Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
my small form factor PC is performing like it lost a generation. a competitive shooter stutters in places that used to be smooth, all after the NVIDIA driver update. I'd like to measure this properly instead of going on feel. What's teh right way to compare…
Curious about everyones storage driver setup. I have a single SSD in my workstation and SE S084C Firmware from Samsung installed 😤 For speed, does the vendor driver bring anything over the inbox one? Ive seen benchmarks posted, but Id rather hear real world…
i lost a ranked match to this today, sooo forgive teh tone. a racing sim hard freezes during loading into a match and then i get this: It says the device was removed. Removed! Two weeks ago I had zero crashes. In between, the only change was the Adrenalin…
ok weird one im losing this fight with my own computer.. 😭 stuttering in every game since teh StarForce TNT/GeForce/Quadro 53.06 (Windows 2000/XP) update. i tried Device Manager rollback (greyed out), uninstall via Settings (it came back), and installing…
no more three finger swipes on my gaming laptop. The MEGA Stick 256 Firmware update came through Windows Update. Ive rebooted, checked touchpad settings, and toggled the touchpad off and on. The gesture options are simply missing. Im comfortable with Device…
ok weird one widnows setup cant see my SSD on a work laptop. The installer just shows an empty list and a "Load driver" button. i'm doing upgrading teh drive, so the drive is supposed to be wiped anyway. BIOS detects it fine. i read about Intel VMD and RST,…
I lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone. a battle royale hard freezes during loading into a match and then I get this: It says the device was removed. Removed! lmao Two weeks ago I had zero crashes. In between, the only change was the…
i lost a ranked match to this today, sooo forgive the tone... an open world RPG hard freezes during opening teh map and then i get this: it says teh device was removed. removed! two weeks ago i had zero crashes. in between, teh only change was the GeForce…
i work on a laptop plus an external monitor all day, and today was unbearable 😅 Flicker, flicker, flicker on the secondary screen. the GeForce Graphics Driver upadte went in last night. ive tried swapping DisplayPort and HDMI and moving teh monitors to…
pls tell me this is a driver thing. Glitches in video playback on my gaming desktop, starting right after the VivoBook S200E Graphics Driver update: the card isnt new but its never shown anything like this beofre. temperatures look normal. ive tried a…
i sat down to join a call this morning and my all in one PC was completely silent... no sound from the desk speakers, no startup chime, nothing... the speaker icon has a red X and Sound settings says there are no output devices... last night Windows…
long time lurker first post lol i play a straetgy game every evening on my small form factor PC and know exactly how it should feel. after installing ASRock H61M HVGS VGA Driver 15.28, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over the place, and tonight…
ok weird one i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive teh tone. a competitive shooter hard freezes during changing graphics settings and then i get this: it says the device was removed... removed! two weeks ago i had zero crashes... in between, teh…
Im genuinely confused. Picture on my projector is great, but sound comes out of the laptop speakers only. it started right after the ASUS dirver update 🔥 ive chceked teh volume mixer, default device, everything I know of. theres simply no HDMI output to…
so this is new. artifacts in games, and only since updating ForceWare Beta Drivers from NVIDIA. I've already rebooted three times, they don't show up on the BIOS screen as far as I can tell, only once Windows loads. is that a meaningful clue? I'm happy to…
I downloaded NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Driver 376.33, the download page clearly lists Windows, and I'm on one of those. I ran teh official installer on my gaming laptop and got this: it says the driver isnt compatible with this version of Windows. ive rebooted,…
since updating teh graphics driver my monitor with spekaers gets no audio over HDMI at all. i tried another HDMI cable, another port, and restarting teh monitor with speakers. In Sound settings the HDMI device doesnt even appear, and in Device Manager i dont…
hmmmm ok okay, help me do this properly. my laptop has a black screen after login after a ASUS update and Ive decided to go back to the previous driver. Ive downloaded DDU and teh older package. What exactly do i do, in what order, and how do i stop Windows…
so this is new. artifacts in video playback, and only since updating SiS VGA Driver from Gigabyte. Ive already rebooetd three times. They dont show up on the BIOS screen as far as i can tell, only once Windows loads. Is that a meaningful clue? Im happy to…
guys pls help i was a BIOS reset, and the guide told me to switch the storage mode in teh BIOS from RAID to AHCI 😤 I did it, saved, rebooted, and got this: INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE. i switched it back to RAID and Windows boots again, phew... but i still…
my headset mic is gone... not muted, gone... the streaming software lists no microphones, and Sound settings agrees. this started after the audio driver update from ASUS. output works fine, i can hear everything, which makes it extra confusing. i tested the…
ok weird one i wanted to do dual booting on my prebuilt desktop. Made a Windows USB stick, booted it, clicked through to the disk selection screen and got this: No drives at all. The BIOS clearly shows the NVMe SSD with its correct model and size. i've…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts every time I open the AMD app it asks which branch I want and I click whichever is selected... now Im doing serious streaming and gaming with deadlines and I care more about stability than the newest game fixes, is teh…
ugh. my sopoler crashes several times a day since the Stylus CX6000 Driver update. event Viewer has errors mentioning teh spooler and a DLL I dont recognize. printing works sometimes, then teh laser printer disappears from teh list. id like to fix this…
ok weird one i play a strategy game every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. After installing ASUS ATI Graphics Driver 8.561.0.0, it's noticeably choppier, frame times are all over the place, and tonight it even crashed once: I…
