NVIDIA pulls 196.75 driver amid reports it's frying graphics cards

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IllegalPaladin on 05 March 2010

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I was even having issues with the 196.21 drivers. Not as bad as this, but got crashes every so often until I manually upped my fan speed.

Nvidia drivers have had fan auto sense problems for a while, to some degree or another.

Hmm, I have those drivers.

Guess I'll have to grab some monitoring software and see what I find.

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averyblund on 05 March 2010

Hmm as a pretty an owner of few cards from each brand this is always a nasty thing to see. Still Nvidia has a history of decent drivers so I'm fairly forgiving. I have a Macbook that uses the 9400 or 9600gt and i would certainly be pissed if my video went. For once Apple being mega slow to push driver updates has payed off! I have to say though after just getting a new (5770) ATI cards the driver issues seem to have been resolved and this will certainly burn Nvidia especially with their lagging high-end tech.

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CatFangs806 on 06 March 2010

Wow. Nvidia is really digging a hole for themselves with all these issues. First the Fermi, now this.

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jefforange89 on 06 March 2010

Wonder how they'll try to spin this one away, now.

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Darc Requiem on 06 March 2010

ssj12 said:

Darc Requiem said:

ssj12 said:

Garcian Smith said:
So can we finally put the "ATI has buggy drivers, NVidia doesn't" misconception to an end?

nope, ive had way many issues with ATI's horrid programming. One minor issue like this is nothing compared to ATI's trash.

Since when is a driver cooking your video card a minor issue?

considering the number of ATI GPUs I've owned that cooked themselves, yet never seen an Nvidia one burn, this is a minor issue compared to what ATI has released over the years.

That's a pretty weak post SSJ12. I'd expect better from you. Anecdotal evidence means diddley. When Nvidia, made the most reliable cards, I had a GeForce 4600 Ti fry on me. Had nothing to do with the overall picture, it just meant I got a dud. A growing number of consumers are having problems with Nvidia cards. Doesn't mean they weren't more reliable in the past, but that has nothing to do with their present situation.

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Twistedpixel on 06 March 2010

Nvidia: The way you're meant to be played.

Im pretty suspicious about the timing of this, so close to the launch of their new products! But Nvidia make me cynical...