Caporegime
It would seem even Nvidia can't work it out and they created the Driver.
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320.18 Nvidia Drivers - Report your issues here
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It would seem even Nvidia can't work it out and they created the Driver.
Soldato
I've not had anything as chronic as some people have been having, but they're definitely without question the most unstable drivers I've used from Nvidia in a long while.
@Gregster Me too, I've been trawling for days trying to get to the bottom of it or at least some kind of correlation to hardware/software stacks, Ive even got my fellow techs in our office interested but we can't replicate it. I have passed around a 'sacrificial lamb' of a 280 to the problem and so far nothing. I'm inclined to think its something cumulative from previous driver releases, but I dont have any evidence other than anecdotal.
Soldato
Grid 2. Races where the point to point seaside or woodlands races are featured have a strobe-like headlight effect on and off throughout the race. This sometimes leads to a crash.
Plus this Geforce Experience systray icon is the bane of my existance, everyone I know with an NV card upgrades drivers as soon as they come out now, I've been stealthily disabling the system tray notifier on systems I support to stop people doing it so they dont get 320.18 by a casual click. NV need to pull them or get the new ones out pronto
Caporegime
I think for the sake your GPU's if anyone is finding graphical glitches its probably not a good idea to use these Drivers, possibly for the same reason you wouldn't run your GPU with overclocks that create glitches.
320.11 works with all GTX 700 series GPU's
320.11 works with all GTX 700 series GPU's
Man of Honour
The drivers I was using yesterday gave me some pretty awful glitches in combination with MSI afterburner it was so bad it trashed my windows setup.
I have spent about 5 hours sorting the mess out.
I was using
Catalyst 13.6 beta
Man of Honour
@Kap..you wag
My real point is you can get glitches for all manner of reasons, overclocking and overvolting probably did not help.
This 320.18 driver problem is getting way over egged.
I would say to anyone using the 4.5 or 6 series to use 314.22 until NVidia sort this out. To anyone using the 7 series, if you want to use 320.18 you are covered by the warranty anyway. I think if the truth be known all the drivers in the 320.xx family have the same problems. I have used all the drivers from the 320.xx family for benching and they all seem to behave the same. You get a nice boost but they are a bit unstable.
Caporegime
My real point is you can get glitches for all manner of reasons, overclocking and overvolting probably did not help.
This 320.18 driver problem is getting way over egged.
I would say to anyone using the 4.5 or 6 series to use 314.22 until NVidia sort this out. To anyone using the 7 series, if you want to use 320.18 you are covered by the warranty anyway. I think if the truth be known all the drivers in the 320.xx family have the same problems. I have used all the drivers from the 320.xx family for benching and they all seem to behave the same. You get a nice boost but they are a bit unstable.
What i'm saying is there is no telling what long term damage it could do, a bit like running excessive heat for long periods, its fine for a while, but can develop issues later on.
I think "of don't worry about it, keep using the offending drivers, just RMA it if it breaks" is really bad advice and completely ignores longer term damage, its irresponsible.
Especially given that they are not honouring GPU's broken outside of warranty and that you have to rely on them accepting the Driver broke your GPU with Nvidia not admitting they are.
Its no good saying its the users fault for over volting and what not, you don't know that. but you are forcing that point rather a lot despite this.
Stop playing with it, you'll go blind
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Man of Honour
That is a thought, I don't use MSIAB with my NVidia GPUs and have not had a bad problem with 320.18, just a few bugs.
My real point is you can get glitches for all manner of reasons, overclocking and overvolting probably did not help.
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Except in the four instances I have seen nobody was overclocking/overvolting/undercooling/underpowering anything, I won't remote warranty support a system if they do that (hey its do as I say not as I do if you want to be calling me for support while I'm watching Game of Thrones
)I think we might be onto something there Batman, I may retire to the Batcave for some testing /Lucius
Man of Honour
Except in the four instances I have seen nobody was overclocking/overvolting/undercooling/underpowering anything, I won't remote warranty support a system if they do that (hey its do as I say not as I do if you want to be calling me for support while I'm watching Game of Thrones
Yes moving on to more important things, I don't think we have seen as much of Emilia Clarke as we should have late.
So far not been able to kill any systems with 320.18, thought the GPUs were running a bit warmer than normal but it was just the warmer weather.
Some pretty bad issues with polygon and texture corruption tho they really should pull em, quite a few games seem to have really subtle levels of it that eventually causes them to crash aswell as the games where its all over the screen.
Some pretty bad issues with polygon and texture corruption tho they really should pull em, quite a few games seem to have really subtle levels of it that eventually causes them to crash aswell as the games where its all over the screen.