Anyone else getting freaky issues with Nvidia lately?

Vayra86 · Nov 20, 2017

RejZoR said:
Awesome job NVIDIA. Just awesome. Now stupid driver keeps restarting even on desktop while I'm browsing. For no logical reason it just restarts the driver every hour or few hours. Screen blinks and mouse freezes. I'm using the same shit as I have before, same Windows, same drivers, same everything. I'm getting really tired of this bullshit. Now I have to reinstall whole system clean again to see what the hell is doing this for real as event viewer has no usable info other than driver restart entry (Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.)

I'm seriously starting to regret going with GTX 1080Ti instead of RX Vega 64. This is just total BS.

Were you on driver 388.13 by any chance? It is a crappy POS, get the 388.31 or roll back to 397.92 (I'm still on the latter)

Recent Windows Fall Creators Update (1709 or smth) also came with 388.13, I had that shoved into my face last week, good chance you had the same problem. So far, the past few months any driver/GPU related issues I could trace back to Windows 10 forcing device updates, not so sure if AMD gets to avoid that.

rtwjunkie · Nov 20, 2017

Vayra86 said:
Were you on driver 388.13 by any chance? It is a crappy POS, get the 388.31 or roll back to 397.92 (I'm still on the latter)

Recent Windows Fall Creators Update (1709 or smth) also came with 388.13, I had that shoved into my face last week, good chance you had the same problem. So far, the past few months any driver/GPU related issues I could trace back to Windows 10 forcing device updates, not so sure if AMD gets to avoid that.

He could roll back to 388.00 also. No issues on Fall Creators Update.

RejZoR · Nov 20, 2017

No, I'm using 388.31. But it seemed to work fine, it started crapping itself like 2 days ago. Always while using Opera browser. I bet its crapping itself over it, just like it has constant problems with V-Sync and video corruption in Opera...

lexluthermiester · Nov 20, 2017

RejZoR said:
Awesome job NVIDIA. Just awesome. Now stupid driver keeps restarting even on desktop while I'm browsing. For no logical reason it just restarts the driver every hour or few hours. Screen blinks and mouse freezes. I'm using the same shit as I have before, same Windows, same drivers, same everything. I'm getting really tired of this bullshit. Now I have to reinstall whole system clean again to see what the hell is doing this for real as event viewer has no usable info other than driver restart entry (Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.)

If you swapped out cards but didn't do a fresh install of drivers, that could be your problem. Try doing a fresh install of the latest.

RejZoR · Nov 20, 2017

I've reinstalled OS like 4 times in between for sure. Although it was refreshes which might not be the same. I'll make a total clean reinstall using USB drive instead of REFRESH function. Lets see...

londiste · Nov 20, 2017

Ctrl+Shift+Win+B is the shortcut to manually restart graphics driver in Windows.
Could your instability be coming from hardware, like OC on either CPU or GPU?

I used to get similar symptoms with my GTX1080 when it was clocked a bit too far.

I do not think I have ever had to do anything beyond normal install-uninstall with graphics drivers, even with both Nvidia and AMD drivers installed at the same time. Geforce Experience definitely has a Clean Install checkbox for Nvidia drivers. Not sure about the driver installer itself, have not been using that for a while.

xkm1948 · Nov 20, 2017

@RejZoR Buy a Vega64 and test it out. If you like it then sell your 80Ti. If you don't like Vega64 just return it. Really easy.

RejZoR · Nov 20, 2017

londiste said:
Ctrl+Shift+Win+B is the shortcut to manually restart graphics driver in Windows.
Could your instability be coming from hardware, like OC on either CPU or GPU?

I used to get similar symptoms with my GTX1080 when it was clocked a bit too far.

I do not think I have ever had to do anything beyond normal install-uninstall with graphics drivers, even with both Nvidia and AMD drivers installed at the same time. Geforce Experience definitely has a Clean Install checkbox for Nvidia drivers. Not sure about the driver installer itself, have not been using that for a while.

Unlikely. CPU is stable, graphic card was only "overclocked" with official Gigabyte's tool to OC Mode.

R0H1T · Nov 20, 2017

xkm1948 said:
@RejZoR Buy a Vega64 and test it out. If you like it then sell your 80Ti. If you don't like Vega64 just return it. Really easy.

Are return policies as lax in the EU as they're in USA? If not this could be a problem.

RejZoR · Nov 20, 2017

If it's bought online, I have 30 days no questions asked return option. Problem is, prices are quite high here, which is why I usually order from Germany or UK.

the54thvoid · Nov 20, 2017

RejZoR said:
If it's bought online, I have 30 days no questions asked return option. Problem is, prices are quite high here, which is why I usually order from Germany or UK.

Dont understand your problems at all. Must be one of those stupidly rare conflicts with something? I accidentally updated to WCU (wife did it by mistake because of MS nagware) and I've actually had zero problems with my 1080ti - admittedly only playing BF1 but it's a good test of stability (and it's clocked at 1200+ with memory running at 11808).

xkm1948 · Nov 20, 2017

RejZoR said:
If it's bought online, I have 30 days no questions asked return option. Problem is, prices are quite high here, which is why I usually order from Germany or UK.

30 days should be more than enough for turn around. I say just do it. It would answer the question whether your problem is system/platform based or GPU based. Plus you get to play woth Vega, which is surely something you have always secretly wanted.

Do it man! Do it!

RejZoR · Nov 20, 2017

I've noticed that Windows refresh leaves drivers as is. I'm gonna do a proper clean reinstall. Must be some dumb conflict with something because it worked fine just few days ago. One thing I did change recently is from Adaptive V-Sync to Fast V-Sync. If this is again the problem I'll go ballistic...

cucker tarlson · Nov 20, 2017

388.13 was literally the worst nvidia driver I've seen. Stuttering mess, artifacts on afterburner osd, nvcp worked slow as hell. 388.31 is the exact oppsite.

Toothless · Nov 20, 2017

Last two NVIDIA drivers are giving me stutters and uneven framerates when nothing is at full usage. W10 forced the most updated one and yeah, it hasn't been a fun time.

Edwired · Nov 21, 2017

Try and put the pcie lane mode to 2.0 than 3.0 as it goes the same on my asus p5q premium as i had to drop the graphic card to pcie x4 1.1 with stuttering but it plays alot longer otherwise i get constant crashings in pcie x16 and x8. I am after ruling out all the compoments on my pc except the ram as i just found out my mushkin rams are not compatility with my board so im gonna try and find gskill 4x 2gb kit as it nearly impossible to get a hold of them

RejZoR · Nov 22, 2017

I'm suspecting Fast/Adaptive V-Sync is shitting itself again. NFS Payback crashed with DX error, but in event viewer it was again NV component recovering from crash. Switched from Fast to Adaptive and it crashed 1 minute into the race again. Turned off V-Sync entirely now. Then it worked fine (for now). Lets see. But let me just say how absurd this is either way...

Vya Domus · Nov 22, 2017

Forcing v-sync of any kind through the driver will never work flawlessly due to conflicts with the API and game code.

Edwired · Nov 22, 2017

The only way i can see is try and turn off vsync then cap the fps to 60 with riva app that came with msi afterburner and see how that goes otherwise we all be back go sqaure one with the drivers

RejZoR · Nov 22, 2017

Every time I locked framerate with external tools it created horrendous tearing. In every single game, every single time. Maybe that works on 60Hz screens, but with my 144Hz I always got tearing.

Vya Domus · Nov 22, 2017

Locking the frame rate never works , you need to synchronize the frames with the refresh rate.

Edwired · Nov 22, 2017

I know the feeling rejzor it so annoying when the graphic card just goes brain farted no matter what way we try to fix it. As there must be something conflicting between the graphic card, motherboard and windows 10. As no matter what methods is used like downclocking, locking the fps, and other settings in nvidia control panel just kills the experience

RejZoR · Nov 22, 2017

It's even worse when you pay 800€ for it and you listen fanboys go on and on how NVIDIA is superior with software. And then it's such a disaster... Really, I had a lot of Radeon cards in last decade and if I combine ALL of them, I didn't have so many and so bizarre issues with any of them. Glitches here and there and most of them got fixed in next driver without me ever reporting anything. Here, whatever I have, seems to be entirely baffling to the NVIDIA tech support. Like I'm literally the only person with GTX 1080Ti and a 144Hz monitor using Opera browser (because most of issues appeared only in Chrome based browsers) in this frigging world...

Kanan · Nov 23, 2017

RejZoR said:
It's even worse when you pay 800€ for it and you listen fanboys go on and on how NVIDIA is superior with software. And then it's such a disaster... Really, I had a lot of Radeon cards in last decade and if I combine ALL of them, I didn't have so many and so bizarre issues with any of them. Glitches here and there and most of them got fixed in next driver without me ever reporting anything. Here, whatever I have, seems to be entirely baffling to the NVIDIA tech support. Like I'm literally the only person with GTX 1080Ti and a 144Hz monitor using Opera browser (because most of issues appeared only in Chrome based browsers) in this frigging world...

Did you try driving the monitor on 120 Hz? I know that it fixed some problems on Radeon cards, maybe it does so on Nvidia too.

RejZoR · Nov 23, 2017

Why would I ? 144Hz isn't some special exotic stuff. Besides, that's like buying a 600 HP Ferrari and then limiting it to 400 HP because reasons. It's up to NVIDIA to fix their "perfect" drivers, not me running a 144Hz screen at 120Hz. And 2nd besides, anything below 144Hz and I can sense something is off. I sense it as some sort of vibration of the image, which is how I sensed that games aren't running at 144Hz when using DSR (another broken feature on "perfect" NVIDIA drivers with 144Hz screens).

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