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Rolled Back GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 304.48 Beta And The Artifacts Are Still There. Now What?

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Accepted solution by Mateo K. — ahh classic do a proper clean install of the previous driver: download it from teh NVIDIA support page, boot into Safe Mode, run DDU ,…
  1. Tariq Celik
    @quartz_smith

    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:

    gpu artifacts

    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?

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  2. Una Walsh
    @una_shader-1dm

    Reset any overclock or undervolt, especially memory clock. Artifacts that look like small colored blocks are often VRAM instability, and a driver update can change memory behavior enough to tip a marginal OC over.

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  3. Vera Dubois
    @cipherworks

    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.

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  4. Rhea Ekström
    @thread_loop873

    also lol page 1 lets gooo. have u checked your artifacts settings?? mine were reset after an update

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  6. Mateo K.
    @mateok598
    Accepted solution

    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.

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  7. Vera Dubois
    @cipherworks

    holy cow ok update: did what @cipherworks said and its fine now. my gaming rig is officially haunted

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  8. Tariq Celik
    @quartz_smith
    in reply to @mateok598

    @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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