WARNING - Nvidia 196.75 drivers can fry your graphics card

AVGWarhawk · 03-05-10, 09:22 AM

Bump and thanks! I have the 9800. Nice way to generate some business for Nvida. Plant a bad driver.

Geez.

196.75 is the bad driver...currently the Nvida site shows 196.21 as the driver to use.

malkuth74 · 03-05-10, 09:33 AM

Yeah but that driver is bugged too, you can't overclock your GPU with that driver. The .35 driver is the same driver with that bug fixed.

guynoir · 03-05-10, 09:34 AM

Wow, I'm glad that I am so on top of driver updates that I managed to install 196.75 in the short time that it was up for download...

Luckily, I haven't played anything on the computer since I'm consumed with Bad Company 2 on the 360, and, well, I'm still not buying SHV due to the OSP.

piri_reis · 03-05-10, 09:39 AM

Thanks for the heads up!

Going back to .34 driver.

Stuntie · 03-05-10, 09:51 AM

Thanks and 'Phew'
Saw that the new drivers were available and downloaded them, but it was late so decided to install them today.
Don't think I'll bother now...

FiL · 03-05-10, 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuntie

Thanks and 'Phew'
Saw that the new drivers were available and downloaded them, but it was late so decided to install them today.
Don't think I'll bother now...

Hello
Same here, thanks for telling us.

Hanomag · 03-05-10, 11:34 AM

Still running my ancient Nvidia drivers..oh well whatever works no?

marcel1980 · 03-09-10, 08:29 AM

F*cking hell. Good that i red this forum. My game crashes sometime after installing the newest driver from nvidia. I have a gf 260. A table with nvidia driver error appears and then only thing i can do is hard reset

SabreHawk · 03-09-10, 09:29 AM

Well apparently this was a bad move for me on this, I just did what was advised and installed these 196.21 from the 196.75 drivers I just updated to a few days ago.
Well somehow that caused my system to stop using my video card, and it reverted to the onboard graphics chip.(Geforce 9600GT, 512mb) And that wasnt working well at all I tell ya. In fact this forum wouldnt work right, could hardly scroll at all...........extremely sloooow.

So I had to do a system restore to get it working right again. Im sticking with these newer ones for now cause nothing was malfuntioning and SH5 was running just fine.
I thought something wasnt right as the system restarted after installing these older drivers and windows finished loading, the found new hardware wizard came up. Since I knew I hadnt installed anything I canceled that. and thats when I discovered that my 9600GT wasnt being used.

Arclight · 03-09-10, 01:36 PM

You really need to diable integrated graphics in BIOS.

SabreHawk · 03-09-10, 03:33 PM

Well after much headache and two tech support calls to UBI it's all working again. But these .21 drivers aren't completely right either, as my system wont keep the settings when restarting. I have to go to video properties and reset it all after a restart.
But other than that the game is working again.
My advise now is, dont do this if your system is working fine as mine was.
Like nvidia said, "some" customers were reporting card failures with the .75 drivers. That some may have had bad cards to start with, or some other issue causing this.

Personally I dont think it had anything to do with the drivers.

Fozzy22 · 03-09-10, 03:57 PM

Thanks for the warning about this. I'm rolling back as i speak. I'm wondering if my game was crashing because of this or if my Core 2 Duo 6700 isn't powerful enough lol.

AVGWarhawk · 03-09-10, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fozzy22

Thanks for the warning about this. I'm rolling back as i speak. I'm wondering if my game was crashing because of this or if my Core 2 Duo 6700 isn't powerful enough lol.

I think you Duo is fine for the game. I will tell you my EVGA 9800 fan is running high when playing SH5. The game certainly works you hardware to the max! I did rollback when I read this. So yeah, roll back and see what happens.

Arclight · 03-09-10, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

The game certainly works you hardware to the max!

It does? My old 8800 is barely heating up. Lot of resources going to waste if you ask me.

remowilliams · 03-09-10, 04:49 PM

I rolled back to the 196.21 drivers and had horrible issues with wave stuttering in the game. Went up to 196.34b and all was well again. Using GTX295 / Win7 x64 here

03-05-10, 09:22 AM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,279 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Bump and thanks! I have the 9800. Nice way to generate some business for Nvida. Plant a bad driver. Geez. 196.75 is the bad driver...currently the Nvida site shows 196.21 as the driver to use. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-05-10, 09:33 AM	#2
malkuth74 Sonar Guy Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 377 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Yeah but that driver is bugged too, you can't overclock your GPU with that driver. The .35 driver is the same driver with that bug fixed. __________________

03-05-10, 09:39 AM	#4
piri_reis Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Istanbul, Turkiye Posts: 715 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the heads up! Going back to .34 driver. __________________ Lt.z.S. Barbaros Hayreddin, U-35, 2nd Flot/Kiel, Type VIIB Oct.29.1939, 2nd Patrol Eastern English Waters Running SH5/TWOS

03-05-10, 09:51 AM	#5
Stuntie Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Shipley Yorkshire Posts: 5 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Thanks and 'Phew' Saw that the new drivers were available and downloaded them, but it was late so decided to install them today. Don't think I'll bother now... __________________ Cheers Stuntie

03-05-10, 11:34 AM	#7
Hanomag Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: LI NY Posts: 964 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Still running my ancient Nvidia drivers..oh well whatever works no? __________________ "Only if I can save first..."

03-05-10, 09:34 AM	#3
guynoir Seaman Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 39 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Wow, I'm glad that I am so on top of driver updates that I managed to install 196.75 in the short time that it was up for download... Luckily, I haven't played anything on the computer since I'm consumed with Bad Company 2 on the 360, and, well, I'm still not buying SHV due to the OSP.

03-09-10, 08:29 AM	#8
marcel1980 Mate Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 56 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	F*cking hell. Good that i red this forum. My game crashes sometime after installing the newest driver from nvidia. I have a gf 260. A table with nvidia driver error appears and then only thing i can do is hard reset

03-09-10, 09:29 AM	#9
SabreHawk Captain Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Seattle, Wa. USA Posts: 530 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Well apparently this was a bad move for me on this, I just did what was advised and installed these 196.21 from the 196.75 drivers I just updated to a few days ago. Well somehow that caused my system to stop using my video card, and it reverted to the onboard graphics chip.(Geforce 9600GT, 512mb) And that wasnt working well at all I tell ya. In fact this forum wouldnt work right, could hardly scroll at all...........extremely sloooow. So I had to do a system restore to get it working right again. Im sticking with these newer ones for now cause nothing was malfuntioning and SH5 was running just fine. I thought something wasnt right as the system restarted after installing these older drivers and windows finished loading, the found new hardware wizard came up. Since I knew I hadnt installed anything I canceled that. and thats when I discovered that my 9600GT wasnt being used. __________________ "Chance favors the prepared mind"

03-09-10, 01:36 PM	#10
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	You really need to diable integrated graphics in BIOS. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

03-09-10, 03:33 PM	#11
SabreHawk Captain Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Seattle, Wa. USA Posts: 530 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Well after much headache and two tech support calls to UBI it's all working again. But these .21 drivers aren't completely right either, as my system wont keep the settings when restarting. I have to go to video properties and reset it all after a restart. But other than that the game is working again. My advise now is, dont do this if your system is working fine as mine was. Like nvidia said, "some" customers were reporting card failures with the .75 drivers. That some may have had bad cards to start with, or some other issue causing this. Personally I dont think it had anything to do with the drivers. __________________ "Chance favors the prepared mind"

03-09-10, 03:57 PM	#12
Fozzy22 Machinist's Mate Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: London, England Posts: 129 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the warning about this. I'm rolling back as i speak. I'm wondering if my game was crashing because of this or if my Core 2 Duo 6700 isn't powerful enough lol.

03-09-10, 04:49 PM	#15
remowilliams Loader Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 90 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I rolled back to the 196.21 drivers and had horrible issues with wave stuttering in the game. Went up to 196.34b and all was well again. Using GTX295 / Win7 x64 here

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