**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[VincentHanna]

Why is that an issue? They are still Nvidia drivers.

WHQL approved as well since they came down the Windows update.

 

[VincentHanna]

In Windows 7 I had no issues other than what I said a few weeks back where I was facing stuttering problems (at the time it was Assassin's Creed Black Flag).

I think I am just been unlucky with Windows 10 and am ready to give it up completely at this rate.

Maybe it's not your GPU? Maybe something else in Windows 10 isn't playing nice with another of your components? Maybe Windows 10 is more efficient and all the components are under load even more, to the point that it's uncovering an issue with the hardware that Windows 7 wouldn't show?

Maybe it's using more RAM and you might have a slightly dodgy stick somewhere? Could be anything.

The fact is, Nvidia drivers seem to be getting in the neck recently from various people over various forums (here and Guru3d) but anecdotally I play a lot of games, I use Windows 10 and i've not had any of these issues.

So for all we know it's not even a GPU/driver issue. Unless every game is specifically crashing to desktop with a display driver error?

 

[Geeman1979]

I've been getting that for a month now with 8.1.

With the imminent release of 10 I just gave up trying to get the updates installed.

Twice I've tried now and getting errors on the 1st updates. Will sack it off for now and stick in a secondary drive.

 

[varkanoid]

Why is that an issue? They are still Nvidia drivers.

WHQL approved as well since they came down the Windows update.

Because something happens to drivers given to MS they can completely crap up your system and are not to be trusted.

If you cant see the nvidia splash screens when you install them just dont.

 

[toon_mad]

Maybe it's not your GPU? Maybe something else in Windows 10 isn't playing nice with another of your components? Maybe Windows 10 is more efficient and all the components are under load even more, to the point that it's uncovering an issue with the hardware that Windows 7 wouldn't show?

Maybe it's using more RAM and you might have a slightly dodgy stick somewhere? Could be anything.

The fact is, Nvidia drivers seem to be getting in the neck recently from various people over various forums (here and Guru3d) but anecdotally I play a lot of games, I use Windows 10 and i've not had any of these issues.

So for all we know it's not even a GPU/driver issue. Unless every game is specifically crashing to desktop with a display driver error?

Possibly it could be hardware related, but sometimes when I get "The driver has stopped and managed to recover" error, I can see in Event Viewer the error: "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." If I am lucky it recovers, but the majority of the time it is a hard crash. Surely that frequent error indicates a problem with the driver as opposed to a hardware fault?

 

[BS Dave]

Why no cuda?

 

[James J]

But from MS windows update and not directly from Nvidia.

Yeah they are the launch day drivers for Windows 10 so will be available via the auto update at launch. I installed mine via the leaked .cab file.

 

[opethdisciple]

Yeah they are the launch day drivers for Windows 10 so will be available via the auto update at launch. I installed mine via the leaked .cab file.

I don't like the sound of this at all....

I guess windows will install over the top of drivers.

Something I loathe!

 

[Kelt]

Why no cuda?

Have you checked that "Cuda GPU All" is ticked under Nvidia control panel?

 

[toon_mad]

I don't like the sound of this at all....

I guess windows will install over the top of drivers.

Something I loathe!

I don't think Windows give a damn about what drivers you may currently have installed, it seems they do indeed just install whatever drivers they want over existing ones.

I'm very particular with how I set my system up, I always clean uninstall existing drivers before installing fresh ones - Windows does not care for this however.

 

[RyanF]

Anyone having issues with constant driver crashes? I'll be playing any game, watching some videos nothing too major and randomly both my screens will turn off and turn back on again after a few seconds

 

[varkanoid]

Have you checked that "Cuda GPU All" is ticked under Nvidia control panel?

Could be just GPUZ not reporting it correctly.



As for the Windows Update thing over in the Windows 10 thread they say Windows Home is set to auto install windows updates. You cant turn it off or select Download but dont install or check but dont install.

Windows 10 Pro allows you to turn it off or select the choice but not Home. This has turned me off Windows 10. I think I will wait till someone produces a workaround so Home Users can choose not to auto install every windows update/driver!

 

[toon_mad]

Anyone having issues with constant driver crashes? I'll be playing any game, watching some videos nothing too major and randomly both my screens will turn off and turn back on again after a few seconds

I think someone a few posts back mentioned this problem, but for me it's hard crash restarts though

 

[opethdisciple]

So does that mean there is no reason for Nvidia/AMD to release new drivers for win 10 as a manual download, as A) they get pushed out automatically and two if you manually install an older version it is just going to auto upgrade it anyway?

 

[Loxa]

.. opss wrong thread.

 

[truther]

I have a 980 strix, I had latest drivers installed and have been playing witcher 3, shadow morder on oc as well as stock no problems, my children play lego games no problems. yesterday GeForce experience did some updating now only one basic game (lego worlds) will cause a black screen restart at random times after 10 mins of playing. only on this game ?any ideas, witcher 3 and mordor no problems even when I overclock like mad. driver 353.30

 

[Kelt]

I have a 980 strix, I had latest drivers installed and have been playing witcher 3, shadow morder on oc as well as stock no problems, my children play lego games no problems. yesterday GeForce experience did some updating now only one basic game (lego worlds) will cause a black screen restart at random times after 10 mins of playing. only on this game ?any ideas, witcher 3 and mordor no problems even when I overclock like mad. driver 353.30

I'd do a system restore to a point prior to the Geforce update, and unless you specifically require it, I would un-install Geforce experience.

 

[Boomstick777]

353.62 from Windows Update (W10) working great on GTX 860M. Nvidia redeemed themselves lol.

My very humble GPU

 

[maj]

Apologies if mentioned already in past day or so but anyone else unable to open geforce experience? Nvidia control panel opens fine.

 

[CEUOTC]

353.62 from Windows Update (W10) working great on GTX 860M. Nvidia redeemed themselves lol.

My very humble GPU

The humble GTX 860M is a fine wee chip works well in Win and Linux