Sunday, April 5th 2015
NVIDIA Rolls Out GeForce 350.05 Hotfix Driver
Despite WHQL-signed driver releases almost every other week, NVIDIA still seems to find time or reason for stopgap releases such as the new GeForce 350.05 Hotfix drivers, which quickly address a pressing issue with the latest WHQL-signed drivers (349.88 in this case). The driver fixes a crash with DirectX error message on Battlefield: Hardline. It also fixes a crash with Dragon Age: Inquisition. Expreview reports that NVIDIA also quietly slipped in OpenCL 1.2 support with the new driver, which could be one of the highlights of NVIDIA's upcoming R350 drivers.DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 350.05 Hotfix
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Basically, quit out of the game and the whole desktop responds every second or so rather than instantly, making it like a slideshow. Task Manager showed dwm.exe to be taking up around 13% CPU when it does this. Rebooting clears the problem until the next time I try to run the game.
I only tried it on UT2004, but I'm not interested in something that can screw up a PC so drastically, therefore I removed it without any further testing. I expect the next WHQL driver to be ok.
It has to do with notebooks switching between CPU and NV graphics.