If you decided to have a decent gaming sessions last night - or perhaps during work hours along the Pacific - you may have noticed Nvidia's system tray icon alert you to a new driver update. What's usually a good thing might not be the best idea right now, if a few reports are anything to go by.
Assuming you're not running a Nvidia card, you're good to go. Move along. There's nothing to worry about here. But for those who are, it might be best to hold off on update '375.86' just this once as some users are reporting issues when it comes to the latest 10-series GPUs.
Each update tends to focus on quick-fix performance improvements for upcoming games. Yesterday's update, for example, looked to properly support Ubisoft's 'Steep' open beta test client. And while it was designed to also aid in Battlefield 1, it didn't quite have the desired effect in the end with users complaining of stuttering in the title when running it with 2+ GPUs.
The biggest issue, however, comes from the way the driver update is affecting the memory clocks of 10-series GPUs. Several reports have been fronted to Nvidia to say the GTX 1080/1070/1060 cards have all been locked into a memory clock of 810Mhz severely dampening the brute force of these expensive boards. There's a few issues running Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on a multi-gpu setup, too, if the internal resolution is bumped above 100.
So for now, chances are you'll want to stick to whichever driver version you were running before yesterday's update. There's no mention of negative effects on older cards, but there's no real harm in trying.
