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11 years ago

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[Workaround] NVIDIA driver crashes and the infamous White Screen

I was able to prevent the game from crashing every few minutes yesterday. This might not work for everyone but at least you should try it. Follow these steps: 1. Start the game. 2. Open the graphic...

dragon age inquisition

EA_Nils
11 years ago
That was quick, thanks!

If there is anyone else who is able to proceed after trying these steps please get back to us in the thread to confirm, thank you.

Devest21

11 years ago

You should be careful downloading from unknown websites. the address you posted is http://nvidia.custhelp.com

That is NOT the Nvidia website. That is the Custhelp.com website. they just put nvidia instead of WWW. They can put anything they want to the left of the domain.com. So if I have the website example.com, I can make a webpage called nvidia.example.com or even bankofamerica.com.fooledyou.example.com. The extra periods are used to trick a person into believing they are at another website, but only the last 2 periods on the right matter.

Internet 101: A web address has 3 areas divided by a periods. A common example is www.google.com. You always look at these from right to left. So .com is the first thing to be proccessed. Next is .GOOGLE. This is the actual address. EVERYTHING to the left of that is internal and can be named anything by the website creator. So if I have the website example.com, I can make a webpage called www.example.com or try to trick you by using extra periods that don't really matter like bankofamerica.com.fooledyou.example.com.

GODzillaGSPB

11 years ago

@Devest21 wrote:
You should be careful downloading from unknown websites. the address you posted is http://nvidia.custhelp.com
That is NOT the Nvidia website. That is the Custhelp.com website. they just put nvidia instead of WWW. They can put anything they want to the left of the domain.com. So if I have the website example.com, I can make a webpage called nvidia.example.com or even bankofamerica.com.fooledyou.example.com. The extra periods are used to trick a person into believing they are at another website, but only the last 2 periods on the right matter.
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And under legal information: http://www.nvidia.com/object/legal_info.html

"The materials on this web site (the "Site") are provided by NVIDIA Corporation ("NVIDIA") as a service to its customers and may be used for informational purposes only."

So...I really do believe it's an official Nvidia website. If not, this is one of the best scams on the web and you should really report it to Nvidia.