NVIDIA Rolls Out GeForce 350.05 Hotfix Driver

btarunr · Apr 6, 2015

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.

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Prima.Vera · Apr 6, 2015

Do they also fix the stuttering form DA:I in Win 7??

the54thvoid · Apr 6, 2015

Prima.Vera said:
Do they also fix the stuttering form DA:I in Win 7??

Was that specific to a driver? I can't recall much stuttering but then again, I finished it a wee while ago. I got some hitching but I blame that on the memory usage.

ZoneDymo · Apr 6, 2015

does it fix the 3.5 gb?

Uplink10 · Apr 6, 2015

I don`t get why does Nvidia have so big role in game support, they should only provide drivers, not optimizations for games. Developers should work with generic Nvidia driver and optimize their games to work correctly.

qubit · Apr 6, 2015

I installed this driver to see if it would fix my UT2004 SLI issue and all it did was bork the PC, so I rolled back to 347.88 pretty sharpish. The SLI issue was still there.

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.

PLAfiller · Apr 6, 2015

I play neither. I will just w8 for the next WHQL driver release

xorbe · Apr 6, 2015

Why separate desktop vs notebook installers, that's not normal for nv drivers.

qubit · Apr 6, 2015

xorbe said:
Why separate desktop vs notebook installers, that's not normal for nv drivers.

Most likely because it's a hotfix driver and hasn't gone through the usual development and testing like a WHQL one. Just see what it did to my system in post 6. Use at your peril!

xorbe · Apr 6, 2015

qubit said:
Most likely because it's a hotfix driver and hasn't gone through the usual development and testing like a WHQL one. Just see what it did to my system in post 6. Use at your peril!

Yeah the notes don't address anything I use, so skipping!

hv43082 · Apr 6, 2015

My computer starting acting weird after this patch. Had to restore windows 7 to my last check point

vanyots · Apr 7, 2015

xorbe said:
Why separate desktop vs notebook installers, that's not normal for nv drivers.

Oh, but it's normal and for quite a while.
It has to do with notebooks switching between CPU and NV graphics.

rtwjunkie · Apr 7, 2015

xorbe said:
Why separate desktop vs notebook installers, that's not normal for nv drivers.

Nvidia has frequently had mobile versions of drivers for years.

xorbe · Apr 7, 2015

Well crud, I installed the regular drivers on my brother's Asus G751 (970M) -- but the Intel GPU is entirely permanently disabled for that gaming laptop.

RandomSadness · Apr 8, 2015

My experience with this driver is so far pretty convincing. I did notice a smoother vsync @144hz.

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