NVidia driver bug makes users see blue.

[Ayahuasca]

...and this is why you should never jump to conclusions.

Makes those using the thread to take jabs at nVidia look rather silly

 

[kaku]

Pretty hilarious, but yeah the people instantly jumping to company-bashing are funny too.

Any programme running on your computer could search through various memory to reveal such things if they desired. It's just funnier because it happened by accident rather than maliciously.

Maybe (yet another) OSX security flaw, but doing the same thing on a Windows machine would be trivial.

 

[IT Troll]

Ah, now I finally understand why the Titan has a 12GB frame buffer. It's for hiding your pr0n stash.

 

[Rroff]

Ah, now I finally understand why the Titan has a 12GB frame buffer. It's for hiding your pr0n stash.

LOL

Probably quite the opposite though - with so much extra VRAM more stuff will just get marked as free without clearing it making it higher chance stuff is there to be exposed accidentally

Don't have much experience in accelerated 2D surfaces but I thought there was a way to initialise a buffer in secure mode with a channel to the driver which would prevent anything else from accessing the data in that location - but I've never actually used that feature so might be mis-understanding its function.

 

[Kaapstad]

Ah, now I finally understand why the Titan has a 12GB frame buffer. It's for hiding your pr0n stash.

Now you know why I have more than one.

 

[D.P.]

LOL

Probably quite the opposite though - with so much extra VRAM more stuff will just get marked as free without clearing it making it higher chance stuff is there to be exposed accidentally

Don't have much experience in accelerated 2D surfaces but I thought there was a way to initialise a buffer in secure mode with a channel to the driver which would prevent anything else from accessing the data in that location - but I've never actually used that feature so might be mis-understanding its function.

I don't know about video RA, but regular ram you can read it all, edit it all if you have the right permissions

Hers is some source code to get a hex dump of a process for example
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4865/Performing-a-hex-dump-of-another-process-s-memory

This is pretty much how debuggers work and I know debuggers exist for DX and OGL.

 

[Rroff]

^^ Reading up on the whitepaper relevant to what I was talking about it seems hardware content protection needs to be fully supported and enabled for it to work - probably why no one bothers to use it - I can't actually find a single working code example and the only hits in google go back to the MS documentation.

 

[Gregster]

...and this is why you should never jump to conclusions.

Makes those using the thread to take jabs at nVidia look rather silly

Pretty hilarious, but yeah the people instantly jumping to company-bashing are funny too.

Any programme running on your computer could search through various memory to reveal such things if they desired. It's just funnier because it happened by accident rather than maliciously.

Maybe (yet another) OSX security flaw, but doing the same thing on a Windows machine would be trivial.

+1

 

[snowdog]

Does erasing the memory cost more performance ? If so, keep it as it is, don't share my pc with anyone and performance > * .

 

[foster grant]

Ohh....so this is why I have been seeing blue edges to one or two things when I watch watching Luther

 

[meldarthx]

I don't often agree with DP well actually not sure I've ever have But he's right; this is an issue with Chrome.

Chrome in icogito mode; won't clear frame buffers due to speed. They keep them so they don't slow down. If you've not closed Chrome and fire something up at calls for frame buffer Chrome was using this very well can happen. Far as I know even if you close Chrome it still doesn't clear the buffer - one of the many reasons I don't use Chrome.

I do agree some really don't have a sense of humor as if this was first reported to happen to AMD cards; they would have been all over it laughing and spreading it.....

 

[Gregster]

I do agree some really don't have a sense of humor as if this was first reported to happen to AMD cards; they would have been all over it laughing and spreading it.....

Well if you look at the first page you can see it is some humour and some just looking for a reason to have a dig. Not that I care either way but first reading this "news" made me chuckle (and slightly panic)

Only happens to Apple Mac's though, so I wasn't worried after further reading

 

[Haggisman]

The way it's meant to be........

...played(with)


Mental note: Reboot PC after doing.... "research"

(That should clear it, right?)