sehlat
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:14 PM
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Great, just great. I do a Windows Update today and didn't notice that they had put an Nvidia Driver in the "important update" section. So it was downloaded and installed before I could stop the process. Seems to be working OK, but should I uninstall this driver and everything associated with it and then install the one from EVGA, or leave things be? I'm guessing they did this for their little Windows 8 rollout, BUT I DON'T HAVE WINDOWS 8, NOR DO I WANT IT ON MY SYSTEM! Right now, I would punch any MS weenie I came across!
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:39 PM
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You need to adjust settings for this don't happen again or in the near future.
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Friday, November 16, 2012 3:11 PM
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I would not even bother with Windows 8 yet. I can only get it working on an ATI card right now.
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sehlat
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Friday, November 16, 2012 5:26 PM
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You need to adjust settings for this don't happen again or in the near future.
Oh no. This was a sneaky trick. I usually only install "important or critical" updates. Usually their driver updates are in the "optional" list. Well, they put this driver update into the "important" list and I missed it when I scanned down the list to see what was there this time. My bad. So I merrily start the update and about have a heart attack when, what do I see during the install, a driver update! Too damn late to stop the process too. Every time Microsoft has done a driver update for me, they've screwed up the system, although this time, things seem to be working OK. I had driver 306.23 already running and they changed it! Does the 306.97 driver have any issues, or should I go back to my previous driver anyone? I have a GTX 480 on WINDOWS 7 PRO, that I intend to keep a while Microsoft! captchadd, I don't have Windows 8, nor do I intend to install it. That's what pisses me off, like Microsoft assumes that I want to upgrade my OS in the future, so they helpfully update my driver. What idiots! 
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Monday, November 19, 2012 4:51 PM
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It did the same thing to me, I have it set to auto install important updates. So I get on this morning and have nvidia control panel, 3d vision crap, and no SLI. I guess this is my cue to try the new beta drivers.
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captchadd
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Monday, November 19, 2012 11:06 PM
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Since updating to Windows 8 I now cannot play Skyrim in fullscreen mode and Windowed mode in my native resolution puts it slightly off the screen.
I have tried changing the .ini file but nothing works, even the borderless windows mod does not work.
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 11:43 AM
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I have windows 7. I manually checked for windows updates. It showed a nvidia driver but didn't show what version. I unchecked it.
I was turning off the computer for the night but it showed an update waiting to be installed at shut down. I could not get it to go away. Uncheck it and it just comes back. What gives with that?
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:07 PM
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Right click on the update that you don't want and click hide. That will get rid of it for you.
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:34 PM
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captchadd
Right click on the update that you don't want and click hide. That will get rid of it for you.
I,ll give that a try. I decided to try that driver (306.97) with BF3. CRASH, it doesn't like it at all. I tried diferent settings and it didn't help. Thanks for the info.
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 6:14 PM
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WgregB
I,ll give that a try. I decided to try that driver (306.97) with BF3. CRASH, it doesn't like it at all.
I tried diferent settings and it didn't help.
Thanks for the info.
What driver version did you have that BF3 liked before the update?
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:49 PM
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sehlat
WgregB
I,ll give that a try. I decided to try that driver (306.97) with BF3. CRASH, it doesn't like it at all.
I tried diferent settings and it didn't help.
Thanks for the info.
What driver version did you have that BF3 liked before the update?
306.23. I found the problem. With the new driver I can't use SLI, turned off it works fine and it run pretty good.
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Re:Windows Update installed their driver 306.97
Monday, December 03, 2012 11:23 PM
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If u happen to be on win8 dont install the latest beta from nvidia, it will mess up your windows, but worked flawless with the default signed WHQL driver from nvidia.
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