SOLVED Crash, black screen, but sound still operational.

[Odalmau]

Hi everyone!

Almost everything is in the title.
I've been experiencing crashes, ending up in my monitor not recognizing any source, while the sound freezes in an endless loop.

I've been on Windows 10 (updated from 8.1) since like September, and those issues only appeared a few weeks ago.
At first it would happen during games, after a certain time. I tried to run them in compatibility mode, disable the fullscreen, but nothing could do.

Now, this bug makes 90% of my games unplayable in barealy a few minutes, and it even started occuring while watching videos on my web browser.

Thought it might be related to my Nvidia video card, but i'm really unsure of that, since i've got the latest drivers.

What do you think?
Thanks for your help.

 

[Trouble]

Download DDU from here http://www.wagnardmobile.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=144
Download the latest driver for you nVidia GPU from here http://www.geforce.com/drivers
Boot your system into Safe Mode
https://www.windows10forums.com/articles/safe-mode.3/
Run DDU while in safe mode leave the defaults as is.
Reboot into normal mode and install the nVidia Driver, but......
Choose "Custom" install, check the box that says "Clean install"
Uncheck everything offered except the driver (which you cannot uncheck) and PhysX.
Don't bother with the 3d stuff or the nVidia experience.

 

[Odalmau]

Hope I'm not talking too fast, but it seems to work perfectly.
Thanks Trouble!

I just get less FPS ingame, could it be the lack of one of the modules I didn't install?

 

[Trouble]

could it be the lack of one of the modules I didn't install?

Sorry, I really couldn't say for certain. I wouldn't think so, but it's possible I suppose.
I'm probably not the guy to ask anyway, as I'm not a gamer at all. Solitaire is about it for me.

 

[Odalmau]

Seems to happen randomly, I played again and got back with better numbers.... until it finally crashed, just like before reinstalling