Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 house owners have been having a little bit of a troublesome time currently. First they go and obtain Nvidia’s newest GeForce driver (397.31 – WHQL) like good graphics card individuals in preparation for the most recent and best nifty video games like Frostpunk and Battletech, after which they discover their PC’s now caught in an countless boot loop vortex of doom as a result of some bugs crawled into mentioned driver when nobody was trying.
No one needs that, least of all Nvidia, whose GTX 1060 is at present the most popular graphics card of fashionable instances, in accordance with Steam’s most up-to-date {hardware} survey, to not point out our personal best graphics card decide for gaming at 1440p resolutions. Luckily, after wading by way of every week’s price of dodgy workarounds, Nvidia lastly have a repair for it.
The new driver, appropriately entitled ‘GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 397.55’, is accessible for obtain now straight from Nvidia’s website. You’ll discover hyperlinks for each Windows 10 and Windows 7/8.1 in there, however keep in mind that this driver solely helps 64-bit working techniques (as per Nvidia’s earlier announcement of only supporting 64-bit updates any further), so all three of you 32-bit individuals will likely be out of luck, I’m afraid.
Still, putting in the driving force needs to be pretty easy. All it’s good to do is comply with the directions, and Nvidia say it ought to repair the next points, corresponding to stuttering Netflix playback in your browser, in addition to any Code 43 error reviews from Windows’ Device Manager you could be experiencing. It additionally has added assist for Microsoft Surface Book laptops, and shouldn’t mysteriously disappear from Windows 10 techniques which have been left idle for an prolonged time frame.
While the boot loop downside hit GTX 1060 house owners the toughest, there have been additionally reviews of the bug affecting different varieties of GeForce GTX playing cards as nicely, so fingers crossed this new hotfix driver does the trick for all concerned.
