Don't update NVIDIA Graphics Card [Your PC will stuck or get black screen]

[M0rpheus]

This is the version you need to download and install [ 528.24 ]
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/198796/en-us


Don't download new updates til the game won't release

[Malau]

I just let the blackscreen run, and by the time i'd Googled it and got to this page, it had gone to the mainscreen. Damn Nvidia update. I hope it isn't going to be like this everytime it starts.

[FromS2B]

I had issues earlier today with the new drivers but after rebooting my system everything went smoothly

[ponyboy]

Originally posted by Pixelica:

Originally posted by Mr Blue Playdoh:

No they dont as it wasnt a black screen issue, its bad stuttering and it was fine when they was playing 2 days ago before the driver update.

2 days ago your friends haven't got to the open world section

seems like lots of yall had no issues, but right after i updated drivers i blue screened every single time i launched. tried a bunch of other fixes to no avail. reverted back to 528.24 and it launched right away. he aint crazy, you just dont have the same issue

[Xeretrax]

Originally posted by vito74m:

rymember guys about update ur chipset and some time Bios too.
In PC we have not only GPU driver for overwrite ...
best idea is uninstall DDU old driver, restart PC
clean rewgistry Ccleaner (free) install new Driver, restart PC
Play
when u only overwrite old Drifer u not have full performance, because some old files still in ur PC...

The whole point of DDU is to properly uninstall GPU drivers to the point you don't need to clean your register. It has like a mini build in register cleaner specifically for GPU purposes. Looking at NVIDIA or AMD register entries and only touching those specific ones.
You would only be doing the same thing twice, and clearly you cant clean whats already cleaned by DDU.

On top of that, randomly running register cleaners and just ticking every box to "fix" things, can easily break something. Such programs cant possibly detect all ways how something is using / used by the register or not.

99% of the time anything that a register cleaner will find, doesn't even matter, having those register entries existing or not makes no damn difference at all. It only decreases the register size slightly.
woop tie doo, you now have 9999300 lines instead of 9999999.
Such a MASSIVE difference right ?

Say there somehow is something leading to a wrong file path, do you think it fixes it to the right file path? No, it just removes it.
You need to actually know what to look at with anything reported back, as that which is truly wrong, can only be fixed manually.

Just using DDU, is perfectly fine, don't need anything else.

[Ash]

Im going to say this after updating the game hung up twice then i started it again and alt tabbed and it started loading shaders. Alt tabbing worked for me. I also understand the Op because it's not Nvidia hasnt screwed up before I remember back when CyberPUnk came out and and if you updated your driver's the game would be stuck at 3 fps. I also understand singe Hogwart's gave me 0 issues until the update.

[M0rpheus]

Guys after this post, I did some fixes also gave people exploit fix on Reddit. So if you have any problems again here its best fix steps.

1) Fix - that anyone already knows - EXPLOIT PROTECTION

• Press Start > Type “Exploit Protection”
• In the Exploit Protection window, click the “Program Settings” tab
• Click “+ Add program to customise” – "choose exact file path"
• Navigate to “…\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy” and select “HogwartsLegacy.exe”
• In the new window, scroll down to “Control flow guard” and ✓ Override system settings
toggle this to OFF and hit Apply.
• Click “+Add program to customise” – choose exact file path
• Navigate to “…\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64” and select
“HogwartsLegacy.exe”
• In the new window, scroll down to “Control flow guard” and ✓ Override system settings
toggle this to OFF and hit Apply.

(Make sure you add this exception for BOTH "HogwartsLegacy.exe" files)

2) CLEAR CACHE FILES

Windows+R

Type: temp (Clear everything)
Type: %Temp% (Clear everything)
Type: prefetch (Clear everything)

3) CHKDSK SSD

Navigate to C disk -> Right-Click -> Properties -> Tools -> Check
Navigate to D disk -> Right-Click -> Propertes -> Tools -> Check

4) WINDOWS UPDATE

Open Search or just click windows bar and type: Windows Update - Open and check if you have latest updates.

5) VIDEO CARD UPDATE

Simply open your AMD/NVIDIA and update to the latest version

p.s Don't worry if you get black screen when open game its because rendering shaders and etc.

6) DRIVER UPDATER - BEST PROGRAM (RECOMMENDED)

• Download Driver Booster
• Open Driver Booster
• Update Drivers

• Restart PC

• Open Driver Booster again
• Boost Game


7) GRAPHICS SETTINGS


DISPLAY OPTIONS:


NVIDIA USERS:

• Upscale Type: NVIDIA DLSS
• Upscale Mode: NVIDIA Quality
• Upscale Sharpness: 0.2
• NVIDIA REFLEX: OFF
• VSYNC: OFF (Your choice)
• FRAMERATE: Uncapped
• Field of View: +20.0
• Motion Blur: OFF
• Depth of Field: OFF
• Chromatic Abberation: OFF
• Flm Grain: OFF

AMD USERS:

• Upscale Type: AMD FSR 2
• Upscale Mode: AMD FSR 2 Quality
• Upscale Sharpness: 0.2
• NVIDIA REFLEX: OFF
• VSYNC: OFF (Your choice)
• FRAMERATE: Uncapped
• Field of View: +20.0
• Motion Blur: OFF
• Depth of Field: OFF
• Chromatic Abberation: OFF
• Flm Grain: OFF

GRAPHICS OPTIONS:

EFFECT QUALITY: HIGH/ULTRA
Other QUALITIES: LOW

[Femboy Connoisseur]

Originally posted by ✪ M0rpheus ❟❛:

Guys after this post, I did some fixes also gave people exploit fix on Reddit. So if you have any problems again here its best fix steps.

1) Fix - that anyone already knows - EXPLOIT PROTECTION

• Press Start > Type “Exploit Protection”
• In the Exploit Protection window, click the “Program Settings” tab
• Click “+ Add program to customise” – "choose exact file path"
• Navigate to “…\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy” and select “HogwartsLegacy.exe”
• In the new window, scroll down to “Control flow guard” and ✓ Override system settings
toggle this to OFF and hit Apply.
• Click “+Add program to customise” – choose exact file path
• Navigate to “…\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64” and select
“HogwartsLegacy.exe”
• In the new window, scroll down to “Control flow guard” and ✓ Override system settings
toggle this to OFF and hit Apply.

(Make sure you add this exception for BOTH "HogwartsLegacy.exe" files)

2) CLEAR CACHE FILES

Windows+R

Type: temp (Clear everything)
Type: %Temp% (Clear everything)
Type: prefetch (Clear everything)

3) CHKDSK SSD

Navigate to C disk -> Right-Click -> Properties -> Tools -> Check
Navigate to D disk -> Right-Click -> Propertes -> Tools -> Check

4) WINDOWS UPDATE

Open Search or just click windows bar and type: Windows Update - Open and check if you have latest updates.

5) VIDEO CARD UPDATE

Simply open your AMD/NVIDIA and update to the latest version

p.s Don't worry if you get black screen when open game its because rendering shaders and etc.

6) DRIVER UPDATER - BEST PROGRAM (RECOMMENDED)

• Download Driver Booster
• Open Driver Booster
• Update Drivers

• Restart PC

• Open Driver Booster again
• Boost Game


7) GRAPHICS SETTINGS


DISPLAY OPTIONS:


NVIDIA USERS:

• Upscale Type: NVIDIA DLSS
• Upscale Mode: NVIDIA Quality
• Upscale Sharpness: 0.2
• NVIDIA REFLEX: OFF
• VSYNC: OFF (Your choice)
• FRAMERATE: Uncapped
• Field of View: +20.0
• Motion Blur: OFF
• Depth of Field: OFF
• Chromatic Abberation: OFF
• Flm Grain: OFF

AMD USERS:

• Upscale Type: AMD FSR 2
• Upscale Mode: AMD FSR 2 Quality
• Upscale Sharpness: 0.2
• NVIDIA REFLEX: OFF
• VSYNC: OFF (Your choice)
• FRAMERATE: Uncapped
• Field of View: +20.0
• Motion Blur: OFF
• Depth of Field: OFF
• Chromatic Abberation: OFF
• Flm Grain: OFF

GRAPHICS OPTIONS:

EFFECT QUALITY: HIGH/ULTRA
Other QUALITIES: LOW

Please for the love of god if you're reading this, do NOT download Driver Booster or any other 3rd party "Driver updating" application. They're a scam at best lmao.

[VictoriousDK]

Originally posted by The Dragon:

Originally posted by ✪ M0rpheus ❟❛:

Guys after this post, I did some fixes also gave people exploit fix on Reddit. So if you have any problems again here its best fix steps.

1) Fix - that anyone already knows - EXPLOIT PROTECTION

• Press Start > Type “Exploit Protection”
• In the Exploit Protection window, click the “Program Settings” tab
• Click “+ Add program to customise” – "choose exact file path"
• Navigate to “…\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy” and select “HogwartsLegacy.exe”
• In the new window, scroll down to “Control flow guard” and ✓ Override system settings
toggle this to OFF and hit Apply.
• Click “+Add program to customise” – choose exact file path
• Navigate to “…\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64” and select
“HogwartsLegacy.exe”
• In the new window, scroll down to “Control flow guard” and ✓ Override system settings
toggle this to OFF and hit Apply.

(Make sure you add this exception for BOTH "HogwartsLegacy.exe" files)

2) CLEAR CACHE FILES

Windows+R

Type: temp (Clear everything)
Type: %Temp% (Clear everything)
Type: prefetch (Clear everything)

3) CHKDSK SSD

Navigate to C disk -> Right-Click -> Properties -> Tools -> Check
Navigate to D disk -> Right-Click -> Propertes -> Tools -> Check

4) WINDOWS UPDATE

Open Search or just click windows bar and type: Windows Update - Open and check if you have latest updates.

5) VIDEO CARD UPDATE

Simply open your AMD/NVIDIA and update to the latest version

p.s Don't worry if you get black screen when open game its because rendering shaders and etc.

6) DRIVER UPDATER - BEST PROGRAM (RECOMMENDED)

• Download Driver Booster
• Open Driver Booster
• Update Drivers

• Restart PC

• Open Driver Booster again
• Boost Game


7) GRAPHICS SETTINGS


DISPLAY OPTIONS:


NVIDIA USERS:

• Upscale Type: NVIDIA DLSS
• Upscale Mode: NVIDIA Quality
• Upscale Sharpness: 0.2
• NVIDIA REFLEX: OFF
• VSYNC: OFF (Your choice)
• FRAMERATE: Uncapped
• Field of View: +20.0
• Motion Blur: OFF
• Depth of Field: OFF
• Chromatic Abberation: OFF
• Flm Grain: OFF

AMD USERS:

• Upscale Type: AMD FSR 2
• Upscale Mode: AMD FSR 2 Quality
• Upscale Sharpness: 0.2
• NVIDIA REFLEX: OFF
• VSYNC: OFF (Your choice)
• FRAMERATE: Uncapped
• Field of View: +20.0
• Motion Blur: OFF
• Depth of Field: OFF
• Chromatic Abberation: OFF
• Flm Grain: OFF

GRAPHICS OPTIONS:

EFFECT QUALITY: HIGH/ULTRA
Other QUALITIES: LOW

Please for the love of god if you're reading this, do NOT download Driver Booster or any other 3rd party "Driver updating" application. They're a scam at best lmao.

Agree.
There doesn't exist a single software yet, focusing on ''driver'' updates that doesn't contain malware, 3rd party gathering informations or plain out gives you trojans.

Now to the fan boys....
NO.... NO you can't defend softwares that states they update your drives besides the makers of said hardware.....
Many updating softwares even claim they can update software offline. How come tell, over 1. mio updates avaible inside a 68mb exe???? Yeah

So i agree dont fall for this obvious attempt at stealing personal information.
let alone you should never ever remove or let a software bypass security.

[M0rpheus]

I meant that you can update older drivers which not shown in update sections on windows. and if you don't want boost it that way then you can go to
Graphics Settings -> Turn on Hardware-Accelerated GPU.
Scroll down -> Graphics Performance preference -> Browse -> Choose 2 of the programs Hogwarts Legacy.exe and Hogwarts Legacy.exe (From Phoenix Folder) -> Choose HIGH PERFORMANCE

[Banished]

Everything started off perfectly for me as well, right after the update things went super jankey. I do get the extended black screen before the shaders load, but now I am experiencing a video memory issue, the game is a stuttering mess then just crashes. I did all the "recommended" things none seemed to work for me, trying a reinstall now.

[DragonyCat]

No problems so far.

[ZMan]

Same thing happened to me. If the music is playing, JUST WAIT for a little bit. Eventually the screen will show it updating the shaders, then the game loads fine.

[AlderKan]

I had problem with 528.49 - black screen whenever I was playing and left game for a longer time on menu or map...

[Noble Nobbler]

I had a black screen. I waited a few minutes then the shaders recompiled.

[Trakais]

I had over a year old drivers. Had to update to "latest and greatest" so NMS would not crash after Fractal update. Now I get black screen on shader caching, but game still loads if you wait long enough.