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PSA: Win7/8 Pascal users, avoid the 418 series of drivers

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From the 418.91 release notes:

"Windows 7 Issues


  • Random TDR events occur. [2500396]"

I can attest to this as I made the mistake of upgrading to this driver version without reading the release notes, the result was that something as simple as watching a YouTube video arbitrarily triggered a TDR (aka "display driver has stopped responding and has successfully recovered"). After downgrading to 418.81 the TDRs persisted, but with 416.94 all seems okay again (I didn't bother with 417 as I was previously on 416.94 which worked fine).

Anyone else had similar experiences?

Seems there is a known issue with Win7 and 481 series: "It does appear that a pretty wide spread issue specific to Windows 7 has made it into the driver, and all pascal cards are affected." https://forums.geforce.com/default/...81-mainly-on-windows-7-/post/5981225/#5981225
but, some good news: "The issue is fixed internally, just waiting on the release of the driver." https://forums.geforce.com/default/...81-mainly-on-windows-7-/post/5989748/#5989748
 
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I am still on 399.07, very stable for me so I keep that one. 1060 6GB and Win 7. I never crash due to hardware with my current setup. Try that driver instead maybe.
 
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Not on Pascal, so I presume won't be able to tell ya one way or the other.
 
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I'm beginning to think this driver has killed my GTX 1070. :( :( :(

As well as the Firefox TDRs I was getting hard locks in any 3D game I was running under 418.91, so i DDU'd that version and rolled back to 416.94... still hard locks... DDU'd again and tried 417.71... still hard locks.

The hard lock symptoms are simple: while playing a 3D game the screen goes black (sometimes green) and the computer is unresponsive, while the GPU fans ramp up to 100% and stay there until I hard-reset.

Gonna try 399.24 (last of the 300 series) and see but I fear an RMA is in my future...

Not on Pascal, so I presume won't be able to tell ya one way or the other.

Thanks, edited thread title.

And here is the driver as promised: https://forums.geforce.com/default/...force-hotfix-driver-418-99-released-2-17-19-/ @W1zzard
 
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