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320.18 Nvidia Drivers - Report your issues here

It's plenty to ammend :)

* no high-shaders usage (probably) support in BFBC2,
* no profiles in Control Panel (it was ages ago) regarding to multimonitor support,
* no shortcuts regarding to those profiles (quick enable/disable second monitor via key shortcut),
* missing some icons sometimes once enabling/disabling 2nd screen/monitor,
* 2nd monitor settings (position regarding to 1st, scalling) sometimes change to default (again, by enabling/disabling 2nd screen),
* no 2nd monitor brightness/contrast/colurs setup once 2nd is connected via HDMI,
and so on
and so on
 
MoRT489 said:
If that were true then they could say that running unoffical mods for anything would void warranty as it could have an effect on your gfx card (e.g. mobo bios affecting gfx card, or in the extreme unofficial mods for games which may be coded badly and overly stress ur GPU, etc.).
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If you modify the software NVidia have supplied for use with their products then yes they could get very upset about the warranty. This is entirely different to using a different bios for a mobo as this is a separate piece of kit and GPU manufacturers are aware that people will update their mobo bios in the same way as they update their GPU drivers with the official ones supplied.
 
Not sure if I have the old screen shot (wiped my PC and forgot to copy it) but when using the 320.18 drivers the voltage and everything on my card shot up to maximum during every game, causing a crash after about 5-10 minutes or a blue screen of death :confused:

Firefox is also buggered - random crashes it seems, and keeps locking up for a few minutes as well when browsing!
 
EVGA 670 Sig 2 - http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=02G-P4-3677-KR

I wiped my PC and I'm using the 314.22 drivers and so far everything seems to be a lot more stable - only problems have been a few BSOD at the start (probably just Windows being a pain!) and a few of the Windows services crashing, like desktop manager and gadgets

Haven't had a chance to try any games yet, still trying to find my old DVDs and letting steam download them :p but with 320.18 it was terrible - games would play fine for a few minutes then bang, crashes to desktop for no reason
 
Tried turning off GPU acceleration as well, it did improve it a lot but still getting random crashes, just no lockups!

There's an entire thread, about 70 pages long I think on the official NVidia forums regarding this, at least now they seem to be doing something (asking for people to submit mini-dumps and whatnot to try and find out what is wrong)
 
tommybhoy said:
A returned gpu has zero user data stored apart from the bios.:)
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Thank god for that.

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nalla said:
am I right in thinking that most if not all the problems with 320.18 driver is with older gpu's not the newer 7 series, most people reporting problems are using 4 series from what I can see atm. I have no problems using these drivers and temps seem to be fine for me not gone above 61 with a custom fan profile on my gtx 780.
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A number of 6 series cards have had problems/died also.
 
I'm having no issues at all but I installed a waterblock on mine almost instantly. Top temps I get are 32/33C under load and 22-24 idle.

Are these GPU deaths temperature related or are we talking a different cause?
 
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i dont think it's a heat issue as my Palit Jetstream was a very loud beast and i didn't hear the fans spin up before it died while playing iracing but then they never really did with iracing as i capped the frame rate to 60fps to stop the noise
 
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