Novo Driver da NVIDIA está queimando placas de vídeo

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Novo Driver da NVIDIA está queimando placas de vídeo
Beta testers do Starcraft II começaram a reportar que o Driver 196.75 da NVIDIA, lançado esta semana, está causando superaquecimento das GPUs, chegando inclusive a queimar as placas de vídeo.

A NVIDIA já tirou do ar o novo Driver, oferecendo apenas em seu site a versão 196.21, para o qual eu recomendo à todos que voltem, se tiverem instalado o novo, até que o problema do controle de velocidade do "fan" seja resolvido.

em inglês

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Several StarCraft II beta testers have reported their PC or video cards have died after installing the NVIDIA 196.75 drivers. The large amount of reports have prompted Blizzard Entertainment to issue an official statement on the tech support forums after identifying the source of the problem.

Some players were blaming the StarCraft II Beta client's latest patch, but a Blizzard Tech Support representative quickly explained the issue is caused by the latest NVIDIA 196.75 drivers.

Blizzard recommended to uninstall the NVIDIA 196.75 drivers, and to downgrade to the previous driver version: 196.21. Starcraft II Beta is not the only application affected, thus this is a worldwide alert to every gamer out there. Blizzard concluded the fans control in this NVIDIA driver is not working properly.

This means every single 3D application (i.e. games) running these drivers is going to be exposed to overheating and in some extreme cases it will cause video card, motherboard and/or processor damage. If said motherboard, processor or graphic card is not under warranty, some gamers are in serious trouble playing intensive games such as Prototype, World of Warcraft, Farcry 3, Crysis and many other games with realistic graphics.