Help- having trouble with last 2 generations of Nvidia Drivers
By
Memphis_Bill,
Posted on: 2012-08-05 11:21 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Normally I'd check their forums first to see if there are any issues... apparently there have been issues with their forums. Quick search doesn't reveal a *lot* of this recently (at least wading through the first 2-3 pages of google results.) Some, yes, but the rest stretching back to the early 2000s.
So, first question I'd have to ask is, are you installing over the top of the old driver (update) or doing an uninstall, driver sweep/clean, and then reinstalling? (Note I'm using a Radeon HD 5770, so I can't say yes or no to if I'm seeing it...)
I just upgraded my vid card the other day to an old-ish (but still massive upgrade for me) PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 320 DDR 3 and it's running like a dream on whatever the latest drivers are from their site.
Good luck!
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Nvidia forums, or http://forums.guru3d.com/index.php is where I go to look into video driver issues. Might want to look there as well.
I thought nvidia only made quality drivers. 
Just wait for the next update and rollback to a faster more stable version. It happens.
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Hi- Basically, I want the latest drivers for other games and programs but I get terrible results with COH. Even if I turn the graphics way down it still plays very rough. I really don't want to roll back to an older driver if I don't have to. Any suggestions?
- I also noticed my graphics scores in Windows evaluator went from 7.9 to 7.2 with newer drivers. Yes I know it is not the best benchmarking tool but I am wondering if this driver is the issue. From doing a little web searching it seems like WOW players, WOT players and etc.. are seeing massive FPS drops with this new driver.
- As a temporary fix, I rolled back to 296.10 driver and Windows score is back up to 7.9 and game runs okay. I really do want to use the new drivers though.
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