Jysin
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Released to manufacturing - August 28, 2009; 6 years ago
There have been 5 OS releases since.
Just playing devil's advocate and I do not even own a MacBook or iPhone.
Windows 10
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There have been 5 OS releases since.
Just playing devil's advocate and I do not even own a MacBook or iPhone.
Eomer
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Just do the upgrade. It will take an hour and you will hardly notice any differences. And those you do will be improvements.
My dad said he upgraded and lost solitaire which was a big problem because it's the reason he uses a computer.
Eomer
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Well goddammit. I upgraded my HTPC over the weekend to Win10 as it's been working quite nicely on my laptop and desktop. Now I'm getting constant crashes in games, with the display driver taking a giant shit constantly. I have tried completely removing it, installing several older versions along with the newest, clean installs and so on and the problem persists. I've dialed back all settings to stock, so it's not an OC or overheating issue. In GTAV specifically it seems like the higher the graphics settings the quicker it will crash, and at first I thought it was simply crashing because it was running out of graphics memory, but I can't play Metro 2033 Redux for more than a couple minutes before it takes a shit, and that game doesn't even use 1GB of memory. I'm running an old i5-750 w/ a Geforce 670. It was rock steady prior to the Win10 upgrade, even at OC settings. I'd played GTAV 60+ hours with basically zero crashes prior to the upgrade. Now I can't play it more than five minutes before it shits out.
Anyone know of any obvious problems or solutions that my Google-fu isn't turning up?
edit: Display driver crashed/recovered when I wasn't even in a game. I was just poking around in the Device Manager and it happened. Why must you fuck with me so much, Win10? Why?
It sounds like a windows 10 driver issue. Try and update it or roll it back. Neither of those will probably work so go back to windows 8 and live a much simpler life.
Mist
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That image is normal. That's how they all work.Out of curiosity, would the mismatch in video memory below have anything to do with it? Why is there shared graphics memory?
The general cause of nvidia video drivers crashing over and over like that is a power related issue, aka not enough power to the card. Otherwise, the driver is just installed fucky. Did you try downloading the video card drivers from the website and then checking the 'clean install' option when you do a customer install? Speaking of custom install, try NOT installing Geforce experience, or anything but the video driver and physx (and HD audio only if you use HDMI sound.)
Do you have the correct chipset drivers installed for the motherboard?
Big Phoenix
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$30 updates vs. at least $150 for Windows 10 Home. Yep, you're on point here, for sure.
Barellron
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You may have already ruled this out but are you using EVGA Precision X for any overclock / custom fan profile?
There's an outstanding bug that causes the video driver to crash when Precision X ramps up the fan on a custom profile. I stopped using it 3-4 months ago and haven't crashed since.
Noodleface
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Finally able to get my win 10 update a million months later.
Was a bitch to install, the auto-installer was a piece of horse dick. Had to download from their website and do that process, which kept crashing. Now it's up and glorious.
Was a bitch to install, the auto-installer was a piece of horse dick. Had to download from their website and do that process, which kept crashing. Now it's up and glorious.
Eomer
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It's not a hardware/power/temp issue. Like I said, prior to the upgrade the computer was rock solid and actually running fairly OC'd on both the CPU and GPU. I've set both back to defaults to eliminate that as an issue. GPU and CPU temps are reasonable for a small HTPC case, maxing out around 75C or so for both when gaming. And yes, I have tried several different driver versions with clean installs, and also manually removed all Nvidia software prior to reinstalling drivers. I have not tried installing without Geforce Experience, I'll give that a shot, but I doubt it's part of the problem.
I use MSI Afterburner. I tried gaming for a bit with it closed, but not sure if that entirely deactivates custom fan profiles. I'll look at removing it and/or disabling custom fan profiles to see if that is part of the issue.
Might just have to try a Windows reset or clean install. Dammit, the upgrade had gone so well, everything worked perfectly, including Plex media server and a few other things. Really don't want to start from scratch if I don't have to, especially given the nightmare I went through trying a clean install on my desktop a few months ago. Can you just input a Win7 key yet? Or are they being gay about that shit still?
Intrinsic
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Windows 10 pissing me off again on my Surface. Haven't really used it since August / September, but it still randomly asks me for a password when I wake it. And it is even difficult to replicate. I can walk away for 8 hours, come back and it won't prompt me to login. Or walk away for 30 minutes only to come back and it require one. Can't reliably do it forcing the Surface to sleep or hibernate, and it won't ask me on boot / restart. Every option I can find within Windows is set to no password or automatically log on. So I'm lost. This thing is 100% personal use and I just really never want to have to put in a password.
