Mike
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Post by Mike on Dec 7, 2008 18:17:48 GMT
Apparently their new 180.48 drivers offer "EXCITING NEW FEATURES" and "BLAZING FAST PERFORMANCE" and "AND MORE". Now me, still using 169.21 which were released a little under a year ago, figured I should probably update my video drivers, despite there being nothing wrong with them (I guess I really wanted that 10% performance increase in games I don't own).
Anyway, I remembered what happened when I last tried to update my video drivers around half a year ago to to 175.xx or something. Constant crashing in games until I "downgraded" back to 169.21. That being half a year ago, you'd have thought NVIDIA would have fixed all this. Apparently this isn't true.
Uninstall drivers, boot into safe mode, run Driver Sweeper, install new drivers, restart. All good. Restart again. Within a few seconds of logging on, the screen goes black. Try again, same thing. Reboot into safe mode and everything works fine. Then I remember I'd deleted the 169.21 installation file before downloading the 180.48 drivers. Now I have to spend absolutely bloody ages downloading drivers again with my fantastic connection because NVIDIA (with billions of dollars to spend on development) can't be arsed to see if their products pass basic tests such as: DOES YOUR SHIT ACTUALLY WORK
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Post by tikcus on Dec 7, 2008 18:46:43 GMT
Apparently their new 180.48 drivers offer "EXCITING NEW FEATURES" and "BLAZING FAST PERFORMANCE" and "AND MORE". Now me, still using 169.21 which were released a little under a year ago, figured I should probably update my video drivers, despite there being nothing wrong with them (I guess I really wanted that 10% performance increase in games I don't own). Anyway, I remembered what happened when I last tried to update my video drivers around half a year ago to to 175.xx or something. Constant crashing in games until I "downgraded" back to 169.21. That being half a year ago, you'd have thought NVIDIA would have fixed all this. Apparently this isn't true. Uninstall drivers, boot into safe mode, run Driver Sweeper, install new drivers, restart. All good. Restart again. Within a few seconds of logging on, the screen goes black. Try again, same thing. Reboot into safe mode and everything works fine. Then I remember I'd deleted the 169.21 installation file before downloading the 180.48 drivers. Now I have to spend absolutely bloody ages downloading drivers again with my fantastic connection because NVIDIA (with billions of dollars to spend on development) can't be arsed to see if their products pass basic tests such as: DOES YOUR SHIT ACTUALLY WORKWhat motherboard you running?
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Mike
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Post by Mike on Dec 7, 2008 18:51:03 GMT
Asus P5K-E
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Post by tikcus on Dec 7, 2008 18:55:46 GMT
try updating the intel chipset drivers install - chipset - Video (in that order) if it crashes install chipset drivers again if it atill crashes roll back to working drivers
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