Issues playing games with Nvidia Geforce 940M since the recent update

[Natalie02]

Hey there, so I've been trying to play a variety of games for about a week now. I've contacted Steam support and they recommended I get in touch with you all to see if anyone has found a workaround yet :)

So I have Nvidia Geforce 940M on my laptop. I've had this laptop for about two years and had no problem running practically any game I throw at it.

However, since the recent Nvidia updates, any game I try to open will crash instantly, or, if I'm lucky, will get to the loading screen, and then it'll crash. One of the weird things though, although the game will crash and close, it still shows up in "Processes", but not in "Applications". So it seems that it's running in the background? The only thing to fix this is a reboot, which occasionally gets stuck in an infinite loop.

I've also experienced a bluescreen. I only got a glance, but it mentioned something about a "display driver". I have run several virus and malware scans, all have come up completely clean.

The only work around (which only works about 60% of the time) is to go into device manager, find Nvidia under display drivers and hit "update driver", which seems to roll it back to the original (rollback works too, but I find crashes device manager more). If it doesn't work, reboot, and try again and again till it does.

Now the games work completely fine on my desktop, but that has a different graphics card (no clue what though). I have contacted Nvidia and got a half hearted response that they'd pass the message along and that I should update and maybe it'll fix it's self.

I'm tired of doing this, I just want to play my games :(

I saw that an update came out today, this still causes the same issues.

Thank you in advance <3

[76561198218426745]

I would purposely install an older driver, the last one you know worked correctly. Then set Windows/Nvidia to not automatically update your driver.

[Natalie02]

I've told it not to update without my permission, it still does though which I find really weird. I've told it to notify me when a new update is available, and I also told it not to automatically download or install new updates. It seems rolling it back is only temporary (till the next start up) which sounds weird to me.

Thanks for the reply <3

[FusionKD]

I could be completely wrong about this, but just in pure speculation, I feel like this might be caused by your system running with the newer drivers as opposed to an the older build. maybe check if uninstalling the drivers, then reinstalling the old drivers does anything (as well as make sure your settings are still the way you want them to be ofc). again this is just speculation and I could be wrong in my theory, but give it a try if you think that's what it is

[Cathulhu]

You are aware this thread is about 6.5 years old, right?

[Steve]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.