What's with Nvidia's drivers these days?

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Am I the only one who gets lock ups everytime they open the control panel? I've never ever encountered a problem with their drivers until about a year or two ago. I'm not an avid gamer, so I don't obsess much over drivers and you can see from my video card choice that it's not a critical component. But I do play an occasional game and I'd like to fool with the control panel, but it crashes intermittently. I'm just wondering if this is a know bug or issue? I never have issues while actually playing a game. I've been playing Formula 1 2016.

Maybe it's bitcoin. Please say it's bitcoin, I need another reason to bash it. : P
 
I'm not running into the issue you've described. Time for a complete uninstall followed by a DDU run in safe mode and reinstall maybe?
 
I tried using some driver uninstaller I found on guru3d, but the problem remains. I think it's just taking up the same memory space as another application and there's nothing I can do about it.
 
I tried using some driver uninstaller I found on guru3d, but the problem remains. I think it's just taking up the same memory space as another application and there's nothing I can do about it.

Haha, I meant to ask OP if he used DDU or not!
 
Once I find a good set of drivers I stop upgrading unless it's required for a major release.
 
Honestly I have been pretty annoyed that I am still having an issue in Senua Hell Blade and no driver version fixes it. System has no issue in any other game at all....
 
with the last few releases of nVidia drivers I've experienced green flickering on the display when running Mass Effect Andromeda at 1920 x 1080p. Have to use Windowed without boarder to make it stop flashing. Then, with the most recent release, if you're in full screen mode you can't see the mouse pointer when you go to the map or any other such function(s) like weapons select, etc.

yes, windowed mode solves it but really ...
 
with the last few releases of nVidia drivers I've experienced green flickering on the display when running Mass Effect Andromeda at 1920 x 1080p. Have to use Windowed without boarder to make it stop flashing. Then, with the most recent release, if you're in full screen mode you can't see the mouse pointer when you go to the map or any other such function(s) like weapons select, etc.

yes, windowed mode solves it but really ...

I had this happen to me during one of the Windows Insider fast ring updates. It was related to the gaming mode, as far as I could tell.
 
Well, I'm pretty certain my card bit the dust, and I'm now using integrated graphics. My PC wouldn't boot this morning until I removed the vidya card.

I'm pretty sure constant overheating did it? Even though I had tested it with furmark and it didn't seem like it was overheating. I had put an after market cooler on, and the fan has never turned on. But it worked, and as stated it didn't seem to be overheating. Oh well... I got a few good years out of it.

Question: The adapter has three wires black, red, yellow, and blue. It's an Artic Cooling fan/heatsink. But the terminal/receptacle on the video card itself only has three ports. I had assumed that the fourth wire was just for reading the fan speed. But maybe the wires are mixed up? How would I resolve this issue if I bought a new GPU and used this same heatsink? I can only guess this issue would reproduce itself.
 
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Well, I'm pretty certain my card bit the dust, and I'm now using integrated graphics. My PC wouldn't boot this morning until I removed the vidya card.

I'm pretty sure constant overheating did it? Even though I had tested it with furmark and it didn't seem like it was overheating. I had put an after market cooler on, and the fan has never turned on. But it worked, and as stated it didn't seem to be overheating. Oh well... I got a few good years out of it.

Question: The adapter has three wires black, red, yellow, and blue. It's an Artic Cooling fan/heatsink. But the terminal/receptacle on the video card itself only has three ports. I had assumed that the fourth wire was just for reading the fan speed. But maybe the wires are mixed up? How would I resolve this issue if I bought a new GPU and used this same heatsink? I can only guess this issue would reproduce itself.
If you hadn’t modded the card it’d likely still be working and you wouldn’t have made this thread because you likely wouldn’t have had the unique control panel lockup issue.

Why do you want to break your new replacement card too?
 
I've owned this card for like half a decade. The only thing that might have resulted in damage is the fact the fan never worked. But I watched the temps, and they were always within range, even during furmark. I've put aftermarket coolers on every single other card I've owned, and this is the only non-AMD card to bite the dust. How long do most people's cards last?

I just tested the fan by plugging it in directly to a 12v power supply and it works fine. I don't know why the card itself won't turn it on. Either the power unit in the card isn't 12v or it's broken or the drivers just don't turn it on for some reason.
 
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