NVIDIA Users: Roll back from 196.75 drivers
This is a pretty urgent thing to report because it could damage or potentially completely ruin your video card if it's ignored. The latest NVIDIA drivers, 196.75-WHQL released on March 2nd, 2010 are causing issues with the video card fan control while playing Blizzard (and other) games. This is caused by the Automatic Fan Speed feature being broken in the latest drivers.
The games included are: World of Warcraft, StarCraft II Beta and Warcraft III. If you play any of these games (which I'm pretty sure you do if you're reading this website), you'll want to roll your drivers back to earlier versions until this is fixed, unless you want to replace a video card within the next few days.
To find out what version drivers you're using:
- Right-click on your desktop
- Click NVIDIA Control Panel
- When the Control Panel opens, in the bottom left corner there should be a "System Information" link; click this
- Your Driver version should be in the Details portion
Details from Datth:
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?to ... 1&sid=5000
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kurz auf deutsch:
Der letzte NVIDIA Treiber (196.75-WHQL vom 2.März) ist fehlerhaft. Er steuert die Ventilatoren der Grafikkarte falsch an und bringt sie dadurch zum überhitzen.
Wer ne NVIDIA Karte hat und sich den Treiber geholt halt, sollte schnell wieder zurücksteigen auf ne ältere Version, bis der Fehler behoben ist.
lg,