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Cannot use drivers past 260.99

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nobody_here

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I don't know what it is, it doesn't matter if I do clean install or not, uninstall, reinstall, WHQL or BETA......delivered through Windows Update or direct download from Nvidia.....for whatever reason my 460GTX 1Gb will NOT run any games on any driver newer than 260.99 WHQL

I have tried everything I can think of.....but every time a new driver comes out I try it thinking they will have worked out whatever it is....and every time it will run desktop stuff and media center video playback great, no problems, but fire up BFBC2 or Crysis Warhead and either right away or 5 minutes in the game locks up. System is fine, perfectly responsive and all.....just the game locks up....so I end up CTRL-ALT-DEL into task manager, kill the game process that now says "not responding" and then I get the stupid "display driver has stopped responding" window at the bottom of the desktop.....

and every single time after it acts up, i uninstall whatever version it is and re-install the 260.99 driver and all of a sudden my PC is a god among men running completely smooth and can run hours with no problems

what the heck is that all about?
 
I refuse to run any newer drivers than 260.99 on my GTX 460 1GB, for the very simple reason that they all seem to artificially bloat dwm.exe beyond something I never see on 260.99.

On this and previous driver sets, it's stays around 30mb (I'm talking about Private working set) even after multiple days of uptime. In all drivers after 260.99 dwm.exe bloats to over 150mb very quickly. This is on Windows 7 x64.
 
i am running 267.xx with a gtx460 1g with no issues like that. i just noticed that my gpu only downclocks to 405 instead of like 50 or something.
 
nobody_here said:
I don't know what it is, it doesn't matter if I do clean install or not, uninstall, reinstall, WHQL or BETA......delivered through Windows Update or direct download from Nvidia.....for whatever reason my 460GTX 1Gb will NOT run any games on any driver newer than 260.99 WHQL

I have tried everything I can think of.....but every time a new driver comes out I try it thinking they will have worked out whatever it is....and every time it will run desktop stuff and media center video playback great, no problems, but fire up BFBC2 or Crysis Warhead and either right away or 5 minutes in the game locks up. System is fine, perfectly responsive and all.....just the game locks up....so I end up CTRL-ALT-DEL into task manager, kill the game process that now says "not responding" and then I get the stupid "display driver has stopped responding" window at the bottom of the desktop.....

and every single time after it acts up, i uninstall whatever version it is and re-install the 260.99 driver and all of a sudden my PC is a god among men running completely smooth and can run hours with no problems

what the heck is that all about?
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Makesure all your firmware/BIOS is up to date. That includes your video card BIOS. Also you could try to run everything at stock settings to see if your overclocking isn't screwing things up for you. If all these things don't work, reformat.
 
So, what would formatting or changing bios have to do with the fact that as long as I use 260.99 or older it works fine. I really don't think this would change anything. The video card manufacturer doesn't offer any different BIOS and if it were a BIOS issue it wouldn't matter what driver I ran, it would work.
 
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nobody_here said:
So, what would formatting or changing bios have to do with the fact that as long as I use 260.99 or older it works fine. I really don't think this would change anything. The video card manufacturer doesn't offer any different BIOS and if it were a BIOS issue it wouldn't matter what driver I ran, it would work.
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it could be something else interfering with the driver versions higher then 260.99 which is why formatting would fix it. but honestly i've had nothing but problems with anything newer then the 260.99 drivers.
 
nobody_here said:
So, what would formatting or changing bios have to do with the fact that as long as I use 260.99 or older it works fine. I really don't think this would change anything. The video card manufacturer doesn't offer any different BIOS and if it were a BIOS issue it wouldn't matter what driver I ran, it would work.
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Reformatting would start you at a clean slate. It would eliminate any variables that you might have introduced with the previous operation system installation.

Motherboard BIOS/firmware updates in the past have resolved issues that were previously undetectable prior to the latests motherboard BIOS. For example, there was a huge cursor bug that was introduced with a new AMD Catalyst drivers. People where screaming left and right about how bad AMD drivers were etc. The solution? Update your motherboard BIOS. The issue got resolved.
 
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