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320.18 Nvidia Drivers - Report your issues here

Gregster said:
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.
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Did Nvidia admit the 196.75 drivers were killing GPU's?
 
Luckerly they didn't seem to do any damage to my mothers 650TI, had allsorts of odd shenanigans going on.

Works perfectly fine on 314.22.

I have real anxieties about updating Nvidia drivers now, they may not have damaged the GPU, but there is defiantly something very very wrong with them.
 
From the other thread:

DTWD said:
Oh goodie!

I installed the latest drivers on saturday morning and got 2 BSODs. First the machine was sat idle (well downloading off steam, but that's not exactly taxing), the second was at some point after I had rebooted it, but I had walked away, either way it wouldn't have been doing anything, just sat at the desktop.

I rebooted again, played a few hours of World in Conflict over the rest of the day and it was fine. WiC is an old game though, so it doesn't push the PC all that hard.

So fingers crossed, since the 2 BSODs that may or may not be related, it's been fine.

The card is a GB 480 SOC...so yeah, hence why I am thinking it's this driver that did it.
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DTWD said:
From the other thread:
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Can you send me the minidump files please from your C:\Windows\minidump folder?

My email addy is at the bottom of my signature.

Edit:

Could anyone getting BSOD's send me the memory dump files. I am at work till 10pm tonight but will go through them :)
 
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Can people please stop posting to say they have no problems, this thread is to report issues.

On first install of these drivers yesterday with a new GTX 770 it would lock my monitor (Asus VG236H 120Hz) into 3D mode (i.e. headache inducing brightness with no option to reduce brightness on the OSD or change to other modes). This could only be fixed by rebooting the PC.

I reinstalled the drivers using nvidia's "clean install" option (couldn't be bothered with my usual drivercleaner, ccleaner marathon as I had just done all that to remove the 314.22). Monitor is staying in normal mode now but this is because I just didn't enable 3D mode in the nvidia control panel this time. So I may or may not be OK on these drivers provided I don't want to game in 3D :mad:

Also getting some DX error when trying to run Heaven benchmark, but didn't write it down.
 
Gregster said:
What is your system specs please Jim?
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Main Computer

Corsair 650D Case
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68
Intel 2600k i7 @ 4.5ghz
Corsair XMS3 16GB DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz ( 4 x 4GB)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express
Corsair H60 CPU Cooler
2 x Crucial M4 128GB
2 x 1TB Weston Digital
Corsair TX 650w V2 PSU
Benq XL2420T 24″ TRUE 120Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor
Windows 7 Pro – 64 Bit
 
Someone over@Nvidia forum made a guide on how to fully get rid of the 320.18 driver, don't shoot me for being helpful:

What you’ll need: A little bit of patience..!
*Compatible/Working geforce driver for you GPU extracted from Nvidia installer to a newly created folder on your desktop.
*Installed Driver Fusion, aka Driver Sweeper Link: http://www.treexy.com/media/30691/driver_fusion_1.6.0.exe
*Installed CCleaner Link: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard

First: Boot into Safe Mode follow instructions below!
*Win7 -Restart PC and keep hitting F8 on your keyboard until you see an option to select Safe Mode.
*Win8 -Open Notepad, copy and paste the following command line: C:\Windows\system32>shutdown /r /o /f /t 00
-then save-as this text file with the following name onto your desktop: SafeBoot8.bat
-Now once you run this created batch file your PC will reboot into SafeMode Menu, select option 4 for Safe Mode.

Second: Once in Safe Mode Go to your device manager!
-1- Win7/Win8 hold down Windows Key on your keyboard & simultaneously press R, paste the following command and hit OK: devmgmt.msc
-2- Now expand Display adapters by clicking on the small triangle then right-click on your Nvidia GeForce GPU and select Uninstall.
-3- Then open Driver Fusion Utility and select/mark Nvidia Display & Nvidia PhysX & hit analyze, delete what ever it finds but don’t click on reboot just yet.
-4- Open CCleaner and scan registry several times until it finds nothing once finished reboot your Win7/Win8 PC back into Safe Mode.
-5- Repeat step 3 & step 4 above until Driver Fusion finds nothing, rebooting into Safe Mode each time until finished.

Third: Installing working driver from Safe Mode!
-Open GeForce Driver folder that you had created previously from an extracted driver at the beginning of this guide, and right-click on setup.exe & run as Admin
-Click Agree & Continue & select Custom/Advanced option & deselect everything that you don’t need or have use for like 3D crap but make sure you select clean install.
-Finish Installation and reboot normally this time back to your desktop and continue-on with your life
!eNjoY.

PS: Try not to be too hard on Nvidia Support Guys, they’re not the one’s who made this decision on releasing somewhat embarrassing piece of unfinished work/driver.
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Alz_D said:
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.
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Got something similar in regards to metro LL (not anything else though) where it hardlocks my PC as soon as I move from my save game spot. Its not the first point in the game where its done that either, so I'm convinced its the game, not the hardware. All other games seem fine tbh.
 
James J said:
Got something similar in regards to metro LL (not anything else though) where it hardlocks my PC as soon as I move from my save game spot. Its not the first point in the game where its done that either, so I'm convinced its the game, not the hardware. All other games seem fine tbh.
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I had this with Metro 2033, it turned out to be the game files. Try running the file integrity scan on steam, see if it replaces any files.
 
I have had a few problems ie Nvidia fan staying on full speed(was not even gaming lol) so had to do a reboot, plus a few random lockups out of gaming so went back to 314.22 which have been fine for me.
 
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