{"id":86828,"date":"2016-03-09T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86828"},"modified":"2016-03-09T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:30:15","slug":"nvidias-latest-drivers-are-possibly-damaging-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86828-nvidias-latest-drivers-are-possibly-damaging-your-pc","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA&#8217;s latest drivers are possibly damaging your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have installed NVIDIA&#8217;s\u00a0latest graphics card drivers 364.47 and\u00a0364.51, they may very well be harming your PC.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to various reports from sources such as <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.geforce.com\/default\/topic\/921332\/geforce-drivers\/official-364-47-game-ready-whql-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-3-7-16-\/25\/\">NVIDIA\u2019s official GeForce forums<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\/comments\/49cy4i\/new_36447_driver_released_with_vulkan_support_in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit\u00a0users<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=1194687&amp;page=3\" target=\"_blank\">NeoGAF forums<\/a> to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>These drivers are causing a wide range of issues, which have not yet been totally resolved It&#8217;s so bad that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\/comments\/49mctv\/it_looks_like_they_have_rolled_back_to_36200\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to user reports<\/a>, NVIDIA has officially rolled back the official stable driver release to\u00a0362.00.<\/p>\n<p>Further confirmation of this can be seen in\u00a0the GeForce Experience software that now lists driver 362.00\u00a0as the last stable\u00a0release with the\u00a0364.51 update listed as the BETA.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend that if your run into any of the issues being reported below, that you uninstall your NVIDIA drivers immediately\u00a0and roll back your driver installation\u00a0to the 362.00\u00a0release.<\/p>\n<p>The new drivers\u00a0were released with the intention of optimising the performance of\u00a0games like <em>The Division<\/em> and <em>Need for Speed<\/em>. However, users have reported that the newly released\u00a0364.47 and\u00a0364.51 drivers are causing a range of issues.<\/p>\n<p>The issues include boot failures,\u00a0crashes, blue screens, infinite restart loops, freezes, loss of audio, visual corruption, as well as damage to graphics cards and PC hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see some of the reports from users in the NVIDIA subreddit, as follows:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86832\" style=\"width: 989px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Reddit-Users-Nvidia-Drivers.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86832\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86832\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86832\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Reddit-Users-Nvidia-Drivers.jpg\" alt=\"Reddit Nvidia\" width=\"979\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Reddit-Users-Nvidia-Drivers.jpg 979w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Reddit-Users-Nvidia-Drivers-768x471.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/wccftech.com\/nvidia-users-beware-latest-drivers-damage-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\">WCCFTech<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cause of all the issues is not yet known, but many more <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.geforce.com\/default\/topic\/921332\/geforce-drivers\/official-364-47-game-ready-whql-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-3-7-16-\/35\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports are still incoming<\/a> from a variety of users with different model graphics cards.<\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.geforce.com\/default\/topic\/921332\/geforce-drivers\/official-364-47-game-ready-whql-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-3-7-16-\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">number of statements<\/a> regarding their investigation of the aforementioned issues users are experiencing. The statements from NVIDIA appear as such:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NOTE: Best way to make sure your issue is addressed is to provide sufficient feedback so that we can reproduce your issue. If you are not sure what information you should provide, please fill out the driver feedback form below as best you can:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/surveys.nvidia.com\/index.jsp?pi=6e7ea6bb4a02641fa8f07694a40f8ac6\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/surveys.nvidia.com\/index.jsp?pi=6e7ea6bb4a02641fa8f07694a40f8ac6<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<u>Issues and Updates<\/u><\/p>\n<p>7:30AM 3\/8\/16<br \/>\nAfter finding a critical installation issue, the team has replaced yesterday\u2019s driver (364.47) with today\u2019s new driver (364.51). This driver has been submitted to Microsoft for WHQL-approval and we will update the driver package online as soon as we have the certified package.<\/p>\n<p>4:00PM PST<br \/>\nWe have reproduced the issue and our engineers continue to debug it. Initial investigation suggests the issue is related to doing an \u201cExpress\u201d installation. We suggest those willing to try this driver use a Custom -&gt; Clean Install installation.<\/p>\n<p>9:30AM PST<br \/>\nWe have received reports of some users having issues installing today\u2019s Game Ready Driver. Initial investigation suggests the issue is isolated to multiple-monitor configurations.<br \/>\nShould you experience issues, you can either disconnect one monitor during the driver installation (and reconnect once completed) or you can uninstall the driver through Windows Safe-Mode and revert to a previous version. Our driver team is actively investigating the issue and we will have more information shortly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are what some of the reports from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geforce.com\/whats-new\/articles\/tom-clancys-the-division-game-ready-drivers-released#disqus_thread\" target=\"_blank\"> NVIDIA users on the official forums<\/a> look like:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86834\" style=\"width: 667px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nvidia-users-reporting-driver-issues.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86834\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86834\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86834\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nvidia-users-reporting-driver-issues.jpg\" alt=\"Nvidia users reporting\" width=\"657\" height=\"966\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/wccftech.com\/nvidia-users-beware-latest-drivers-damage-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\">WCCFTech<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The other driver in this equation\u00a0364.51 has also received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nvidia\/comments\/49itcj\/new_game_ready_driver_to_solve_yesterdays\/\" target=\"_blank\">mixed reception from users<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some users are reporting stability <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.geforce.com\/default\/topic\/921332\/geforce-drivers\/official-364-47-game-ready-whql-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-3-7-16-\/35\/\" target=\"_blank\">with said driver<\/a> and others are running into issues, as seen below:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86836\" style=\"width: 973px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nvidia-users-reporting-364.51-driver-issues-geforce-forums-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86836\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86836\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86836\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nvidia-users-reporting-364.51-driver-issues-geforce-forums-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nvidia\" width=\"963\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nvidia-users-reporting-364.51-driver-issues-geforce-forums-1.jpg 963w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nvidia-users-reporting-364.51-driver-issues-geforce-forums-1-768x635.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 963px) 100vw, 963px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/wccftech.com\/nvidia-users-beware-latest-drivers-damage-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\">WCCFTech<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you have already installed these NVIDIA drivers, we strongly recommend uninstalling them in Safe Mode and rolling back to the last stable driver release, as recommended by NVIDIA themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Please tell us in the comments and forum below whether you&#8217;re experiencing issues with these NVIDIA drivers.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly hope that NVIDIA identifies what&#8217;s causing these issues and rectifies them as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/wccftech.com\/nvidia-users-beware-latest-drivers-damage-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\">WCCFTech<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More On Nvidia<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to NVIDIA to bundle The Division with their graphics cards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86257-nvidia-to-bundle-the-division-with-their-graphics-cards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">NVIDIA to bundle The Division with their graphics cards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to AMD and NVIDIA\u2019s latest desktop GPUs to arrive by end of 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/85563-amd-and-nvidias-latest-desktop-gpus-to-arrive-by-end-of-2016.html\" 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