Personally I always do the following: 1) Ensure Driver Sweeper is installed. 2) Uninstall everything Nvidia related through the control panel. 3) Boot into safe mode. 4) Run Driver Sweeper, tick everything Nvidia related and perform a sweep. 5) Boot back into Windows normally and install Nvidia drivers of choice.
It gives it a pretty look (to me ) Although as you can see, recently some of the light textures are too bright, so need to have more of a play. I have also been getting weird performance the last couple of nights so may try changing it up.
I dropped back to 314 drivers and all seemed well until al my weapons and some surfaces in BF3 went purple, I'm now running even older drivers.
From what I've heard it's the drivers trying to force fxaa, even when not selected in the games graphics options. This is causing problems with the game engine throwing it's toys out the pram,
Don' think it can be that because I have FXAA enabled. Rolled back to 314 and all seems fine and dandy. And to address the elephant in the room: just goes to show that Nvidia aren't the holy grail of reliable drivers that they are sometimes made out to be.
Nvidia drivers are simply the worst ever. I've been experiencing the "Driver recovered" error along with "boots into blank screen" errors for nearly 2 years. Not only have they failed to fix it with numerous driver updates, they refuse to even acknowledge it. I can't wait until I can afford to replace my GTX470 with something from AMD. At least then I might be able to use my PC for more than 10 minutes without a crash.
My 770 is getting delivered tomorrow which means the only drivers for me officially are 320.18, will there be a problem if I use 314.22? I'll give it a shot with 320 but do I have anywhere to go if I have problems?
The 320 driver has ruined my GTX 460, can't even open pdfs in firefox without bringing loads of crazy pink patterns up or crashing to a black screen. Playing any games looks like I've gone back to the 1990s. Where is an official response from nVidia? It seems to be affecting most models of GPU. It seesm to me a lot of people are having this problem. Will they be rushing through another driver update?
You aren't the first person to have a card permanently damaged from this update by the sound of it. Crazily 320.18 is still available for download on the nvidia site.
Ugh, I've rolled back to 3.14, but I was seriously contemplating a GTX 780 next week. However, if the drivers are screwed there is no way I'm buying the card.
Insterestingly with 314 I can't run DiRT 3, I have to roll back to 306. I havn't run 320, however I have noticed that I've been getting an increasing amount of artifacting on BF3 when I forget to turn on my custom fan profile. Think I might RMA it before long...
Got a link for this, Nvidia are normally pretty quick to fix their drivers though. I had a couple of crashes in Metro LL the other day I thought it was down to 200 odd M$ updates on a new install while I was gaming.
90 pages of the official forums , dozens and dozens elsewhere - facebook NVidia page is full of problems - lots of reports of hardware failing
Experience will differ from card to card since Nvidia have these 'all in one' drivers, the latest cards will probably be the best for them.
320.18 is still fine for me... EDIT: Bit more information that could be useful: - Zotac GTX570 - GPU running at stock clocks / voltage - Not using Geforce Experience - Uninstalled my previous drivers before updating to 320.18
