Issue with Nvidea GeForce graphic card

[Velanya]

<p>Over a year ago I bought a new graphics card, a Nvidea GeForce 6800 GT, for somewhat of an upgrade of my old one. I installed the card and downloaded the newest drivers.</p><p>Unfortunately, the card brought a whole bunch of problems with regards of EverquestII, which progressively ended up in a black screen after 2 minutes of playing. After a lot of searching on the forums, I found out that this was a known issue and there was no solution but to roll back the driver and install an old one. The game ran fine after that, but it was a shame because I couldn't enjoy the game to it's fullest potential, graphic wise.</p><p>With the latest expansion, I'm hearing a lot about a Nvidea update, although I'm not sur exactly what as this is a little too technical for me.</p><p>Does anyone know perhaps, if this issue was solved and that I can safely download the latest drivers now?</p><p>I'm a little hesitant to do so as I'm not sure if I would be able to find the old driver I have installed now. It was not even an official Nvidea driver because that was not available anymore. So I really need to make sure the problem has actually solved. If not and I do install the latest driver, I might as well buy a new graphics card.</p><p>Any help in this is very much appreciated!</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>Greetings,</p><p>The only Nvidia driver versions that I would recommend avoiding would be the 190 and 191 series drivers.  Generally, I recommend using either the 186 drivers or the most recent drivers at this point.  Let me know if you have any further questions.</p>

[Velanya]

<p>Okay so you are saying that the problem has been fixed in the mean time?</p><p>When I go to the Nvidia website and do a check for updates, I get the following:</p><p>Current installed driver: 169.44</p><p>Latest driver update: <strong>GeForce/ION Release 196Version:</strong> 196.21  <strong>WHQL</strong></p><p>Do you think I can safely install this one?</p><p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%" align="center"><tbody><tr><td>Product</td><td>CurrentInstalled Driver</td><td>Latest DriverUpdate</td></tr><tr><td width="150" valign="top">NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT</td><td valign="top">169.44</td><td valign="top"><strong>GeForce/ION Release 196</strong><strong>Version:</strong> 196.21  <strong>WHQL</strong><strong>Release Date:</strong> 19.1.2010</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%" align="center"><tbody><tr><td>Product</td><td>CurrentInstalled Driver</td><td>Latest DriverUpdate</td></tr><tr><td width="150" valign="top">NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT</td><td valign="top">169.44</td><td valign="top"><strong>GeForce/ION Release 196</strong><strong>Version:</strong> 196.21  <strong>WHQL</strong><strong>Release Date:</strong> 19.1.2010</td></tr></tbody></table></p>

[Mystfit]

<p><cite>TSR-DanielH wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Greetings,</p><p>The only Nvidia driver versions that I would recommend avoiding would be the 190 and 191 series drivers.  Generally, I recommend using either the 186 drivers or the most recent drivers at this point.  Let me know if you have any further questions.</p></blockquote><p>I have the Geoforce 8800 GTS with driver 191.07. Would I do well to get a different version and if, so is it better to go back to 186 or go newer. I"m crashing alot all of a sudden and looking for a fix <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>