krause Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 See thread title. If you have the august 2011 nvidia drivers, it causes the game to lock up uncontrollably. Symptoms are, mission starts off fine, then 3-5 seconds later the screen becomes stuck. If you ctrl-alt-delete it will unfreeze the screen for 1-2 seconds, then lock up again, and again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Yep had to roll back the driver to version 275.33 and it is stable again. Wasn't just SB that it affected I found that it had made my computer just that bit slower and other programs were stuttering. The roll back seems to have cured that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9erRed Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Greetings all,Reference the Nvidia drivers, please specify the exact version from Aug. that you are referring to. Are you operating Win XP or Win 7, 32bit or 64bit. Series 200,300,400,500 card. As not all systems will experience the same results from the same drivers.The last drivers I have installed were therelease date: 2011.08.09, version: 280.26 WHQL, OS: Windows 7, Windows Vista, file size: 100 MBLater,9erRed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krause Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 Correct, it was 280.26. I have since rolled back Also:http://www.krauselabs.net/dump/dxdiag.txtFor those who are in distress and reading this, what I used to roll back was an amazing feature of windows 7: If you go to device manager for your 3d card, there is an option to rollback the drivers. All you do is click on it and it automagically rolls you back. Such a sweet feature. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorTom Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 I have experinced the same (W7+280.26). Thank you for the fix! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaws43 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Same problems here with 280.26 we tested it on Windows 7 32 and 64 bit on a Nvidia 560GTX and 8600 GT M. Nvidia is aware of this problem and are working on a fix. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabfire Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Same problems here with 280.26 we tested it on Windows 7 32 and 64 bit on a Nvidia 560GTX and 8600 GT M. Nvidia is aware of this problem and are working on a fix.That's great news. However, with the newest beta driver - 285.27 - the problem is still there... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieB Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Where is the fun in this. New card and not working. Will try the roll back... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaws43 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 That's great news. However, with the newest beta driver - 285.27 - the problem is still there... Well the fact Nvidia is working on a fix doesnt mean Esim can sit back and wait 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted September 21, 2011 Members Share Posted September 21, 2011 Actually, it does. There is already a workaround - older drivers - and unless there was really a compelling reason for it, it'd be a poor use of limited programming time to devote it to program around certain weird driver quirks that are likely to be eliminated in later driver versions (only to let us discover then that the programmed workaround then causes other problems for which yet another fix is needed).I'd rather concentrate us working on actually useful stuff, and keep the responsibilities where they belong - drivers with the hardware vendors, application quality with eSim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaws43 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Actually, it does. There is already a workaround - older drivers - and unless there was really a compelling reason for it, it'd be a poor use of limited programming time to devote it to program around certain weird driver quirks that are likely to be eliminated in later driver versions (only to let us discover then that the programmed workaround then causes other problems for which yet another fix is needed).I'd rather concentrate us working on actually useful stuff, and keep the responsibilities where they belong - drivers with the hardware vendors, application quality with eSim. Agree lets hope Nvidia fix this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabfire Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 (edited) Anyone already tried the newest Nvidia 285.38 "Battlefield 3" Beta drivers?These drivers solved the problem for me.Win7-Vista x64 DriversWin7-Vista x36 DriversWindows XP x32Windows XP x64 Edited September 28, 2011 by Fabfire 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted September 28, 2011 Members Share Posted September 28, 2011 Thanks for the heads-up. Can others confirm this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Just given them a try and they seem to work, :thumbup:Version 285.38 beta 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Just got the game and had a lock-up. Downloaded the new beta drivers and after 2 scenarios had another lock up. First time was just driving (before installing new beta drivers). This time was firing the Bradley 25. Gun locked and just kept firing. It's definitely the NVIDIA drivers causing this. It is well reported on the web. I can't use Firefox without getting the "drivers have stopped working" message. Funny thing is IE9 never does this.:shocked: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toastman Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Anyone tried the latest 285.62 WHQL drivers yet ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Anyone tried the latest 285.62 WHQL drivers yet ?I don't see them on Nvidia's website, well not for Win 7 64 bit anyway, just for the 32bit version. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toastman Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I just downloaded win 7 64bit version from Nvidia.com , I'll try them tomorrow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hmm, they wern't there when I looked last night. Got them now and will try them later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toastman Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I did some testing with the new NV 285.65 drivers and so far so good , no lockups !! I did some tank range and instant action tests only . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I did some testing with the new NV 285.65 drivers and so far so good , no lockups !!I did some tank range and instant action tests only . If it means anything, I've had no problems so far with the new driver. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Like wise, so far no problems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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