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is nvidia geforce graphics driver 566.36 stable, or should i wait?

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  1. Emeka Mori
    @emekam130

    i'm on a driver from last year and everything works for competitive gaming. Now NVIDIA has GeForce Graphics Driver 566.36 out and teh app keeps nagging me. Part of me wants the fixes, part of me remembers teh last time an update gave me black screens for a week :) Has anyone been running it for a while?? Any issues worth knowing before i click install? i would love a short, honest answer from people who have actually used it for a few weeks. pls help 馃檹

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  2. Camila A.
    @camila_voxel

    hmmmm quick q did you have problems with a NVIDIA update before, and if so, which kind?

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  3. Zoe Kim
    @zkim_25

    been there man +1 same here hope that helps :)

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  4. Farah Rahman
    @tensorshed

    guys pls help ok this thread just saved my weekend... have u checked your stability settings? mine were reset after an update pls help 馃檹

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  7. Zoe Kim
    @zkim_25

    @fenna.zhang nah thats not it, graphics has nothing to do with it

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  8. Joon B.
    @proxyfox

    Read the release notes on teh NVIDIA support page before anything else. They list fixed issues and known issues 馃槄 If a known issue matches ur setup, wait; if the fixes dont touch you, theres no rush.

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  9. Lars Ferreira
    @lars_proxy

    @emekam130 what did u end up doing in the end

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  10. Farah Rahman
    @tensorshed

    make a backup before u touch the extension, learned that the hard way

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  11. Alba Silva
    @stack_garage564

    btw how is this thread still going lmao. make a backup before u touch the fan curve, learned that the hard way :)

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  12. Joon B.
    @proxyfox
    in reply to @stack_garage564

    yeahhh make a backup before u touch teh BIOS, learned that the hard way. told my boss it would take 10 minutes. its been a whole week lmk how it goes

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  13. Fenna Zhang
    @fenna.zhang

    yeahhh for photo editing, stability matters more than the newest game optimizations. If theres a separate stable/studio/recommended branch, thats usually teh better fit. fingers crossed 馃

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  14. Fenna Zhang
    @fenna.zhang

    been there man my approach: make a restore point, download teh previous driver package so its ready, then try teh new one. if anything misbehaves, DDU and reinstall the old one 馃檹 that makes updating a low-risk experiment. hope that helps :)

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  16. Joon B.
    @proxyfox

    Keep a short log of what driver youre on and when you changed it (pnputil /enum-drivers shows installed packages and dates) :/ when something breaks later, youll know if the timing matches. fingers crossed 馃

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  17. Fenna Zhang
    @fenna.zhang

    honestly just reset teh cache and save yourself the pain. +1 same here fingers crossed 馃

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  19. Camila A.
    @camila_voxel

    dude finally got it working, thanks everyone, is 566.36 even worth bothering with or should i just leave it

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  20. Camila A.
    @camila_voxel

    oof driver updates do sometimes icnlude security fixes, so i wouldnt stay on a very old version forever. But waiting a week or two after release to see if a hotfix appears is perfectly reasonable.

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