nVidia 196.75 -> 197.13

[martinvk]

In case you missed it:

NVIDIA is aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues after installing 196.75 drivers from NVIDIA's website. NVIDIA has removed these drivers and asked its partners to also remove the drivers. Any customers still using 196.75 drivers are asked to immediately discontinue use and either roll back to their previous driver or install the new 197.13 drivers. Driver roll back help can be found here. For those that experienced quality issues with 196.75 drivers, NVIDIA has setup this feedback site.

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Have you updated your drivers? Remember it is not always Auran's fault when things don't work as you think they should.

 

[JCitron]

Hi Martin,

I got word about this yesterday too over at www.evga.com I'm waiting to see if there are any after-effects from the installation. The previous driver to the 196.75 had technical difficulties that caused the fans to shutdown on the video cards. A patch update was sent out, the 196.75 and now the new version.

Thanks!

John

 

[Ferngren]

Yeah, nvidia had a warning at driver-dl page, so I passed on that one, and went from 196.21 to 197.13. The latter seem fine so far.

 

[jeffmorris]

After NVIDIA murdered my GeForce 9800 GT card using defective ForceWare 196.75 driver, I got MSI ATI R5830 card with two fans on it. Temperature at idle is usually less than 40 degrees C. I found out from Guru3D website that the new GeForce GTX 470 and 480 cards run very hot. I think that their stock fans are too small.

 

[ckthomson]

This is referring to the bug in the Nvidia drivers that cause the fans to be spun down rather than up when they reach their "safety threshold"? Or a different bug? If so, it has taken Nevidia an awfully long time to solve this.

I'm using the 196.21 (vista 64-bit) drivers on this system at the moment.

From my experience, my MSI-Branded (HP Sub-branded) Geforce 9500 has a nasty habit of spinning the fan DOWN when the card gets to it's threshold temperature. This wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for the fact that my system is an HP Pavilion Elite, for which HP used very poorly ventilated Micro-ATX cases. There's not even anywhere I can install an intake fan .

Even though I don't have an EVGA card, I use EVGA precision to set my fan-speeds manually, which is the only way I have been able to prevent my card from overheating.

 

[djt]

went from 196.21 to 197.13. The latter seem fine so far.

The latest are the 197.15's which feature OpenGL 3.3 and GLSL 3.30 support and can be found on Nvidia's “developers” site.


I've been using them on Windows 7 64 and XP/SP2 64-bit and haven't had seen any issues with them and TS2010 or a dozen or so other sims/games that I have installed.

I found out from Guru3D website that the new GeForce GTX 470 and 480 cards run very hot. I think that their stock fans are too small.

The rumors that were posted months ago on Fermi's power and thermal demands have proven to be true and it looks like a die shrink can't come soon enough (most likely in the form of a future “GTX 485”).

This is referring to the bug in the Nvidia drivers that cause the fans to be spun down rather than up when they reach their "safety threshold"? Or a different bug? If so, it has taken Nevidia an awfully long time to solve this.

The “fan control/overheating” issue with the 196.75's from what I read seemed to effect users who have the “power conservation” options in Windows 7 and Vista turned on (which should be turned off anyway if you are setting the machine up for performance use).


Those who use utilities such as EVGA's “Precision” which have manual fan control didn't seem to be effected.


I used the 196.75's with Windows 7 64 and XP/SP2 64-bit from the time they were released up until the 197.15's were available and I didn't have any problems with them and that was with a factory overclocked GTX 285 (EVGA “FTW”).