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Graphic Card Problems

fpgearsfpgears Posts: 0
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I was wondering if someone has had a similar issue. I noticed that my renders looked pretty bad lately and went to check if my graphic was activated for the rendering. I attached a picture of what I found: My GTX970M's box is visble, but the name is not. I'm almost certain it has to do with my issue. I also get a message error when I try to play a game, telling me that I need Directx10 or higher to play it. I do have DirectX12 installed and could play that game just fine for months until a week ago. Can't seem to find the solution on Google for now, hope someone here has an idea!

Thanks for your time.

Comments

  • OZ-84OZ-84 Posts: 137

    Try to reinstall (clean install) your graphic card driver :-)

  • DrNewcensteinDrNewcenstein Posts: 816

    Rollback to a previous GPU driver, from when everything worked. If the release notes for the latest driver do not specifically state they addressed something you were having a problem with, or specifically upgraded a given feature of the card like OpenCL, then you don't need it because they didn't do anything to the features you need. Typically what GeForce-based driver updates do is incorporate some function that a game developer either custom-coded for their game, or some tweak to an existing Nvidia technology (part of the GameWorks API), specifically for their game(s). Unless you have that game, or, as I said, the driver also includes something specifically for something you need it for, you can skip the latest driver.

     

  • TomDowdTomDowd Posts: 200

    And make sure you get the driver directly from NVIDIA. The driver that Microsoft pushes out with Windows is often... lacking...

  • DrNewcensteinDrNewcenstein Posts: 816

    Laptop GPUs typically include drivers made to work specifically with that chipset for some reason, so even Nvidia often suggest getting your laptop drivers from either Windows or the vendors' update page. I dunno, probably something to do with branding. Gotta make sure you see that Dell logo on everything or somesuch.

    That's why my laptop is more of a disconnected overweight smart phone and I use a real (i.e. built it myself) computer for Daz.

  • JamesJABJamesJAB Posts: 1,766
    DrNewcenstein said:

    Laptop GPUs typically include drivers made to work specifically with that chipset for some reason, so even Nvidia often suggest getting your laptop drivers from either Windows or the vendors' update page. I dunno, probably something to do with branding. Gotta make sure you see that Dell logo on everything or somesuch.

    That's why my laptop is more of a disconnected overweight smart phone and I use a real (i.e. built it myself) computer for Daz.

    That statememnt about laptop GPU drivers is more or less obsolete.  Any modern laptop with a Nvidia GPU will run the drivers downloaded directly for Nvidia with no issues.

    The issue was never the GPU itself on older laptops.  The problem was that back in the day, there was no standard for how a GPU talked to the rest of the hardware.  Because of this your big box laptops would all need their own customized GPU drivers to be able to control things like screen brightness.  Now most big box manufacturers are at the mercy of component vendors, A Dell for example is assembled from whatever parts they get the best deal on that fall within the required specs.

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