Nvidia to Address Driver-related Overclocking Bug
Nvidia to Address Driver-related Overclocking Bug
Posted 01/21/2010 at 6:01pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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If you’re the type that obsessively updates your video drivers, you might also be the type that likes to overclock your video card. Those predilections certainly didn’t you well this week if you run Nvidia cards. The GeForce 196.21 drivers released this week caused overclocking software to stop working.
The glitch affected multiple tweaking apps like RivaTuner, EVGA Precision, and Galaxy MagicPanel HD. In some cases only the shader clock could not be set. In the more severe cases, shader, memory, and core clocks were all locked. At first, there was fear that this was an intentional move by Nvidia to limit user tweaks. Nvidia quickly cleared the whole matter up though. The problem is just a software bug and there will be an updated driver available soon.
Have you updated to the 196.21 drivers? Any problems?
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Morpheous416
January 24, 2010 at 3:53pm
"Have you updated to the 196.21 drivers? Any problems?"
Don't know about the overclocking bug.. but I haven't been able to install any of the 190 series drivers at all. Error: Driver could not install the Control Panel, a previous driver that was installed will now be used.
Baer
January 22, 2010 at 1:26pm
Thanks for the warning. I usually look for and update drivers on weekends. I wonder if it would have affected my BFG GTX285 OCE which is overclocked by BFG?
K0BALT
January 23, 2010 at 7:30am
I would have to say no. To my understanding, the new Drivers only affect overclocking SOFTWARE., not the cards themselves. You should be good.
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Justin.Kerr
January 21, 2010 at 6:04pm
EVGA Precision has been updated to correct the bug. Quick on the uptake, I like that.
K0BALT
January 22, 2010 at 6:41am
Thanks for that..... didn't know they had an update that included a fix. EVGA ftw!
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