320.18 Nvidia Drivers - Report your issues here

[James J]

i noticed no graphic corruption until iRacing locked up then the screen just looked a mess like full corruption over the entire screen i could still hear the game though so i knew it was video related (i updated the driver just before the race so i only got free practice for 5 mins out of that driver) upon restart i was getting blue screen after blue screen until windows decided the card was munched and turned it off

What type of corruption? Strange rectangular patterns across the entire screen, or triangle based morphing from specific points on the screen?

 

[ImMrChris]

triangles id say

happy i decided to keep the 460 as a backup though was gonna put it on the MM

 

[ubersonic]

Problem with looking at this sort of stuff is you can't 100% confirm it anyway. Unless people monitor GPU temps constantly, how would you know if your 70C temp in winter was now melting your card in summer? Seasonal gpu death is also a coincidence, but also a potential factor in this also.

Water cooling could hinder things too, my GTX670 has never heard of 60c.

 

[Rroff]

I don't think you get what i'm saying.

I think Nvidia are ignoring it because they think that is the best strategy to make any blame laid at them go away.

Pretending nothing is wrong will have many believing its PEBKAC or liars while also providing a handle for those who wish to argue its PEBKAC and liars.

There is every reason to pull these darivers, look at the screen shots and those complaints about cooked GPU's, they are all liars, right? you say there is no proof, while also ignoring that proof.

I find it strange they haven't pulled them so far - even the previous ones that only killed 590s that people had disabled the hardware limiter on they pulled within an hour of being made aware of the issue, same for the ones before that which were killing cards on a wider scale.

With the increasing number of reports with more and more having evidence that make them less likely to be user error or coincidence and a high chance that the majority are genuine rather than people jumping on the bankwagon when their card happened to die around the same time of natural causes nvidia are increasingly giving themselves more rope to hang themselves with.

 

[Kaapstad]

it is difficult to acknowledge a problem you've not seen replicated

MSI had their own stock of their own defective cards so it would have been pretty easy for them to torture test their own cards to replicate that issue - iirc, they didn't do this within a few days, which is all that this one has been, it took a series of RMA's over weeks if not months before they actually issued a recall?

the problem here seems to be with 3rd party cards which Nvidia don't have a stock of, they have asked for people with problem cards to contact them and have some on their way in to them now

once they've replicated the issue they'll take a view on what to do about it

+1

Two cards that have not been mentioned at all with problems are the Titan and GTX 690. The one thing these cards have in common is they are both 100% reference.

 

[James J]

Dead RAM then. Happens because one of the memory chips is damaged and cannot store polygon information correctly, shifting its position in the rendered world. Thats why you get some crazy shapes appearing.

 

[straxusii]

It's shocking to be honest, if I was in charge of the technical operations of a company and this happened the first thing I would do is suspend the distribution of the driver, not least to the cards that can run without it.

 

[humbug]

It's shocking to be honest, if I was in charge of the technical operations of a company and this happened the first thing I would do is suspend the distribution of the driver, not least to the cards that can run without it.

Yes. that's what i'm saying.

This is another reason the driver should be pulled.

As I've previously written in a previous post, I've contacted ZOTAC in regards to my dead GTX480 GPU purchased back in 2010 and told them I am out of warranty - it appears they are keen for information in regards to serial/date of purchase etc - whether or not this is them admitting there is a fault with the NVIDIA drivers or not is just an idea running through my head.

ZOTAC are not obligated to assist me in any kind of way due to my GPU being out of warranty but with the mass issues that the latest drivers have caused, I'm going with the thought they've basically come across x amount of people having the same issue and are inclined to honour some kind of service. I'll keep you guys posted

Post #926 https://forums.geforce.com/default/...-driver-feedback-thread-released-5-23-13-/62/

 

[Gregster]

Please use this forum to ask if the driver should be pulled Humbug.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/board/33/

This thread is for error reporting (of which I then relay to the Nvidia forum) and not for the rights or wrongs of what Nvidia should be doing. The other thread got out of hand and I don't want this thread going off topic and ending up closed.

 

[daveip]

I don't understand all the bickering in this thread. Can a moderator tidy it up please?

I've got an Asus GTX 560/Win 7 - no artefacts yet but my GPU temp is hitting 65+C on load. I've not seen it this hot before. Going to try revert drivers tonight

 

[arc@css]

+1

Two cards that have not been mentioned at all with problems are the Titan and GTX 690. The one thing these cards have in common is they are both 100% reference.

I haven't spent much time on this topic, though I have just noticed that someone with a reference 500 series card went belly up.

 

[Rroff]

I don't understand all the bickering in this thread. Can a moderator tidy it up please?

I've got an Asus GTX 560/Win 7 - no artefacts yet but my GPU temp is hitting 65+C on load. I've not seen it this hot before. Going to try revert drivers tonight

Some people want any excuse to be able to sling mud at the opposite brand to the one they (currently) support. Personally I think nVidia aren't appearing to take this issue serious enough yet and all the time they stall does more and more to damage their customers so don't think some of the bickering in this thread is entirely unjustified.

 

[humbug]

Please use this forum to ask if the driver should be pulled Humbug.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/board/33/

This thread is for error reporting (of which I then relay to the Nvidia forum) and not for the rights or wrongs of what Nvidia should be doing. The other thread got out of hand and I don't want this thread going off topic and ending up closed.

People here aren't going to see that.

It wont be closed as long as it stays civil

 

[Gregster]

People here aren't going to see that.

It wont be closed as long as it stays civil

But Nvidia will see it and with me linking it, users here can go and have their input. The best way to get heard is to go to the source. I doubt Nvidia are trawling through all the forums looking for petty debates on drivers. Like I said, this thread is for reporting issues and not mud slinging (which is what you seem to be doing).

 

[Rusty0611]

The comparisons when the stutter bug was around is startling. Same voices the loudest based on anecdotal evidence at best. Before I get jumped on saying I'm defending: I have no interest in defending a faceless corporation whose job it is to take my money so knock that on the head. Nor am I denying its existence. All I'm saying is that yes, it looks likely that GPUs may be going kaput due to the driver but it's far from conclusive.

This thread was fine until the other ones got locked for trolling, baiting, general nonsense. I'm sure you can all converse and make fun of people's GPUs dying over email but you don't need a thread to do it on here.

 

[ubersonic]

This thread is for error reporting (of which I then relay to the Nvidia forum) and not for the rights or wrongs of what Nvidia should be doing.

Humbug tried to start a thread for that but Rilot closed it and said that's what this thread is for, sorry

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Has anyone considered that the issue may not be with the drivers but merely highlighted by it? Im not trying to make excuses but its worth considering that the could be other factors at play here, I.E as the drivers are designed/tested using reference cards it could be down to ways 3rd party manufacturers have designed their cards out of spec. Or since the 314s the may have been an update to Windows or a commonly used program which conflicts with the Nvidia driver installer it may be causing the 320s to install corrupt, then when people remove them and try to re-install the 314s they may end up corrupted too. The point is we have no idea whats going on apart from some dodgy looking coincidences so it makes perfect sense for Nvidia not to pull the drivers until they know if they're at fault as doing so prematurely would cause serious PR damage.

 

[James J]

Humbug tried to start a thread for that but Rilot closed it and said that's what this thread is for, sorry

He tried to start a new thread because he doesn't have any of his accusations in this one. Still waiting for figures that I asked for in numerous posts on previous pages...

 

[humbug]

But Nvidia will see it and with me linking it, users here can go and have their input. Like I said, this thread is for reporting issues and not mud slinging (which is what you seem to be doing).

Its not mud slinging, I think the driver should be pulled down because some people are left out of pocket from it killing out of warranty GPU's.

People in the GeForce forum are already complaining about that and it seems Nvidia are not listening. containing it there isn't going to help that cause.

 

[Gregster]

Humbug tried to start a thread for that but Rilot closed it and said that's what this thread is for, sorry

I will go and start a thread on the Nvidia forum and ask "Should the 320.18 driver be pulled". I started this thread to get feedback on errors and to then try and help the users. You must have noticed how the other thread went and I don't want this thread going the same way.

Edit:

Done
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/547101/geforce-drivers/should-the-320-18-driver-be-pulled-/

Please go there to add your input on whether or not they should be pulled

 

[kh85]

well i've finally managed to try bf3, using 320.11 drivers and it seemed fine.

although my max temp was 94 using msi afterburner. Hope that's normal for gtx 780 :/D