Who am I supposed to be mad at? nvidia or microsoft?

[Mark floating in Space]

Hey guys!

I am having some troubles with my pc lately. It is about all sorts of display gliches: like no desktop background, missing icons in the taskbar, occasional flickering of the second monitor, transparented start menue etc.

 

I managed to grab a screenshot of one incident.

 

I am pretty sure that the sart of these issues was around the time when I updated my graphics driver. However, I have since that installed new drivers again but the problems remain. I am using a Asus strix GTX970 and I am running Driver Version 364.72 which according to NVIDIA Experience is the newest one. Now my question is: should I reinstall windows or wait for new drivers?

 

Thank you guys in advance!!

[GreezyJeezy]

I'd say it's a Windows issue 

[Moonzy]

why not both?

but 110% windows fault here, it happened to me and i totally forgot how i fixed it...

 

but you can try uninstalling your current gpu driver using ddu and installing an older version like 362.xx or 361.xx and see how it works out

 

the new nvidia driver is trash anyway

[Mark floating in Space]

haha I guess I will reinstall windows and treat me to a m.2 ssd while I am at it 

thank you guys for your answers.

 

@Moonzy I just wanted to say that you PC Components guide is awesome! Great work!

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, That_Linus_fan_guy said:

haha I guess I will reinstall windows and treat me to a m.2 ssd while I am at it 

thank you guys for your answers.

 

@Moonzy I just wanted to say that you PC Components guide is awesome! Great work!

thanks  and you're welcome

[GoodBytes]

Hmm yea something screwed up... You could fix it, but it will most likely take you more time and energy, especially if you want it be perfect, than to do a clean install.

 

[AlTech]

On ‎4‎/‎19‎/‎2016 at 11:26 PM, That_Linus_fan_guy said:

Hey guys!

I am having some troubles with my pc lately. It is about all sorts of display gliches: like no desktop background, missing icons in the taskbar, occasional flickering of the second monitor, transparented start menue etc.

 

I managed to grab a screenshot of one incident.

 

I am pretty sure that the sart of these issues was around the time when I updated my graphics driver. However, I have since that installed new drivers again but the problems remain. I am using a Asus strix GTX970 and I am running Driver Version 364.72 which according to NVIDIA Experience is the newest one. Now my question is: should I reinstall windows or wait for new drivers?

 

Thank you guys in advance!!

I'd reccomend a clean install.