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Forum Index - General Chat - WARNING nVIDIA USERS

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-Acaroid
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Acaroid

4 months ago
Ok i jsut read this and being an ATI user doesnt effect me, but people on here might have problems so I though i would post it for you guys

"Gamers who dutifully upgraded to the latest version of nVIDIA's graphics drivers have been met with a rude shock: drastically reduced frame rates in 3D games, and in some cases, complete hardware failure. As it turns out, a coding error in the fan control software has led to widespread overheating in nVIDIA graphics cards, resulting hardware temperatures of up to 104 degrees Celsius.

nVIDIA has admitted that the problem is real, and has advised customers to roll back their drivers until some new and improved, non-hardware-melting drivers can be developed.

"We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com. Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our Web site in the meantime.""

[Link to games.on.net]


It is ok, I wouldn't talk to me either...

+Steve Martin
Moderator
Steve Martin

4 months ago
Pretty shabby by nvidia. Shows what sort of pressure they're under to get new drivers out. You'd think a bit of testing would have shown these problems up before they released them.
[Link to www.3dprevis.com]

+Jamie
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Jamie

4 months ago
Thank you I was going to update tomorrow.
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-JackTheFunk
Member
JackTheFunk

4 months ago
same here jamie, thanks for the heads up.

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