THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD

Wrinkly · 26 Mar 2018 at 11:03

ltron said:
I'm still getting random TDRs in Firefox with this driver. I'm on Windows 10 too which Nvidia are adamant has been fixed. Maybe I have faulty hardware, I use Sandboxie with Firefox could that be causing issues?

I also use Sandboxie with Firefox, yet I have never had a crash. Cards used have been the 970, 980Ti and now 1080Ti.

I only install Nvidia's driver, skipping all the bloatware.

ltron · 26 Mar 2018 at 14:22

Wrinkly said:
I also use Sandboxie with Firefox, yet I have never had a crash. Cards used have been the 970, 980Ti and now 1080Ti.

I only install Nvidia's driver, skipping all the bloatware.

Did you have TDR crashes on any drivers before 391.24?

V F · 26 Mar 2018 at 14:32

It aint your hardware @ltron as it started happening after the 385 series. I went back to between 385 to 378 and have never had a driver crash with Firefox Quantum.

Going far back as Feb 8. https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31647525/

opethdisciple · 27 Mar 2018 at 10:24

I'd expect a new set of drivers today for Far Cry 5?

LoadsaMoney · 27 Mar 2018 at 13:09

opethdisciple said:
I'd expect a new set of drivers today for Far Cry 5?

Out now, v391.35

weyland yutani · 29 Mar 2018 at 16:33

For a while I've been using the "free of crap" method I first saw here for installing my nvidia drivers and it works great.

But now Id like to try the new Ansel feature in Battlefront 2 so I assume I need to install additional component(s). Any idea what I need to add or do I need to install the whole bloat, including Geforce Experience? Thanks.

Wrinkly · 29 Mar 2018 at 17:25

ltron said:
Did you have TDR crashes on any drivers before 391.24?

No, but I don't install every update. I only install the minimum driver set, omitting Geforce Experience bloatware, though I doubt that makes a difference.

Aretak · 29 Mar 2018 at 20:33

weyland yutani said:
For a while I've been using the "free of crap" method I first saw here for installing my nvidia drivers and it works great.

But now Id like to try the new Ansel feature in Battlefront 2 so I assume I need to install additional component(s). Any idea what I need to add or do I need to install the whole bloat, including Geforce Experience? Thanks.

To quote someone elsewhere RE: Ansel...

As I've said already, you don't need GFE. You do need to install the driver as NV intended though, without removing stuff like NVBackend.exe from the distribution manually.

So just delete the telemetry folder and choose to install as little crapware as possible in the installer.

V F · 30 Mar 2018 at 09:29

Wrinkly said:
No, but I don't install every update. I only install the minimum driver set, omitting Geforce Experience bloatware, though I doubt that makes a difference.

Does nobody read? While it may have been fixed on Windows 10.

V F said:
Somebody on guru3d reporting it is still happening.

Wrinkly · 30 Mar 2018 at 11:02

V F said:
Does nobody read? While it may have been fixed on Windows 10.

What?

ltron · 30 Mar 2018 at 15:26

V F said:
Does nobody read? While it may have been fixed on Windows 10.

I'm using Windows 10 and still having TDRs in Firefox, that was the point.

yashiro · 30 Mar 2018 at 16:15

388.31 + GTX 970. Never had a Firefox(57+) related TDR.

When exactly did this bug appear? 390 and above?

V F · 31 Mar 2018 at 12:20

ltron said:
I'm using Windows 10 and still having TDRs in Firefox, that was the point.

I’m confused then as so many are saying across forums it’s fixed on Windows 10 but it hasn’t been resolved for Windows 7... Yet that doesn’t seem to be the case here. So many conflicting reports going around.

yashiro said:
388.31 + GTX 970. Never had a Firefox(57+) related TDR.

When exactly did this bug appear? 390 and above?

The next release from 385.41. 385.69 it started with I think, or 387.92 asit doesn’t crash with 385.41.

Have you been watching any videos, viewing twitch usually triggers the crash at some point.

yashiro · 31 Mar 2018 at 17:05

I have Twitch and/or Youtube on in the background most of the time. Even when gaming.

Guest2 · 2 Apr 2018 at 00:02

As above comments - Whats the beef with the drivers crashing (Windows 7) 387.92 crashes as well as 388.31

Is there one that doesn't crash Firefox?

yashiro · 2 Apr 2018 at 01:43

Maybe mention which card. It might be 10 series specific?

Guest2 · 2 Apr 2018 at 11:50

yashiro said:
Maybe mention which card. It might be 10 series specific?

Sorry - 1080 Ti

It seems like its a much wider issue as reported here - https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7e9l3p/firefox_quantum_keeps_crashing_nvidia_display/

I'm going to go back to 385.41

Guest2 · 2 Apr 2018 at 19:20

No more crashing in 385.41

humbug · 5 Apr 2018 at 14:09

I just left this in the GeForce forum

The computer would randomly freeze up when using FireFox, i was told it was a bug in AMD's drivers and 'amongst all the AMD drivers suck; Shilling' that i should turn off Hardware Acceleration in FireFox, sure enough that did fix it.
AMD did eventually fix that bug later on, i never had that or anyother problem with the HD 7870 or R9 290.

Now, while on a GTX 1070 i have exactly the same issue i had all those years ago on the HD 6950, for the past few months i have been getting random freezing when using FireFox, if i turn Hardware Acceleration in FireFox off, it stops, what goes around comes around? nVidia drivers suck, please fix them.

As you can probably tell i'm not impressed.

Guest2 · 6 Apr 2018 at 21:40

humbug said:
I just left this in the GeForce forum

As you can probably tell i'm not impressed.

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