new nvidia drivers when they come out any more. most of them **** up the display in windows so bad i don't even get a chance to test them out in games.

looks like i'll stay on the 186s for ever. :/

LOL

I thought I was the only one who did stuff like this. :eek:

I'm still using the 186s too...

MeMeMeMe · 6 Mar 2010 at 00:22

AWPC said:
Storm in a teacup as always And the ATI fanboys will quickly go back to Nvidia if the latest reports of GTX480 being widely available & offering much more performance than 5870 are to be believed

Lets assume that what you say about the GTX 480 is true (I can fantasise as well as anyone):

So you're saying ATI fanboys aren't in fact fanboys, but are able to recognise which card is best at a given moment and time, and will follow their good sense.
Does that mean you believe Nvidia fanboys aren't able to do that, and don't have the sense to recognise which company has the best cards at any given moment in time? Hmmm. You could be right.