320.18 Nvidia Drivers - Report your issues here

[Gregster]

MSI AB also has an unfortunate habit of locking the fan to 25% completely randomly and for no apparent reason.

Is that a bug with AMD cards?

 

[Gregster]

I don't get these posts, if you are both so concerned for people's GPU's rather than defending Nvidia you should be making sure that these drivers are pulled. I don't see Humbug mudslinging.

Please show me where I defended Nvidia. I don't work for Nvidia and have a vested interest in this. I have made an attempt on highlighting the issues that the users here have had, on the Nvidia forums (feeding the information over). I don't know why I bothered, as I get attacked at every post.

What I mean is that even if there is a slighest chance that these drivers could damage GPU's than they should be pulled, no questions asked. In fact Gregster you gave out to someone for making a joke about someone's GPU dying. It doesn't matter if the GPU is old or overclocked, if these drivers break one GPU then it's one GPU too many.

And as for the comparisons with the stutter bug, thank god those people shouted about it because Nvidia took months to acknowledge it. Until they did the same old people on this forum were saying it wasn't an issue and what evidence was there.

I don't care if it's AMD or Nvidia, but if there is any possiblity to actually cause harm to a GPU or computer than they should be pulled and further testing should be done. As for this problem, there are too many users on various different forums having issues for it to be ignored.

I make an attempt at helping Nvidia users and still get jumped on...... No more.

 

[Gregster]

Unofficial mods to drivers I am pretty sure would blow your warranty.

I don't think it would Kaap. Unless you clearly stated you messed with the drivers, I don't see how they would know. Messing with the BIOS would lead to blowing your warranty for sure.

 

[Gregster]

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.

Seems that way. I am not even sure if it is just coincidence.

 

[Gregster]

I have had these 320.18 drivers installed on my wifes computer (hoping they would kill the GPU so I can do a new build) but no problems so far. She is on an old E chip with an 8800GT. I have also done a fair bit of researching into this and it seems like 7 or 8 people claiming that the 320.18 drivers have killed their GPU and everyone else who is talking about it is just linking those 7 or 8 cases.

I am no expert but surely if they were killing GPU's, there would be 100's by now?

 

[Gregster]

I'm assuming your wife is not aware of the 320.18 driver issue?

You know that

Seriously though, I was/am begging for these to kill the GPU, so I could get an I5 coupled with a 7950. She has clamped my spending but if her computer goes down, she would need those

 

[Gregster]

Keep an eye out for my Spec me a CPU/Mobo/GPU thread

 

[Gregster]

I will take a photo of her computer. It doesn't matter how much dust I let build up in it, it will not bloody die I don't really want to kill it on purpose and it is handy for seeing if these 320.18 drivers will kill the GPU but man, it should have keeled over years ago

 

[Gregster]

Check out that dust and those are idle temps

 

[Gregster]

It is never touched.... Like I said previous, I was hoping that it would die like others have said but so far it hasn't. To be fair, temps only go to 97c when on full load but that is an awful sounding fan. I will keep pushing it.

 

[Gregster]

Ha, just got an update from NVidia to update to 320.18... as if!!

Wuss

 

[Gregster]

As per my post tho theres enough real issues aside from the GPU killing potential to pull them without even having to admit to the rest, the fact they are working with users to get to the bottom of some of those issues alone is enough of an admission theres big problems to warrant pulling them.

I feel they would have pulled them but the 780 has no other driver than the 320.11 (iirc), which is the same drivers as the 320.18 but not WHQL certified.

Edit:

On saying that though, it would have taken one of the devs a few minutes to alter the 320.00 drivers for a 780.

 

[Gregster]

Well I have solved my issue with Grid 2 exiting full screen.

I started playing BF3 again and within 5 mins, that also exited full screen. Tried Tomb Raider and the same. I rolled back drivers to 314.22 and blow me, it still did it.... Frustration got the better of me and Googled for help. Plenty of crap about reinstalling the OS or turn off AA blah blah blah but one guy said he had the same issue and said he checked his running processes after the exit and he caught Bojour or something like that (I-Tunes) running and then disappeared.

I didn't see that but I have some serious crap on my computer and went through all the running processes and decided to look at anything on startup that wasn't needed and stop them from loading (msconfig). And I have problem solved. Played BF3 for a few hours last night with no issue and played Tomb Raider today with no issue.

Stupid PEBKAC for me.

I even tried going to one screen and that didn't work

I could find out what actual process it was by turning them all back on and stopping each one after each screen minimize but I don't have the patience for that. I thought I would write this up just in case anyone else has a similar issue.

 

[Gregster]

Good to know. I noticed that when using 320.18 it would load BF3 in a window and I had to click the maximise button to full-screen it (ALT-Enter didn't help).

Computers get some weird issues and some real head scratchers

 

[Gregster]

Just ordered a 770. What drivers should i use! I don't want to break it the minute i get it!

320.18. or 320.11 (effectively the same I believe) that is on the Asus site and some install CD's.

I wouldn't worry about it Jono. You have plenty of warranty

 

[Gregster]

So this problem only affects 600 series cards then?

The "Horror" stories I have read seem to effect less than 0.01% of owners of any Nvidia GPU's. I would say you would be unlucky to be in that percentage and still nothing as to why it happened to that <0.01%.

 

[Gregster]

Ive seen it across a few friends rigs, massively overheating, a mix of 5 and 6 series GPUs

It sounds like the drivers are good and optimizing the cards to their fullest but if a GPU is close to its limit already, the extra push could be what is pushing these cards over. I notice no difference in temps with my Lightnings on 314.22 <> 320.18 but they are not mentioned (or that I have seen mentioned) in the failings.

I would like to see someone with a 480/560ti/670 etc, run a fan of 50% fixed and test these drivers and see if temps increase on the 320.18. I have done this on my 8800GT as well as my Titans and no difference there at all (93C on 314.22 and 93C on 320.18 on 3DMark Vantage) but again, that is another card that isn't mentioned.

 

[Gregster]

Cards with issues were a 570 , 570 SLI, a 680 Reference

Did a driver roll back sort them?

 

[Gregster]

Yep, all back to normal on every one, luckily with no artifacting, but since I'd built all the systems the case cooling was very good on all of them so I suspect that may have saved them. I saw it first hand with the 570 sli, it would burn your hand on the exhaust area and the fans were going full tilt

I have built a few computers for friends/friends of friends and used varying GPU's from 560Ti's to 670's and not one of them has phoned me, maybe I should ring them....

 

[Gregster]

Hope we don't have to wait too long?

ManuelG has pointed at next week for new drivers.