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[Mad Strike]

Nvidia's new drivers destined to increase performance and game ready PCs for new games like Division has given a lot of user problems from blue screens to windows not loading so if you want to play the golden pot event please , DON'T UPDATE YOUR DRIVERS until they fix their stuff.

[MoonUnitBeta]

thanks for the heads up!

[LordNothing]

their drivers are hit and miss. they are also starting to implement beta support vulkan so that is probibly why.

Edited by LordNothing, 09 March 2016 - 07:57 PM.

[Y E O N N E]

LordNothing, on 09 March 2016 - 07:56 PM, said:

their drivers are hit and miss. they are also starting to implement beta support vulkan so that is probibly why.

The Vulkan code shouldn't matter unless they did something really f*cky.

[LordNothing]

in theory its self contained but no doubt they had to change some stuff around elsewhere to support it.

[Dr Mlem]

Odd I haven't had an issue with them, but I don't download beta drivers and my card has been around for awhile (GTX 770 4gb)

[Goose]

Jebus Rice: Today we got a hotfix, 364.51, for yesterdays buggy 364.47.

I've had terse before, and you post was doing it wrong …

Edited by Goose, 09 March 2016 - 08:56 PM.

[Sandpit]

thanks for the info!

[Durant Carlyle]

Note: If you do the Advanced Setup and do a Clean Install, you will have no problems with the 364.47 drivers. Source

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.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

I have had zero problem with 364.47

[Thunderbird Anthares]

you are supposed to always do clean install anyway...
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

[MeiSooHaityu]

Yeonne Greene, on 09 March 2016 - 08:05 PM, said:

The Vulkan code shouldn't matter unless they did something really f*cky.

[LordNothing]

Thunderbird Anthares, on 10 March 2016 - 02:45 AM, said:

you are supposed to always do clean install anyway...
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.

[CDLord HHGD]

Wouldn't be the first video driver that screwed me over......

[GrimRiver]

Reasons why I always stay an update or 2 behind and do a clean install when I do update.

Call me overly cautious.

[Impyrium]

Thunderbird Anthares, on 10 March 2016 - 02:45 AM, said:

you are supposed to always do clean install anyway...
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.

[Mawai]

I know it is off topic ... but I haven't had problems with AMD drivers in years. (I have AMD cards at the moment and have had Nvidia cards in the past).

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.

[xTrident]

I haven't had any more issues with the driver update than I had before.

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.

[Lugh]

Durant Carlyle, on 10 March 2016 - 12:33 AM, said:

Note: If you do the Advanced Setup and do a Clean Install, you will have no problems with the 364.47 drivers. Source

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?

[Durant Carlyle]

Lugh, on 10 March 2016 - 07:06 AM, said:

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?

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.