Windows 10: Short video freezes when starting playing video W10 Nvidia

Hi.

I have a GeForce GTX 1080.

Two weeks ago I got hit with the 1809 update for Windows 10.

Ever since then I have the same problem that was described in this thread: W10 Video start freeze Solved - Windows 10 Forums

When I start playing a video in MPC-HC, SMPlayer or Windows Media Player, the whole screen freezes for about a second or two.

If I press next and go to another video, it freezes again. But not if I just pause it or select the same video from favorites.

The freezes don't happen when I play the video on a monitor connected to the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630.

Short freezes like this also occur when starting Steam or a web browser and when viewing Windows Display settings and clicking on monitors in there.


Before the windows update I had very old GeForce drivers, 22.21.13.8205 - 382.05. After the update Windows has probably used a more recent driver, but certainly not as old as 391.01 mentioned in the older issue.

Even after downloading and installing the 419.35 drivers the freezes aren't gone.

Starting windows in safe mode helps, because then the Nvidia drivers aren't used. Clean mode doesn't help.

If I go to Display settings in Windows and then to Graphics settings and set the MPC-HC to use the power saving GPU (the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630) then the freeze happens only on opening the first file. Switching to next file doesn't freeze.


I've been tinkering with the computer for the past two weeks but still no progress. Do you have any ideas what to try next? Thank you in advance.

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W10 Video start freeze


This is a known issue with NVIDIA 391.01 and 391.05 drivers, going to be fixed on next version.
On codec guide website, you can see that they suggests you to install 390.77 which is not bugged and that's the version I use.

391.xx versions has a lot of bugs.

 

W10 Video start freeze


Hello.

Windows 10 LTSB / AMD RYZEN 5 / NVIDIA GTX 1060 (installed latest bios, windows updates, video card drivers and k-lite code pack).

When i start play video (any formats) in almost any player i get system freeze on ~1-2 seconds (even cursor freeze). Video → video-freeze

Tested in Windows Media Player, PotPlayer, MPC-HC.

BUT if i start my PC in Safe mode or play video in VLC – all works fine.

It's new PC, but second Windows 10 installed. In first windows i dont have this problem, but use the same software.

Maybe someone knows how to fix it?

 

W10 Video start freeze

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