GeForce 398.18 Hotfix driver download

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/07/2018 07:11 PM [ 77 comment(s) ]

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Download the Nvidia GeForce 398.18 driver as released by NVIDIA. This is GeForce Hot Fix driver version 398.18 that addresses the Black Screen issue when booting Windows after installing 397.93 display driver

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This is GeForce Hot Fix driver version 398.18 that addresses the following:

Black Screen when booting Windows after installing 397.93 display driver
R398.18 (r397_91-11) / 24.21.13.9818 (6-6-2018)

There is only a 64-bit driver available for Windows 10, ergo Windows 7 and 8 do not suffer from the issue.

Supported cards:

NVIDIA TITAN Series
NVIDIA TITAN V, NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal), GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce 10 Series
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030

GeForce 900 Series
GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 700 Series
GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710, GeForce GT 705

GeForce 600 Series
GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 635, GeForce GT 630, GeForce GT 620, GeForce GT 610, GeForce 605

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Vidik
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#5554407 Posted on: 06/07/2018 12:36 PM

Maybe drivers 397.93 leave some files/settings behind that cause issues and this fixes.

Or maybe they had this hotfix ready or in testing for quite some time even before 398.11 was out and they simply forgot to change the release notes. Whatever. It works as good as any other driver so it doesn't really matter IMO

EdKiefer
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#5554408 Posted on: 06/07/2018 12:44 PM

Yeh, we never get the full change list of fixes, does seem weird its only 1-2days from 398.11

Dragondale13
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#5554475 Posted on: 06/07/2018 04:05 PM

Installed this one after 398.11 kept causing "CTXFIHLP" conflicts at shutdown/reboot.
Never had that issue before.
Did the DP firmware update as well and all looks good.
This hotfix doesn't give any process hang issues at shutdown, so far.
Firestrike and WD2 performance in line with previous 397.64

lucidus
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#5554482 Posted on: 06/07/2018 04:20 PM

I had that black screen issue :-/ I ended up reinstalling windows because last known good config wouldn't work and safe mode also crashed when I tried to get rid of the driver. I'll be staying on 397.64 for a while.

squalles
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#5554513 Posted on: 06/07/2018 05:52 PM

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