NVIDIA Requests Users Cards Back To Find Driver Fault

tommybhoy · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:16

NVIDIA Requests Users Cards Back To Find Driver Fault.

'However it would be of great help to us if anyone who is facing this problem can send us their graphics card to diagnose internally at our Santa Clara office since the cards we have been tested so far do not seem to show the TDR issues end users are reporting in this forum. We can pay for shipping both ways and I can probably get some free game codes to offer you for your time. Please PM if you would be willing to do so. You must be in the USA however since international shipping can complicate things.'

Source: ManuelG NVIDIA Technical Support

There is an ongoing problem with a Timeout Detection & Recovery problem (display stopped responding but has successfully recovered) that's aparently plaguing 560 owners with P/Z67 boards.

Iirc there was also a problem with some 460's not working at all in W7!

Makes a change from Amd being in the firing line for their drivers, although I'm of the opinion that both are as good/bad as each other.

Ezyryder · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:21

tommybhoy said:
Makes a change from Amd being in the firing line for their drivers, although I'm of the opinion that both are as good/bad as each other.

That is the truth really.

Whoever thinks nVidia cards don't have driver issues lives in cuckoo land

Rroff · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:21

Atleast they are making an effort to try and fix the issue instead of hoping it will go away

Rroff · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:22

Ezyryder said:
That is the truth really.

Whoever thinks nVidia cards don't have driver issues lives in cuckoo land

Name anyone who thinks nVidia drivers don't have issues.

a03dugga · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:26

My 460 occasionally has this driver has successfully recovered problem.
It bothers me, but my mate says its fine. :?

Overslop · 6 Nov 2011 at 20:11

a03dugga said:
My 460 occasionally has this driver has successfully recovered problem.
It bothers me, but my mate says its fine. :?

Is this your mate?

a03dugga · 6 Nov 2011 at 20:50

Overslop said:
Is this your mate?

Oh dear haha.

Monkeynut · 6 Nov 2011 at 21:40

Nvidia do however have better OpenGL support.

radar19 · 6 Nov 2011 at 22:24

both my 460 and 580 have been fine.

tommybhoy · 6 Nov 2011 at 22:29

Rroff said:
Name anyone who thinks nVidia drivers don't have issues.

Plain to see them in the other thread!

MissChief · 7 Nov 2011 at 00:07

Used to get this quite regularly with my 460 but recent driver updates seem to have resolved it as I've not had it for a while.

old gamer · 7 Nov 2011 at 00:22

I used to have this problem with my old 5770 xfire but my 6970's are fine

HeX · 7 Nov 2011 at 08:38

I've had this 3-4 times after changing to the latest driver sets, I was using the 270's for ages with no problem, since changing to the 280's for BF3 I've had to 'Time out and Recover' while just sat browsing at the like.

Most annoying.

Taziir · 7 Nov 2011 at 11:21

Don't forget this old chestnut is still ongoing:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=187401&st=2040

Booner! · 7 Nov 2011 at 14:30

I'm not really into the whole fanboy for each brand thing, but I did have an ATI 4890 and upgraded to a 560Ti GTX Oc and have had nothing but issues with crashes, glitches and the the black screen whilst using firefox. Hope they fix it soon or I'm jumping ship!

Ezyryder · 7 Nov 2011 at 14:51

Booner! said:
I'm not really into the whole fanboy for each brand thing, but I did have an ATI 4890 and upgraded to a 560Ti GTX Oc and have had nothing but issues with crashes, glitches and the the black screen whilst using firefox. Hope they fix it soon or I'm jumping ship!

Issues can happen with either to be honest.

Booner! · 7 Nov 2011 at 16:01

Yeah I understand, just frustrating for me as I only upgrade my cards traditionally once every couple years and swap between the two brands.

Ezyryder · 7 Nov 2011 at 16:06

Booner! said:
Yeah I understand, just frustrating for me as I only upgrade my cards traditionally once every couple years and swap between the two brands.

For the sounds of it sounds like you are suffering the TDR issue nVidia is struggling to fix. Hopefully they should get that fixed for you (and others!) before the november driver release.

James J · 7 Nov 2011 at 16:14

a03dugga said:
My 460 occasionally has this driver has successfully recovered problem.
It bothers me, but my mate says its fine. :?

I also get this same problem with my 460 HAWK card. I originally thought it was my PSU browning out but it ran a 580GTX with zero issues for 3 months whilst heavy gaming so it can't be that. I read on the guru3D forums that some of the newer drivers introduced the issue so got rid of the current crop of drivers and went back to older sets. Still have the same problem though now regardless, so not sure if the driver introduced something into my registry which does it, or altered W7 in some way :S

mmj_uk · 7 Nov 2011 at 16:15

At least they are being pro-active about it, all AMD did with the GSOD was release a token driver (on the back of bad press) that didn't work for most people and then ignored it, there are still posts about it on their forum to this day.

In my experience if you take a non-faulty ATI and a non-faulty Nvidia you will have far less driver based issues with NVidia over a wide variety of games.