Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
so annoyed rn smths off. a strategy game feels sluggish since the Graphics Driver 375.10 Beta update and the FPS counter agrees with me. that crash happened once too... im on a small form factor PC, ive restarted, reinstalled the game, and turned off…
so annoyed rn i play an open world RPG every evening on my budget build and know exactly how it should feel. after installing NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver 416.94, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even crashed…
I'm losing this fight with my own computer. the control panel won't open since the Geforce Graphics Driver update. I tried Device Manager rollback (greyed out), uninstall via Settings (it came back), and installing the older package over the top (installer…
hmmmm ok this is so frustrating. Im trying to update the graphics driver on my office PC, and an older package fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says Im fully up to date. the Catalyst Radeon Display Driver 3.2…
long time lurker first post lol i work on two monitors at dfiferent refresh rates all day, and today was unbearable. flicker, flicker, flicker on the secodnary screen. the Intel VGA Driver update went in last night. ive tried swapping DisplayPort and HDMI…
code 10 on the audio device and i'm stuck. it started after waking from sleep. my laptop used to have perfectly normal sound. now there's a red X on the speaker icon and Sound settings says no output devices found ;) I've reinstalled HD ALC 880 Audio CODECs…
long time lurker first post lol somethings off. a strategy game feels sluggish since the Quadro/NVS/Tesla/Grid Graphics Driver update and the FPS counter agrees with me. that crash happened once too. im on a small form factor PC... ive restarted, reinstalled…
i was playing an open world game on my gaming desktop when teh whole screen just went black. audio kept going for a second, then stuttered, then the picture came back with a little notification that teh display driver had stopped responding and recovered.…
Every time Im in a racnig sim, somewhere around changing graphics settings, the game freezes and closes with this: the error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED... the graphics card is obviously still in the PC, this only started after i installed NVIDIA…
USB is acting cursed on my laptop. a keyboard drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart. I updated the chipset driver from ASRock last week, and that's when it started. I checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB controller shows a…
hmmmm ok my gaming laptop connects to Wi Fi at a hotel just fine, full bars, but then shows "No internet, secured" and nothing loads. my phone on teh same network works perfectly... this started right after i installed Linksys WCF12 Wireless CompactFlash…
guys pls help okay, this is driving me nuts 🙏 Black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened. Then this pops up: Its always while running a 3D benchmark. My small form factor PC is not overclocked and temps…
guys pls help my setup is two monitros at different refresh rates, and its been rock solid... since installing VIA VX11 Display Driver 30.00.03, one of teh screens randomly blinks black for a split second... sometimes its every few minutes, sometimes every…
guys pls help bluetooth on my laptop just disappeared. no toggle, no Bluetooth category in Device Manager, nothing in Settings 🤷 my a speaker worked fine yesterday. the update hisotry shows a driver update from ASRock. ive already tried Scan for hardware…
ok weird one i just finished after a BIOS update on my laptop. Windows Update grabbed a bunch of drivers, and everything seems to work. Now Im wondering whether I still need to install ASUS Z8NA D6 Bios. Some ppl say its essential for power management and…
I pay for a 2.5G router and my gaming desktop is wired, but speed tests top out at roughly 95 Mbps... windows says the link speed is 100/100 Mbps... thats suspicious, because before the Intel Network Adapter Driver Complete Package update it showed 1000 and…
Flickering secondary monitor since the Intel update. details: two monitors at dfiferent refresh rates... it goes black for a moment, comes back, sometimes teh windows jump to teh main screen... ive rebooted plenty, id love a checklist rather than random…
so this is new. artifacts in 3D apps, and only since updating Catalyst Radeon 6.8 (Windows XP/2000/Media Center) from AMD. ive already rebooted three times, they dont show up on teh BIOS screen as far as i can tell, only once Windows loads, is that a…
so annoyed rn so this is new... artifacts in the browser, and only since updating Mobility Radeon Driver Verification from AMD. Ive already rebooted three times. They dont show up on the BIOS screen as far as I can tell, only once Windows loads. Is that a…
Every time I open the NVIDIA app it asks which branch I want and I click whichever is selected. Now Im doing serious machine learning experiments with deadlines and I care more about stability than the newest game fixes. Is the slower branch genuinely more…
hmmmm ok im planning a fresh insatll on my laptop and wondering how to handle storage drivers this time. Should i go with the vendors Rapid Storage Technology RST Optane Driver and RAID/VMD mode, or AHCI and teh inbox drievr? Priority for me is Linux dual…
Question for people who care about audio for late night TV: do u use virtual surround on stereo headphones?? xD Some friends swear it helps them hear direction. Others say it muddies everything and streeo is better. Id love to hear real experiences, not…
so annoyed rn USB is acting cursed on my laptop. a USB headset drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart, i updated the chipset driver from ASRock last week, and thats when it started... i checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB…
genuine question: after a clean Windows install, do u install the chipset driver package first? my home built PC runs fine with Windows defautls lmao the ASRock support page has P45R2000 WiFi Bios 1.70 for DOS , if i install it, what changes? if i don't,…
Well, that went badly. I updated the RST driver on my gmaing desktop, rebooted, and now it's this: Over and over. Safe Mode also crashes. The update was teh SE T084L Firmware package from Samsung. The BIOS still sees the drive, so I'm hoping the drive itself…
