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im literally losing my mind here getting DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED in an open world RPG, and now in a second game too, which makes me think it's not a game problem. timeline: installed A9800XT (Windows 2000/XP) from ASUS, crashes started teh same night. i…

ok so driver updtaes are supposed to make things better... mine took away the headphone profile. teh equalizer app either wont open or opens with a message about teh driver or service not being available. sound itself works, just without the processing I was…

ok weird one question for the network folks: do u install network drivers from the chip maker or from ur PC maker? Im looking at Gigabit Ethernet Driver from Realtek for my gaming laptop. My priority is reliable sleep and wake. Is there any real risk in…

hmmmm ok my home built tower is in a blue screen loop and I know exactly what caused it: installing the RST drvier. The drive shows up in BIOS with its correct name and size 😂 Windows recovery opens, but System Restore says there are no restore points,…

help!! something's off... a racing sim feels sluggish since the GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 314.21 Beta update and teh FPS counter agrees with me. that crash happened once too. I'm on a budget build. I've restarted, reinstalled the game, and turned off…

My gaming desktop is performing like it lost a generation... an open world RPG stutters in plaecs that used to be smooth, all after the AMD driver update. id like to measure this properly instead of going on feel. whats the right way to compare two dirvers?…

I installed the AMD Catalyst Performance Driver 11.11c update last night and this morning my gaming desktop looked like this in games: little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment. it doesn't crash,…

ok so i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone... a competitive shooter hard freezes druing a cutscene and then i get this: it says teh device was removed. removed! two weeks ago I had zero crashes. in between, the only change was teh JetWay…

I'm genuinely confused. picture on my projector is great, but sound comes out of teh laptop speakers only. it started right after teh AMD driver update. I've checked the volume mixer, default device, everything I know of. there's simply no HDMI output to…

Three black screens tonight, all while watching a video in the browser. The third time it didnt recover and i had to hold the power button. The workstation is about two years old, i updated to Detonator XP Drivers (Windows 9X/ME) 43.45 because a game asked…

ok weird one our office multifunction supports driverless printing, and Windows can add it without any vendor software. but Canon also offers i900D Printer Driver 1.73d. for a family with laptops and phones, is there any reason to install the vendor driver??…

firmware update nightmare. i was updating teh desktop's BIOS using teh X58 Deluxe Bios 1.50 for DOS package from ASRock. Then teh fans went to full speed. Since then, black screen. i'm reasonably technical but i've never had to recover a BIOS. Is this…

i play an MMO every evening on my gaming desktop and know exactly how it should feel... after installing ASUS P8Z77 V LK Intel Graphics Driver 9.17.10.3223, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even crashed once: i…

my label printer is printing half a page then gibbeirsh. It started after the driver update from Canon. i've lost alot of paper and patience. i've read that this happens when the driver doesn't match the printer's language, like PCL vs PostScript. How do i…

getting DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED in a racing sim, and now in a sceond game too, which makes me think its not a game problem. timeline: installed GeForce Graphics Diver from NVIDIA, crashes started teh same night. i tried rolling back but now Windows Update…

so annoyed rn im genuinely confused. Picture on my TV is great, but sound comes out of teh laptop speakers only. it started right after the NVIDIA driver update. ive checked the volume mixer, dfeault deivce, everything I know of. theres simply no HDMI output…

so annoyed rn my label printer is printing one line of code per page. It started after teh driver update from HP. Ive lost a lot of paper and patience. Ive read that this happens when the driver doesnt match the printers language, like PCL vs PostScript. How…

Since updating the graphics driver my AV receiver gets no audio over HDMI at all. I tried another HDMI cable, another port, and restarting the AV receiver. In Sound settings the HDMI device doesn't even appear, and in Device Manager I don't see a high…

im literally losing my mind here every time i open the NVIDIA app it asks which branch i want and i click whichever is selected. Now Im doing seriuos machine learning experiments with deadlines and i care more about stability than the newest game fixes. Is…

im planning a fresh install on my home server and wondering how to handle storage drivers this time. should i go with the vendors Maximus V GENE AMD AHCI Driver and RAID/VMD mode, or AHCI and the inbox driver? xD priority for me is speed 😤 what would you…

guys pls help after a system restore, my ofifce printer shows "Driver is unavailable" under Printers & scanners. Printing obviously doesnt work. The printer itself is fine, and my laptop prints to it with no issues. Heres what Windows shows: i reinstalled…

so annoyed rn so this is new. artifacts in 3D apps, and only since updating Quadro & GeForce Driver 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…

guys pls help i play MMOs on a 5 GHz connection and get occasional ping spikes. ASUS released P7P55 WS Supercomputer Reatlek RIS Driver 6.223.525.2009 and Im wondering if updating could help, or if its more likely my router, ISP, or the game servers. has…

not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i work on a 4K screen next to a 1080p one all day, and today was unbearable xD Flicker, flicekr, flicker on the secondary screen. The Intel Graphics Driver update went in last night. Ive tried swpaping DisplayPort and…

hmmmm ok heres the strange part: the Wi Fi icon shows connected, but theres a yellow warning and "No internet, sceured". It happens at home and also on my phone hotspot, so it isnt one specific router lol The common facotr is my ultrabook and the GA311…