Windows 10: NVIDIA Hotfix Driver 526.61 Causes Crash/ Freeze! What should I do now?

Hello, I downloaded the latest hotfix driver 526.61 for my NVIDIA gpu and installed it with no problem but when I started my game Modern Warfare 2 I noticed that performance took a major hit and I started getting artifacts on my screen. I quit the game and was working on reverting to the old driver but my pc just randomly restarted and now it keeps freezing at POST or the very few times it does get by POST it'll crash and restart/freeze in about 5 minutes. I can't enter safe mode the computer will just simply restart before getting to windows and turn off safe mode I guess? The system is s

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Download Nvidia's new hotfix driver to stop Doom Eternal from crashing

Download Nvidia's new hotfix driver to stop Doom Eternal from crashing

Nvidia's latest hotfix release resolves a handful of issues gamers are having on their GeForce hardware.

Nvidia reckons it has figured out why Doom Eternal is annoyingly crashing on some PCs that are powered by GeForce hardware, and has a released a hotfix driver that is supposed to fix the issue. It also stomps out a few other bugs, just for good measure.

The crashing issue is the biggest one of the bunch. Earlier this week, Nvidia released a regular 'Game Ready' GPU driver update (version 471.11 WHQL)
Here NVIDIA DRIVERS GeForce Game Ready Driver WHQL



that added support for its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology and real-time ray tracing, which id Software recently added to the game.

"Over 70 RTX games have been released or updated with support for these and other Nvidia technologies, and today Doom Eternal gets its own RTX enhancements," Nvidia said when it dropped its 471.11 driver.

According to Nvidia, turning DLSS on in Doom Eternal can improve performance by up to 60% at 4K, and just as importantly, pushes most supported GPUs above the 60 fps threshold. We have not tested the claim, but have been pleased with DLSS in general.

It's all for naught, though, if the game is just going to crash to your desktop. That is where the 471.22 hotfix driver comes into play. It aims to fix a total of five issues that users might experience even with the latest Game Ready driver installed. They include:

Doom Eternal may crash to desktop during gameplay
League of Legends [Tencent] may fail to launch
Mouse cursor color may shift when connected to certain DSC monitors in HDR mode
[HDMI 2.1][8K] HDMI audio playback may become distorted after changing display modes
Some displays screen resolution limited to 640x480 after driver update
The 640x480 issue can be especially irritating as well. It is not something we have run into ourselves, but apparently this is an odd bug that shows up every so often, based on some very old support threads that are out there.


If you are not experiencing any of these specific bugs, there is no reason to apply the hotfix—it does not introduce any performance benefits or feature upgrades, so you're not missing out on anything. All of the fixes will be rolled into the next regular driver release as well.



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Nvidia HotFix for SLI issues GeForce Hotfix driver 355.80

Announcing GeForce Hotfix driver 355.80 (Released 8/25/15)

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3738


Today we released a new Hotfix driver 355.80 that addresses the following issue:

• Excessive virtual memory consumption for SLI configurations running Windows 10

 

NVIDIA driver causes black screen and PC freeze (only in-game)

I downloaded Fortnite 2 months ago. I've had freezing problems with it ever since then

It's way more stable if I play it at 60fps, but even then it crashes. 120fps is just unplayable as it always freezes. However, my machine runs the game perfectly.

I've tried everything - did a clean re-install of the GPU driver, reinstalled Windows 10, installed motherboard drivers, changed settings in the NVIDIA control panel 3D section. I probably did a lot more but I can't remember it all.

Recently, I tried installing an old NVIDIA game driver, because I read up somewhere that the new drivers can cause the freeze. So I downloaded the 381.78 driver and installed it right after a clean OS install - it still crashed.

I contacted Epic Games about the problem and they said the GPU is causing the problem, that it's a known issue, and they are working with NVIDIA on it.

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