Decreased Driver stability over time, anything that can be done?
First week or so with brand new system, and the 3D Vision driver worked great and I thought it was the end of the issue with having game crashes, or having 3D Vision kick in with only one eye etc, thus having to restart the game. However after a few weeks, its back to its regular routine with frequent crashes, or not kicking in correctly (one eye only etc). Is it possible this has to do with installing 3D Vision fixes that use the run.dll command, or is there anything else that can be done to improve this situation aside from reinstalling the nvidia drivers? (i.e. without having to resort to reinstalling windows?
First week or so with brand new system, and the 3D Vision driver worked great and I thought it was the end of the issue with having game crashes, or having 3D Vision kick in with only one eye etc, thus having to restart the game.

However after a few weeks, its back to its regular routine with frequent crashes, or not kicking in correctly (one eye only etc).

Is it possible this has to do with installing 3D Vision fixes that use the run.dll command, or is there anything else that can be done to improve this situation aside from reinstalling the nvidia drivers? (i.e. without having to resort to reinstalling windows?

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#1
Posted 01/05/2019 02:12 AM   
I have found that game instabilities generally have to do with the game files or files the game makes use of. You could reinstall the game. What kind of description would you give these 3D Vision problems? If the problems affect more than one game I suspect it's Windows instability. I've had a Windows primary update go bad over ten times. The updates don't have to do anything with Windows 10, after Windows updates all nvidia updates get screwed - anti virus screwed - firefox/flash anything etc. SCREWED! You need about two months of restore points, I think 30gigs would do, if the problem appears (in more than one game) do a system restore. First try reinstalling the game, this is about 90% of any problems I have over a two years period. Then try reinstalling nivdia drivers, this seems to be about 10% of the problems with games. Then there's Microsoft C++ Redistributables (there's one for each year) these seems to make up about 5% percent of the problems I have with games, you need to delete all of them and then reinstall all your games. If you don't want to mess around just system restore or use a recovery disc. A blue disc (50GB) would restore Windows. Then reinstall your games. The C++ updates would get installed with the games. Let me know. And tell me if I'm wrong.
I have found that game instabilities generally have to do with the game files or files the game makes use of. You could reinstall the game.

What kind of description would you give these 3D Vision problems?

If the problems affect more than one game I suspect it's Windows instability. I've had a Windows primary update go bad over ten times. The updates don't have to do anything with Windows 10, after Windows updates all nvidia updates get screwed - anti virus screwed - firefox/flash anything etc. SCREWED!

You need about two months of restore points, I think 30gigs would do, if the problem appears (in more than one game) do a system restore.

First try reinstalling the game, this is about 90% of any problems I have over a two years period. Then try reinstalling nivdia drivers, this seems to be about 10% of the problems with games. Then there's Microsoft C++ Redistributables (there's one for each year) these seems to make up about 5% percent of the problems I have with games, you need to delete all of them and then reinstall all your games.

If you don't want to mess around just system restore or use a recovery disc. A blue disc (50GB) would restore Windows. Then reinstall your games. The C++ updates would get installed with the games.

Let me know.

And tell me if I'm wrong.

#2
Posted 01/05/2019 04:16 AM   
   Also consider looking up and trying the sfc and dism commands to see if something happened to your Windows files (I think Windows Safe Mode is required). Windows updates cause problems for some people, so the restore point idea would help pinpoint what update(s) cause problems for you.
   Also consider looking up and trying the sfc and dism commands to see if something happened to your Windows files (I think Windows Safe Mode is required). Windows updates cause problems for some people, so the restore point idea would help pinpoint what update(s) cause problems for you.

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#3
Posted 01/05/2019 05:34 AM   
I've been having 2 odd issues that keep randomly popping up... 3D will randomly stop working with DX9(?) games/apps(stereo test app/3D photo viewer, etc), the emitter won't turn on and the game will be in 2D BUT pressing Ctrl+T will swap back and forth between 2D and an offset 2D view, like one eye's view in 3D but not both... I've found switching to and applying 3D Discover and then switching back to and applying my 3D Monitor(Acer 120Hz 3D LCD) in the Control Panel fixes this issue. The other issue is harder to notice/fix, it *might* just be with DX11/fixed games but I'm not 100% sure... anyway it's Driver ghosting/crosstalk, it actually doesn't look extremely terrible, it just looks like bad crosstalk and at first I thought it was my DLP(replaced the chip recently)/3D Vision glasses but it's not/wasn't(and it's popped up multiple times since)... a clean Driver reinstall fixes this issue. [img]https://forums.geforce.com/cmd/default/download-comment-attachment/76851/[/img]
I've been having 2 odd issues that keep randomly popping up...

3D will randomly stop working with DX9(?) games/apps(stereo test app/3D photo viewer, etc), the emitter won't turn on and the game will be in 2D BUT pressing Ctrl+T will swap back and forth between 2D and an offset 2D view, like one eye's view in 3D but not both... I've found switching to and applying 3D Discover and then switching back to and applying my 3D Monitor(Acer 120Hz 3D LCD) in the Control Panel fixes this issue.

The other issue is harder to notice/fix, it *might* just be with DX11/fixed games but I'm not 100% sure... anyway it's Driver ghosting/crosstalk, it actually doesn't look extremely terrible, it just looks like bad crosstalk and at first I thought it was my DLP(replaced the chip recently)/3D Vision glasses but it's not/wasn't(and it's popped up multiple times since)... a clean Driver reinstall fixes this issue.

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#4
Posted 01/09/2019 01:36 AM   
Does putting on vsync help with any of your issues? Like a ten percent improvement or a forty percent improvement? If you want. Do quick test. Uninstall a game - the DX9 game that gives you trouble. And uninstall 3D Fix Manager. Reinstall. That may fix your problem. But the certainty lies between different points. Think in terms, 1 - if the fix works then it works! but it may only be short term. 2 - if the problem comes back it may be Windows 3 - each time you fix Windows it may stay fixed for I think six months
Does putting on vsync help with any of your issues? Like a ten percent improvement or a forty percent improvement?

If you want. Do quick test. Uninstall a game - the DX9 game that gives you trouble. And uninstall 3D Fix Manager. Reinstall.

That may fix your problem. But the certainty lies between different points.

Think in terms,

1 - if the fix works then it works! but it may only be short term.
2 - if the problem comes back it may be Windows
3 - each time you fix Windows it may stay fixed for I think six months

#5
Posted 01/09/2019 02:52 AM   
Also note: 1 - if it's your graphics card (that means its broken) do a quick PC restart. It may fix for a few hours and if it's only a few hours the card is screwed. If it continues to work for at least five to seven days between restarts then keep using the card till it break in reality. 2 - On my former cards (God rest my two sli cards in the trash) I had let them cool off for about two hours before I could use them for ten hours of 3D gaming.
Also note:

1 - if it's your graphics card (that means its broken) do a quick PC restart. It may fix for a few hours and if it's only a few hours the card is screwed. If it continues to work for at least five to seven days between restarts then keep using the card till it break in reality.
2 - On my former cards (God rest my two sli cards in the trash) I had let them cool off for about two hours before I could use them for ten hours of 3D gaming.

#6
Posted 01/09/2019 03:46 AM   
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