NVidia screws ups, why updating drivers is a bad idea ...

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Drakron:
I am making this note because for some reason about 2 days I decided that maybe I should update my card drivers ...

And then when I started up the game it crashed, it crashed without even showing me the intro movie or anything ... it just crashed at start up.

Then after trying to fix it (meaning re-install DirectX, re-install Media Player, re-install The Sims 3 and re-installing K-Lite) I decided to take a leap of faith and rollback the NVidia drivers.

Now it works.

Morgaine:
I had the same problem (NVidia 8600 GT). The newest driver version from NVidia crashes the game, as I learned from a quick research in Google. When I reinstalled the previous version, verything was O.K.

Drakron:
@Jordi :

190.62 drivers (October 5, 2009 release), GeForce 9600 GT (of course since drivers are entire ranges its going to affect more that just the 9000 family) and The Sims 3 (I did mentioned I re-installed it).

brownlustgirl:
I read about it on the um... "Exchange". *nervously looks around*

Then I googled about it and found that several games have been affected by the new drivers. I am one that try to keep up with driver updates cause my graphics seem to act up til I do an update, but so far, no problems with my video card so no updating til they fix it.

J. M. Pescado:
While updating drivers can be considered a good step in troubleshooting, there's also the factor of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". If performance is fine and everything you use WORKS, there's no sense in introducing a strange new driver into the mix. If something new is broken, on the other hand, updating your drivers is probably a good idea.

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