Nvidia's New Driver Causing More Problems

Users complaining on a message board is now a story on Gamespot saying you shouldn't update your drivers... really? What happened to you - I liked Gamespot because it wasn't IGN, now it's getting worse.

I can't wait until your next headline - Don't visit Gamespot, users in the comment section are complaining the site lacks credibility. Make sure you have that as your lead vote.

The last drivers without any reported problems? There's no such thing. People are always blaming video drivers for something. Sometimes it's valid, sometimes it isn't, and sometimes it's valid but only in weird circumstances (if you're running 3 monitors with one in portrait mode...). But there are always people claiming the drivers they installed screwed something up.

P.S. 361.75 here. No issues.

I had issues with 364.47

I have not had any of these issues with 364.51

Yet....

Though I love how it still prompts me to update to 364.51, even though I had to roll back twice through safe mode

@retron57: Not really, these are consumer gpu's, if you want expensive ones try quadro gpu's add basically a 0 behind the price. But those aren't for gaming. Titans were quadro's but they disabled just one feature so that the game devs or movie makers wouldn't just get a much cheaper one.

And people were complaining about AMD's drivers. AMD never had these kind of issues.

Anti-competitive behavior.

Disabling their GPU when AMD GPU is present (so you can't use your NVIDIA card for PhysX.)

Infecting games with their GameWorks framework to screw over AMD customers.

Screwing over own customers by abandoning 780 series cards despite performance issues (to force you to upgrade.)

Screwing over own customers by misleading advertisement about their 970 cards.

Anything NVIDIA does is proprietary and for the benefit of NVIDIA. Anything that AMD does is normally open source and for benefit of the community. This kindness on AMD's part might be due to them trailing behind as of late and who's to say the roles wouldn't reverse if they end up with the upper hand in the GPU market.

I can't wait for ridiculously overpriced GPUs that don't work right have the time, you know, when NVIDIA has no competition left.

When you support the big dog, you hurt competition, but when you support the anti-competitive monster who uses d**che-baggery to pull out ahead, you're killing off PC gaming.

Just sayin'...

https://www.reddit.com/comments/367qav/

R9 390...No issues. I have been using AMD cards for the past 6 or 7 years, and I don't recall having any major issues what so ever.

Not sure if it's related to these drivers but I recently started playing The Witcher 3 again and I used to get a flawless 60fps.....now it drops to 50-55 at times.

Had to drop foliage distance down a notch to maintain 60fps. No big deal I just found it odd.

It's not a massive issue like all the console fanboys on here like to believe. We can simply roll back drivers until the issue is fixed.

I recently upgraded to a GTX 970 and I am loving it. No issues for me at all and I'm running all of my games at the maximum settings smoothly, including GTA 5 and Witcher 3.

But there will be those jackasses that claim there are no problems, no matter how many people report them.

Ah the joy and ease of PC gaming...each update causes more problems. 60fps my a$$ xD

"Update 364.51 was intended to remedy issues caused by its predecessor, but instead reports indicate these issues have persisted and, in some cases, worsened.

Users on Nvidia's Geforce forums have complained the latest update is causing drops in framerate, inconsistencies with refresh rates, freezing, and failure to start games, among other issues. Similar problems have been reported by users on the Nvidia sub-Reddit."

I haven't had issues w/ a 980TI SLI Rig and many w/ 900 series cards aren't reporting issues, so is it safe to assume it's a problem with older Nvidia GPUs in between the lowest GPUs they support that this game supports? Any 900 series owners having particular issues to bring insight on this?

The game based on benchmarks is *very* demanding apparently; seems this game would benefit many with hopefully a DX12 patch soon.

No probs on my xb1 and ps4

GTX 970, no issues.

and this is why pc's are the preferred choice of gamers everywhere! :D

i know the problems will hopefully be ironed out in the near future (again i hop that they will as it was not the case with the latest batman), but problems like these do keep me away from ever investing in a gaming pc, i have completed the story mode in the division on a ps4, the game looks absolutely amazing, it is one of the most beautiful games i've ever played and the locked 30 fps is as smooth as one can hope for...

that being said whenever i turn my character rapidly i feel that 30 fps is just ok, i have been a long time gamer and remember the times when even reaching 30 fps was extraordinary but now i want more... i was considering to build a gaming pc from scratch like i used to do more than a decade ago, just to reach a steady 60 fps on ultra settings on my tv set (1080p, i know i am a cheapo) and the nvidia tech which has been supported / promoted in the division has made me consider a geforce 980 ti setup, however the open ended peripheral support of windows and the driver compatibility issues were the things that pushed me to console gaming to start with and i am saddened that the same issues troubling the system 15 years ago are still in effect...

on the other hand i understand most of the major game publishers / developers do sell more copies for the consoles than any other platform and the numbers only add up, that's why their focus is shifted more towards the consoles...

Great. So now Nvidia is like AMD in terms of driver updates. In fact, AMD has gotten a lot better while Nvidia are falling behind.

Nvidia outsources there driver development.

They didn't used to, and the drivers , although not perfect , used to be a lot better.

Now, the drivers are made by those guys that call your house and say, "This is windows tecnical depahtment. Your compooter call us"

I am more PC gaming but they will probably say in the end. Get a CONSOLE.

Learned my lesson and will never use the express again. Was great for the 1-1/2 years used it I have had the gaming PC.