NVIDIA Addresses Google Chrome Bug with GeForce Hotfix Update

[btarunr]

NVIDIA released a GeForce driver update, version 353.38 Hotfix (not WHQL signed), that addresses a software bug that affects users of the popular Google Chrome web-browser. Users of the GPU-accelerated web-browser have been reporting crashes (both of the browser and display driver), and app freezing. The driver also addresses the issue of slow startup and window-switching of apps with G-SYNC enabled. The rest of its feature-set is carried over from the 353.30 drivers.

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[john_]

Again? Still fixing it? Not WHQL? Does this mean a new editorial?

 

[Mussels]

Wait, wheres all the guys haunting the AMD threads and abusing them for not releasing drivers often enough, despite the lack of major problems?


Nope? all lonely in here? ok then.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Wait, wheres all the guys haunting the AMD threads and abusing them for not releasing drivers often enough, despite the lack of major problems?


Nope? all lonely in here? ok then.

I've given up blasting them. I'm just going to stick with my now-nearly-ancient driver version until they get their act together. It's like they hired all the MS techs that were writing a year's worth of updates that would never take for me without many, many individual installs. I can only assume this is so, since I've been about 6 months with trouble-free MS updates.

 

[Raptor_i]

The link is invalid ... it refer to batman driver page : http://www.techpowerup.com/213689/nvidia-releases-geforce-353-30-whql-game-ready-driver.html

Edit: also I can't find a driver called 353.38 in Nvidia or Geforce websites not even in beta section .

 

[rtwjunkie]

You could alwaystry the link in this thread http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/new-nvidia-353-38-hotfix-driver.213867/#post-3306799 by @BiggieShady.

 

[BiggieShady]

You could alwaystry the link in this thread http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/new-nvidia-353-38-hotfix-driver.213867/#post-3306799 by @BiggieShady.

Or the official one
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...chrome-bug-with-geforce-hotfix-update.213905/

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oh wait

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derp

 

[rtwjunkie]

Or the official one
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...chrome-bug-with-geforce-hotfix-update.213905/

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oh wait

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derp

That's why I linked yours!

 

[jabbadap]

Yeah these are buried deep down to customer help...

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...vers/announcing-geforce-hotfix-driver-353-38/
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3694

 

[mroofie]

Wait, wheres all the guys haunting the AMD threads and abusing them for not releasing drivers often enough, despite the lack of major problems?


Nope? all lonely in here? ok then.

 

[Steevo]

Impossibru Nvidia god makes only perfect drivers and WHQL means no issue ever!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Fluffmeister]

Never affected me personally, but it's good to see Nv have apparently addressed it.

Equally I appreciate you have to take your troll ammo when you can, well played!

 

[xorbe]

It's like the 560 all over again ... mysterious desktop TDRs reported by users ... solved by special drivers, and then the fix would break the very next whql ... well hopefully it's not like that.

 

[R-T-B]

Wait, wheres all the guys haunting the AMD threads and abusing them for not releasing drivers often enough, despite the lack of major problems?


Nope? all lonely in here? ok then.

Actually, I've been harping at that forever. There are major performance issues with their drivers, BTW. Draw call performance in DX11 is horrible and will never likely improve.

I put my money where my mouth is too. My R9 290X is for sale in the FS forum right now. I went green and got a GTX 980... mostly for heat reasons but drivers played a role.

AMD isn't dead to me, but they need to get their act together. (NVIDIA does too with their latest releases, but that's a rarity in my experience).

 

[Captain_Tom]

But da Nvidia drivers are SOOOOOOOO GOOD!

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Reading these comments it seems there's many people new to this hobby around here lately. Nobody says nvidia drivers are good. Nobody says any video card drivers are good. It's a battle of which is less bad. Typically that's a battle nvidia wins but not by a lot.

 

[Prima.Vera]

You could alwaystry the link in this thread http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/new-nvidia-353-38-hotfix-driver.213867/#post-3306799 by @BiggieShady.

I also post this long time ago:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...-game-ready-driver.213689/page-2#post-3306326

 

[R-T-B]

Reading these comments it seems there's many people new to this hobby around here lately. Nobody says nvidia drivers are good. Nobody says any video card drivers are good. It's a battle of which is less bad. Typically that's a battle nvidia wins but not by a lot.

Truth.

 

[RejZoR]

Well, despite few issues and stubbornly stupid CCC design in some places, I have AMD Catalyst in pretty good memory. We'll see how NVIDIA ForceWare stacks up quite soon when I get the GTX 980. Back when I had GeForce 7600GT, it was good. But that's ancient history now...

 

[R-T-B]

Well, despite few issues and stubbornly stupid CCC design in some places, I have AMD Catalyst in pretty good memory. We'll see how NVIDIA ForceWare stacks up quite soon when I get the GTX 980. Back when I had GeForce 7600GT, it was good. But that's ancient history now...

It's not bad software, but I think the NVIDIA drivers perform better on a CPU efficiency level. Only time will tell though.

Being in a similar boat as you, I can reccomend driver version 347.88. Anything newer seems pathetically buggy... though that usually is not the case, it is right now.

 

[rtwjunkie]

That's exactly the driver I am still using, on both a 780 and a 970, with zero issues.

 

[Mussels]

It's not bad software, but I think the NVIDIA drivers perform better on a CPU efficiency level. Only time will tell though.

this is in fact... fact!

the CPU overhead tests in 3DMark backed up that theory, nvidia pull ahead with the draw calls, especially when multi threaded (AMD actually slide backwards when multi threaded). DX12/mantle may well flip that, but for DX11 and older titles, you are 100% correct - nvidia performed better on slower CPU's.

 

[R-T-B]

this is in fact... fact!

the CPU overhead tests in 3DMark backed up that theory, nvidia pull ahead with the draw calls, especially when multi threaded (AMD actually slide backwards when multi threaded). DX12/mantle may well flip that, but for DX11 and older titles, you are 100% correct - nvidia performed better on slower CPU's.

Yeah, the "only time will tell" part was in reference to DX12 mainly.

 

[wiak]

the reason vista crashed was nvidia, anyhow even amd users has issues with chrome so its more of an google issue with their uber fast release cycle

@Mussels i see you ye maty!

 

[redeye]

I hope Nvidia's win10 drivers are top-shelf... Because i am going to upgrade to the "free" win10 from win 8.1. july 29...