Problems with latest Nvidia drivers

[Quivz]

More of a public service announcement, but if anyone else is having problems, sound off.

 

The latest Nvidia driver (Geforce game ready 445.87 april 15 2020) is recommended if you want to try out the RTX minecraft beta.

However i have been having problems with lighting in other games (non RTX titles) after installing this driver. I also had problems rendering videos in Davinci Resolve, which would get to about 80% and then fail.

I've rolled back to the previous driver (geforce game ready 445.75 march 23 2020) and this has fixed my problems.

 

Playing around with the tiny minecraft demos of ray tracing (since you cant really just play with RTX on yet) is not worth the graphical glitches in other games or an inability to render a video i need to upload.

 

Hope if anyone else is having problems since this driver update, either knows to rollback or finds this thread.

[Skiiwee29]

I personally have not had any issues with the new drivers. Have you tried using DDU and then installing them? Could be an issue with previous drivers since it just writes over them and eventually could become problematic. 

[Quivz]

1 minute ago, Skiiwee29 said:

I personally have not had any issues with the new drivers. Have you tried using DDU and then installing them? Could be an issue with previous drivers since it just writes over them and eventually could become problematic. 

I always do a clean install when i upgrade drivers. I did not use DDU, in fact i'd never heard of it until your post (will keep in mind for next driver update), i just check the box in the nvidia driver installation. I did not do a clean install when i rolled back however as i was just quickly trying it out to see if it fixed the problem. But i haven't had any issues since rolling back the driver, so i'm inclined to believe it was the culprit. It was the only thing besides installing the minecraft RTX beta that had changed on my system and suddenly light effects in other games were all screwed up and davinci resolve couldn't render a 20min video.

[DudeWhatTheN]

46 minutes ago, Quivz said:

I always do a clean install when i upgrade drivers. I did not use DDU, in fact i'd never heard of it until your post (will keep in mind for next driver update), i just check the box in the nvidia driver installation. I did not do a clean install when i rolled back however as i was just quickly trying it out to see if it fixed the problem. But i haven't had any issues since rolling back the driver, so i'm inclined to believe it was the culprit. It was the only thing besides installing the minecraft RTX beta that had changed on my system and suddenly light effects in other games were all screwed up and davinci resolve couldn't render a 20min video.

Have you tried reinstalling the driver?

 

[Quivz]

14 hours ago, DudeWhatTheN said:

Have you tried reinstalling the driver?

 

No i haven't but i have found steam threads with others that have the problem (specific to monster hunter world, but i've seen it in other games too). And the driver i rolled back to still has the problem. I'm going to have to roll back one more to 442.74 according to those threads. So i'm going to DDU and install that one in the hope my games aren't still an unplayable graphical mess.

[DudeWhatTheN]

10 hours ago, Quivz said:

No i haven't but i have found steam threads with others that have the problem (specific to monster hunter world, but i've seen it in other games too). And the driver i rolled back to still has the problem. I'm going to have to roll back one more to 442.74 according to those threads. So i'm going to DDU and install that one in the hope my games aren't still an unplayable graphical mess.

Let me know if it works and if it doesnt i can try help

Edit: be aware sometimes DDU makes things worse so be catious

[Quivz]

On 4/21/2020 at 7:38 PM, DudeWhatTheN said:

Let me know if it works and if it doesnt i can try help

Edit: be aware sometimes DDU makes things worse so be catious

The second roll back did the trick. I'm gonna keep a copy of this version driver on a drive and when new drivers come out i can try them and have this one ready as a a fall back position.

[DudeWhatTheN]

7 hours ago, Quivz said:

The second roll back did the trick. I'm gonna keep a copy of this version driver on a drive and when new drivers come out i can try them and have this one ready as a a fall back position.

That's good!