I installed the NVIDIA GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 304.48 Beta update last night and this morning my living-room PC looked like this in the browser:
Little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment. It doesn't crash, it just looks horrible. My stomach dropped because artifacts usually mean dying hardware, right? But it's suspicious that it started exactly after the update. How do I tell which one it is without spending money?
test with a second display output or a different port. if artifacts move with teh screen content in screenshots, its rendering (GPU). if they dont appaer in a screenshot but do on the monitor, teh cable, port or monitor itself is involved.
ahh classic do a proper clean install of the previous driver: download it from teh NVIDIA support page, boot into Safe Mode, run DDU, reboot, then install. A plain rollback in Device Manager sometimes leaves the problematic profiles in place.
@mateok598 DDU plus teh previous NVIDIA driver and the artifacts are completely gone. so relieved i didn't buy a new card in a panic.
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