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NVIDIA Forceware 190.38

sulli said:
CTD and freezing with sound loop in l4d, rollback time.
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I've not had CTD, but the freeze/sound loop thing in L4D seems to be a common problem with Nvidia cards in general. I've had it crop up from time to time regardless of driver version. When it happens you can resolve it by doing ctrl-alt-del (alt-tab won't work), choose to open task manager so you're placed on the desktop, then close task manager and re-maximise L4D from the taskbar. Goes right back to normal again.
 
getting probs with these drivers, 280 Tri SLI setup. getting lockups with sound loops causing hard reset, back to 186.18 for me.

PS, the power options are rubbish, keeps my cards in "3d mode" in windows all the time and does not throttle down.
 
In Win7 x64 E the display scaling option does not stick and defaults back to monitor scaling each time - that's the only bug I have noticed but I don't go away from native res ever anyway so not an issue. There are no crashes or anything either which is nice.
 
I always thought WHQL certification was supposed to mean something. The amount of people having problems with these drivers obviously proves otherwise.
 
mrk said:
In Win7 x64 E the display scaling option does not stick and defaults back to monitor scaling each time - that's the only bug I have noticed but I don't go away from native res ever anyway so not an issue. There are no crashes or anything either which is nice.
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Seems to happen with all driver revisions under W7 so far. It's only a minor problem though, as the setting you choose is actually applied - the control panel is just erroneously showing it as unchanged.
 
I have a very weird problem. Not sure if it's related to this driver or not though. When I watch my core clock, shader clock and memory clock speeds in EVGA Precision, they seem to all randomly drop in speed all at the same time for a few seconds and the jump back up to the original speed. This happens constantly. Anyone got any ideas?
 
madindehead said:
I have a very weird problem. Not sure if it's related to this driver or not though. When I watch my core clock, shader clock and memory clock speeds in EVGA Precision, they seem to all randomly drop in speed all at the same time for a few seconds and the jump back up to the original speed. This happens constantly. Anyone got any ideas?
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Might be the card trying to underclock to 2D clock speeds and jumping back up again.
 
lord filbuster said:
Might be the card trying to underclock to 2D clock speeds and jumping back up again.
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Is there anyway to disable it wanting to underclock to 2D clock speeds? I turned Power Management Mode setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel to "Prefer maximum performance" and it hasn't changed anything. Very weird. Other than that, the driver seems ok currently.
 
These drivers with a single gtx 260 reduced my TF2 fps from 200~ to 40~, and 3D mark vantage struggled to break 5 fps, reverting back to the 185.xx fixed it.

Using Windows 7 and the same settings before and after.

Also had random crashes/sound looping in l4d with the 190.xx.
 
madindehead said:
Is there anyway to disable it wanting to underclock to 2D clock speeds? I turned Power Management Mode setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel to "Prefer maximum performance" and it hasn't changed anything. Very weird. Other than that, the driver seems ok currently.
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I wouldn't bother disabling it. If you do, it's gonna suck a lot of power all the time.

I believe you can disable 2D clocks with Rivatuner (or you could set the 2D clocks to the same as the 3D clocks).

I'd suggest just switching drivers back to the old ones. From the sounds of it, these drivers have worse performance and more bugs, with few benefits.
 
I've been installing the 186 release for all the people's PCs I've worked on with nvidia cards. This one seems to have a few too many bugs at the moment, although it's fine on my PC, no issues.
 
I'm not impressed! Pauses/stutters with The Witcher and Bioshock.
Windows XP 32 bit.
285 GTX (single)
 
Crums said:
I had problems with these drivers too! :(

Rolled back to 186.18.
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me too......all my games crash............ i'm going to delete all drivers and return to 186.18...i never had any of this trouble before

no sorry.........186.18.....is the one i have now, mine was updated before this latest version....it's the version before 186.18
 
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I aalready gone back to 186 as the 190 has some serious bugs -- Ive emailed to Nvidia and they will check so dont install the version 190 cos it will crash while you in gaming also problems with Windows OS included sidebar so stay with 186 until the next one is fix the problem
 
Works perfectly here, I upgraded straight from 185.85 because 186 just didn't want to install on my pc. Can't say I've noticed any difference so far though.
 
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