Nvidia Users Report 364.47 WHQL Driver Was Broken

<p>The GPU giant Nvidia is under fire recently after the release of the <em>364&period;47 WHQL Driver<&sol;em>&period; Users reported issues such as stuttering&comma; black screens&comma; multi monitor problems and even blue screen of death &lpar;BSOD&rpar; which was caused by the driver itself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company altered their 364&period;47 WHQL Driver thread to include the following statement&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;UPDATE&colon; After finding a critical installation issue&comma; the team has replaced yesterday’s driver &lpar;364&period;47&rpar; with today’s new driver &lpar;364&period;51&rpar;&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>This driver has been submitted to Microsoft for WHQL-approval and we will update the driver package online as soon as we have the certified package&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; <&sol;em>Nvidia Forums<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They also added a statement on the 7th of May&comma; 2016 rather than the driver forums&period; The statement was located over on the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;nvidia&period;custhelp&period;com&sol;app&sol;answers&sol;detail&sol;a&lowbar;id&sol;4054" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">&&num;8220&semi;Nvidia Support Knowledgebase&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;a> and reads<em>&colon;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;We had received reports of some users having issues installing driver version 364&period;47&period; Initial investigation suggests the issue was related to doing an &&num;8220&semi;Express&&num;8221&semi; installation&period; If you happen to have a pending installation of 364&period;47&comma; we recommend that you do not install it and either use the new 364&period;51 beta version or wait for the WHQL certified version&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; <&sol;em>Nvidia Knowledgebase<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Followed by an update on 8th of May&comma; 2016&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;After finding a critical installation issue&comma; the team has replaced yesterday&&num;8217&semi;s driver &lpar;364&period;47&rpar; with today&&num;8217&semi;s new driver &lpar;364&period;51&rpar;&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>This driver has been submitted to Microsoft for WHQL-approval and we will update the driver package online as soon as we have the certified package&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; <&sol;em>Nvidia Knowledgebase<em><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You may be reading this and thinking it&&num;8217&semi;s not that big of a deal&period; Potential reader&comma; go read any of the released driver <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;us&period;download&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;Windows&sol;364&period;51&sol;364&period;51-win10-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes&period;pdf" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">PDFs<&sol;a> &lpar;click for the 364&period;51 release notes PDF&rpar; and you will see why Nvidia doesn&&num;8217&semi;t publicly add performance or issues under the driver page itself now&period; They haven&&num;8217&semi;t for years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now the problem is due to the fact that this driver was labeled as a &&num;8220&semi;WHQL Driver&&num;8221&semi; or <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;msdn&period;microsoft&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;windows&sol;hardware&sol;gg463010&period;aspx" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">&&num;8220&semi;Windows Hardware Quality Labs&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;a><em>&period;<&sol;em> This is the Windows Certification process&period; It means the driver has been heavily tested in multiple situations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Clearly both Nvidia and Microsoft are to blame for this issue&period; Thankfully it was this driver that a large amount of people had issues with&period; Why&quest; The GPU company hasn&&num;8217&semi;t cared about optimization or performance increases for years so I&&num;8217&semi;m glad they are eating their words now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A new &&num;8220&semi;BETA&&num;8221&semi; driver showed up the day after Nvidia released the 364&period;47 WHQL driver which is labeled &&num;8220&semi;364&period;51 BETA&&num;8221&semi;&period; Sorry&comma; but you don&&num;8217&semi;t get to go up a number set when your previous driver failed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What are your thoughts on the current state of the GPU industry&quest; Are they just getting lazy&quest; Let us know down in the comments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Sources&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;forums&period;geforce&period;com&sol;default&sol;topic&sol;921332&sol;geforce-drivers&sol;official-364-47-game-ready-whql-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-3-7-16-&sol;1&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Nvidia Driver Feedback Forum<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;download&sol;driverResults&period;aspx&sol;99512&sol;en-us" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Nvidia Driver<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;nvidia&period;custhelp&period;com&sol;app&sol;answers&sol;detail&sol;a&lowbar;id&sol;4054" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Nvidia Support<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;msdn&period;microsoft&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;windows&sol;hardware&sol;gg463010&period;aspx" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">WHQL<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;