Personal computing discussed
Moderators: renee, morphine, SecretSquirrel
NVIDIA wrote:R280.xx or later Firefox/IE9 TDR issue - We have ordered some of the retail graphics cards that have been mentioned in these threads to resolve this issue. However it would be of great help to us if anyone who is facing this problem can send us their graphics card to diagnose internally at our Santa Clara office since the cards we have been tested so far do not seem to show the TDR issues end users are reporting in this forum. We can pay for shipping both ways and I can probably get some free game codes to offer you for your time. Please PM if you would be willing to do so. You must be in the USA however since international shipping can complicate things.
NVIDIA wrote:Battlefield 3 bugs - So far we have been able to reproduce the major Battlefield 3 issues and have marked this as must fix for the upcoming driver in November.
l33t-g4m3r wrote:Generally speaking, if 285.38 is working, does that mean 285.62 should work too? Is this just a non-reference problem? If that's the case, then maybe I'll try them out since my 470 is a reference design. I think the browser crashing and lockup reports have me the most worried. I think I'll wait a while after reading that thread, get a clearer picture, as people with 570's and 580's are reporting problems.
Ryu Connor wrote:l33t-g4m3r wrote:Generally speaking, if 285.38 is working, does that mean 285.62 should work too? Is this just a non-reference problem? If that's the case, then maybe I'll try them out since my 470 is a reference design. I think the browser crashing and lockup reports have me the most worried. I think I'll wait a while after reading that thread, get a clearer picture, as people with 570's and 580's are reporting problems.
If you were going to have a problem, you'd already see it. The 285.38 was causing the same woes as the 285.62 and yes it does appear this is a non-reference issue.
RAMBO wrote:Has anyone had any problems with the Nvidia 285.62 drivers such as "crash and recover" or anything else?
ludi wrote:FWIW the 285.62 pack doesn't seem to be causing any issues (so far) with a 460GTX under Windows 7 64-bit, with a clean install of both the OS and the drivers. An older 8800GT under XP 32-bit has also been cooperative.
boing wrote:On my stationary computer equipped with a 9800GT I noticed that games were lagging whereas they never did with older drivers. And we're talking baaad lag here, not framerates dropping 10-20% but the game going to a complete halt for several seconds.
On my laptop with a Quadro NVS 135m I could no longer watch gpu-accelerated 1080p nor 720p videos smoothly, and when running a Windows User Experience test the GPU test results dropped from 4.9 to 3.8. And the laptop got ridiculously hot with the fans spinning up to top speed even though Windows had just booted and nothing was running either in the foreground nor background.
Attempted a clean install of the latest beta drivers (v285.79) on both computers and all the problems mentioned above disappeared. I've no idea if they were caused by old incompatible config-files from previous versions not being compatible with newer v285.xx drivers or something else. And I can't say I care now that the problem is fixed/worked around.
Edit: Both are Win 7 x64 systems. And no, none of them run Firefox.