BIOS update Graphic card or “simply” from the BIOS of the motherboard ?! We should agree…
Available for only a few days, Need for Speed Unbound – the latest racing game from Criterion/Electronic Arts – is at the heart of a funny controversy.
A video BIOS update…
Indeed, very shortly after its release, users began to complain about a particularly annoying bug: throughout the game, their screen flashed randomly.
These users had in common to own one of NVIDIA’s latest graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 4090. Electronic Arts quickly reacted by indicating that the card’s BIOS needed to be updated in order to correct the problem. In player’s memory, never a title had thus required the update of the video BIOS to remedy a bug.
Fortunately, the manipulation does not seem complicated and without risk insofar as the RTX 4090 have a double BIOS. A BIOS update tool has been made available, allowing the manipulation to be carried out directly from Windows.
… ultimately not so essential as that
Only two days later, Electronic Arts technical support makes an about-face. It is no longer a question of updating the BIOS of the graphics card: updating the BIOS of the motherboard “is enough”.
It is therefore no longer necessary to use the tool put online by NVIDIA and, as the publisher explains, it is necessary ” refer to the motherboard manufacturer’s support page for the latest BIOS version “. A simpler and more classic handling, but which nevertheless supposes to take some precautions, reminded by these same manufacturers on the dedicated pages.
It should also be noted that Electronic Arts no longer speaks only of the GeForce RTX 4090 and seems to extend the risk to all GeForce RTX 4000s. That said, more interesting is the study of the tool published by NVIDIA. Our colleagues from TechPowerUp actually report that the program seems able to touch the BIOS of all cards, regardless of manufacturer.
In addition, the tool is able to update a specific portion of the video BIOS without modifying either the version of this BIOS or the date of the build, or even affect its digital signature. A signature which nevertheless serves to protect the machine against falsified firmware. If NVIDIA can, others too?
Source : TechPowerUp
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