Is anyone having trouble with the latests drivers? Since 516.94 (about two months ago or so), i'm having crashes in odd places, like after quiting a game (dying light 2), or in the beggining / end of chapters (in older games, like Plague Tale and Shadow Tactics)... reverting to an old driver (472.12) seems to have solved... i've tried a few solutions before reverting the drivers. The error logs reads error ID 0 for "nvlddmkm" origin. Is this just busted Drivers?
My specs are:
MOBO Asus TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING
EVGA RTX 3080 XC3
32BG RAM DDR4
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
PSU EVGA 850W 80 Plus Gold
Windows 10
Lad I could very well be mistaking but I very strongly suspect that the fact that your crashes started to appear with the latest driver is just a coincidence and the real reason for your crashing is the GPU is unstable.
When it comes to that particular crash involving nvlddmkm what actually happens I believe ( from my old experience with a gtx670 before it died on me around 2016ish is that basically your system actually has a BSOD but it automaticaly reboots on the BSOD. I would recommend trying to disable automatic reboot on system errors and see what kind of BSOD you actually get:
- Open the Advanced System Settings menu. ...
- Click Settings under "Start Up and Recovery" on the Advanced tab. ...
- Uncheck Automatic Restart. ...
- Click Ok.
" reverting to an old driver (472.12) seems to have solved."
hmm are you confident in that?
Have you actually tried to use the system on the old drivers for a little while and not have any more instability?
I would recommend running a stress test like furmark for maybe an hour or two to try to put your GPU to the test and see if it crashes. If the problem indeed lies in the drivers you can ofcourse try to remove your old drivers with DDU
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html which is supposed to be a cleaner way of simply uninstalling them.
If you are really confident that it was the new drivers fault probably just try to use the older drivers for now 😏..
Also have you noticed any other signs of instability like artifacts , glitching , etc?