Be careful with the October 22nd 2014 Nvidia drivers

[Guest Vendayn]

For some reason I had nvidia geforce experience to auto install new drivers...

 

(I have a Geforce GTX 660, factory overclocked)

 

And this may not affect every card or even other GTX 660s...but my card is overclocked (factory)

 

I never had an issue till the Oct 22nd drivers. Interiors, Skyrim played fine...other games were fine.

 

As soon as I went into an exterior, graphical artifacts or an instant CTD when I went into an exterior.

 

I do have a huge mod list...but its been working fine for weeks till the driver update.

 

Then earlier today, I tried going into an exterior...blue screen with a memory dump. So I did some googling and saw someone had ATI drivers that caused it...and the problem happened right after the new drivers...

 

Turned off auto install (dunno why that was on or even an option for it to be auto on...)

 

Re-rolled drivers

 

Haven't had an issue for hours when the new drivers it was instant ctd no matter what (or that one blue screen)

[tomz31790]

I got the new drivers last night and played for about an hour with no ctds or memory dumps. I have a GeForce GTX 780 Ti (not overclocked cause my cpu is the main bottleneck in my system so no point overclocking). Will test it a bit more tonight though.

[Guest Vendayn]

Well, I figured most won't have the problem. A lot of hardware combos, different GPUs and different GPU brands of the same type of card.

 

I thought it might be GPU related, especially since it was graphical issues, because massive artifacting and major graphics issues and CTD (no error) right to desktop in exteriors (but interiors were completely fine. And when the small chance the exterior loaded, huge graphics issues). And then that BSOD as soon as I tried loading an exterior.

 

Like I said, rolled back...haven't had an issue since. But, that is just for my GPU. But good to know you are likely fine. This is more of a reminder to always be wary of those driver updates I know both ATI and Nvidia have released drivers that have fried GPUs before...

 

 

[ousnius]

You could try installing the new drivers by hand again and see if it was something that went wrong in the auto-update process that causes it, when you feel like it.

[Rayblue]

Been checking some ENB discussions and discovered that the recent version of Geforce Experience has caused problems. Installing the drivers without it may help avert a BSOD.