I have a GTX 560 ti, and a couple of years ago, Nvideo released a driver that hosed that particular card with occasional lockups and general meltdowns. Why? Because id had expected Nvidia to put out a particular driver update in time for launch and Nvidia had gone with a different one instead. When id Software released Rage, it had horrible texture pop-in issues on most PCs with Nvidia cards. Sometimes the whole thing goes amusingly wrong. Automatically moving to the latest version is a mug's game. The sensible thing to do is to upgrade your drivers only every few months and only move to versions that are generally recognized as stable and whose known issues have well-tested workarounds. mkv playback, for instance (though a workaround was discovered fairly quickly). One recent driver update caused massive issues with. More often, they cause issues with a range of older applications and games. The PC release of GTA5 (in most respects a solid release) is one example. In some cases, performance in those games will be pretty shocking if you don't move straight to the latest drivers. Nvidia put out a lot of driver updates tied specifically to newly released high-profile games. Always going to the most recent Nvidia drivers has been a risky proposition for years, on Win 7, Vista, XP etc.
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