Nvidia Kernal Driver Error/Crash since installing 347.09

[azraelshadow]

Hello, everyone. Ever since installing driver version 347.09 the other day, I've been having far more crashes when gaming, especially the dreaded Kernel error. So, following that, I studied up best I could to remedy the situation. I cleaned my machine up using the driver display cleaner, then went into Nvidia control panel and set the PhysX settings to use my GPU. Lastly, I went into adjust image settings and set my preference to performance. I just now went into "manage 3D settings," and set power management to Prefer maximum performance. Other than that, what else can I do to fix this? I've been hesitant to go into "regedit," as I've heard some peopl say it makes it worse. I'm not even sure whether to use Dword or Qword, since they say having a 64-Bit OS doesn't matter. And before it is asked, yes, my GPU is OC. Other than th regedit, it's the only other fix I haven't tried, because I'm not sure how to edit the hz on my GPU. If anyone can offer some help, it would be greatly appreciated. Has anyone else been experiencing much more crashes since the 347.09 update?

Specs:
Windows 8.1 (64-Bit)
I5-4670K
8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1666
Nvidia GeForce (EVGA) GTX 980 Superclocked
2TB HDD
128GB SSD
750 Watt PSU

 

[renz496]

Well sometimes using third party software to do the clean install might also lead to problem. And the way I heard about it nvidia own clean install option did not really did clean install but they only delete any specific setting that you use on control panel. Did previous driver also problematic for you? Personally 344.75 and 347.09 (I got the beta one although I believe it is still the same as the WHQL one) so far working fine for me except for SLI in some games

 

[azraelshadow]

No, didn't have much problems with previous driver installations. Playing Borderlands crashed an hour in. Far Cry 4 within thirty minutes, then again an hour an a half in. :/

 

[renz496]

what third party software did you use to do clean install driver? have you tried downlocking your GPU to 980 reference clock and see what happen?