Nah, I think it was some kind of server issue like someone said before. It was looking for the new driver but didn't find one. No updates here and it worked fine this morning.
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Nah, I think it was some kind of server issue like someone said before. It was looking for the new driver but didn't find one. No updates here and it worked fine this morning.
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NVIDIA did something in their backend and reformatted their release notes, effectively fixing the GeForce Experience program crashing when going into the Drivers tab. No (additional) downloads needed, although I imagine the program has to check if there is an update and grab the new release notes.
How do you uninstall Experience? It doesn't show in Windows control panel and there is no stand alone uninstaller I can find.
Thought I'd give it a shot but ended up confirming exactly what I expected it to be, extra crap I don't need running in the background. No thanks!
Thought I'd give it a shot but ended up confirming exactly what I expected it to be, extra crap I don't need running in the background. No thanks!
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I think the only way is to reinstall the drivers that are downloaded from the website, doing a clean install, and unchecking experience. If that doesnt work just uninstall from Uninstall Programs and then do a clean install.
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Any word on these drivers? Are they causing crashes like the last ones?
I have no crashes with these or the previous. Problem on your computer, perhaps?
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Nope. Plenty of people at guru3d had problems with the last drivers. We all switched back to 344.75 to stop the crashing. There was a thread on here as well with a lot of people having the same problem.
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Maybe due to NVIDIA focusing on Maxwell in their latest releases, they broke something on older chips like Fermi. I've had no issues with this and last driver on a pair of GTX 970 and Windows 8.1.
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I don't know. Not everyone has a 9xx series card.
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Which is exactly what I'm speculating that maybe people who do not have a Maxwell card are the ones having the most problems.
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Well duh, of course we do. But there's a lot of people out there who aren't nearly as savvy as an [H] user and are going to run with what GeForce Experience tells them is "The Way It's Meant To Be Played."
I think most people who buy a dedicated video card are technically proficient enough and know better then to let some software adjust their settings
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Given how many times I see the question "will X let me max out at 1080p" I might have to disagree with you.
The issue is that too many people here seem to think that's the only purpose and function of GE. You need GE to enable and control Shadowplay, which is a legitimate thing.
Not any more, 10 years ago sure.
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So, I tried to install these drivers via GeForce Experience (never had an issue before), and it got stuck on "Installing Graphics Driver". Now, every time I try to install an nVidia driver, it gets fucking stuck at "Installing Graphics Driver". I have done a full uninstall, full Driver Cleaner wipe, everything. I tried installing from the graphics driver package directly and neither this one (347.52) nor the last one will install properly. The only way I could get the driver to install was in Safe Mode, but of course when I went to try to install GeForce Experience and the PhysX driver from the driver package in regular Windows, it forces you to reinstall the graphics driver, and it gets stuck on "Removing Graphics Driver"
What the fuck is going on? Never has a driver install been hosed this badly.
EDIT: Got the PhysX software installed separately, but the separate GeForce Experience installer gets stuck as well.
What the fuck is going on? Never has a driver install been hosed this badly.
EDIT: Got the PhysX software installed separately, but the separate GeForce Experience installer gets stuck as well.
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Yep. I haven't uninstalled a video driver since before Windows 7 was released. As far as GeForce Experience, I'm normally not one for auto-updaters, extra crap, etc. but it's easier to just let it install, and do it's thing than it is to not let it install, or uninstall it. It hasn't caused a problem yet, and actually simplifies driver installation. Plus it has the odd feature or two that are interesting. I've had zero issues from it being there.
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I'd lean toward that scenario too. Not even necessarily the fault of the owner of the machine. Just something up, some software incompatibility or something. I honestly haven't seen a single issue with NV software in many years. Not to say they don't exist, but I haven't seen any in my travels lately... (I think I had the odd glitch or two with my 6800GT SLI setup with a couple of games back in '04. Maybe had to swap SLI type or something on my GTX 295... Can't think of anything GTX 460 and up that's given me any problems.) The other thing though is that we're on [H]. Probably a lot of overclocking involved, and sometimes minor software issues crawl out of the woodwork even when an OC seems stable. I used to push my systems to their absolute maximum, but these days I just leave everything stock. I still enjoy seeing what others can squeeze out of their machines, but personally, I've been enjoying the solid, problem-free approach for some time now.
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I have a GTX980 and have had a couple crashes in SC2 and BF4 with the new driver. Pretty much, the current driver and last one have caused crashes. It has not happened often but it was annoying enough for me to switch back to 344.75 which has been stable.
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Hmmmm got a few crashes playing SWTOR and Diablo 3. Not really intense games either.
reverting back to previous driver.
Btw does this driver fix the voltage SLI Bug or MFAA support with SLI?.....lol i know i know
reverting back to previous driver.
Btw does this driver fix the voltage SLI Bug or MFAA support with SLI?.....lol i know i know
Wow.
D3 worked fine for me.
MFAA and SLI bug is still not fixed.
Voltage issue I noticed something odd with this driver. With the last driver at stock clocks my card 2 was under volted, with some OC on clock one the gap closes, but 2 was still lower than 1.
With this driver same OC's my card 2 is now HIGHER than card 1.
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Just to follow up in case anyone cares: I ended up closing all running processes in normal Windows and eventually it worked. I have no idea what was conflicting because I haven't started running any new software since the last driver update, so it's still perplexing. Only stuff I am running is standard software for KB/mouse/sound card/etc.
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That's interesting. I haven't looked at my voltages in awhile since offsetting the clock speeds. Maybe they ninja fixed the issue so they wouldn't have to publically admit this actually was a problem, but that is being overly optimistic.
The update worked fine for me through GFE after updating Windows, something I have pulled back to once a month since the run of bad updates last year. I believe someone earlier had mentioned this, maybe in the other thread.
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Are you implying west drivers are less problematic?
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Is there really anywhere to go to find the actual driver notes anymore? I loved how they use to highlight things but it seems now its just talking about how game ready they are. Geesh!
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The full release notes are on the bottom of the download page. I even believe that GFE has a link to them on the Drivers tab.
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I didn't have any pending Windows Updates, so I think the cause was different on my end. As I said, after manually closing most of my running processes, it worked, so it was something in there somewhere.
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Ah, yes I have my own routine when updating drivers. I disable all my attached displays except the primary one and close the programs it bitches about when reenabling SLI (Steelseries Engine, Logitech Game Profiler, Steam, frakking Gigabyte apps...).
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I can't say if this was causing the driver update issue or not, but I was having some other issues with "Hardware ID Missing" popping up, and not being able to install/uninstall devices (also new USB devices were not being seen). Did some process of elimination and it seems some old Asus motherboard software services were running that were fucking things up. I thought I uninstalled all of that garbage but apparently it was still lurking (did not show up in Add/Remove programs).
However, still very odd since I wasn't having an issue until recently and the file modification dates on those services was back in April of last year.
However, still very odd since I wasn't having an issue until recently and the file modification dates on those services was back in April of last year.
Hmmm. crap driver. I have a GTX970. everyday I've had this driver installed it has crashed my computer (at desktop usually, once in a game, and just another after waking the comptuer).
Back to 347.25 I go. Just a few drivers ago I was getting TDR's and hardware error 141's too.
Fix yo shit nvidia. TDR's are a whole reason I sold my GTX570. Then bought a GTX760 which I had no issues. Now my GTX970 has issues?! Think I need to stay away from the x70 anything.
Back to 347.25 I go. Just a few drivers ago I was getting TDR's and hardware error 141's too.
Fix yo shit nvidia. TDR's are a whole reason I sold my GTX570. Then bought a GTX760 which I had no issues. Now my GTX970 has issues?! Think I need to stay away from the x70 anything.
the bigger issue is that people know most of the 'features' of GeForce Experience, they just don't like that Nvidia is forcing it on people who want to use ShadowPlay or disable LED lights on their graphics cards
Given that most people just think GFE is simply a preset configuration app, no, this is not true at all.
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This driver still doesn't replace the monitor I broke. 1280x1024 is my nightmare. God help me,
Or taxes. All hail the tax return God.
Or taxes. All hail the tax return God.
So I have a 980 FTW and I've been having issues just today. I think its worth noting that I played a few hours of FC4 this past week and have had no issues until today.
I get the "Nvidia windows kernel mode driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered" error and then the game pretty much freezes up. This happens when I try changing the monitor the game is on, and on certain transitions (when the screen flickers) during the game.
Has anyone experienced this issue?
I get the "Nvidia windows kernel mode driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered" error and then the game pretty much freezes up. This happens when I try changing the monitor the game is on, and on certain transitions (when the screen flickers) during the game.
Has anyone experienced this issue?