We can CONFIRM as one of our members has been affected by the new drivers shutting off his fan in his video card and causing overheating.
[Source] Steve @ HardOCP
It seems that NVIDIA has pulled its 196.75 drivers because of overheating issues. Apparently there has been a rash of complaints about dead, dying and overheating video cards. The problem seems to be the fan controller in the 196.75 drivers, no word from NVIDIA on the matter yet.
The problem seems to be related to the fan controller, causing the fans to slow down, and even stop. This happening while the card is in use is a very bad thing indeed, and can cause poor performance (as the GPU tries to cool itself down by reducing power) and possibly even overheat your GPU to the point where the card stops working.
[UPDATE 3-10-200] This is an email Tintin received from NVIDIA
Thanks for getting a hold of us. We are sorry to hear that you have had problems with our latest driver. We have taken immediate steps to remove this driver from our website and are currently investigating the matter to determine the appropriate next steps. We have set up a support page on our website where we would like to hear more about your issue. We would also like to collect your email address so that we can update you as soon as we know more. Please visit the below.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/196.75_customer_support.html
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A friendly Brit named, Rulesy wrote a nice little web app to help calculate your FOV for your monitor res.
FOV (Field of View) determines how much of your surrounding area you can see without turning.
Usually in FPS games where this is configurable, you adjust the horizontal field of view so you can see more to the left and right. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 uses vertical FOV instead, so it’s a little harder to work out what you need to set it to. Here’s the formula, bearing in mind it works in radians, not degrees:
Not really something you can do in your head, huh? 
So, simply enter your in-game screen resolution (or aspect ratio) and preferred horizontal FOV above and click the calculate button.
There’s currently no way to change this setting in-game, so you’ll need to update your settings.ini file manually. The default location is “My Documents\BFBC2″. Open it with notepad and find the line that says something like “fov=55″, change the number and save the file. If you can’t find this line, you’ll need to add it yourself. Just make sure it’s somewhere under “[Graphics]“.
Note: You’ll need to restart BC2 before it starts working.
Link to Calculator. (opens in a new window)
Thanks Rich aka Rulesy
Click on the image below to open a new window with the Animated GIF that shows some different FOV settings: Provided by BF Rep “zerk16″ (THANKS!)
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NOTE: I am running a screen res of 1600×1024, I wanted a FOV of 120 degrees and it calculated FOV=96
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by Killa J on March 10, 2010
in Gaming
There are SOOOO many issues, hangs, dropped from server occurrences you will not want to spent your time. I suggest single player and wait till they fix it.
And one more thing……. Knifing is a joke. People can knife you from 10 feet away. It also seems those with lag actually benefit in that they are not where you think they are. Its such a fucking joke, I seriously think they should have a server option where you just dont have knives altogether. The game is lacking in controls too. Remote Chopper uses different controls that you use for flying the chopper! (WHAT?)
You can’t have the same key for something even if your mapping it to diffent class of functions (For ex. you cant have ARROW DOWN do something when your on FOOT and then something Different when your in a CHOPPER or in a VEHICLE.
How could the game NOT be able to differiencate between what states your character is in and allow for this?
Makes for a shit-ton more keys to learn and remember which pecks away at the fun.
Maps dark are almost a joke if they have 25-30 people on them as you will be picked off and never know where it came from, and it will keep happening over and over.
Ive been playing BF2 ince its been out, BF2142 since its been out, Special Forces as well, so its not like Im not familiar with the game play. I think the devs were tainted with the console mentality on some things, and that’s a shame.
Not perfect in many ways, but then again, how fucking long have we waited? PC 1943 never came out. BF3? Probably never happen…
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