GeForce 397.31 Drivers Creating Endless install Loop for GTX 1060 Owners?

[bo4koxex]

Dont worry I cant play any Unreal Engine games in full screen after this driver updates (Asus Dual GTX 1060 6gb) 

[GoldenLag]

Hopefully the hospital accepts my kidney transplant so i can join the Dar.....i mean Red side

[Sir Asvald]

No issues with my card..  

[XenosTech]

Happened with my 780 and my friends 1080Ti. They eventually installed after a couple restarts.

[CTR640]

Lol, I'm still using 346.72

Can't be arsed to update to latest drivers and I won't upgrade to a better and newer GPU due to those fucked up prices.

[Trentonxx]

 

Same, it says I have the 397.31  installed, yet Geforce experience keeps asking me to install it (I did the clean install)
I also can't seem to select "home" in the Geforce panel, lol it truly is the Geforce Experience

 

I wouldn't care if it wasn't for the fact that I keep getting the DX11 version 10.0 error when i try to launch games... grrr

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Random assortment of thoughts

• This is why I don't update drivers just because. Unless the driver actually states it's improving a game significantly and it's a game I'm playing, or the driver is providing a huge feature update (like support for deferred contexts), I will assume the driver does nothing for performance.
• Any software developer who's working with an open hardware platform can't possibly test every edge or corner case, and there's a lot of users out there with system configurations that I frankly think aren't necessary.

Actually that was all the thoughts I had.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Luckily I only update my drivers manually and every once in a blue moon.  I also always keep the old installers so I can always roll back to a previous version. 

 

At least on Windows that is.  Never really paid attention to drivers on Linux because everything always just works.  I'm on 384 IIRC.  I'll do manual updates from now on too, to make sure I don't accidentally install the newer version.  At least until they clean up this mess.

[Brooksie359]

On 4/27/2018 at 8:07 AM, Virus__ said:

From Kotaku Australia: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/04/psa-gtx-1060-owners-do-not-install-nvidias-latest-drivers/

 

It also apparently affects those with a 1060 in a laptop. Oops.

 

 

Damn almost forgot I have one of those in my laptop. Good thing I saw this.

[Virus__]

6 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Random assortment of thoughts

• This is why I don't update drivers just because. Unless the driver actually states it's improving a game significantly and it's a game I'm playing, or the driver is providing a huge feature update (like support for deferred contexts), I will assume the driver does nothing for performance.
• Any software developer who's working with an open hardware platform can't possibly test every edge or corner case, and there's a lot of users out there with system configurations that I frankly think aren't necessary.

Actually that was all the thoughts I had.

I don't update because I can't even remember the last time I played a game.. Might've been The Fractured But Whole back last year sometime when I think back on it.

3 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

Damn almost forgot I have one of those in my laptop. Good thing I saw this.

It's not affecting everyone, but I wouldn't want to risk it.

1 hour ago, Arokhantos said:

 

Remember when there was a bug that caused fan to stop spinning ?  glad i was watercooled back then on my gtx 480 

Water cooling a GTX 480 was a smart idea.

[Beowulff83]

I had no issues with 6gb.  did a clean install if that matters.

[flibberdipper]

I love how the only modern driver I've had luck with is 362.00. Everything else has been a shitshow. Thank god I still don't have to deal with novideo drivers lmao

[XenosTech]

3 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I love how the only modern driver I've had luck with is 362.00. Everything else has been a shitshow. Thank god I still don't have to deal with novideo drivers lmao

[Trentonxx]

Incredible, I was playing a game, I closed it, went to lunch, came back and it gives me the Dx11 error and suddently the Geforce experience panel tells me there's an update (the same one lmaooo)

it's not even a restart, the driver stop working by magic and needs re-installing, f this s, I'm getting the older one for now.  bha

[D13H4RD]

This is why I rarely update. 

 

I only do so when a game I'm playing gets optimized drivers. And even then, I don't buy that many new games lately. 

[sKetchyy]

I'm certainly glad you brought this to my attention! I'll be waiting until this has been fixed until updating 

[mr moose]

I sure am glad there are companies out there with a perfect update record and product support.  It sure makes all those shitty derisory posts not look biased. 

[Razor01]

They just released a hot fix driver for this today.

[sKetchyy]

1 minute ago, Razor01 said:

They just released a hot fix driver for this today.

Waiting to see if this is fully fixed before updating, keep us updated if you hear any more

[Razor01]

will do, I don't have a 1060 so can't test it out for that lol, but I'll keep my eye open.  Odd thing is though there seems to be a bug in these too where if Windows 10 is idle after a certain amount of time the driver goes missing lol.

[sKetchyy]

1 minute ago, Razor01 said:

will do, I don't have a 1060 so can't test it out for that lol, but I'll keep my eye open.  Odd thing is though there seems to be a bug in these too where if Windows 10 is idle after a certain amount of time the driver goes missing lol.

I would say I'd take one for the team and test it out but I'm not that brave. Is that bug within the hotfix they just released?

[Razor01]

with the hotfix I think.

[DrMacintosh]

AMD Drivers > Nvidia Drivers 

[Razor01]

6 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

AMD Drivers > Nvidia Drivers 

There really is no difference man.  AMD has their share of bugs too.  Would be nice if there weren't any but that is the nature of the beast.

[Trixanity]

Yeah, it's just a matter of when not if a driver has bugs. Usually they're small though. Both teams have had some glaring issues within the last couple of years. I do believe Nvidia has had a few more very critical ones but that hardly signifies a trend. What matters is that it can be fixed and that it gets fixed quickly. I'd consider GPU destroying bugs a fair bit worse :-)