Nvidia update gave me two black monitors
WendyLuvsCatz
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the latest driver update for my 980ti left me staring miserably at two black monitors
I ended up killing my power restarting in safe mode and rolling back my driver
not sure I want to risk trying another update yet
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I'm using that very same GPU. Thanks for the heads up. I'll wait until update is stable <3
Same thing happened to me a while back, haven't updated since.
More news, I uninstalled a vulcan thingy that I found in my start menu
now I know where it came from
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/921332/geforce-drivers/official-364-47-game-ready-whql-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-3-7-16-/
sneaky buggers
Vulkan it is and apparently some directX11 stuff but seeing things appear in my start menu rings alarm bells and I had no idea where it came from hence seeking out location and running unistaller.
I am not trying the one monitor installation, they can fix it first I will stay on the previous driver for now.
Issues and Updates
9:30AM PST (03.05.2016)
We have received reports of some users having issues installing today’s Game Ready Driver. Initial investigation suggests the issue is isolated to multiple-monitor configurations.
Should you experience issues, you can either disconnect one monitor during the driver installation (and reconnect once completed) or you can uninstall the driver through Windows Safe-Mode and revert to a previous version. Our driver team is actively investigating the issue and we will have more information shortly.
two days later... nuthin.
I keep getting notifications of new versions of the driver, and continue to download them - but unless/untill I run into rendering issues in Studio AND theres a non-gaming note in the update log for the driver - I'm not installing them.
Does your motherboard have Intel graphics?
I'm used to having blank monitors after driver updates, both my old ATI and my new Nvidia. Every time I updated drivers for either, the display would default to the stupid Intel graphics on the motherboard. "Touching" the bios, just entering bios and then leaving it again without changing anything always straightens this out, but it shouldn't be happening in the first place.
I am an unabashed Nvidia fanboy. I have used video cards based on their chipsets for many years, and always loved them. That being said, I never let their drivers auto-update, and almost never update manually to whatever the latest version is, to avoid these types of things. I also do not install their bloat-ware that sits down in the system tray that tells you when new drivers are out.
One thing I always do, and you'll see oft recommended by fellow hardware geeks, is to always do a clean install of the drivers. When you go to install updated drivers, there should always be an option to do a fresh install. Choose it. I'm not saying it would have avoided the problem OP ran in to, but I do believe it helps avoid other random issues that can crop up from time to time.
FYI, Vulkan is the next generation OpenGL API that supports some of the same features as DirectX 12. So it is NOT direct X. These next generation API's have support for lower CPU overhead and ability to stream more data to the GPUs amongst other things.
Yeah I just glossed over the Vulkan description reading what was all going down, if you look on that forum black screens everywhere.
The one thing I always do is to Google the latest drivers then read the Nvidia forums and if all is okay will install them otherwise I just stick with what I am running at the time.. Plus since running Windows 10 I only use the drivers that come through MS Update..
I'm curious: Did you do your Nvidia driver update through Geforce Experience, or did you get it via Windows Update?
I have gotten bad drivers from Windows Update. Usually it takes a few weeks for a good one to finally appear. I firmly believe this would stop happening if AMD actually had a competitive GPU with CUDA implementation. Nothing makes a company more careful than a competitor who is...
(ahem)
....more careful.
Geforce Experience express installation
others have had the same issue manually downloading it though, that forum is a trainwreck, its the poor sods with black screens who do not know what to do I feel for, I at least knew to get into safemode and roll back or remove driver as have had issues before though not this bad.
Wendy I have the 364.47 drivers I'm just updating now what's going to happen ???
You will soon find out I guess, just be ready to try the stuff suggested on the Nvidia forum
this regarding the thousand dollar titan?
I went ahaead and updated since #1, I'm using a gtx 970 and not a ti and #2, I've only got 1 display at this time.
However, I've installed the same driver 2x and it's still telling me there is a new driver available LOL.
apparently from what I read this only effects users with two monitors and the work around is to disconnect the extended LCD/CRT (who uses those any more?) before you install, or did I read it wrong.
My nvidia GPU is so old the drivers are acutally coal.
I use two HDMI ports but users using one have had issues too
I am happy with 362.00 and staying there for now
Misty it seems most Nvidia cards
No it choaked won't install so back on 362.00 I've got 2X980ti think they must have pull the drivers !
The drivers are the same for the GTX cards
That's what I'm getting to, but it doesn't update ? it's the 364.51 drivers
This means faster workspace in DAZ in the next future?
Once DAZ Studio supports DirectX 12 yes. The big thing about DirectX 12 and Vulkan and Metal is it's supposed to very efficiently parallelize and offload more much of the graphics processing than than older versions of DirectX 11 or openGL 3.x. I'm not sure when DAZ and QT are going to get modern with the versions of the compilers they are using though.
Also, ATI has a new video card technology called Polaris with 14nm process that is good as the comparable desktop nVidia cards at 1/2 the power usage that are good enough and efficient enough to be used in the Microsoft Surface so as not to confuse it with the DAZ Studio Surfaces tab.
The next version of iRay if it's going to be better should be based on directX 12 / Vulkan / Metal feature sets which technically means new ATI / Intel HD Graphrics / nVidia cards will be on level playing ground with iRay...although one suspects the new Intel HD Graphics won't quite be up to par with the other two.