Nvidia 375.86 driver has issues

[Techicolors]

Apparently one shouldn't install the latest Nvidia 375.86 drivers, as it has problems concerning the following

 

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Shortly after the driver had been released yesterday our forums started to flood with bad user experiences on this driver. Reports that where games normally did 60 FPS the now are doing 25 FPS. Also many people have locked down-clocked 810 MHz memory clock frequencies and flickering issues. If you do not have any issues then there is no reason to remove them. But the reports on wrong memory clock frequencies are worrisome enough for me to post this on the front-page as a warning.

 

Said reports can be found with this link http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=410951

Reports are already filed in the official Nvidia drivers subforum https://forums.geforce.com/default/board/33/geforce-drivers/

 

Techpowerup's take

 

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If you have installed the GeForce 375.86 WHQL drivers you may experience a variety of issues. According to users on Guru3D forums, and indeed users here on our very own forums, the drivers released just yesterday have had reports where certain games frame rates are cut in half, however more alarmingly many users also report memory clock speed drops resulting in on screen flickering and instability.

The memory speed and flickering issues appear to be limited to cards using the "Pascal" architecture, NVIDIA have acknowledged that the issues are widespread and work is already underway to remedy them. We expect either that a hotfix or new WHQL driver set will follow shortly, depending on their release cycle.

 

If one is still interested in trying out this driver in spite of the instability issue, you can grab them here http://www.geforce.com/drivers

 

Source(s) http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-geforce-375-86-whql-drivers-have-major-issues.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/227881/users-report-multiple-issues-with-geforce-375-86-whql-drivers

 

Personally I don't have any issues, as all games run normally thus far (I have a 1070) and the card clocks up and down normally. What are your thoughts? Should a hotfix be released every time Nvidia releases a driver?

 

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Hotfix available https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4260

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This is GeForce Hot Fix driver version 375.95 that addresses the following:

   -        Low memory clocks on certain factory-overclocked Pascal cards.

[goodtofufriday]

Doesnt this happen with every other new driver from nvidia? Pretty sure they do thwir testing bt having users install it and then collect the error reports from geforce experience. 

Then release hotfix versions of the driver. 

[ThinkWithPortals]

Why is the "AMD has bad drivers" stereotype still a thing with many people? In recent times at least, NVIDIA has had many, many more driver derps than AMD.

[AresKrieger]

8 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Why is the "AMD has bad drivers" stereotype still a thing with many people? In recent times at least, NVIDIA has had many, many more driver derps than AMD.

AMD had bad drivers for ages which is why they had poor performance despite seemly high specs and the reputation, Nvidia has only seemed to have major issues for the last 6-8 months maybe a bit longer, however if they keep this up they'll gain a bad reputation on drivers

 

Op are the issues on all platforms or just windows 10.......again.....

(keep in mind Nvidia is at fault regardless just curious)

[2FA]

'Member when Nvidia was supposed to be the better driver maker? Pepper Ridge Farms remembers. 

[aisle9]

Yes, but have they ever gotten around to fixing the video rendering glitch that causes artifacts during playback? They've said a couple of times that their then-new driver would solve it, but my 1070 and my 1060 still have problems.

[ThinkWithPortals]

22 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

 

I know, AMD's driver's used to be total crap, but it's been years since they've been really bad. The last screw-up we had was the AMD Crimson fan-speed thing, which was almost a year ago now. And yet, people still blurt out the "AMD drivers are shit go for NVIDIA" thing time and time again... *sigh*

[Shahnewaz]

Not a week goes without another bad release from Nvidia...

[AresKrieger]

6 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

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A bad reputation is a lot harder to lose than to gain, but so long as they don't slip up and Nvidia keeps shelling updates like this one out then eventually it will. Granted it doesn't affect me either way as I screen updates via a testing session.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Just now, AresKrieger said:

A bad reputation is a lot harder to lose than to gain, but so long as they don't slip up and Nvidia keeps shelling updates like this one out then eventually it will. Granted it doesn't affect me either way as I screen updates via a testing session.

Same here. I very rarely update my drivers (only when I need to, for example when there's a new feature I want or a particular bugfix) but I always make restore points before and after. I've never actually had an issue, but still.

[SurvivorNVL]

Never had issues with my AMD drivers, but every game loves having issues with nVidia ever since I got the 970.  Wish AMD would hurry the hell up and release their new stuff.  I only upgraded 6 months ago.

[ivan134]

34 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

AMD had bad drivers for ages which is why they had poor performance despite seemly high specs and the reputation, Nvidia has only seemed to have major issues for the last 6-8 months maybe a bit longer, however if they keep this up they'll gain a bad reputation on drivers

 

Op are the issues on all platforms or just windows 10.......again.....

(keep in mind Nvidia is at fault regardless just curious)

6 - 8 months? It's been like a year and a half.

[Notional]

Installing the vast majority of modern Nvidia drivers:

 

[raphidy]

Anything above 373.06 is cancer.

[AresKrieger]

2 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

6 - 8 months? It's been like a year and a half.

I did say major issues, there were some meh drivers prior (though I don't recall any prior to a year ago) but I'm talking about drivers that crash, have large fps dips, lock fans to overheatable settings etc.

 

Though I might be oblivious to some issues as the drivers have been far more stable on windows 7 by comparison. However regardless of the dates my point about AMD's reputation still remains, and Nvidia will similarly gain a long lasting reputation on this matter if they continue to fuck up.

[2FA]

44 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Yes, but have they ever gotten around to fixing the video rendering glitch that causes artifacts during playback? They've said a couple of times that their then-new driver would solve it, but my 1070 and my 1060 still have problems.

The artifacting is so fucking annoying too. I ended up disabling hardware acceleration in my browser because of it.

[Mr.Meerkat]

54 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

AMD had bad drivers for ages which is why they had poor performance despite seemly high specs and the reputation

Ever since AMD released 14.x drivers (actually maybe even 13.x), I've never had an issue...to be honest, I've never really had a real issue with any drivers so maybe I'm just lucky?  

 

By the way, poor optimisation=/=bad drivers in the way we're talking about drivers right now...

[AresKrieger]

Just now, Mr.Meerkat said:

By the way, poor optimisation=/=bad drivers in the way we're talking about drivers right now...

I'm aware it isn't what people first think of, but if a driver tanks optimization and thus performance would it not count?

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, AresKrieger said:

driver tanks optimization and thus performance would it not count?

Never had performance tank from upgrading drivers...ermmm, I think my 2.5 years with AMD drivers and 8.25 years with Nvidia drivers is enough experience?  

[AresKrieger]

Just now, Mr.Meerkat said:

Never had performance tank from upgrading drivers...ermmm, I think my 2.5 years with AMD drivers and 8.25 years with Nvidia drivers is enough experience?  

Your are indeed lucky then

[Misanthrope]

I have never been diligent about upgrading drivers, I did saw the notification yesterday but as usual I ignored it. This is why: I rather have horsepower to spare than to desperately seek drivers I'm not fucking beta testing for anybody, AMD or Nvidia.

[Bouzoo]

54 minutes ago, Notional said:

Installing the vast majority of modern Nvidia drivers:

"That's a cool screensaver."

[0ld_Chicken]

Uhhhhhh yeah, it blows.  It gave me a short moment of panic since I had just got done rebuilding my loop and thought maybe I borked something.  Every game I tried gave me a stuttery, 30~fps or so.

 

I usually avoid the newest drivers, but after 2 weeks of downtime I wasn't in the mood to properly reinstall my last driver version.  Not even sure why it was necessary tbh, same GPUs went back in the same slots of the same mobo using the same OS.

 

Oh well, learned that lesson.

 

[CommandMan7]

That's strange, after I updated last night civ v, battlefield 1, and cs:go all ran either better or the same for me.

[Trik'Stari]

I'm so very happy that I did a complete driver wipe last weekend, uninstalled Geforce Experience, and installed the driver alone, without Experience.

 

Haven't had a single issue since then, including issues I was having at the beginning of said weekend (screens going black, losing signal. According to Windows Event Viewer, the driver had crashed and "recovered" only it hadn't recovered and my monitors weren't getting a signal. I would have to hard reset, and turn the PC back on with one of the monitors plugged into the motherboard itself to get things to come back).

 

Cannot wait for the 490 to come out, so I can switch to team red and see what that's like. Only ever had Nvidia graphics cards. Tired of the shit support for triple monitor (no offense to shit)