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Anyone else having trouble with nvidia drivers?

brookes18

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Is anyone else having trouble with their drivers?
Ever since I upgraded them to play BF3 the driver crashes even ive just logged in.
I've tried rolling back to an earlier driver but the same still happens.

I'm completely stumped.
It has just started going into sleep mode as soon as I log in.
Itll work perfect in safe mode.
Think I'll go ATI next time:rolleyes:
 
I think regardless of what card you have (ATI/NVIDIA) you will have problems as this is something that the card is not at fault for.
It could be a fault of windows? or a bad driver of some kind?
What PSU do you have?
My advice would be to do a complete uninstall of nvidia driver (ccleaner) Then get the latest drivers and install using those.
 
brookes18 said:
It has just started going into sleep mode as soon as I log in.
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Does that not like hint you have other problems ? and it's not related to your GPU .. :rolleyes:

Maybe time to reinstall windows if you can't figure out why you are getting strange errors or even check the event viewer and see what errors are showing up there. As you stated in safe mode it works fine, so check what is starting up in normal mode that could cause these problems.
 
Battlefield 3 is by far the most bug ridden awful game I have ever allowed to grace my hard drive.

That, coupled with Nvidia's insistence on continually breaking their drivers really don't go well together.

I did manage to get it working on my 6970L. It stuttered like a pig on my GTX 470 and it just absolutely and utterly hates my 295 whether single or in quad sli.
 
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Im having big issues with my 295, installed the latest 285 drivers, and just cuts out playing the latest games, until I disable Multi-GPU, basically making it only half work

Still, going for a new build with an ATI card to get away from all the Nvidia issues that are cropping up more and more
 
Only a bit less than optimal performance in Deus Ex : HR, other than that no problems. I'm using 285.62.
 
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Nvidia drivers nearly always work flawlessly for me. When upgrading to the latest driver I always:

-> uninstall all Nvidia software/drivers from Control Panel (restart as prompted)
-> run disk cleanup on C:\
-> run CCleaner (including registry fixes)
-> reboot into safe mode
-> run Driver Sweeper for Nvidia graphics drivers (some people fear this program but it has never caused me any problems)
-> reboot to normal mode
-> search C:\ drive for the word "nvidia" and delete any corresponding folders found (but not the ones listed as Driver Sweeper or game components)
-> install latest driver using custom install and select clean install (deselecting 3D and audio drivers as I dont use them).
-> reboot
-> delete unzip folder C:\NVIDIA
-> play

It takes extra time (but not much on an SSD), but i prefer to start fresh.
 
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Well the problems only started since I upgraded the driver.
I reinstalled windows on Sunday and the problems started again after I installed the drivers.
I have now uninstalled the drivers and my computer's working fine now.
 
Purgatory said:
Does that not like hint you have other problems ? and it's not related to your GPU .. :rolleyes:

Maybe time to reinstall windows if you can't figure out why you are getting strange errors or even check the event viewer and see what errors are showing up there. As you stated in safe mode it works fine, so check what is starting up in normal mode that could cause these problems.
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Event viewer has numerous: Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
 
gregster said:
I think regardless of what card you have (ATI/NVIDIA) you will have problems as this is something that the card is not at fault for.
It could be a fault of windows? or a bad driver of some kind?
What PSU do you have?
My advice would be to do a complete uninstall of nvidia driver (ccleaner) Then get the latest drivers and install using those.
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I have a Corsair HX850.
I've unistalled the driver and i'm about to do a fresh install.
 
Always chose advanced options - clean install for new NV drivers.

Works perfectly. No need to remove old drivers first.

TBH i've rarely had issues with NV drivers even before this option.
 
OCPete said:
Always chose advanced options - clean install for new NV drivers.

Works perfectly. No need to remove old drivers first.

TBH i've rarely had issues with NV drivers even before this option.
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Well ive just done a clean install and only installed the driver, it prompt me to restart so I did and the exact same problems started happening. So ive now uninstalled them and I'm running the VGA graphic drivers and it working fine.
Could it be conflicting with something else?
I searched on google and their seems to be a few people posting about this.
 
GTX470 SLI here - I've not played BF3 on it but everything else has worked flawlessly for the last few months and I can't even remember the last time I did have any driver issues at all with this setup.
 
Apart from known and documented issues in certain games, I've not had any problems yet with them on my 580 (using WHQL drivers). Then again, I've never had any major issues with catalyst drivers either, spanning over five generations of ATI cards.

I honestly think a good 95% of the problems are due to user error - they've done something, somewhere, knowingly or unknowingly to **** things up. I'm a fairly "by the books" person, and my windows installation is always very neat and trim, as if I just installed Windows. Yet at the same time, I don't go crazy with tweaking or disabling uncessary processes, unless I'm certain it doesn't need to be running (usually stuff I've installed myself). On my current Win 7 system, I have 44 processes running at startup.

Also not had a single techincal issue with BF3 yet. Was the same with my 5870, except that green flashing issue which was resolved by turning some settings down (something to do with the card running out of vram).
 
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creed said:
Nvidia drivers nearly always work flawlessly for me. When upgrading to the latest driver I always:

-> uninstall all Nvidia software/drivers from Control Panel (restart as prompted)
-> run disk cleanup on C:\
-> run CCleaner (including registry fixes)
-> reboot into safe mode
-> run Driver Sweeper for Nvidia graphics drivers (some people fear this program but it has never caused me any problems)
-> reboot to normal mode
-> search C:\ drive for the word "nvidia" and delete any corresponding folders found (but not the ones listed as Driver Sweeper or game components)
-> install latest driver using custom install and select clean install (deselecting 3D and audio drivers as I dont use them).
-> reboot
-> delete unzip folder C:\NVIDIA
-> play

It takes extra time (but not much on an SSD), but i prefer to start fresh.
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With thanks to this very informative post, I followed this to upgrade my drivers for my GTX 295, as I was having problems getting this card to work on the latest games. I upgraded to the latest Nvidia Beta drivers, and now all the games work perfectly! No more hanging or screen going blank, so I owe you one! Now one happy bunny!
 
titaniumx3 said:
Apart from known and documented issues in certain games, I've not had any problems yet with them on my 580 (using WHQL drivers). Then again, I've never had any major issues with catalyst drivers either, spanning over five generations of ATI cards.

I honestly think a good 95% of the problems are due to user error - they've done something, somewhere, knowingly or unknowingly to **** things up. I'm a fairly "by the books" person, and my windows installation is always very neat and trim, as if I just installed Windows. Yet at the same time, I don't go crazy with tweaking or disabling uncessary processes, unless I'm certain it doesn't need to be running (usually stuff I've installed myself). On my current Win 7 system, I have 44 processes running at startup.

Also not had a single techincal issue with BF3 yet. Was the same with my 5870, except that green flashing issue which was resolved by turning some settings down (something to do with the card running out of vram).
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I wouldn't say 95% of GPU problems are down to user error. Every one I've had I've traced to some random problem, that - whilst fixable - was inherent in a piece of hardware.

The weirdest one I've had so far was when I moved to my sandybridge setup. On the old i7 my 580 ran fine. As soon as I moved the 580 to a z68 setup OMGBDHEISKSKRBTJDRIVERDEVICESTOPPEDWORKING.

Was weird, and annoying that a 450 quid GPU (including waterblock) wouldn't work. No matter what I did to the system.

So I was using the z68 graphics for a little while. Whilst playing around in the bios (trying to hit a maximum overclock :)) I upped the base clock to 103, and forgot to set the multiplier. So I had the processor running as stock, well 103mhz times 34 or whatever, and accidentally booted in using the 580. Amazingly enough, the card now worked flawlessly. Any higher or lower on the base clock caused the system to crash.

Weirdest bug I've ever had, and hopefully won't be having with my Maximus 4 gene-z
 
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