It really seems that NVIDIA is experiencing the darkest period of its history. After numerous issues and problems, the latest one being the delay for the production and the availability of Fermi-based graphic cards, a new story will again darken even further the image of the company.
The last version of drives released last week for Windows (196.75) features a major bug: it slows down or even stops fans cooling down the graphic card, even though in full woking load. As a consequence 3D rendering artifact as well as the death of the GPU and the graphic cards have been reported This story has been identified by Beta testers of Starcraft II who initially blamed Blizzard before realizing that the failure was related to their graphic card and the last driver downloaded.
To try to extinguish this new fire, NVIDIA explains on its website how to rollback to the previous driver settings. The company will also have to deal with users who fried their graphic cards due to this bugged driver...
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