drivers Nvidia driver ver.364.72 Allegedly Killing GPUs, Is Plagued With Issues

[Sylence]

Nvidia Users Beware, Latest Driver May Harm Your PC – Allegedly Killing GPUs, Is Plagued With Issues

 

Nvidia GeForce users beware, the latest 364.72 Game Ready drivers may damage your PC and/or windows installation, driver plagued with issues. Reports of issues from many disgruntled Nvidia users on the GeForce forums as well as on reddit & various other forums have been pouring in for the past couple of days after Nvidia released its Game Ready 364.72 driver.

 

 

If you have an Nvidia graphics cards we’d recommend waiting this one out. As reports have been pouring in on Nvidia’s official GeForce forum and reddit from users who report running into all sorts of issues after installing the 364.72 Game Ready driver. Ranging from their systems failing to boot to crashes, blue screen crashes, gray & green screen artifacting, flickering, visual corruption, freezing, G-Sync issues, DSR scaling issues and there’s even reports of GeForce GTX graphics cards dying after driver installation.

 

 

 

Nvidia users on the GeForce forum reporting various issues after installing the 364.72 Game Ready driver.

 

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[PSA] WARNING: AVOID 364.72 (march 28) LIKE THE PLAGUE – it’s bricking cards left and right – and rollbacks are not working.

I’m not being hyperbolic here – there are hundreds of posts on reddit and the nvidia forums of people saying the latest driver update is bricking hardware. i’ve now seen multiple pics of people’s screens after the update, and it looks just like what happened to me.

I am NOT a hater on nvidia – i’ve got a shield and I literally use it every day – gamestreaming is almost the only way i consume gaming content now, but right now nvidia has seriously shit the bed on this one.

Hold out for the next driver.

EDIT: YES, MOST USERS WILL PROBABLY NOT HAVE PROBLEMS. It wouldn’t have gotten out of beta if it was a majority issue right? but do you want to risk your system being in that 1%?

Drivers should not brick hardware – at the worst, a rollback should resolve things. if this is happening to any number of systems, something is wrong.

EDIT 2: It looks like the entire 364* series of drivers is borked. I would just stay away from all of them. Also, RIP inbox 

 

 

It seems Nvidia has been facing some challenges getting Game Ready drivers out on time issue free as of late. Unfortunately this is the second time that a WHQL certified Game Ready driver has caused heartache for gamers in the past month. In fact so many users report running into the exact same issues that had afflicted the last game ready driver a little over three weeks ago.

If you’ve already downloaded and installed the drivers and you’re having issues you could try using driver removal tools such as Display Driver Uninstaller and uninstalling the driver in Safe Mode. If you haven’t installed the the 364.72 driver it’s recommended that you stay on the last stable version you have installed until most of the more issues are resolved.

 

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[oliverjia]

Thanks for the heads-up. It appears it's the GAME READY driver that is problematic. The regular NVDIA driver provided by Microsoft Update is still fine to use.

[Karosha]

I have this version installed sense the 1st day drivers came out and none problem was found. Maybe because I don`t play games....

 

Processor:- Intel (R) Core(T.M.) i5-4460 CPU-3200MHZ.

Graphic  :- Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti (2GB).

Memory :- 8 GB (DDR3-1600 MHZ).

Hard Disk :- WCD-WD 7500 BPKX-OOHPJTO.

 

[Israeli_Eagle]

1. Overinstall the version 362.00

2. Uninstall Vulkan in the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\VulkanRT, no idea why that needs an extra uninstaller.

 

Maybe the new Vulkan drivers are the real problem...

 

[mastershake]

major issues with clients computers with this one. crashes all over the place. and still have the bsod's from the tdr errros (driver stopped working) for the moment im done using and selling nvidia cards. way to many issues the last few months.

[haxzion]

Playing Witcher 3 with 364.72 on my old outdated Win7 OS.Zero problems for 5 days now

[straycat19]

Seems like most of the issues, based upon the information on many forums, not just Nvidia, are related to Windows 10 or Express Installations of the Nvidia Drivers.  Express installs put all the various drivers on your system, whether you have 3D vision, Oculus Rift, or any of the other 'special' hardware supported.  I never do express installs but choose to install the drivers only through the custom install.  Additionally, if you use Geforce Experience it should only notify you of available updates and not download and do express installs.  I used DDU about a year ago to uninstall the the video drivers on my systems and just do a custom drivers install only since then and have not had one problem, not even with the latest drivers.

 

I have 4 gaming PCs with the latest drivers on Nvidia 660 to 980 to GTX and played The Division for over 9 hours yesterday with no problem.  These are all Win 7 x64 systems with 364.72 custom installs.

[haxzion]

25 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

These are all Win 7 x64 systems with 364.72

 

There you go

[Israeli_Eagle]

If you have the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\VulkanRT the question is WHY???

 

[Vjcobra]

Re-installing ver 362.00 seems like a wise choice.

[Avitar]

Can confirm this is legit. I'm running the following system:

Lenovo Y500p

Intel Core i7 3630QM 2.4~3.2GHz, 256KB/1MB/6MB L-cache

2x nVidia GT 650M 4GB SLI

8GB DDR3 1600mhz RAM

 

While playing video games like League of Legends (ign: BladeSlasher) I notice FPS drops and sticking on screen whenever certain PhysX particles are rendered. Thankfully my video BIOS are of different versions and the next frame is rendered by the other GPU whenever one frame fails.. so I don't crash.. but single GPU users will BSOD. Worse driver ever. NOT UPGRADING FROM 364.51

 

 

 

[D1v1n3D]

I am having more issues with crap Killer Network e2200 worst Nic i have ever used if software is outdated and doesn't update itself your internet connection comes to a crawling halt I just had .22mbs down and .1mbs up when usually its 65down 4.5up

also you cant blame Vulkan I have 2 gaming machines both with AMD GPU's that both have the latest driver supporting Vulkan and no issues in any games on either computer. So it is Nvidia..

[Israeli_Eagle]

49 minutes ago, D1v1n3D said:

I am having more issues with crap Killer Network e2200 worst Nic i have ever used if software is outdated and doesn't update itself your internet connection comes to a crawling halt I just had .22mbs down and .1mbs up when usually its 65down 4.5up

also you cant blame Vulkan I have 2 gaming machines both with AMD GPU's that both have the latest driver supporting Vulkan and no issues in any games on either computer. So it is Nvidia..

 

We're not sure yet what's the reason exactly, maybe only .72 version and maybe Vulkan or both together. I use now the middle way: 364.51 but Vulkan extra uninstalled.

 

[steven36]

5 hours ago, straycat19 said:

Seems like most of the issues, based upon the information on many forums, not just Nvidia, are related to Windows 10

It always is , be it AMD,or  Nvidia . Even when Windows 10  1st came out My AMD card only has drivers beta for windows 10 and AMD no longer carries them so you get them from other sites and the ones Microsoft gives  you dont work right at all .My PC came with windows 8 and if i roll back to windows 8.1  it  has working drivers easy to find . This is why its never good to put newer windows on hardware made for older windows.  Even Windows 10 had problems with skylake this is why they are going to  make them wait a year for redstone 2 its a unfinished product . So i turned that pc into a Linux box because They want give me good drivers to test windows 10 on after  I got  INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error in Windows 10  and had to change HHD  . I already have a windows 8.1 box Intel  no need for 2 Windows 8.1 pcs and i dont trust them beta drivers.

 

More people had problems with AMD  than the others with Windows 10 with 15.7 catalyst and newer  it deem many machines  unusable with windows 10 that came with with windows 7 and windows 8 I got around it with 15.6 beta drivers . Dell and HP recommend to roll back you're  O/S  even if you have older HW .

 

And really i cant blame it on AMD  because  they handed over driver support for my card to Microsoft  . Its Microsoft fault for giving me bad drivers None of the Linux distros dont give me no bad drivers for AMD,,  One time Ubuntu  did  on v15 but they fixed that long ago but they had open source ones that worked then. Microsoft never fixes these issues  and want to force windows 10 on people . Windows 10 was made were it was not  meant  to use drivers from 3rd party sites  anymore like flash a windows update and they hid the settings to turn it off in case of a emergency  and they screwed up big time on many AMD cards . 

[straycat19]

Some users have stated that the latest drivers from Microsoft for Nvidia work, but I would never trust a driver from Microsoft, afterall, these are the same people who brought you that great new perpetual beta operating system called Windows 10 and Microsoft Security Essentials, that don't secure anything.  How many chances are we supposed to give those idiots to get their act together before we tell them to put their windows where the sun don't shine.

 

As far as Nvidia goes, I cannot find anyone I know locally who is having any problem with the new drivers, but none of them are running Windows 10 and they are all gamers of some sort or another.  I think there might be something else going on with those PCs that are having problems.  Those that even think they might have problems should roll back to 362 as insurance until Nvidia can pinpoint the exact cause.

 

I also noted that some of those that are complaining have been requested to post screen captures and data but none of them have so far.  If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem, complaining alone doesn't help anyone.

[steven36]

2 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

Some users have stated that the latest drivers from Microsoft for Nvidia work

All they have to do is stay with old drivers  or roll back no need  to use the ones from Microsoft unlike AMD did for my card..  Nvidia will  fix it soon .

[D1v1n3D]

either way you look at it Microsoft is going down the pooper they just don't know how to please customers and they don't care about customers they care about share market and profit power over the industry.

[steven36]

2 hours ago, D1v1n3D said:

either way you look at it Microsoft is going down the pooper they just don't know how to please customers and they don't care about customers they care about share market and profit power over the industry.

This seems to  be the the case i never could get AMD 15.7 drivers or newer to  install  on Windows 10 but if roll back they work fine under windows 8.1  and AMD said i needed to let Microsoft install them instead and when i did it broke Hardware acceleration and people wonder why i dont like windows 10,  the privacy issue i can get around with a good firewall,  but being stuck  with bad or beta drivers is not acceptable  .   

 

They pissed me off so bad with my Windows 8 box  and drivers @D1v1n3D I went out and bought a new Dell  that with the pc it said  it was a free windows 10 upgrade when  i bought it , But I no longer trust Windows 10  to install it maybe by 2023  when windows 8.1 updates are over they may have all the bugs out the Windows 10 O/S  if you by new hardware or a pc.

 

I done more reading on it

Alot of people  is using AMD Catalyst 14.12 OMEGA from Dec 9, 2014 to make windows 10  work now.  So on older ADM cards your stuck on old drivers  14.12 stable or 15,6 beta , https://community.amd.com/thread/171629

 

And Microsoft tries force this on people and they dont have working drivers in the updates .

 

[RejZoR]

No problems here.

[npo33770]

Playing Doom3 BFG, with very high HD textures, no problems with that, i tink is the vulkan drivers who causes the problem

[vibranium]

In the first place, how on earth do these drivers pass WHQL?

[Sylence]

There's no use in using old AMD drivers on Windows 10. this is so funny omg 

I have Sony Vaio laptop and installed AMD Radeon software on it, the latest version 16.1.1. this is special because Sony laptops don't usually support manufacturer drivers, only those Sony itself verifies that. 

 

With that said, AMD clearly said on their website that version 15.7.1 is the latest version for GPUs older than 7800 series and that driver version is supposed to let users make the most out of their old GPUs. in fact this is pretty good. even if AMD were to release newer version of drivers for old GPUs it wouldn't still be any good for those GPUs because the technology used in them is just too old for today's Operation system, software, hardware, games etc. 

[Sylence]

Brand loyalty is for suckers

[D1v1n3D]

hey actually what you need to do is uninstall all microsoft drivers and disable all auto driver updates for windows updates in windows 10 I found this out by f*cking around on my own you have to make sure it says basic vesa display or whatever it is not the actually amd device needs to be basic. there is a tool for complete clean uninstall of all amd drivers as well then after a good reboot install the latest driver 15.7.1 drivers to install and all issues will be gone I have a hd6950 1gb i had to do that on a windows 10 machine now it works better then ever for example I was getting about 90fps on low in BF4 now I get that on Medium and 120fps on low so a big jump. The whql windows certified drivers conflict with amd's real drivers BIG TIME. they must be uninstalled and removed and disabled from install again. But micro-sucks wont tell you that and neither will amd.

1 hour ago, saeed_dc said:

There's no use in using old AMD drivers on Windows 10. this is so funny omg 

I have Sony Vaio laptop and installed AMD Radeon software on it, the latest version 16.1.1. this is special because Sony laptops don't usually support manufacturer drivers, only those Sony itself verifies that. 

 

With that said, AMD clearly said on their website that version 15.7.1 is the latest version for GPUs older than 7800 series and that driver version is supposed to let users make the most out of their old GPUs. in fact this is pretty good. even if AMD were to release newer version of drivers for old GPUs it wouldn't still be any good for those GPUs because the technology used in them is just too old for today's Operation system, software, hardware, games etc. 

and its 7xxx series not 7800 it is actually any GCN will support the 16.3.2 driver.

[Sylence]

6 minutes ago, D1v1n3D said:

hey actually what you need to do is uninstall all microsoft drivers and disable all auto driver updates for windows updates in windows 10 I found this out by f*cking around on my own you have to make sure it says basic vesa display or whatever it is not the actually amd device needs to be basic. there is a tool for complete clean uninstall of all amd drivers as well then after a good reboot install the latest driver 15.7.1 drivers to install and all issues will be gone I have a hd6950 1gb i had to do that on a windows 10 machine now it works better then ever for example I was getting about 90fps on low in BF4 now I get that on Medium and 120fps on low so a big jump. The whql windows certified drivers conflict with amd's real drivers BIG TIME. they must be uninstalled and removed and disabled from install again. But micro-sucks wont tell you that and neither will amd.

and its 7xxx series not 7800 it is actually any GCN will support the 16.3.2 driver.

 

I have a HD 7850 using Radeon Crimson driver. in 7000 series, HD 7850,7870,7950 and 7970 are all supported in the new drivers.