More drivers have popped up with the mysterious overheating bug, this time affecting Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems.
DVH reports that Nvidia has removed additional drivers related to an overheat bug that plagued the GeForce 196.75 WHQL drivers last week. The new quarantined drivers are for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, however this time the problem affects two sets rather than just one.
According to the site, users with 195.36.03 and 195.36.08 *nix drivers installed on their system should downgrade to driver versions 190.53 or 195.30 public beta. As of Friday, Nvidia was still looking into the overheating issue, however the only resolution the company could provide was to downgrade the drivers.
"We want to make sure anybody who has not downloaded the driver does not do so from any other sites who still have the driver up, and for those that have downloaded it, we want to make sure they roll back to the previous driver located here," Nvidia's Bryan Del Rizzo said in a statement.
Obviously Nvidia users can't roll back drivers if older ones were previously uninstalled. Head here to download archived and beta drivers stored on Nvidia's website.
An equivilent number of mistakes seem to have been made on the road to both.
Might as well take some lead weights and throw them in a dryer or drive a model T Ford on a very bad road.
Yea a fast released driver that will melt your card is better then waiting a while for non-card-melting ones
They were not actually missing (calling for them worked) but were unadvertized by the driver - and since Wine will implement workarounds for as many missing extensions as possible, WoW on Wine on Ati cards was hell.
Until 9.8, which solved _all_ graphical bugs on Ati hardware (I have a HD4850), whether in OpenGL or DirectX mode and improved performance a great deal: you can now go around Dalaran at >20fps in OGL mode.
You still can't really raid effectively though.