Screens Pixelated After Driver Update? (Solved)

[Zhodg77]

So I was playing Witcher 3 and my game started to stutter. I then noticed that MSI Afterburner wasn't running so my fans weren't turned up. I started MSI Afterburner and for some reason my GPU wasn't being recognized.

 

I figured it was probably because of the Nvidia Driver Update on Geforce Experience that I had been holding off on installing. So I installed the latest driver Version: 368.39 and now my monitors are all messed up and look like the Matrix or something.

 

 

I also got this error message, but if my driver is messed up how do I go back to the old version? Or what should I do? Thank you. I'm running a EVGA 970 if that matters.

 

[AstroBenny]

Picture link doesn't work. Might be what I had. Restart always fixed it for me.

[Zhodg77]

Did a couple restarts to no avail. It even froze while logging into Windows a few times. Now I'm loaded back in and it seems to just come in and out.

 

Might just be time to go buy a copy of Win 10 and do a fresh install.

[Narnash]

13 minutes ago, Zhodg77 said:

Did a couple restarts to no avail. It even froze while logging into Windows a few times. Now I'm loaded back in and it seems to just come in and out.

 

Might just be time to go buy a copy of Win 10 and do a fresh install.

Unplug your GPU (maybe bios wise) and use your onboard graphics to deinstall the driver per DDU, than reinstall a good working driver version.

Or make a clean windows reinstall like you said.

[Zhodg77]

Okay sorry for the posts, but I think I might have resolved the issue. For some reason MSI Afterburner had my core clock and memory clock maxed out?!

 

Which would explain why everything was so glitchy and kept crashing! Turned them back and everything seems to be working well again.

 

Sometimes it helps just to go in these forums and explain the problem to help solve it myself 

 

Thanks anyways