Comments on: Rollback Your NVidia Driver 196.75 ASAP

By: Mike at DFO Wiki

Mike at DFO Wiki — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:21:25 +0000

LOL I never update my graphics card drivers either.

By: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Recalled | Blue Kae

Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Recalled | Blue Kae — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:02 +0000

[...] up on this via Stropp (who got it from Engadget). If you are using the latest Nvidia drivers, 196.75, you’ll want [...]

By: Blue Kae

Blue Kae — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:40:28 +0000

Woah, I had a bit of a freakout until I checked and realized that I’m still on the 196.21 drivers. I didn’t even realize they’d release another update already.

My $0.02 on driver stability. I used to use Nvidia cards 7 or 8 years ago but I switch to ATI back when I tried to play the Max Payne demo and it would render the bottom half of the character even after a driver update. I only recently came back to Nvidia because they’d finally developed more of a reputation for driver quality and there was a deal at Fry’s when I built my current machine, so Nvidia was the best price for the performance. I have to say tough, that my experience with their drivers over the last couple of months has been average at best.

By: Stropp

Stropp — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:44:41 +0000

It’s usually not a bad thing to regularly update drivers. I tend to wait until I install a game that starts playing up (usually graphically) and then get the latest. Then a few months later…

@Longasc — I’ve noticed the same thing. A while back I installed a driver that simply messed up all the graphics on my system. Had to boot in safe mode and rollback. Now there’s a problem with this release.

nVidia used to have a high quality standard. I never heard a peep about this sort of problem

I guess it could be that the chips and cards are now a couple orders of magnitude more complex than they were five years ago and this makes it harder to iron out these problems. Still…

By: Longasc

Longasc — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:17:36 +0000

I am looking forward to get a driver update for my laptop GeForce. But at least they make their blunders mostly with the desktop versions… so far. I am quite disappointed, something is going wrong in software engineering and QA at Nvidia for quite some time by now. OK, IIRC the driver that made problems before was a beta release, but it was the first time in ages that Nvidia beta drivers caused many people real issues.

By: Ysharros

Ysharros — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:06:43 +0000

Doh! We found a driver that was stable enough to let us play EQ2 without crashing, sometime last summer, and I haven’t touched the damned things since. Sounds like it was a wise decision!