• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

MjFrosty said:
No. If you're going to avoid any 320** driver it's this one. As this is the first one that reportedly can cause physical damage (for whatever the reason may be)

I doubt we'll ever find out why.
Click to expand...

Don't think its ever been narrowed down. No ones been able to kill a GPU with just the drivers alone - seems to be a cocktail of those drivers, EVGA precision and a certain version of a piece of bitcoin malware but even then no ones been able to reproduce it consistently.
 
Rroff said:
Don't think its ever been narrowed down. No ones been able to kill a GPU with just the drivers alone - seems to be a cocktail of those drivers, EVGA precision and a certain version of a piece of bitcoin malware but even then no ones been able to reproduce it consistently.
Click to expand...

Well it must have been the biggest coincidence ever that My GTX670 Windforce packed up 1 hour after installing the drivers...
 
What other software have you got installed? not saying the drivers are blameless but it seems to be more complicated than simply the drivers themselves.
 
I'm sure it is. And I'm sure the majority of people won't have a problem. Nothing uncommon here, word, excel, Adobe lightroom, Steam. Nothing which taxes the GPU apart from games.
 
Rroff said:
What other software have you got installed? not saying the drivers are blameless but it seems to be more complicated than simply the drivers themselves.
Click to expand...

As i said before i am brand new to Nvidia and with my 770 i installed the 320.49 drivers and and the system has been amazing but then i downloaded EVGA Precision X then i had three system lock up and one blue screen????
Removed Precision X and all seems ok so far.
 
326.19 released

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-326.19-beta-driver.html

Release notes PDF

Release Highlights:
Release Summary
This is a recommended driver update for the Windows 8.1 Preview and includes performance increases for several games.

New in GeForce R326 Drivers

Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 320.49 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:
GeForce GTX 770:
Up to 15% in Dirt: Showdown
Up to 6% in Tomb Raider
GeForce GTX 770 SLI:
Up to 19% in Dirt: Showdown
Up to 11% in F1 2012
SLI Technology
Added SLI profile for Spinter Cell: Blacklist
Added SLI profile for Batman: Arkham Origins
Additional Details

Installs PhysX System Software 9.13.0604.
Installs HD Audio v1.3.26.4
Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5.5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom