THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD

n111ck · 8 Oct 2016 at 19:45

pumaz said:
What's happened to NVidia drivers? Never had a problem till now

I've installed latest video drivers and GeForce experience for my 1070 but GFE is not working at all and just boots to a empty looking box, was really hoping to get some streaming going to my newly bought Shield TV. Is there any fixes for this?

I had that - had to reinstall it.

a66as · 8 Oct 2016 at 20:53

My laptop graphics card seems to be running hotter (gtx 1080) after the latest drivers, also causing some coil whine as well

fenchu · 8 Oct 2016 at 21:21

Aretak said:
It might not be strictly necessary, but I always use DDU before installing a new driver. It just eliminates any possibility of any sort of incompatibility or bug caused by leftovers, so if I ever have an issue I can rule that out straight away.

Agreed

opethdisciple · 8 Oct 2016 at 21:51

I would NEVER touch 3rd part uninstallers with a barge pole. Thats the exact opposite to what your trying to achieve.

You think your cleanly removing the driver from the system, using a THIRD party utility that isn't one created by Nvidia. It will only CAUSE problems rather than solve them.

Just start by uninstalling the display driver in the add/remove programs reboot and continue remove the components and rebooting until all is removed.

Then delete the Nvidia folders in Program Files and or Program files x86.

THATS how you do a clean uninstall.

NEVER use a 3rd party uninstaller unless there is something deeply wrong with your set up and you need to use it as an absolute last resort!

Even then it will probably just add another layer of complication to an already messy situation and your better off with a windows reinstall anyway.

phil-k · 8 Oct 2016 at 22:23

I have installed it for my GTX 1080 and I have no problems with it

Dave2150 · 8 Oct 2016 at 22:34

opethdisciple said:
I would NEVER touch 3rd part uninstallers with a barge pole. Thats the exact opposite to what your trying to achieve.

You think your cleanly removing the driver from the system, using a THIRD party utility that isn't one created by Nvidia. It will only CAUSE problems rather than solve them.

Just start by uninstalling the display driver in the add/remove programs reboot and continue remove the components and rebooting until all is removed.

Then delete the Nvidia folders in Program Files and or Program files x86.

THATS how you do a clean uninstall.

NEVER use a 3rd party uninstaller unless there is something deeply wrong with your set up and you need to use it as an absolute last resort!

Even then it will probably just add another layer of complication to an already messy situation and your better off with a windows reinstall anyway.

DDU > that rubbish.

tommybhoy · 9 Oct 2016 at 13:06

JediFragger said:
Weird!! I'll give it another try. Thanks.

izzop · 9 Oct 2016 at 16:30

Well, upgrading to the latest drivers didn't help for long.

Had it happen again last night, receiving the message: -

Display driver nVidia stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

I've only ever noticed it whilst I'm in game, either World of Tanks or Elite.

Doogles · 9 Oct 2016 at 16:35

izzop said:
Well, upgrading to the latest drivers didn't help for long.

Had it happen again last night, receiving the message: -

I've only ever noticed it whilst I'm in game, either World of Tanks or Elite.

Sweet I've been getting this whenever I stress test my CPU with CPU-Z or LinX, I know it's not RAM or CPU as I've tried underclocking them as far as possible with the same settings.

izzop · 9 Oct 2016 at 18:25

Doogles said:
Sweet I've been getting this whenever I stress test my CPU with CPU-Z or LinX, I know it's not RAM or CPU as I've tried underclocking them as far as possible with the same settings.

Glad I'm not alone

Do you also have it happen whilst in game(s)?

Blackjack Davy · 9 Oct 2016 at 20:13

izzop said:
Well, upgrading to the latest drivers didn't help for long.

Had it happen again last night, receiving the message: -

I've only ever noticed it whilst I'm in game, either World of Tanks or Elite.

I had that issue regularly until the the last driver, it seems to have gone with that one so I'm sticking with that for now!

So glad I held off updating before reading this thread, figured something like that might happen.

izzop · 9 Oct 2016 at 20:15

Blackjack Davy said:
I had that issue regularly until the the last driver, it seems to have gone with that one so I'm sticking with that for now!

So glad I held off updating before reading this thread, figured something like that might happen.

Which driver are you currently running?

If it's not one of the two that are giving me the problem I might try rolling back to that one to see if it stops happening.

Doogles · 9 Oct 2016 at 20:16

izzop said:
Glad I'm not alone

Do you also have it happen whilst in game(s)?

Not in games but War Thunder has had some weird artifacts which is odd as it hasn't happened in Doom or CS:GO. Coming from AMD this is leaving a rather sour taste in my mouth, after all I thought it was only AMD that made bad drivers! I've tried forcing constant voltage in Afterburner to see if that fixes the issue, I was wondering if it has something to do with GPU Boost 3.0 not working as intended. 373.06 WHQL is the driver I'm running right now which isn't a beta so shouldn't be having these issues.

arc@css · 9 Oct 2016 at 21:48

I might have had a driver crash last night as well, though I didn't get a message. I had a few tabs open, went downstairs, and then when I came back the windows had been closed. Bit strange. Temps seem to be a little higher also.

Doogles · 10 Oct 2016 at 14:17

arc@css said:
I might have had a driver crash last night as well, though I didn't get a message. I had a few tabs open, went downstairs, and then when I came back the windows had been closed. Bit strange. Temps seem to be a little higher also.

I think it's just a bad release, I upgrade the driver about 4 days ago and since I've had some issues, I'd rollback to a earlier one but cba!

RichardH754 · 10 Oct 2016 at 14:34

Wish they would sort out the SLI 1080s memory usage in afterburner or EVGA, its showing the wrong amount for months now!

Greebo · 10 Oct 2016 at 14:36

Driver is messing around with my voltages and boost.

Its all over the place, prior to this is was max 2088 and stayed there with max voltage.

Now the card is reporting that sometimes its not on max volts and the boost drops down as low as 2000.

Its not temps as card is still running at 29C and it only does it on the new driver.

Also timespy benchmark now crashes with this driver whereas previous driver it flew through.

Benchmarks results are now lower overall due to the max boost dropping and going all over the place. Did a run on firestrike and despite my cpu and gpu been clocked higher than last time I ran it, I got a lower score by a few hundred.

VincentHanna · 10 Oct 2016 at 14:50

RichardH754 said:
Wish they would sort out the SLI 1080s memory usage in afterburner or EVGA, its showing the wrong amount for months now!

You'll never get a true picture of VRAM usage anyway, as some games will just appear to use more even though there's no appreciable difference between running it on a 6GB card vs an 8GB card, at the same settings.

bemaniac · 10 Oct 2016 at 14:55

980ti limited to 595mhz on this driver. Had to do a ddu and reinstall to clear it but its ok now.

Jamesyboyjim · 10 Oct 2016 at 14:57

Having just purchased a 1070 after many years of amd cards I decided to use ddu to remove the amd driver, just ran the non safemode uninstall and shutdown, stuck the new card in, installed the latest NVidia driver and all went through without a hitch (so far anyway!) I did notice GeForce experience updated to a more cut down version, I can no longer do anything with the GeForce gtx led.

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