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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

Every time I come to install a new one of these it gets about 1/3 along the bar then crashes the PC. Reboots and offers the usual start normally or safe mode etc., start normally and the drivers installed and works fine. Anyone else have this? seemed to start about a month ago.
 
Qel said:
Every time I come to install a new one of these it gets about 1/3 along the bar then crashes the PC. Reboots and offers the usual start normally or safe mode etc., start normally and the drivers installed and works fine. Anyone else have this? seemed to start about a month ago.
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That doesn't sound like the drivers mate. Think how many millions of people download and install them.

Are you running any overclocks? Sound like something is unstable.

If you are, as a test put everything back to stock and see what happens.
 
Quick question:

I'm in the process of getting a new rig to replace my ageing i7 920 system and I've always historically had an ATI card. My new rig will have a GTX 1070. Does Nvidia have some software that automatically updates the drivers for you as updates are released?

Dumb question I know, but I've been so out of the loop for such a long time.
 
physichull said:
Quick question:

I'm in the process of getting a new rig to replace my ageing i7 920 system and I've always historically had an ATI card. My new rig will have a GTX 1070. Does Nvidia have some software that automatically updates the drivers for you as updates are released?

Dumb question I know, but I've been so out of the loop for such a long time.
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Geforce Experience.
 
physichull said:
Quick question:

I'm in the process of getting a new rig to replace my ageing i7 920 system and I've always historically had an ATI card. My new rig will have a GTX 1070. Does Nvidia have some software that automatically updates the drivers for you as updates are released?

Dumb question I know, but I've been so out of the loop for such a long time.
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The 920 will not bottleneck a 1070 btw. It's a question I've looked into to save me upgrading my whole system
 
ceaton88 said:
The 920 will not bottleneck a 1070 btw. It's a question I've looked into to save me upgrading my whole system
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Bitten the bullet and decided to get a shiny new 6700k from OcUK, 16 Gb Ram and a 1070 to compliment. Just need them to build and ship it as I am pretty excited about getting atuck into BF1! Gonna get a new monitor while I am at it too, 22" to a 27" gsync should pretty much blow my mind. Probably on rhe same level when I went from a 17" to 22"!
 
Kelt said:
Have you thought about buying an X5650 or better?

Blinding chip when oc'd.
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Yeah I've read about it but can't be bothered for the slight performance increase, I'm not very clued up when it comes to overclocking (I've read the Xeons are trickier to OC) so am just sticking with my working setup as is.

My next move will probably be a 1070 when/if they come down in price and then a whole new system after that.
 
opethdisciple said:
That doesn't sound like the drivers mate. Think how many millions of people download and install them.

Are you running any overclocks? Sound like something is unstable.

If you are, as a test put everything back to stock and see what happens.
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No overclocks, it's really strange, the machine never crashes otherwise, games run fine etc just on new driver install, then you check the driver and it seems like it has all installed as normal.
 
Will give these drivers a try now. I will report back in a bit to say if it made any difference with all the artifacting.

EDIT: Just installed versin .76 and it has completely cured the artifacting in gifs that I was getting previously. Huzzah!
 
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A no go for me, first time I recall having driver troubles in a long time, 980ti SLI, drivers install ok, then after a reboot, get about 5 seconds into windows and just freezes, can't get it to stop, had to restore point.
 
NVIDIA Adds Telemetry to Latest Drivers; Here's How to Disable It

Source: NVIDIA Adds Telemetry to Latest Drivers; Here's How to Disable It - MajorGeeks
It's been brought to our attention that nVIDIA now has telemetry included with its drivers. It also continues the bloat with nVIDIA Wireless Controller and ShadowPlay services, something many don't need.

First, let's go over what these are.

Telemetry is essentially considered spying by many as it is a way to send data back and forth. It's nowhere near that simple, but we'd like to know what it's doing in our video drivers when it's never been needed before.
nVIDIA Wireless Controller requires you have, you guessed it, a nVIDIA Wireless Controller.
ShadowPlay is a way to capture and record gameplay.

The easiest way to check for, and disable these is to download Microsoft Autoruns. Autoruns is portable, so no installation is needed. Download it and unzip Autoruns.zip into its own folder and double click Autoruns.exe or Autoruns64.exe.

Type nvidia in the filter box.

You will find Telemetry in the Task Scheduler section and the nVIDIA Wireless Controller, and ShadowPlay services further down under the registry entries.

Uncheck what you don't want, close and reboot. If you get an error, close the program and right click on Autoruns.exe or Autoruns64.exe and "Run as Administrator."

Here is an image showing you how to get it done:

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