nvidias and their black screen can go to hell...

[War Barney]

So since the last nvidia driver update I keep getting screen freezes followed by a flack screen lasting 5-10s and I just noticed after it happens NO HITS REGISTER!! literally not a single shot even sitting still shooting at a ally standing still, NOTHING. How the hell have they done something so ridiculous

[NewSith]

So since the last nvidia driver update I keep getting screen freezes followed by a flack screen lasting 5-10s and I just noticed after it happens NO HITS REGISTER!! literally not a single shot even sitting still shooting at a ally standing still, NOTHING. How the hell have they done something so ridiculous

Is it even possible? I mean hit detection is apparently clientside in the game (otherwise you wouldn't be able to die to an unrendered character, while being able to kill such character), but GPU affecting networking sounds very unlikely.

[Ohaunlaim]

Actually that used to be a fairly common bug. If the Nvidia patch brought it back, there is going to be a lot of bitter, angry tears.

If it happens the only cure before was to quit to character select and come back in. Or for more extreme cases, a game restart.

Please submit bug reports if it happens again.

[War Barney]

I shall, this was the first time it completely stopped all hits registering but its been cutting to black a lot, hope they fix it soon, being cut to black and frozen for 10s is bad enough in a game like this but followed by hits not registering is insane

[camycamera]

i get a similar problem in which the screen goes black for a couple of seconds, and then the game comes back. i don't get any in game issues though, it is a problem with the drivers.

[Calista]

https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/driver-compatibility-with-nvidia-geforce-334-89-drivers.174370/

[bpostal]

"If you've been getting the 1-2 second freeze frame in the last couple weeks, can you please email me at [email protected] "

From Higby's twitter.

[GreyFrog]

Rolled back to 332.21, things are fine again.

[Binkley]

Has anyone tried beta driver 337.50 yet?

[EasyShot]

Been having the same issue recently. Screen goes black for a few seconds then the FPS ramps back up to normal after another few seconds.

I'll try the beta driver this evening.

[ChipMHazard]

Beta driver has the same issue. Driver crash every now and then.

[Rahabib]

Sheesh, I never thought I would ever say this, but maybe its a good thing I have an ATI... na, I still should have got an NVIDIA

[AThreatToYou]

Sheesh, I never thought I would ever say this, but maybe its a good thing I have an ATI... na, I still should have got an NVIDIA

I'm sorry to derail the thread, but with the current and prior series of NVIDIA cards, it is probably a very good thing you have gotten an ATi card.

I've had NVIDIA cards crash and burn when the driver is overloaded, but does not crash, nor does it force the fan to go faster when it is obviously overheating. Not that ATi does the latter, but it does the former.

Because of this I've had 3 NVIDIA cards fail and require RMA in the past 2 years. I've never had an ATi card fail to the point of being dysfunctional; it is just that the driver's crash so that you don't damage the card. Every NVIDIA card I have bought past the 9800 is, to this day, no longer working. Every ATi card I have bought past an X850 AGP is still working.

So, if you ask me, thank ATi when your drivers reset. They are saving you from having to buy a new card.

But will I say that ATi is better, or Nvidia is better? Nah. It varies, sometimes based on personal experience, the game's your playing, the price your paying, and the time you buy.

[joepaiii]

I'm sorry to derail the thread, but with the current and prior series of NVIDIA cards, it is probably a very good thing you have gotten an ATi card.

I've had NVIDIA cards crash and burn when the driver is overloaded, but does not crash, nor does it force the fan to go faster when it is obviously overheating. Not that ATi does the latter, but it does the former.

Because of this I've had 3 NVIDIA cards fail and require RMA in the past 2 years. I've never had an ATi card fail to the point of being dysfunctional; it is just that the driver's crash so that you don't damage the card. Every NVIDIA card I have bought past the 9800 is, to this day, no longer working. Every ATi card I have bought past an X850 AGP is still working.

So, if you ask me, thank ATi when your drivers reset. They are saving you from having to buy a new card.

But will I say that ATi is better, or Nvidia is better? Nah. It varies, sometimes based on personal experience, the game's your playing, the price your paying, and the time you buy.


I haven't had any hardware issues with a single video card built containing a nVidia GPU. Seems like you have had some bad luck, and nVidia did have an issue with some BGA packages but that was a few generations ago. What series cards were you RMAing and who built them?

[Belhade]

I'm running a 460GTX (yeah, yeah, I know) with 335.23 and never had any video card issues...

[Lewbio]

My nvidia driver fails, usually when going in to the map screen, It seems that the fan on the card stops as well for a few seconds and then comes back on.

[SconX]

the only driver working properly (in my case) is 332.21...all other cause black screens

asus gtx 780

[Deringer]

I'm covering this on ReachCast tonight but because I love PSU, here is a sneak peak (these are my actual show notes):

Nvidia Driver Crash/Black Screen Possible Fix
http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/257sc7/nvidia_driver_crash_black_screen_possible_fix/

The importance of this post isn’t that there is a possible fix, it’s that Higby replied saying
“By the way, we've been helping test a new driver version internally for a couple weeks that totally fixes the problem, as well as some other performance issues. We're really looking forward to that driver release, hopefully its in the next couple weeks.”

[Grizzo]

Looking forward to that..