Nvidia Pulls GPU Overheating 196.75 Driver

[Dax corrin]

Just checked, still on 196.21 Yay for me.

 

[spoofedpacket]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]What, they think they still dominate the market? They better fire someone responsible and pull their sh!t together.[/citation]

Only having a giant chunk of the OEM market and only being behind for a few months. They aren't exactly scrambling by the looks of their last quarter's earnings.

 

[falchard]

I heard a rumor that there is a nVidia card that runs under 60c. Can anyone confirm?

 

[spoofedpacket]

[citation][nom]rdhood[/nom]Screw me once, shame on you. Nvidia get NO MORE $$$$ from me.[/citation]

Still steaming mad after four years worth of angry posts about GPUs, eh?

 

[songemu]

I had a graphics card die on me recently, most likely due to heat related issues... suspicious timing...

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]razzb3d[/nom]This is why i hate the GT2xx series. When i tested the GT260 and GT280 i noticed how hot they are, so I jumped straight from a 8800GTX to a 4870 and never looked back. NO MORE fiddling with the drivers and burning myself on my video cards.I repair laptop MBs and video cards for a living, and i can tell you i get lots of nvidia GT2xx series cards with dead GPUs from overheating or chips that need reballing. It's not really nvidia's fault, it's the OEM's fault for using crappy ROHS BGA kits with VGA cards that run around 80-100 degrees.[/citation]
My GT240 runs really cool, especially compared to my old 8600GTS. But I do suppose the GT240 is quite a bit newer and lower powered, so it was bound to be cooler than the others. It's definitely not the fastest card around, but the most demanding game I have is Bunout Paradise and it works fine for that.

 

[Mousemonkey]

yea but there is a difference between having artifacts (fixable) vs. a dead GPU (not fixable) 😀

True, I'm just bemused by this "fried card" routine as like you said boards and laptops that I've ever used either beep then shut down or just shut down before they they frazzle, as for the ATi GSOD issue I strongly believe it's a BIOS problem at best as I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that the hardware is good but the voltage requirement variance is a bit wider than first anticipated.

 

[danielmastia]

[citation][nom]comp_builder22586[/nom]Problems with warcraft 3? are you serious? since when does that game tax any more then 10 percent of any modern GPU, even at the highest settings.[/citation]

Mmmmm, since the beggining of time? Any game (unless Vsync, d/t buffer is on) will use 100% of the GPU. Sure, WOW would run at 800fps but nonetheless, it'd use 100% of the GPU.

PS: Take 100% loosely, is not always possible.

 

[Guest]

My 9800 GT experienced low FPS in OFP2, and fan issue after EXPLODING some components (at least 1 MOSFET). I'm RMAing it. Do not install it if you want to keep your card ALIVE.

 

[Mousemonkey]

I heard a rumor that there is a nVidia card that runs under 60c. Can anyone confirm?

All three of mine do and I'm using the 196.75 drivers.

 

[rmmil978]

I installed these drivers and noticed my 2 SLI GTX 285 were running a few degrees hotter, but I manally control my fans so it was never allowed to jump up too high. A shame, because these drivers were showing a big improvement on Crysis and Fallout 3 for me. To be safe a rolled back my drivers, though.

 

[fpsdominator]

NVIDIA hasn't had a good driver out for so long!
They better get their crap together and soon!

 

[ern88]

Well, when I play games with my 9800 GTX. I have what looks like burnt Pixels. But when I'm not playing games. I don't have this problem. I can safely say that Nvidia fu**ed up GPU. So, I'm pissed. What the hell is Nvidia is going to do for us??? Probablt sweet F A.

 

[Tomtompiper]

[citation][nom]barmaley[/nom]I don't know about anybody else, but personally, when I start gaming on my GTX275 SLI, I always take control of the cards' fans in Precision tool and set it to 100%, for that exact reason...[/citation]

Speak louder, I can't hear you over all that noise;-)

 

[PhoneyVirus]

196.21 WHQL drivers ant that good ether as my GeForce GTX 260 is Peaking 80c with 196.21 WHQL drivers. At first I though it was The Sims 3 Patch but had no problems before or with any other games for that matter. Until I updated my drivers to 196.21 WHQL drivers.

Long story short ATI managed to update there drivers faster then Nvidia and for that I'll never buy a Nvidia Card or Chipset again. The last good mobo from nvidia was 680I after that everything went down hill for Nvidia, besides HD 5970 I buy a New Case to fit that bad boy in any day lol.

 

[ZEPd3Z]

[citation][nom]hotsacoman[/nom]I wonder if these drivers were released in anticipation of the 400 series and was sort of a "test" driver, to see if they could both work simultaneously. As the GTX 400 hardware is vastly different from the previous generation, perhaps they need two different sets of drivers?[/citation]
or... so that you'll be in the market for a new GPU.

 

[Guest]

My 260's in SLI have been overheating with this and the previous drivers. I tried to define a rule that would speed up the fans a lot sooner but it had no effect on the fan speed at all. I now have them manually set at 80% and it's working fine but it sounds like I have a jet engine in the livingroom.

 

[dkenz]

Am i the only one not having problems with the new driver? BattleField BC2 wouldn't run on the old driver. After i updated it runs great. I'm using a MSI GTX 275 and no changes in temp. Currently 50cIdle 75cLoad. Fans still get faster as temp rises. Anyone else have no 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 196.75 drivers because some video boards and/or complete systems 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 ??

 

[viometrix]

well i have been in touch with nvidia back and forth via email and phone. i have a feeling they are going to replace my system. so far they have been good with service, but i hold final judgement until they let me know what they plan to do. i do imagine they will be replacing either the entire system, or the bad parts at the very least.

 

[Guest]

After installing Nvidia's 196.21, I also had the fan control problems. I use RivaTuner for my OCing and Fan Speeds, but it wouldn't work, even after inserting the driver version for the value of ForceDriverVersion. Therefore, I started looking for other drivers to try out in order to fix this issue. And so, I uninstalled the 196.21 driver and found 196.34 beta driver on Nvidia's site that, so far, works great; clock speed and fan control both work, along with no noticeable performance hit.

My Rig:
Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 [AMD 790FX; CPU-NB_OC@2700MHz; HTT_OC@2100MHz]
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition [Deneb; OC@3.9GHz; 1.48V]
Patriot G-Series PGS34G1600ELKA DDR3-1600 [2x2GB; 9-9-9-24; 1.8V]
BFG Tech Geforce 9800 GTX [512MB GDDR3; PCI-E 2.0 x16]
Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Fatal1ty Professional [64MB X-RAM; PCI-E x1]
Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS [750GB; 32MB Cache; SATA II]
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS [640GB; 16MB Cache; SATA II]
Lite-On LH-20A1L DVD-Burner [2MB Cache; SATA II]
Lite-On iHAS424 DVD-Burner [2MB Cache; SATA II]
Thermaltake W0131RU PSU [850Watt; Quad 12v-Rail]
Thermaltake Armor VA8000BNS [Full-Tower]

 

[techguy378]

LOL at all of the suckers using inferior Nvidia graphics cards. AMD's drivers don't have serious problems like this. Maybe folks will think twice before saying AMD-based graphics cards are crap.

 

[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.

 

[landerx74]

About 2 minutes after installing these drivers and playing Star Trek Online. I smell burning and PC dead! Luckily I had my 9800GT running in SLI, so my other one did not fry. And luckily I have a lifetime warranty on the card.

 

[hakkafusion]

its a sign from above. you guys should all move to passive cooling and/or water =b