You might wanna avoid getting 320.18 Nvidia Drivers....

Yup I had 2 entire PC lock-ups with this update playing Alan Wake. I googled it and saw others had had freezes so rolled back ASAP. Luckily I havent seen any crazy artifacts like reported in that thread, and my GPU appears to be working fine now

Yeah, those were the only decent drivers for me. :)
Used them till I recently upgraded to 314.22 for better performance in FF14.
Dunno if it's just me, but I think out of all hardware manufacturers Nvidia has the most bugged drivers, recently.
Even if not, it's just the worst publicity you can get.~

this!

And even greater PR.

looks at M$

I don't know..If I used Nvidia cards, and it got killed by the driver, I would think twice before buying another Nvidia card ever again..

I was thinking this too, it doesn't even seem worth discussing...

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Dead GPU is dead GPU. It should cover it.

me too

me three

me 4

Lol, have fun.

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I have never had a problem with driver updates on my geforce 550ti o_O

So you'll have issues after the next 2 versions come out?

I've never heard such a thing for any AMD driver. Source?

BS, source please. Meanwhile I already heard 3 instances where nvidia driver updates kills some gpus

Umm, lol? Do you often hallucinate while typing comments?

I've been using and tweaking ATI cards for the past 14 years, overclocking them, using custom drivers, the whole shebang. I've also bought and used an Nvidia GPU, once. Never again. The POS was actually causing so many CPU calls that it was causing latency which interfered with my sound device, and caused crackling and hissing all the time. There was no driver fix, no software-based fix made by Nvidia, and the threads on their official support forum were ignored.

With my ATI cards, I have never had such a retarded issue. I've had - let's see, ummm - 5 ATI GPU's? And I have a friend who's had another 6 or so in his life. He's also a tweaking nut, and has also screwed around with them a lot. Guess what. Never had such a retarded issue, either. Ever.

The only issues either of us have had were:

• too high temps. caused by our own tweaking and overclocking
• issues with remnants of drivers being left behind after uninstalling them, again caused by - you guessed it; our own tweaking and screwing with them
• a hand full of issues with specific games such as some texture pop-in / artifacting, some LOD issues, and some issues with games' specularity lighting. All of these issues were always fixed in the next driver update, with quick communication being sought by ATI with the games' devs to fix things, quick. This communication was also often made transparant to us, the customers.

With Nvidia, game-specific issues are often ignored for a number of driver iterations, until they can unify some fixes and dump them all together into one update, leaving gamers with issues high and dry.

ATI has always been far better with customer support, communication, offering value for money, and stable fucking drivers that didn't cause more issues than they fixed. I can only remember having to roll back to older drivers two, maybe three times due to issues ATI caused with their updates, and in each case, the issues were immediately addressed and - you guessed it - fixed in the next fucking update. I only see people bitch and moan about Nvidia issues, having to roll back all the time, worrying about absolutely horrible issues such as the driver this thread's about causes (which include BURNING YOUR GPU UP AND KILLING IT).

With ATI, nowadays? The drivers have become a bit bloaty, I don't like the new UI for the Catalyst Control panel, and driver removal has become slightly trickier. I hardly ever see issues where people have to roll back whole damn versions in the drivers, though.

oh the irony xD

still better than amd though...

Not to add to the flame, but at least Nvidia actually releases drivers more often than once every decade.

This

Oh god, I remember those.. In fact, I was using them for a whole year straight. One day a friend asked what drivers I'm using and when he heard he fell over laughing. Apparently I was lucky that the 9600GT didn't have driver-based fan control or something

320.18 WHQL driver isn't a beta driver.

WHQL

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-320.18-whql-driver-uk.html

yea this :O we are time travelers