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Hello! I got an old Windows 7 pc (the HP Pavilion p7-1027c, specifically), and I'm using it as a sort of practice rig to tinker with and try to upgrade. I bought a GTX 680 for it from ebay, because from what I've read the 600 series was the last generation to naturally run on legacy bios systems. I seated it and booted the pc, and it came right on with the weird aspect ratio thing that one would expect with a new gpu that hasn't had its drivers installed yet. So, I'm assuming the card works. Anyway, when I try to install the drivers for this card, I get this error: "the procedure entry point setdefaultdlldirectories could not be located kernel32.dll" I'm unable to install the driver, and I get the same error when I try to install and open Geforce Experience. Does anyone have any ideas that can help me? Again, this is all a learning experience for me so I'm not super tech savvy. Please explain things in layman's terms if possible lol. My searches so far have led me to attempt a Windows update, which the pc does not want to do on its own. I found a link to manually install a security update from 2018 which should have updated the file version of my kernel32.dll file, but it didn't. Please help. Thanks, y'all!

I have just installed a new SSD with a new copy of windows 10 Home 64 bit but I get a black screen of death whenever I try and install an Nvidia driver for my 980 ti. I have uninstalled with DDU and reinstalled various driver versions from Nvidia's website and the windows default nvidia driver and they all result in a black screen most of the way through the install. The only thing that works is the Microsoft basic display adapter but I want the Nvidia drivers for better quality play in video games. All windows updates have been installed. If it helps these are some of my pc specs AMD Ryzen 7 1700X MSI B450-A PRO Motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB DDR4Memory EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME SSD Windows 10 Home OEM 64 bit

I'd like to preface that I have used DDU multiple times whilst in safe mode to both roll back and upgrade my drivers, all to no avail. For some reason, starting around 3 weeks ago, my graphics drivers will keep crashing every other minute whenever I try to play multiple different games (World of Tanks, Hunt: Showdown, Apex Legends, and Dota 2 are the ones I have tested). There is no sort of performance degradation before the crash and the temps on my GPU and CPU look fine. To attempt to solve this issue I have tried: Using DDU to roll back my drivers to older versions such as 471.41 or 472.12 Using DDU to update my drivers to the latest version, 497.09 Taking my GPU out, giving it a good dusting (it was practically dust-free), and putting it back in Running memtest86 to see if any memory issues might be causing problems (test came back with zero errors) Disabling any sort of overclocking/system management tools like Process Lasso (I stopped overclocking well over a year ago though) Note that for DDU I have it still checked to allow Microsoft to automatically install drivers or whatever - should I set it to disable that in DDU's advanced settings? Also, for some reason, I feel like repeatedly rolling back and updating my drivers through Window's Device Manager will eventually enable me to play at least World of Tanks issue free until I restart my computer, upon which it will start crashing again. Computer specs: Windows 10 Education (Build 19044) Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Gaming OC White AMX Ryzen 7 3700X Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro WiFi 32GB DDR4 3600MHz RAM Corsair RMx 750W PSU Here's what one of the error messages typically looks like, they are all usually similar in that they mention graphics drivers (this one is from World of Tanks): And attached is a HWInfo log from when a crash occurs in World of Tanks. I start the logging before the game is running, then boot up the game, load into a battle, and stop the logging shortly after the game crashes. I'm all ears for any other sort of tests I can run to help diagnose this issue and provide more information for you guys, thank you so much for any help! crash.CSV

i cant run valorant because "DX11 feature level 10.0 is required to run the engine." I searched it up on google and I need to update my graphics drivers, but all my graphic drivers are up to date according to Window's Graphic Settings thingy and the Intel Driver and Support Assistant. Can anyone help? Heres what it says exactly

Ive been trying to download NVIDIA drivers - 517.48. It says it is not compatible with my version of windows. I'm on windows 10 21H2, Build 19044.2006. 3070ti From gigabyte with latest drivers before this update.

Hello! I recently bought a pre-built PC back in January and never had any problems until recently. As the title reads my PC shuts down when playing specific games. It isn't due to overheating (I've kept HWMonitor up while playing games and haven't noticed any temps over 70 celsius) It also takes me to the "shutting down" windows screen, it doesn't instantly turn off like a crash or anything, nor do I get any blue screens. I noticed the game it does it constantly on is Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (I wanted to replay the campaign). After about 5 minutes of playing, it randomly does this. The problem I believe is the graphics drivers but I'm not sure why. I have tried DDU and reinstalling the drivers. The shut down does not happen after a fresh install of the drivers or sometimes I hit the reinstall driver option on Nvidia GeForce Experience and do not experience any shut downs after reinstalling the drivers. However, if I turn my PC off or restart it, the problem continues when I come back on for another session. I tried looking online but couldn't find a solution. I don't think it's my PSU but I haven't completely ruled that out. Would really appreciate the help. Thank you! Specs: RTX 3070 AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 16 GB RAM 3200Mhz Corsair RM750 750W 80+ Gold MSI B550-A PRO

Recently bought a new system, i7 7700k under a Silverstone tundra TDO2, 16gb ram, MSI Carbon ac mITX mobo, Be Quiet! Pure Power 9 600W CM Power Supplyand a Gigabyte Geforce 1070 G1 gaming . Since building it the PC will soft crash to desktop whilst gaming, but Premiere and After effects was working. I did a clean install of windows and the crashing persisted, Tried DDU to change the drivers again, system still persisted to crash in games. This was odd as performance is as expected and there is no heating issue with the PC either and no overclocking of GPU or CPU. Clean installed windows for a third time, and discovered the TDR Delay fix, which seemed to have stopped the. I kept with this setup for a while until I reinstalled after effects and Premiere and Lightroom. Lightroom has no issues with teh build, but both Premiere and After effects cannot get past the launch splash screen without giving a GPU manager error with varying error codes. With this issue i suspected again drivers to be the issue so updated the adobe products and reinstalled graphics drivers with DDU once more. Still no fix to the crashes, whilst also removing my TDR delay fixes from the registry. My question is, where should I go from here? Try another clean install? Try another video card? RMA the video Card? Any help would be great, been dealing with this for 3 weeks now on and off and its getting very draining... Cheers:)

The Saga continues. Upgraded to a new PC, with a 1070, 7700K, 16gb Ram, MSI carbon ac mitx mobo, 600W be quiet PSU, Silverstone TD02, and have had continual issues that I think are GPU driver related. At first I was getting repeated crashes to desktop while gaming, which was eventually fixed with a TDR delay regedit fix. This then was causing After effects and premiere to crash upon launch. I proceeded to install a different TDR fix (called TDR manipulator, which jsut had different red values) which stopped the programs crashing on startup, and also stopped games crashing. BUt alas upon trying to export a time lapse from After effects i came back to my PC restarted. Further investigation showed crashing with other After effects uses like playback with effects etc. I ran Driver verifier and came back with a few DMP files, which I am unable to read. If anyone has suggestions how to try fix this rubbish for ever I would be so grateful, or if someone can get any info out of the DMP files 021817-8046-01.dmp 021817-8234-01.dmp 021917-7921-01.dmp 021917-8234-01.dmp

I just put together my very first pc but the dang graphics card doesn't work. It doesn't show up in my device manager. The only thing that shows up when I go to display adapters is the microsoft basic display adapter. The pc recognized the graphics card before I downloaded the windows 10 update that said something nvidia in it and now when I open up afterburner all it says is there is the display adapter. I also found that windows update failed to install the nvidia graphics adapter update so I don't really know what to do here. I went to nvidia's website and tried to download the latest driver from there but then I get a this isn't compatible with my windows version error message. When I tried trouble shooting it by going through the inf installation files I couldn't get the hardware ID from my graphics card since it doesn't show. I did see get another error message when I tried to update the drivers on the display adapter and it said it could download the 1050 Ti's drivers or something like that and it said to go to the manufacturer's website but I ALREADY DID THAT so I am at the end of my rope here. Also when I booted up Heroes of the Storm just to see if it would work for the first time the games list didn't show up on the left of the window either but I could click on them, then I encountered some pretty bad stuttering and/or framerates running at even the lowest settings just trying to get into the game. I never made it past the log in because the log in button wouldn't even light up. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!

For a few days ago I helped my friend building a computer, and it all worked fine until we tested the fps on games. We noticed very low framrates, like 20fps on the lowest settings. We of course understood that it was not supposed to be like this, and so we tried to debug it. We found out that it was in every game using the Intel graphics over the graphics card, and we also found out that it was always using Intel graphics, even in windows (and showed that in the Dx diag too) And so we obviously thought that we had plugged it in wrong or something like that, and we took it out and put it back in. We did manage to get the fan to start running (it might not have before), but it was still the same. When playing around in windows to try to find a solution, we also found out that in the Nvidia control panel, it does say "Gtx 1060 3GB" Does anyone know a way to fix this issue? Considering that the fan did run and that we get a HDMI connection from the gpu, we heavily doubt that the card is dead. We are using the Z170l Pro gaming motherboard from Asus btw. Many thanks, olesien

The graphics card in my Dell precision M4700 all of a sudden stopped working when you check in the device manager won't apart from what you will see in the attached image below. I've tried to install a new driver to see if that solves the problem but to no avail. Please I will appreciate help so much.

Hello everyone, hope you guys are doin' good. So I plan to install my 1660 super into my system tomorrow and I want to know what the best way to get rid of the old drivers (RX460) and install new ones. Do I really need to use DDU or can I just use the built-in uninstaller and do it that way. And are there any things that I should stay away from. BTW: I can even reinstall windows if absolutely needed but I prefer not cuz I don't wanna re install all the apps just yet. I will eventually do it but tomorrow is not the day. All help is appreciated, thankyou very much :)

Hi, I'm having an issue with my graphics card where whenever I try to update my RX 480 Radeon drivers past version 17.9.3, my PC boots into a black screen and my monitors stop detecting input. I get past the BIOS screen, but the loading circle freezes at the Windows logo screen and then my screen goes black, my keyboard and mouse lights go off and then it sounds like my PC is trying to take off. To fix this, I have to boot into safe mode and use DDU to uninstall the faulty drivers. I cannot update to the most recent drivers while in safe mode because of a digital signature error. It is important to note that when the newer drivers are being installed, the bar will often freeze at a certain point (varies from 40% to 70%) and then my screen will turn off, before restarting my PC into the same blank screen cycle as I mentioned before. I haven't actually seen the progress bar reach 100% and prompt me to restart my PC, so I feel as though something is inhibiting its ability to install properly and this is what is causing the issue. AMD support have only gotten me to test a bunch of different driver versions, none of which actually work. I have tried installing the new drivers without an internet connection, with Defender turned off and with the Windows Firewall turned off. My BIOS is fully updated, as is Windows. I have also tried to install the drivers on both of my drives to see if it is a problem with one of my drives, but the problem persists. I don't exactly have the means to test my GPU in another system (which AMD support has suggested I try), but I do have my old motherboard and CPU that I can test this with if it could help. Although this is not ideal as it isn't really as powerful as my current CPU. This issue stops me from playing some newer games that I would really like to play, so I would really like some kind of fix that doesn't require me to get a new card or change to NVIDIA just for a working product.Any potential solutions or help would be greatly appreciated. Specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350-PLUSRam: Kingston HyperX Fury (2x4GB) DDR4 2133mHzSSD/HDD: SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB (boot drive), WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDDGPU: MSI Radeon RX 480 Gaming X 8GBPSU: Antec 700W ATX (Bought in December 2016)Chassis: Corsair Carbide SPEC-02 Mid Tower CaseOS: Windows 10 Home (v. 10.0.18362 Build 18362)

Hello, and thank you for taking your time to read this. To keep this nice and simple, I started playing H1Z1 and this is where it started. When I start to move my screen goes black. My second screen doesn't black out, the black screen is fixed ones the game is closed. I had World of Warcraft black screen then run out of video memory. Please if you can help, thanks ! My Specs: Operating system: Windows 7 64 Bit CPU: Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q9550 @2.83GHz Motherboard: GA-EP45-UD3R Memory: 8.00 GB DDR3 Storage: WD Blue 500GB / Seagate 150GB Video Card: Radeon HD 6870 1GB Power supply: Antec True Power Trio TP3-650 650W Monitor 1: Acer S230HL (VGA to VGA/DVI) Monitor 2: LG Flatron L222WT (DVI/HDMI to HDMI) USB Wireless: Nano USB Adapter 150Mbps Wireless N (bought recently) BIOS version Award Software International, Inc. F12 1/25/2010 Adtional information I get these errors TWCU.exe - Application Error "the instruction at 0x733f49a5 referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be written. Click on OK to terminate the program" I can add additional information (Screen-shot is of the TWCU error)

Hi there. I have a problem regarding my graphics card. It basically freezes, and all I can do is move my cursor and nothing else. when playing games that require a lot from the card I need to restart the computer because I can't do anything. I can even browse GIFs on reddit and it will freeze. What i have done already, I have turned off the powersavings for the PCIe. I have slightly overclocked the gpu because I wanted a more smooth run on some games. though this is not much, at all! The crashing also happened before I did the overclocking. I have reinstalled my gpu drivers and removed the old drivers beforehand. After the most recent freeze did, my eventlog on the system bar spassed out. it was endless with errors as shown in the pictures. I have added DXDiag pictures and eventlog pictures. if there is more you guys want then ask. all the eventlogs are the same errors that came up, so that is all the failures that happened. Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit legal version. ASUS GTX 980 4GB PhysX CUDA oldest version. (bought it at release) ASUS Z97-PRO, Socket-1150 Intel Core i7 -4790K Corsair Dominator 24 GB 2x-8GB 2x-4GB Both 1866MHZ Corsair AX860

I recently got a Gigabyte 770 2gb after getting rid of my old 7850. First thing I did was go install the latest Nvidia drivers, which is 332.21 on windows 8.1 pro. Next, I opened Adobe Premiere Pro CC to test rendering out a video with the Mercury GPU accelerated rendering thingy. First thing that happened when I opened it was it said the previous time I opened the program I used OpenCL and it switched to CUDA or whatever. I said ok, cool, lets try to render it out. After the time just kept racking up on a simple 2 minute video, I could tell it was only using my crappy AMD CPU. I restarted the program and my computer with no luck. Any time I tried to use CUDA it didn't work. Turns out it wasn't installed, whereas with my 7850 opencl auto-installed. I went to download/install CUDA from here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-download and when I did it said I didn't have the right visual studio installed. I then tried to install visual studio and it didn't change anything. After several reinstalls/uninstalls of a ton of different programs and drivers, I just did a clean reinstall on my SSD. Nothing changed. I get errors every time I try to install visual studio and CUDA saying I haven't installed things I have already tried to install. Can anyone give me step by step instructions on how to get CUDA installed? I asked my friends who have similar if not the same graphics card and they didn't have these issues. Games and programs work fine, but I really would like to be able to render a 2 minute 1080p video in under 3 hours. Thanks in advance.