Nvidia Drivers 257.21 WHQL, BAD BAD BAD

[Maleick]

Just an FYI for anyone needed new drivers for Nvidia.

The current release is BAD for WoW.

Download the Beta drivers or rollback if you need to!

Version:

257.21 WHQL

Release Date:

2010.06.15

Operating System:

Windows 7, Windows Vista

Language:

English (U.S.)

File Size:

94.7 MB

[MiRai]

Just an FYI for anyone needed new drivers for Nvidia.

The current release is BAD for WoW.

Download the Beta drivers or rollback if you need to!

Version:

257.21 WHQL

Release Date:

2010.06.15

Operating System:

Windows 7, Windows Vista

Language:

English (U.S.)

File Size:

94.7 MB
How do you know this?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Bad how? Does it format your hard drive? Slap your wife? Corrupt your registry? Run over your dog?

If you're gonna warn us of a bug, please provide some salient details.

[Mercurio]

Not sure exactly what the "bad" is, but here is my experience. I run WoW on two computers. One has an ATI Radeon 5800, one has an Nvidea 295 GTX. I updated both drivers about a week ago. On my Nvidea machine only, my screen has gone blank about twice every day, most of the time eventually coming back with a "video card driver has failed, then recovered" message from windows. It has only been happening in WoW (of course, that's what I'm running 90% of the time on that computer) and only since I updated the driver.

That's what's happened with me... take it for what it is worth.

[lans83]

Not sure exactly what the "bad" is, but here is my experience. I run WoW on two computers. One has an ATI Radeon 5800, one has an Nvidea 295 GTX. I updated both drivers about a week ago. On my Nvidea machine only, my screen has gone blank about twice every day, most of the time eventually coming back with a "video card driver has failed, then recovered" message from windows. It has only been happening in WoW (of course, that's what I'm running 90% of the time on that computer) and only since I updated the driver.

That's what's happened with me... take it for what it is worth.


I've had that same issue happen to me quite a few times over the past couple months. I finally updated my driver for my card yesterday and played WoW all night and didn't have any hangups. Tho I only ran my main to tank instances to gear up better, I didn't notice any of the flickering or freezeup aside from AutoScreenShoter kickin in when I gained achievements. Again, these don't accure everyday, and mostly when I multibox, but I doubt this has anything to do with this specific driver only. If anyone can find out what the problem with this driver is, please post it. I remember last year, there was another driver issue, but I never suffered from that one cause I didn't update at that time till the next one came out and the problem was solved.

[Pocalypse]

I've been running on 257.21 since a few weeks ago when I formatted my computer. I haven't had any issues.

I run 5 WoWs on two monitors on two GTX 280s.