New Nvidia Drivers Fixes UT3 Crashes

[Transmitthis]

How about you guys install the 182.50 drivers instead of whineing about the older ones? You know you don't need to install them one at a time right? each release inclueds everything that came before it. Just make the jump. I have no problems with the latest drivers.

I'm on 186.08 on Windows 7 64bit, and have just had the same issue, of a UT3 crash with the no signal error on monitor.

Found this post, via searching for the issue on google.

Seems this is going to be a problem for some time,
and to mr. Gunwing How about you quit your self rightious preaching, You know your not the only person in the world don't you, just because your issue is sorted does not mean every one else will be.

[DrFish]

Latest Nvidia drivers break Left 4 Dead so hard there were several reports of defective cards on the forums.

Just fyi.

[Gunwing]

How about you guys install the 182.50 drivers instead of whineing about the older ones? You know you don't need to install them one at a time right? each release inclueds everything that came before it. Just make the jump. I have no problems with the latest drivers.

[Dark Fire]

With 182.08 I had similar issues, but the trick was to turn User Account Control (UAC) off. When I rebooted with UAC off, the software finished installing successfully and the prompt did not appear again. I then turned UAC back on.

Learning from that experience, I turned UAC off to do the 182.50 installation and had no hassles at all. After the install and required reboot, I turned UAC back on again. No problem.
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When ever I am going to install something I always just right-click the install file/self extractor, click the "unblock" button under the "General" tab and check "Run as administrator" under the "Security" tab. Aways works for me.

[Fliperaci]

Someone tested already 185.68 beta, released April 08, 2009?
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

[SmashManiac]

I have a Nvidia GeForce 6800 under Windows XP 32-bit. The new 182.50 drivers don't work for me. And deleting the My Documents\My Games folder didn't work either.

It's really annoying because often I'm trying to load a map, and then suddenly my monitor turns off for no reason! It's not even a black screen, there's just no valid signal! I can use ALT-TAB and interact with other programs currently open, but there's still no valid signal! I have no choice but to manually shut down my PC every time!

The oddest part is that after a fresh boot, I can play the game without any issues for about 2 hours before it crashes. But if I try to boot it again, I either crash again, get the behavior described earlier, or get a BSOD. Seriously, I don't get it, and it's really annoying.

The only way I'm able to play UT3 without any issues is to roll back my drivers to 178.24, so at least I can still play, but I hope it's only a temporary workaround and that I won't be stuck with these drivers forever.

I don't know who's to blame between Nvidia or Epic Games for this mess, but please work together to get this fixed quickly!

[freddy]

Any issues with installing 182.50 installing on Vista? The last version kept prompting to finish installing even after rebooting. That's why I had gone back to 182.06.

With 182.08 I had similar issues, but the trick was to turn User Account Control (UAC) off. When I rebooted with UAC off, the software finished installing successfully and the prompt did not appear again. I then turned UAC back on.

Learning from that experience, I turned UAC off to do the 182.50 installation and had no hassles at all. After the install and required reboot, I turned UAC back on again. No problem.
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[Ikaros]

Any issues with installing 182.50 installing on Vista? The last version kept prompting to finish installing even after rebooting. That's why I had gone back to 182.06.

[freddy]

Ever since 182.06 (which I'm currently using) or the new v2.0 patch, whenever UT3 does decide to lockup I'm now getting a blank screen with a No Signal message on my LCD monitor. Before that version I would get a frozen screen instead, so I could maybe have a chance to end UT3 via Windows task manager.

Ahhh. Interesting. I too experienced a blank screen with a No Signal message on my LCD. It only happened once, but it did happen. Yes, 182.06, on Vista. And here I was thinking that my video card had crashed on me and it might be the first sign that my video card was on it's way to hardware failure. I also had a strange video issue when playing MS Flight Simulator which only served to add to my thoughts that it might be a hardware fault. So, I am happy to see this post here stating that someone else had experienced the SAME thing as me. So it's not my card afterall, it's the driver. Phew. I have today upgraded the driver to 182.50.

[Gunwing]

New Drivers!:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Version Number: 182.50

Optimized single GPU and SLI support for upcoming PC games.
Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.

[Ikaros]

Ever since 182.06 (which I'm currently using) or the new v2.0 patch, whenever UT3 does decide to lockup I'm now getting a blank screen with a No Signal message on my LCD monitor. Before that version I would get a frozen screen instead, so I could maybe have a chance to end UT3 via Windows task manager. I'm wondering though if there is a new Nvidia conflict with my Vista power settings that turn off my monitor after 20 minutes of inactivity. I remember a year and a half ago Vista power settings conflicted with Nvidia drivers and my PC would not resume out of suspend mode but that known issue was fixed with later drivers. So today I just reset the power settings to never turn off the monitor or anything else to test if the No Signal still happens when playing UT3.

[Fliperaci]

182.46 beta driver is out! I will give them a try later and report...
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Report: I didnt realise any difference to the previous driver [182.08]

[SmashManiac]

I have a Nvidia GeForce 6800 with Windows XP 32-bit, and I have installed the 182.08 drivers, and I'm constantly getting weird crashes sometimes when running the game, except if my PC is in a fresh boot state.

The latest crash I got was a BSOD today when attempting to continue my campaign. (STOP: 0x0000007F)

I'll check in the following days if any of the workaround proposed on these forums work.

[Fliperaci]

182.46 beta driver is out! I will give them a try later and report...
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

[Dark Fire]

No breakage here! 182.08 works perfectly for me! But I did not notice any difference to the previous 182.06, though.

.08 just adds more support for Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X no optimizations for other/older games, nor any bug fixes, unless you count adding support for the for-mentioned game a bug fix.