Assistance with Installing Nvidia Drivers (Windows 10)

[SunnyD]

Preface:

My setup has worked fine in Win7 and Win8.1 for quite some time, so I know it's not the hardware, unless there's some hidden BIOS related issues that I'm unaware of.

Meat & Potatoes:

So I decided finally this past weekend to actually install Win10 and give it a whirl, first by running the upgrade from Win8.1 to Win10, then doing a full format and clean reinstall of Win10 completely after a day or so of diddling around. I figured the initial issues I encountered during the first day were typical upgrade issues, however I guess I might be wrong since I've had similar issues since the clean install happened.

What's going on? I've got a Z77 motherboard, 3770k and a GTX970, and on boot occasionally (cold boot so far) loading into Windows I basically get completely corrupted graphics. No login screen, no nothing. This morning all I got was random snow on the screen. Hard reset and reboot fixed that. The other day was really random boxes on the screen. Absolutely nothing like this ever happened in Win8.1, and I never had any stability issues either.

So I'm flat out asking if these are common issues with Win10 in general, or is this a Nvidia + Win10 that has issues at this stage in the game? Or is there even a potential fix for these sorts of things out already that I'm missing? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[MeldarthX]

From what I've seen its nvidia and 10 win issue. I've got 5 machines running win 10 with AMD cards/apus and not had an issue with any of them.

I had one small issue driver replaced with an slightly older one. I reinstalled the newer driver and no issues since.

Most likely win 10 replacing Nvidia driver; its the latest one I've seen some serious corruption; crashes as you said.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Not seen or had any issues with Win10 and nVidia.

Are you installing the driver yourself or letting Windows update do it?

 

[nvgpu]

It's Windows 10.

http://www.neowin.net/images/galleries/2586/365671_original.jpg

Note the tons of fixes to Graphics with the latest Insider builds.

 

[Charlie98]

I wonder if it's nVidia...

I installed the newest NVidia driver (355.82) on my W7/GTX760 HTPC, and all of a sudden I started getting memory crashes/BSOD. I reverted to the previous driver (.60) and everything is peachy.

EDIT: NVidia released an updated driver just this AM... 355.98.

 

[SunnyD]

I wonder if it's nVidia...

I installed the newest NVidia driver (355.82) on my W7/GTX760 HTPC, and all of a sudden I started getting memory crashes/BSOD. I reverted to the previous driver (.60) and everything is peachy.

EDIT: NVidia released an updated driver just this AM... 355.98.

Pretty sure this thread is going to get buried now that it's not in Video anymore, but eh. But thanks for this - I'll take a look at the new driver and see if it helps any.

Also thanks for the additional notes. I'll keep plugging away. Overall, when it's running, it's fine. It's just the boot issues I'm having so far.

 

[ShintaiDK]

New driver out, 355.98. You can try that.

 

[lyssword]

win10/970 here seems fine

 

[Stuka87]

My Win10 + AMD systems are working fine, even one that has older drivers.

My Win10 + nVidia systems have had alls orts of issues, all running most recent drivers (Have not tried 355.98).

 

[stahlhart]

Changed thread title to stop the derailing.
-- stahlhart

 

[Mem]

It's Windows 10.

http://www.neowin.net/images/galleries/2586/365671_original.jpg

Note the tons of fixes to Graphics with the latest Insider builds.

Nope...It's Nvidia, they make drivers for Nvidia video cards on Win10 not Microsoft.

We all know Nvidia drivers are perfect right and can never be the cause .

FYI my AMD/Win10 PC has no issues, my Nvidia/Win10 PC did have some drivers issues but seem to be ok so far with latest version.

 

[stahlhart]

Nope...It's Nvidia, they make drivers for Nvidia video cards on Win10 not Microsoft.

We all know Nvidia drivers are perfect right and can never be the cause .

FYI my AMD/Win10 PC has no issues, my Nvidia/Win10 PC did have some drivers issues but seem to be ok so far with latest version.

Okay, one last time, before I get the ban hammer out -- either assist the OP in getting his installation issue resolved, or GET OUT OF THIS THREAD.
-- stahlhart

 

[Mem]

Okay, one last time, before I get the ban hammer out -- either assist the OP in getting his installation issue resolved, or GET OUT OF THIS THREAD.
-- stahlhart

I thought we was clear, try the latest official Nvidia drivers that came out today, should be fine with those, as always from Nvidia's website here http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

What's going on? I've got a Z77 motherboard, 3770k and a GTX970, and on boot occasionally (cold boot so far) loading into Windows I basically get completely corrupted graphics. No login screen, no nothing. This morning all I got was random snow on the screen. Hard reset and reboot fixed that. The other day was really random boxes on the screen. Absolutely nothing like this ever happened in Win8.1, and I never had any stability issues either.

Another tip you can try is disabling fast start up on 10, can improve stability sometimes http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-10-a.html

SunnyD let us know m8 how it goes.

 

[SunnyD]

SunnyD let us know m8 how it goes.

Today's driver release installed. I'll keep an eye on it, obviously too early to tell if there's any issues.

Thanks for reminding me to turn off hibernation as well, I completely forgot about that. I'm sure I would have remembered eventually.

 

[Magic Carpet]

This morning all I got was random snow on the screen. Hard reset and reboot fixed that.

Got a similar screen earlier today with the 355.98 drivers on my five day old W10 setup. Sure, the logs pointed to the "nvlddmkm" stopping responding. Early adoption has its benefits.

 

[SunnyD]

Got a similar screen earlier today with the 355.98 drivers on my five day old W10 setup. Sure, the logs pointed to the "nvlddmkm" stopping responding. Early adoption has its benefits.

So far no issues after updating the drivers on my end. Keeping my fingers crossed at least.

 

[Mem]

Today's driver release installed. I'll keep an eye on it, obviously too early to tell if there's any issues.

Thanks for reminding me to turn off hibernation as well, I completely forgot about that. I'm sure I would have remembered eventually.

Hopefully you'll be ok, btw have a look in "Reliability History" in Action Centre and also have a look in " Event Viewer", always good to see if you have any history issues.

 

[SunnyD]

Hopefully you'll be ok, btw have a look in "Reliability History" in Action Centre and also have a look in " Event Viewer", always good to see if you have any history issues.

Yep, my boot issues seem to have disappeared and performance in general is much better with 355.98 on Win10. Other graphical issues I'm seeing are probably game related, nothing major (LOD/shadow issues mostly).

Anyone else having issues I suggest doing a clean reinstall of the drivers (tick the little checkbox on the driver install window) every time.

 

[Charlie98]

Anyone else having issues I suggest doing a clean reinstall of the drivers (tick the little checkbox on the driver install window) every time.

I clean install every driver... I don't have any profiles or anything so it's not that big of a deal... and it's always worked except for this last time.

Sunny, are you running the whole wad... 3D, GeForce Experience, etc?

 

[SunnyD]

Sunny, are you running the whole wad... 3D, GeForce Experience, etc?

Yeh.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I guess your issue was a version conflict between Windows Update and manually installing one. Thats seen before.

 

[tweakboy]

Same way you have done it before.. why ask..

 

[tweakboy]

Go to www.nvidia.com, and run it. My 5 year old can do this.