320.18 Nvidia Drivers - Report your issues here

Gregster · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:30

So after reading that thread LtMatt posted about these drivers are killing cards, I decided to start a thread where we can discuss the issues and hopefully find a fix or just bug report to Nvidia. I found it quite disturbing that these drivers are causing the amount of issues we are seeing reported and I myself have had issues with these.

So far I have found that Trine 2 is far to bright (colours are all messed up) and Grid 2 exits full screen and when I go back to full screen, it is running ~30fps (dropped from 80+).

I will be giving other games a test over the next couple of days to see if there is any other issues.

If you are having hard locks, please report it here:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...-xx-display-driver-stability-feedback-thread/

Please make sure you add all the required info to help the devs reproduce the issue.

Senture · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:33

Gregster said:
Grid 2 exits full screen and when I go back to full screen, it is running ~30fps (dropped from 80+).

No real problems except this, but behaves slightly differently for me. The FPS drop only occurs if I alt+tab out of Grid 2 and it drops to 18 FPS. Doing alt+enter back to full screen still stays at 18 FPS but a second alt+tab out and back in restores 60 FPS.

enigma27 · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:40

None.

All my games work and run just as well as the previous drivers. No issues with Temps or artifacting at both stock and overclocking the card.

Jay85 · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:45

Artifacting in bioshock infinite, requires a restart to get back to normal again. Reverted to stock clocks and still happens. Got a crash in tomb raider as well.

Rollbacked to 310 drivers and been fine since.

I also noticed higher temps with these drivers installed.

straxusii · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:46

No problems here, only been running TF2 and Bioshock infinite though.

Will probably revert to 314.22 just in case though today.

Sycho · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:49

Wierd texture issues in BF3/Metro Last Light i've only come across but it has only happened once in each...never have had it before ever on this card.(my temps are fine too 74c highest i seen)

RetrogamerX · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:54

No issues. All is well.

Gregster · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:55

BF3 feels stuttery, even though fps are well into the 70's with very small dips at under 60. Not a game breaker but not as smooth as it used to be.

vapor matt · 10 Jun 2013 at 11:01

I had no issues my self, but i have gone back to previous drivers 314.22 just in case.

robj20 · 10 Jun 2013 at 11:09

I had a couple of odd textures in Metro LL.

Dicehunter · 10 Jun 2013 at 11:15

Only real issue is metro 2033 keeps resetting to default settings so I have to set them every time, Aspart from that, Zero

Jeps · 10 Jun 2013 at 11:28

Eve online has a weird red/blue colouration with shader settings set to high.

No other issues yet

Arcane · 10 Jun 2013 at 11:39

None whatsoever.

Alz_D · 10 Jun 2013 at 11:57

Only issue I have had is with Metro LL - either a hard lock up or a weird issue where the light textures would begin to flicker and this would transfer to the windows background. A restart would be required to fix. I have had various BSOD as well even after a clean windows install. These only happen when precision X is running (latest version even without OC).

The drivers have been solid all the way through Tomb Raider and so far 3 hours of Bioshock Infinite.

Neil79 · 10 Jun 2013 at 12:02

GTX 560 ti / Windows 7

Every 320.x driver (Beta/Whql) so far, causes the system to freeze up in windows at certain times. I might be browsing in firefox or listening to music and system becomes unresponsive. Unable to move mouse! But within 2mins, system resumes and I can see a driver fault in error logging.

All previous drivers work perfectly!

Gregster · 10 Jun 2013 at 12:22

Neil79 said:
GTX 560 ti / Windows 7

Every 320.x driver (Beta/Whql) so far, causes the system to freeze up in windows at certain times. I might be browsing in firefox or listening to music and system becomes unresponsive. Unable to move mouse! But within 2mins, system resumes and I can see a driver fault in error logging.

All previous drivers work perfectly!

It seems quite a few are having issues with FF and the later drivers. I just perused back through the driver feedback thread and seen a few reporting the same issue as you Neil.

Probably a good idea to give your info (if you haven't already) here
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...-xx-display-driver-stability-feedback-thread/

Certainly drivers have gone down hill and seems far more bug reports than there ever was. Nvidia need to sort this out and fast.

Neil79 · 10 Jun 2013 at 12:30

They should recall the drivers, they've done it before with that Fan issue.

Gregster · 10 Jun 2013 at 12:37

Neil79 said:
They should recall the drivers, they've done it before with that Fan issue.

If these are killing GPU's, for sure they should and replace those who have been affected, regardless of warranty. I have always bigged up Nvidia drivers but for the past 6 months, they have gone down hill.

I sure hope that anyone who installed these drivers and their GPU dies, does report it. The more that do, the more chance of Nvidia admitting there is an underlying issue and the users should get some remuneration.

Axil · 10 Jun 2013 at 12:37

Funnily the 320.18 drivers have been fine for me so far where as the 314.22 gave me a BSOD very 30 minutes in multiple cames (670GTX windforce - minor OC)

esoteric · 10 Jun 2013 at 12:56

I get driver crashes even when just browsing the web, they aren't frequent though. The only game that has given me hassle is Planetside 2. Settings on High and PhysX on my frame rate falls to around 15 or so from 70-80, alt-tabbing fixes it which I find weird.