PSA: Beware Nvidia's 364 drivers

[Ken g6]

PrimeGrid has posted news that Nvidia's 364.xx drivers are causing lots of problems.

Numerous participants have had tasks fail due the Nvidia's buggy 364.xx driver. If you're using this driver, I recommend reverting to an earlier version of the driver with a major version number lower than 364.

If you're currently running an older version of the driver, I strongly recommend that you do not "upgrade" to 364.xx. I've also heard reports of this driver "bricking" GPUs, and that goes way, way beyond merely having some BOINC tasks fail.

 

[Markfw]

PrimeGrid has posted news that Nvidia's 364.xx drivers are causing lots of problems.

Please reply with your recommended version number.

 

[Ken g6]

PrimeGrid recommends the 362 driver. I'm still using 346 myself. Basically I think the lesson is don't upgrade drivers unless you have a problem or you upgrade your graphics card.

 

[Orange Kid]

In case you missed the BOINC notice or the post on the PrimeGrid forums...

Recently, Nvidia released driver 368.22 which fixes the serious error introduced with their 364.xx driver. Please upgrade to 368.22 or later, unless you are running Windows XP or Windows Vista.

If you are running the 364.xx or 365.xx drivers, it is imperative that you upgrade to 368.22 or later. The 364.xx and 365.xx drivers can produce incorrect calculation results.

However, if you are running Windows XP or Windows Vista, these versions of Windows are no longer supported by Nvidia's drivers as of 368.22. If you're running XP or Vista, you must revert to an earlier version of the driver (363.xx or earlier).