Nvidia control Panel

[Phantom Dust]

So I'm asking this here because the guys at Nvidia have no idea on how to handle this issue. I was having problems with the Nvidia control panel. It would open up just fine at first until I tried to open the program settings. Whenever I would open it the application would just close out on me and would not remain open no matter what I did. Uninstalls and reinstalls would not work updating would not work hell not even reverting to older drivers would not work. I finally decided to contact Nvidia support but they were literally telling me to do what I have already been doing. On the fine chat I had the rep tells me to create a new profile on my computer to see if its my own profile. It worked on the new profile and he then told me that my original profile on my computer is corrupted somehow and that I need to move my items to the new profile. This did not sit right with me as I had nothing to indicate this profile is corrupt. I stated uninstalling games in their entirety from my computer and after that was done I then decided to open the nvidia control panel one more time and it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ worked. I was able to do everything on it now. So my question is has anybody encountered this problem before and if so can you please give more information as to what you think was really going on it'd be appreciated.

[hawkeye]

I would wipe the drivers completely with DDU in safe mode.
Then do a totally clean install of your drivers.
Might work, might not.

[Phantom Dust]

Originally posted by hawkeye:

I would wipe the drivers completely with DDU in safe mode.
Then do a totally clean install of your drivers.
Might work, might not.

No it is working now and I'm able to do what I need to, thing is I'm not absolutely sure what I did to finally get it working. I've also done uninstalls with DDU but that wasn't helping either. I'm just asking around for any info on the matter so I can avoid this headache in the future.

[hawkeye]

It might be something to do with the microsoft account link if you are using the driver version that gets the control panel from the microsoft store. I had read that accessing the store via the web and not via the pc can cause problems. I always use the driver version that includes the control panel.

[isomorphic_projection]

If you figure out how, this happens. Let me know, i can't get mine to shut off. It's a modders nightmare. Keeps taking precedent over my manual adjusted fallout4prefs.

[Phantom Dust]

Originally posted by hawkeye:

It might be something to do with the microsoft account link if you are using the driver version that gets the control panel from the microsoft store. I had read that accessing the store via the web and not via the pc can cause problems. I always use the driver version that includes the control panel.

I did go through the app directly a few times to get the control panel from microsoft but the thing is that there are basically 2 versions of the drivers now. The standard seems to be the one you have from what you're saying. The other version is called DCH and this one was reported to have all sorts of issues. Ive tried both but got the same results with the control panel. At this point i've got no clue which version I currently have because of all the uninstalls and reinstall I did.

[Phantom Dust]

Originally posted by isomorphic_projection:

If you figure out how, this happens. Let me know, i can't get mine to shut off. It's a modders nightmare. Keeps taking precedent over my manual adjusted fallout4prefs.

I don't know how to shut it off but couldn't you go into the program settings in the 3D settings to remove the file path to fallout 4 from the control panel? if that doesn't work maybe try going into your services.msc to disable the nvidia functions. I'm not sure which one is responsible for the control panel but it might be the nvidia display container LS