(nvidia) driver and max crash

[themaxxer]

hello all

I work with a quadro 3700 (about 4 years old card) and I updated to tha latest driver, I now have some issus with max. I can't load heavy scenes anymore. I am on max 2010 and win 7 64bit. It seems to be a driver issue because I swithed back to a certified driver from 2009 and it works better, but I still have the issue from time to time. the only thing to load the scene again is to merge it into a new scene, but then you loose all environment and render settings, but that's not the point. I also have troubles with vray proxies, they destroy whole scenes, when merging them.

what I've learned: do never change anything on a working system!

does anybody have noticed similar problems?

best regards
themaxxer

[Morne]

this is precisely what I was talking about not too long ago. Not to sat one is better than the other, but I often see people having problems with Nvidia drivers, and never see any1 with problems with ATI. Another guy pointed out maybe it is because almost nobody has ATI crads

[plastic_]

Well for me it was the opposite. Things got much more stable after I switched to a nVidia card.

[Donald2B]

This is pretty common for both companies.

The latest driver might not be the "best" driver for your system. I know this sucks, but most times, I try several different driver versions and see which one works the best with the software that I use the most. ie. Nuke, 3DS Max, Adobe CS5.5, etc...

Unless you "need" a new feature in the latest and greatest driver, just find one that keeps you working consistently.

I have a new Quadro4000 in the office now and it took me a couple of drivers to find the one that really worked well. When I did, that card has been absolutely fantastic! The performance is just amazing! Makes the GTX580 in my computer look like yesterdays old news. I can't wait for my Quadro5000 to get here!

[trixian]

Well I recently had a Quadro fx4500, bought back in 2007, and none of the drivers (from then until recently) have ever been any good. Not that I had any hardware problems or anything, but performance did not reflect the price tag. I seriously can't feel much of a difference with the geforce 470 I'm testing now. Display tech is hopefully moving towards stuff like nitrous etc, where pure cuda number crunching seems to be the main force, and onboard memory of course. (Tried a 480 with 3 gigs of ram but my machine wouldn't boot up).