Dicehunter
Resident Newb

Last night I finished testing all recent Nvidia drivers from 350.12 up until the latest Hotfix 353.12.
The result is that all of the recent drivers suffer from the annoying -
"The driver has stopped responding" or "Nvidia Kernel Mode Driver has stopped responding and has recovered".
When either on the desktop or using Firefox and Chrome.
Results
350.12 WHQL - Most stable driver and doesn't suffer from driver crashes as often.
350.12 Xtreme-G Tweakforce - Best performance so far.
352.86 WHQL - This is when the driver bug was introduced for a lot of people.
352.94 iCafe - Same as the previous driver albeit the crashes seem to be spaced further apart
353.06 WHQL- Still the same kernel crashing going on.
353.12 Hotfix - Exactly the same as 353.06 but with a G-Sync fix.
My testing methodology was leaving a YouTube video of around 30 minutes running, First with Chrome and then with Firefox, So any OC3D review, Looping Unigine Valley for 30 minutes and just staying on the desktop for 30 minutes, I did this for each card tested.
I tested using a GTX 970 overclocked to 1500 on the core and 7800 on the memory, GTX 980 overclocked to 1500 on the core and 7800 on the memory and GTX Titan X overclocked to 1400 on the core and 8000 on the memory and found 350.12WHQL and the XtremeG-Tweakforce driver which is essentially just a tweaked version of 350.12 but modded for ever so slightly better performance and image quality to be the most stable to date.
I don't know what's going on at Nvidia HQ but they badly need to sort this out, I didn't test with any other cards so your mileage may vary but if you are on the above cards I highly recommend either 350.12 WHQL or the Xtreme-G Tweakforce version.
*Update*
Turning off hardware acceleration in Firefox and Chrome has helped some people avoid the driver issues, Some report it works others not so much.
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