fud. how many people here or any other forum actually have issues? there will always be a handful of people that will blame the drivers for whatever happens to their card or system. if this was a legitimate problem then we would have more reports since its been over 2 weeks.

I disregarded the article as soon as I seen the "fix". What a mess and completely wrong how to uninstall drivers. My card has been fine with these drivers so far.

HeavyHemi

_Nite_

Source: http://modcrash.com/nvidi...ing-gpus/#.UbUWTZzpzlZ

Use at your own Risk, I wen't back to 314.22 after finding this out

I can't believe you're actually vouching for some random person on the internet then post a
WARNING Thread. Come on.

 
It's not just some random person. It's on OCN and Nvidia forums too, read all of this thread: http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1937207&mpage=2
 
I personally saw artifacting issues with cards that I know for a fact work. On 314 drivers they both work perfectly.
 
I agree though, that is a dumb way to wipe drivers lol.

Ive actually read this at a few places so nites not that far off. Its probably a low percentage but its happening.

Halo_003

HeavyHemi

_Nite_

Source: http://modcrash.com/nvidi...ing-gpus/#.UbUWTZzpzlZ

Use at your own Risk, I wen't back to 314.22 after finding this out

I can't believe you're actually vouching for some random person on the internet then post a
WARNING Thread. Come on.

It's not just some random person. It's on OCN and Nvidia forums too, read all of this thread: http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1937207&mpage=2

I personally saw artifacting issues with cards that I know for a fact work. On 314 drivers they both work perfectly.

I agree though, that is a dumb way to wipe drivers lol.

 
The link he cited was from 'some random person'.  Oh after reading that link, no wonder. You essentially posted the same thing base on a couple of complaints which are not out of the ordinary for just about every driver release and cite 'random internet guy' too.

Can people with 7 series use the 314 drivers?

Hilarious, first _Nite_ hijacks my thread saying that stress testing my card is going to kill it. Now he makes a thread saying that Nvidia's new driver is killing cards.
 
Is this kid serious?

hutt132 


  

I always do exactly what you said, although I have no idea what RTSS is, and I have had artifacting only with the 320.18.

The RTSS.exe process is an additional file, which is a monitoring/over-clocking application.  It's not essential to the computer system performance.

If you guys don't believe me that these drivers cause cards to get damaged, then thats your choice, the link I gave does have evidence that it is happening, its all over OCN, Guru3d, and Nvidia's forum as well.
 
This isn't the first time this has happened either, the 196.75 drivers had a simalar issue back then
 
http://news.softpedia.com...eat-Cards-136701.shtml

In my experience with Nvidia cards going back to my first with 16mb of memory....
 
I just dont see this driver causing hardware damage
*With stock vBIOS's, the only way such thing could occur is if voltage regulation or fan control was effected.
If this -was- the case, this forum would be FILLED with screaming users and the driver would have been pulled.
-->The total number of users posting with issues does not appear to be higher than normal...
 
Much more likely is that this driver, with its new installer and default express Geforce Experience/.Net 4.0 install is simply causing errors due to either user install error/background conflicts/game bugs
 
That and the fact that so many more people are using Precision/Afterburner and the RTSS, who have not bothered to read the release notes and tooltips and no idea how the program functions...
 
Right now if you do a default "express" Nvidia driver install -and- install Precision/Afterburner/RTSS...
You are setting yourself up for these kinds of issues...
 
I really am going to have to place alot of blame on Nvidia, as there should be a running program/injector check during install that will abort the install and ask you to shut down such programs before proceeding....
 
And the GeForce Experience appears to have undergone some background updating and possibly begun causing serious problems for many users...
This is NOT a surprise given how the program functions
 
 

_Nite_

^^^^ the geforce experience software could be the culprit, cause 320.18 is the first to include it. 314.22 and older doesn't have it.

That is probably it. I highly doubt it is the drivers themselves. I would not know for sure, because I didn't install that useless software.

"And the GeForce Experience appears to have undergone some background updating and possibly begun causing serious problems for many users... 
This is NOT a surprise given how the program functions"
 
This is because the GeForce Experience is granted full Admin access and is able to write entries -directly- into a games config file...
 
Its a great idea (settings values aside, that I have issues with) but the REAL problem is when the game is patched, like BF3 recent End Game update which CHANGED the config file layout and values (this will be the 9th patch that I am aware for that has done so).
 
So it may be that the GeForce Experience is writing INCORRECT entires/values that do NOT match with the latest patch.
If Nvidia did NOT update the GFE with these changes, this would certainly explain the BF3 texture issues and the chagne in the coding for Monitor Hz coding -could possibly- do some hardware damage (I dont know if this is the case)
 
I just ran into this problem last week, where I had the user open the .prof save config file to check something, and his entries/values were completely incorrect. His config file format did NOT match the latest patches version.....
 
Should the GeForce Experience team have not been aware -BEFORE- the patch -OR- not bothered to patch the Nvidia side after, the Geforce experience will write INCORRECT and IMPROPERLY FORMATTED DATA into that file...
 
That, would explain alot
 
If your current BF3 config file does NOT exactly match the format below or contains "extra" entires...
YOU HAVE A PROBLEM, as the recent patch -changed- some value codes and formats 
 
GstAudio.AudioLanguage 5861806
GstAudio.AudioQuality 1
GstAudio.CarRadio 0
GstAudio.DialogueVolume 0.700000
GstAudio.MusicVolume 0.700000
GstAudio.SoundSystemSize 20
GstAudio.StereoMode 1
GstAudio.VOLanguage 0
GstAudio.Volume 1.000000
GstAudio.YourSoundSystem 4
GstRender.AmbientOcclusion 0
GstRender.AnisotropicFilter 4
GstRender.AntiAliasingDeferred 2
GstRender.AntiAliasingPost 0
GstRender.Brightness 0.500000
GstRender.ConsoleAntiAlias 1
GstRender.Contrast 0.500000
GstRender.EffectsQuality 3
GstRender.Enlighten 1
GstRender.FieldOfView 80.000000
GstRender.FullscreenEnabled 1
GstRender.FullscreenRefreshRate 60.000000
GstRender.FullscreenScreen 0
GstRender.MeshQuality 3
GstRender.MeshQualityOld 0.700000
GstRender.MotionBlur 0.500000
GstRender.MotionBlurEnabled 0
GstRender.OverallGraphicsQuality 5
GstRender.ResolutionHeight 1080
GstRender.ResolutionHertz 1114636288
GstRender.ResolutionWidth 1920
GstRender.ScreenSafeAreaHeight 0.950000
GstRender.ScreenSafeAreaWidth 0.950000
GstRender.ShaderQuality 2.000000
GstRender.ShadowQuality 3
GstRender.StereoConvergence 1.000000
GstRender.Stereoscopy 0
GstRender.TerrainQuality 3
GstRender.TextureQuality 3
GstRender.TransparentShadows 1
GstRender.UndergrowthQuality 3
GstRender.VSync 0
GstInput.Deadzone 0.300000
GstInput.HoldButtonToZoom 1
GstInput.HoldForBreathControl 1
GstInput.MouseRawInput 0
GstInput.MouseSensitivity 0.287791
GstInput.MouseSensitivityVehicle 0.500000
GstInput.Scheme0Buttons 0
GstInput.Scheme0FlipCameraY 0
GstInput.Scheme0FlipY 0
GstInput.Scheme0Sensitivity 1.000000
GstInput.Scheme0Sticks 0
GstInput.Scheme1Buttons 0
GstInput.Scheme1FlipCameraY 0
GstInput.Scheme1FlipY 0
GstInput.Scheme1Sensitivity 1.000000
GstInput.Scheme1Sticks 0
GstInput.Scheme2Buttons 0
GstInput.Scheme2FlipCameraY 0
GstInput.Scheme2FlipY 1
GstInput.Scheme2Sensitivity 0.500000
GstInput.Scheme2Sticks 0
GstInput.Scheme3Buttons 0
GstInput.Scheme3FlipCameraY 0
GstInput.Scheme3FlipY 1
GstInput.Scheme3Sticks 0
GstInput.Vibration 0
 
The (2) entries/values I would be MOST CONCERNED WOULD CAUSE ISSUES
-->are shown below, as both are new changes for the last patch
GstRender.MeshQualityOld 0.700000
GstRender.ResolutionHertz 1114636288 
 
Please note that the values above are for -my specific system hardware configuration-
-->And are NOT to be copied or used with different hardware configs!!!!
DO NOT USE MY SETTINGS SHOWN ABOVE
I am simply posting "where" to look and "what" might cause a problem.   

*multi
 

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