Latest NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers for Windows 10

Scramjet said:

Posted this on the Nvidia forum a few mins ago after searching for a while and then hoping the next driver will fix it. . Maybe posting here will give us more suggestions. Hoping to reach someone who had this problem lately.

Hi All,
Searched for a while now and can't seem to find a solution. Every so often my screen will flicker to black for a second or two and then be fine. It don't matter if I am in a game or just at desktop, but while in MMO it seems to last 2-3 second longer. It's just random. Below is my MB and video card;

ASUS TUF Z270 Mark 1 LGA1151 Kaby Lake DDR4 DP HDMI M.2 USB 3.1 Z270 Aura Sync ATX Motherboard
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GV-N1060WF2OC-6GD 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Card
Forgot to add...monitor #1 Samsung S24C350L Samsung monitor #2 S24D330

My Son bought a new Asus GeForce 1080 about a month ago and is experiencing the same issue.

It must be a driver issue because we have totally different components in our computers. We have had a few driver updates in the past month or so and they don't seem to have fixed it.
While typing this post I received the latest update v: 416.34 through GeForce Experience and hoping the problem is addressed in it. Although skimming through the patch notes I don't see a fix for flicker.

Can someone help us with this issue please? We would greatly appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks

Did you try doing a Clean Install of Nvidia 416.34 ?? Using DDU from Safe mode.....
I am running 416.34 on my system with no such issues.

Scramjet said:

Thanks for reply OldMike65
Yes we both removed the drivers with DDU in safe mode and a short time after that day it still happened. Reinstalled clean with latest drivers last week and still happening. Changed cables, unplugged one monitor and still happens. Read a lot of suggestions in google but not fixed
Very strange I must say.

We had New drivers from Nvidia released yesterday.....did you update them??

Scramjet said:

Thanks again,
Yes I got prompted to install them while I was making a post. They installed successfully as always but scanning through the patch notes I didn't see any mention of random flicker. So I am hoping they may have something there to fix the issue.
Still reading google and wondering if the 3D option should be disabled. Although it don't seem to be a easy way to do that in the Nvidia Control Panel. Under 'Manage 3D Settings' there are a lot of Global Settings and Program Settings. Not sure if I want to tackle that lol

3D and Physics are separate install-able packages, I believe. Look in Progs and Features. Uninstall it.

Hi @Scramjet have both systems got this installed?
NVIDIA Graphics Firmware Update Tool for DisplayPort 1.3 and 1.4</title><title>NVIDIA DRIVERS 1.0

Scramjet said:

Thanks. I will check this out and get back to you.

No problem, I had a problem where during boot or during Nvidia driver updates where the screen goes black, I would get 5 or 6 two pixel wide stripes, and after the update, it was gone.