News - NVIDIA releases WHQL 266.58 ForceWare drivers

[Terbinator]

So jokes aside, think I've been screwed over by these as well. Had a spate of BSOD'ing and this is the only change i've made recently (read:today). I've re-installed and it hasn't BSOD'd, yet, on the stock Windows drivers/settings.

The only thing stopping me from confirming its the drivers is that in some cases it wouldn't even boot into Windows before i formatted, everything at stock/optimised default settings and it was still giving me a BSOD. :/

[Breadloaf]

Tried these drivers but had to revert back to the old version as 3D Vision Surround just crashed my machine everytime I tried setting up 3D ??

Nvidia really do need to get these issues sorted out as I very much doubt that I will be purchasing any more Nvidia kit after the problems I have had with 3D and my 480GTX SLI setup.

I would not mind but most games will not run across 3 screens even with two cards

Dirt 2 Runs OK (apart from LA course) with out 3D across 3 screens but with 3D on - its rubbish and unplayable.

So I can run either 3 sceens or 3D but pretty much not at the same time !!

[ddg4005]

I've installed the new driver on both boxes but I haven't tested it with any games yet. I'll put it through its paces in Mass Effect 2 tonight.

ME2 isn't the most demanding game out there but playing it with the new drivers didn't result in performance hit either. I can confirm that they are stable if that helps.

FYI, I'm running a GTS 250 card and a 9800 GT for PhysX support (both 1GB).

[Terbinator]

Since reverting back to the previous drivers my PC has been solid as a rock surviving a fresh install of Win 7, and benchmarks of Crysis, Heaven and even some F1 2010.

[Phage]

I used unistall and the deleted the nvidia corp folder from the C/ drive. I don't have a driver cleaner.

Download driver sweeper. It's free and works fine with W7.
I use it quite a lot with ATi drivers as they stopped fully uninstalling after about 10.11.