Nvidia Driver Bug Stops Overclocking; Fix Soon

[Regulas]

Several months back I installed the latest Nvidia driver for my GTX 285 and Fallout 3 crashed constantly. Had to revert back to the old one. Have not updated since and may not until I really need to.

 

[Ciuy]

Chuck Norris hacked nvidia database and altered the drivers so u all suffer.

 

[back_by_demand]

Quick, someone get me a needle and thread, my sides are splitting

Honestly, it's just one thing after another with nVidia at the moment, they haven't just dropped the ball, it is a right royal FUBAR.

 

[aford10]

Not really a shock. New software rarely is perfect.

 

[OvrClkr]

i don't have any issues, not sure what all the fuss is about...

 

[rottenmutt]

i wish they would admit Cuda has a bug, specifically concerning two or more GTX 295 cards. running cuda applications which load all cores results in invalid results and driver restarts.

 

[Guest]

I knew it was a software bug from the first seconds beeing in windows with that newly installed 196.21, because of the NVIDIA Performance in the NVIDIA Control Panel for the GPU was simply dead, knowing this beeing the software interface for any software-client to overclock a NVIDIA GPU.... ya needed to wait for a official stating days after? haha. WHQL does not means you are a final user, you will always be a beta-tester for new claimed to be working features. You cant tell if blue or green got the better driver-support. from my point of view and vision of how it would work perfectly, the vendors would at ALL not need to write ANY driver, because they would focus on providing lightweigth performant open APIs, so in that way Microsoft focuses on windows-kernel-drivers directly accessing directx, GNU focuses on linux-kernel-drivers directly accessing openGL and openCL + availability of direct-compatibly on top of that transmorphing all the stuff into openGL and -CL, by that all platforms would be able to do physical and graphical computing at high performance. the blue and green giants hardly violate anti-trust code/law in a large manner.

i really think making hardware work with ANY operating system should be vendors to-do and i really think making hardware work with a SPECIFIC operating system should be the os-developers to-do based on what vendors did.

Remember you buy a high-cost thing that can compute, but that vendor forces you either that you can only use the software-products by itselfs' like cuda or physix, or by it's cooperators against opengl/cl, directx what in last time made the personal computer the second choice for gaming.

The blue/white/green-syndicate still seems to be a good investment because what ever penalty they reiceive for something happened in the past the high technological fluctuation of closed-APIs provides them of unimaginable tools and hard to detect futeral anti-trust code/law-violations. Hey i mean, thats still a good reason not to buy the Red, which has wafer-fabs in USA and Europe.... people need more to care HOW they achieved such a great volume.

The rule nounces "let me hide the handling of my processors and let me providing source-code hidden-drivers and beeing the first on the market, then i control the the innovation and the competitors". In IT we have cooperators of ubundling industries that try to fix innovation by a comparable strategy running fud on foss.

 

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]kc8dkt[/nom]people still use software overclocking? Just flash the bios and be done with it if you know your OC settings. One less TSR![/citation]
I was thinking the same thing..

 

[jfem]

good news.

 

[geogan]

I wonder are they going to fix the NVidia control panel Performance tab too? - the first thing I noticed after installing the latest Windows 7 drivers was the Shader and Memory clock sliders are now GONE from the device settings for GPU. All that's left is the Core clock slider.

 

[geogan]

I wonder are they going to fix the NVidia Control Panel "Performance" tab too? - the first thing I noticed after installing the latest Windows 7 drivers was the Shader and Memory clock sliders are now GONE from the device settings for GPU. All that's left now is the Core clock slider.

 

[josephrot]

Well, it's March 5...and NVidia on their web-site STILL says that 196.21 is the latest and greatest...so one wonders what happened to the fix and new update to fix the 196.21 overclocking problems ???

 

[josephrot]

First, I said this:

It's March 5...and NVidia on their web-site STILL says that 196.21 is the latest and greatest...so one wonders what happened to the fix and new update to fix the 196.21 overclocking problems ???

NOW, we hear that Nvidia pulled the "best" 196.75 drivers because some video boards are being fried.

What's going on at Nvidia, and why or who is asleep at the controls ?

Will 196.75 or what comes next (and it's needed fast) fix BOTH the overclocking AND the heat destroying problems ??

 

[josephrot]

For those of us "old timers" in the industry and consulting (moi since 1970 and GUI systems since 1984), ATI was and to an extent still is a disaster in drivers themselves. I and others nearly lost our companies and were on the verge of being sued for various ATI driver disasters, but have to say that we never had that happen with Nvidia (er, yet!)

Yes, it is true, however, that now there's more video parity, with both ATI and Nvidia performing both periodic wonders and periodic disasters.

Nvidia is cutting staff and corners now, and have been in the past, and all are suffering for it. Unless Nvidia runs out of people or finances, they are still the overall "better" products, chip-sets and drivers...but they are making us all "suffer" while that fact becomes clearer, albeit in fits and starts.

Sadly to say, AMD bought out the wrong video company...they should have met Nvidia's request and bought Nvidia...as ATI may well cost them the company and eventually the trust of the industry and the users.