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WARNING: Don't update your NVIDIA drivers, breaks memory speed, more

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texhnolyze

Banned
GHG said:
Don't think I've updated my drivers in about 6 months. Unless I can't play a new game I buy without updating the drivers I won't update them.

The golden rule for me while maintaining my PC is that bios' and drivers never get updated unless I encounter a problem that is documented to have been fixed in an update. Life is better this way.
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Yeah, this.

I never understand people's obsession to upgrade their driver as soon as a new version arrives. It's not like it will give you a magical boost for the new games.
 
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venom473

Member
GHG said:
Don't think I've updated my drivers in about 6 months. Unless I can't play a new game I buy without updating the drivers I won't update them.

The golden rule for me while maintaining my PC is that bios' and drivers never get updated unless I encounter a problem that is documented to have been fixed in an update. Life is better this way.
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Same here. The nvidia drivers that came out for the release of Deus Ex Mankind Divided made my PC freeze and crash constantly, so I just rolled back to some old ass driver and didn't have any problems since.
 
Hellgardia

Hellgardia

Member
Good thing i didn't update the drivers. But nvidia should really investigate what the hell is wrong. The amount of times they released broken drivers recently is just too damn high
 
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V_Arnold

Member
Cow Mengde said:
Dammit AMD!!!!

Oh wait, AMD haven't had major driver issues for many year now.
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As an rx470 owner, please. The new polaris drivers are still having black screens when playing certain video encodings, and lets not mention the "fans suddenly stop" issue or the "gpu remains on 100% power" issue or the "fans suddenly go to 100% for no reason, then wattman crashes" bugs that described the past months :p Most of them are gone, but not all .

That being said, NVidia is getting more complacent in this, which is exactly why having so huge marketshare is not gonna help them get their act together. SAD.
 
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Hazardous Metal

Member
I had downloaded the drivers and nothing appeared to be wrong on my end. That said, I'm now getting a notification to download even newer drivers. Should I go for it?
 
M

Memorabilia

Member
I remember a time when only AMD drivers were broken. The good old days. Weird that more often than not over the past year or so that its nVidia drivers which bork something in my 960 -> 1060 rig, while my RX 480 rig has basically been flawless. The new UI for Experience sucks ass too.
 
Shifty

Shifty

Member
Again? It's only been like two weeks since the last screw-up.

Glad I froze my driver version and nixed GFE before it was too late.
 
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Vex_

Banned
texhnolyze said:
Yeah, this.

I never understand people's obsession to upgrade their driver as soon as a new version arrives. It's not like it will give you a magical boost for the new games.
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TesUsa said:
Except that it does
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This. Not to mention certain games will have exclusive graphics features missing (or not optimized properly) if you dont update to the driver tailor made for them.
 
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QuantumSquid

Member
I don't understand why people feel the need to update their drivers every time a new version comes out - unless it's the Game Ready driver for a new title and you desperately need improved performance in that game, it's usually not worth the risk of the driver completely fucking you over.
 
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Henrar

Member
T_Exige said:
Haven't done an update since oktober, those broke my Adobe Premiere ...
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QuantumSquid said:
I don't understand why people feel the need to update their drivers every time a new version comes out - unless it's the Game Ready driver for a new title and you desperately need improved performance in that game, it's usually not worth the risk of the driver completely fucking you over.
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That doesn't justify Nvidia borking new driver releases. It's unacceptable.
 
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Baalzebup

Member
Whoa, I basically randomly refreshed gaming before clicking on the Install button. I already downloaded that sucker. Guess I'll wait for the next one then. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Gen.Grievous

Gen.Grievous

Member
QuantumSquid said:
I don't understand why people feel the need to update their drivers every time a new version comes out - unless it's the Game Ready driver for a new title and you desperately need improved performance in that game, it's usually not worth the risk of the driver completely fucking you over.
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I've never had a driver update messing things up completely and have had 5 different nvidia gpus over the past ten years or so. Since they have automatic updates I just install every new driver immediately. It used to be a hassle with multiple restarts now it's done in a minute in the background anyway.
 
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CazTGG

Member
Wonderful, I saw the new drivers and installed them since the last few screwed up a few things on my laptop, thus I thought this would fix them. I was wrong. On the bright side, this might explain why certain games won't allow the Windows DVR to record gameplay...
 
Shai-Tan

Shai-Tan

Banned
Rockandrollclown said:
I feel like I see a thread with a similar title to this every month. Nvidia needs to get their shit together.
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It's not new but in the past what Nvidia screwed up was support for old games. I play games at a really slow pace so I'd often run into the problem where a game I installed two years ago isn't well anymore until I roll back.
 
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Mareg

Member
I can't fathom how Nvidia missed that huge of an issue.
Crippling most 10 series card is not something easily missed. Is it marketing department bullying driver devs into releasing game ready broken drivers because ... Money ?
Maybe the press benefits of having game ready drivers is huge. Better than the minority complaining about bad drivers.
 
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Kayant

Member
Ac30 said:
WHQL doesn't mean anything with regards to QA. All AMD drivers are pretty much not WHQL and they're fine.
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Hmmm always thought there was a QA aspect to it but yh reading further on it I now understand what the process actually is.
 
N

Nheco

Member
That's why nowadays I simply does not update my nvidia drivers when a stable is released. It fucked my notebook twice this year. As a AMD owner on my desktop? Never had any issues so far.
 
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Newboi

Member
The real question is why hasn't Nvidia pulled the Driver from their main page and from geforce experience?

They clearly think this issue isn't bad enough to warrant pulling the driver.
 
ISee

ISee

Member
Windows 10 - 64bit
MSI 1070 X
Driver: 375.86

No issues. Just saying. At least for me.

Without MSI Afterburner VRAM is running at 8000mhz.
With overclocking it's running at my usual 9540mhz.

Tested with Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 so far.

EDIT and Horizon 3
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Stevey

Stevey

Member
So as far as I can tell this is an issue that's affecting very few people.
Hardly the end of Nvidia QA as some are making it out to be.
 
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Parsnip

Member
"Some factory overclocks" eh.

I guess I'm good sticking with 375.70 for now, though would be nice to get game ready drivers for Steep beta.
 
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j-wood

Member
I guess it's a good thing the geforce experience updater is broken on my new gaming laptop. It consistently tells me my driver is up to date, even when a new one has been released.
 
Yautja_Warrior

Yautja_Warrior

Member
Just updated my MSI GTX 1070 vbios to fix the Micron Memory voltage issue but glad I didn't update the Nvidia drivers now, will wait for the next driver update before I update again.
 
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