Nvidia Bad Driver Update....
#1
Posted 09 March 2016 - 07:43 PM
#2
Posted 09 March 2016 - 07:56 PM
#3
Posted 09 March 2016 - 07:56 PM
Edited by LordNothing, 09 March 2016 - 07:57 PM.
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Posted 09 March 2016 - 08:16 PM
#6
Posted 09 March 2016 - 08:33 PM
#7
Posted 09 March 2016 - 08:55 PM
I've had terse before, and you post was doing it wrong …
Edited by Goose, 09 March 2016 - 08:56 PM.
#8
Posted 09 March 2016 - 08:55 PM
#9
Posted 10 March 2016 - 12:33 AM
It's only people who don't do the Clean Install that are having problems. It may be different if you run multiple monitors, however.
I always do the Clean Install and have had no problems whatsoever with Nvidia's drivers -- this version or any other.
Edited by Durant Carlyle, 10 March 2016 - 12:35 AM.
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Posted 10 March 2016 - 01:31 AM
#11
Posted 10 March 2016 - 02:45 AM
personally i dont even update drivers unless i have a reason to, so mine are half a year old
and no, Nvidia drivers are not hit and miss, they are 5x better than AMD's - its just this time they royally screwed up with a fanfare... it happens to everyone
#13
Posted 10 March 2016 - 03:53 AM
Thunderbird Anthares, on 10 March 2016 - 02:45 AM, said:
personally i dont even update drivers unless i have a reason to, so mine are half a year old
and no, Nvidia drivers are not hit and miss, they are 5x better than AMD's - its just this time they royally screwed up with a fanfare... it happens to everyone
idk sometimes i update and the game gets crashy immediately after a driver update. and in those cases theres usually a new version up a few days later to fix whatever the issue was. its generally a good idea to let new driver mature before you update. if they last a couple weeks without the latest version number ticking up its a good sign that they are stable. i always clean install.
video driver dev i hear is a nightmare, its full of hacks and workarounds to support old games, it has to support multiple apis with conflicting implementations (and it doesnt help that they are throwing a new one on top of it). they have to work with both low level stuff and high level stuff and their own proprietary hardware. it doesnt sound like there is anything fun about being a driver dev for a vid card company.
amd drivers, lol.
Edited by LordNothing, 10 March 2016 - 03:59 AM.
#14
Posted 10 March 2016 - 05:24 AM
#15
Posted 10 March 2016 - 05:30 AM
Call me overly cautious.
#16
Posted 10 March 2016 - 05:40 AM
Thunderbird Anthares, on 10 March 2016 - 02:45 AM, said:
personally i dont even update drivers unless i have a reason to, so mine are half a year old
and no, Nvidia drivers are not hit and miss, they are 5x better than AMD's - its just this time they royally screwed up with a fanfare... it happens to everyone
I'm gonna disagree on that one, you should really update your drivers with some regularity.
#17
Posted 10 March 2016 - 05:48 AM
Every video card company has driver issues from time to time if only because of the wide range of hardware, software and api configurations that have to be supported. (DX9 through DX12, OpenGL, OpenCL, Cuda, old games, new games and everything in between). This is why I don't usually update drivers unless I am having a specific issue (including performance) with something I am using now. As far as drivers go ... "if it isn't broken don't fix it" ... is a good rule of thumb.
That said, to the OP, thanks for the heads up on possible driver issues with the latest Nvidia drivers ... it might save some folks a headache trying to sort out the problem or avoid it entirely.
#18
Posted 10 March 2016 - 06:44 AM
If anyone is having a ton of crashing problems, even PC freezes I recommend checking to see if you're running DX11. I switched from DX11 to DX9 and that's solved a plethora of my problems. Granted I still get the occasional video crash it's nothing like what DX11 was giving me. Even ALT+Tab to minimize worked a 100 times faster.
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Posted 10 March 2016 - 07:06 AM
Durant Carlyle, on 10 March 2016 - 12:33 AM, said:
It's only people who don't do the Clean Install that are having problems. It may be different if you run multiple monitors, however.
I always do the Clean Install and have had no problems whatsoever with Nvidia's drivers -- this version or any other.
So you are telling me that the GeForce experience doesn't do the uninstall it says it's doing to do the clean install of the drivers?
#20
Posted 10 March 2016 - 03:04 PM
Lugh, on 10 March 2016 - 07:06 AM, said:
I updated through GFE exactly ONCE, back when it first came out. The install didn't complete and I spent an hour cleaning up the mess.
Since then I download them from GeForce dot com and manually install them using the Advanced/Clean Install option.
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