NVIDIA recently rolled out its latest driver, the Game Ready 364.72 WHQL Display Driver, last March 28 and there have been several reports saying it is causing some major issues on PC machines. Users are reporting that their gaming machines have been crashing, freezing, and experiencing BSOD. Users are also saying the they weren't able to roll back to the previous stable driver of their video cards.
WCCFTech reported that NVIDIA's official GeForce forum has been racking up complaints since the release of their latest driver. It is also the same scenario on the company's Reddit forum.
Many users are saying that their machines were very usable with their last driver version and things started to go south after they installed driver version 364.72. Several even experienced crashes that show several colors – gray, brown, yellow and red. Some were able to roll back or reinstall older version drivers, that is after struggling to get Windows 10 to boot up in a safe mode. They then shared their version info on the forum.
There are also reports of some unlucky ones. Right after wiping out the latest drivers, their GPUs were not being recognized by Windows anymore.
Other users shared that they have not bothered updating their NVIDIA GPU drivers for months -- they have used what has been the stable version for their machines and stopped minding the updates at all. According to them, such issues have never bothered them again.
Previously, when NVIDIA released driver 364.51 in mid-March, similar problems surfaced, so it is twice in a row in just one month.
One user on Reddit even tagged that the driver series 364 that is causing major issues is broken and should be avoided at all cost.
NVIDIA Game Ready 364.72 WHQL Display Driver was said to be containing optimization features for the HTC Vive. It is also said to give an improved gaming experience for the upcoming AAA games ahead of their launch, which include "Dark Souls III" and "Quantum Break."
NVIDIA is said to be trying to figure out on what is causing such issues to its customers.
