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Nvidia Users Beware, Latest Drivers May Damage Your PC

Apparently 364.72 are causing grief too.

LoadsaMoney said:
Nvidia Geforce 364.72 Drivers Come With Plenty Of Issues

Might be even killing some graphics cards

It appears that Nvidia can't seem to get a break when it comes to drivers as the last Geforce 364.72 WHQL-certified drivers are apparently killing some graphics cards.

According to Nvidia Geforce forums posts, there are multiple issues with the latest Geforce 364.72 WHQL-certified drivers where users with random graphics cards are reporting freezes and crashes as well as dead graphics cards after installing the latest Geforce 364.72 WHQL-certified drivers.

To be fair, some users are reporting that they have no issues whatsoever so it does not seem to be fixed on a certain system or certain graphics card series.

There is a 25 page long thread on Nvidia's Geforce forums so you might want to check it out before installing the latest drivers from Nvidia. Also, you can check out a Reddit thread that talks about the same problem.

Nvidia Geforce 364.72 WHQL drivers were released a few days ago and brought a couple of improvements including support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets.
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphic...enty-of-issues
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The only thing they do bugger up is your installations of Windows. One of the poorest driver releases that I can remember in a long time and I still can not get Sil to work and that’s with 3 new driver releases in just over a month. Back to the 361 drivers now. If they can’t get the issues fixed next release I am selling on one of my cards and knocking multi GPU`s on the head. Support for multi GPU`s in the last 18 months has really dropped of at the manufacturer level and with App developers not worth it any more.
 
humbug said:
Nvidia's Drivers suck!

*Runs....
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i lol'd a bit there .. i feel sorry for the users affected, but i dont feel sorry for nvidia..not one bit. The whole debacle though makes me a bit uneasy considering i have a 980ti in my own system with a 3rd party cooler i myself installed on an asus reference board... Asus of all companies :S Here is hoping nothing blows.. I would like to note that the last few drivers have increased my temps by 10ish degrees into the low 60ish.
 
shamus21 said:
The only thing they do bugger up is your installations of Windows.
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Yeah not seen a verified report of them destroying hardware (yet) but couple of people I know have had Windows become unbootable after installing them.

Not taking chances though and rolled back to 361 myself as nothing I do at the moment needs anything newer.
 
Rroff said:
Yeah not seen a verified report of them destroying hardware (yet) but couple of people I know have had Windows become unbootable after installing them.
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Doubt we'll ever see a verified report of their drivers killing gpu's from Nv as too much noise would happen.

Under no illusion that everyone blaming the drivers for hardware failures are intrinsically tied to the driver but on the same token, doubt those making noises and sending back gpu's under warranty that broke after changing a driver are doing it just for the craik.

Phixsator said:
When i saw that picture i had a different speech boble visualized. "Just nuke them".
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:eek::D
 
Must have been these drivers that caused the lockup I experienced the other day then the artifacts on my desktop after reboot, really thought my VRAM was borked but a driver rollback fixed it and gamed for hours since without issue.

Absolutely bricked it though when it happened, put a hybrid cooler on my TX so if it does go bang I'm screwed I think as Giga don't allow cooler swapping.
 
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This is the second wave of card killing drivers so we can sure new gen cards are about to launch. Nvidia just doing their bit to kill of as many GPU's before hand so their customers can go out and enjoy buying the new gen, and throw their old cards into the bin :P
 
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