Help - Errors and screen flickering now on lots of games

I've removed and reinstalled nVidia drivers (320.18 and 314.22) and Intel drivers. I've run a ccleaner and glary utilities scan. I did a .NET 4 repair install. And am still getting some errors or games not running with Shogun 2, Resident Evil 6, Thunder Wolves (runtime error), Spectraball. I know some of those are odd titles, but I just decided to run other games in Steam to see if I had similar issues and sure enough. The odd thing is Resident Evil 6 benchmark worked great before but now it gives me this error:



Shogun 2 and Spectraball will run in windowed mode but not full screen. Other games like Tomb Raider, BF3, Trackmania, MetroLL run fine full screen.

I did an sfc /scannow and it didn't find any issues either.

Before I go through the whole rigamarole of reinstalling Windows figured I'd tap the knowledge here to see if anyone has had anything similar happen?

 

Have you tried just reinstalling DirectX after drivers' installation?

 

Dxwebsetup? Yes, but it says newer files already installed.

I just did a completely full uninstall of nVidia drivers, so it was using standard VGA drivers. Then RE6 benchmark started just fine. I reinstalled nVidia drivers and getting the error again. I'll do another full uninstall and then revert back to 314.22 because that seemed to work fine before. Maybe in upgrading to 320.18 it fudged some things up.

Edit: Nope. No go, still not working. Although I realized that the full list of 3d profiles that I added to the control panel still exist even after a full uninstall. Something is very odd here. I just don't have the time to go through a full uninstall/reinstall now.

 

ive never updated the intel drivers. could that be conflicting for you

 

Nothing seems to be working... grrr.

 

i must admit these are great laptops but it seems this new generation is great until something cocks up and then its a total pain to solve.
it looks like so far no two users have the same issue and some are running perfectly fine.
twice now ive had to avert to system restore to get everything working hunky dorey again.
my previous m860tu never had this problem. if something went wrong i would just load the drivers again and it would be back to normal.

up until yesterday i was actually thinking of treating myself to a new clevo/haswell when they are released on the but i ended up buying 3 vip one direction ticket for my god daughter and her sister and it cost me almost £1000 and the concert isnt until next june. 190,000 tickets sold out within 4 hours. i need my fekin head tested.

 

Wow, expensive concert. Hope you have fun though!

I just did a system restore with my WHS 2011 backups from a few days ago, before I even installed 320.18 and still doesn't work. Something is FUBAR. I think I'm gonna have to do a Windows reinstall now.

 

Error at launch, E_invalidarg :: Resident Evil 6 / Biohazard 6 General Discussions

Google is your friend! :thumbsup: Supposedly the guy solved it. Hope it helps you.

 

Thanks, I saw that, but unfortunately doesn't help. The last post noted:

"I found that having aeria client running was causing the issue to occur, I made sure to stop it and have had no issues since. "

I don't have aeria client and don't even know what it is, lol. The odd thing is that it worked perfectly fine before without issue.

 

Oh, that sucks. It does seem like one of those errors you'd see related to the game, though. I doubt it has anything to do with your computer.

 

ah usual snafu, I would just go and reinstall windows, if that doesnt solve I will worry

 

Agree. Intel reference drivers are not designed to work properly with Optimus. They're designed to work as a standalone.

My first question to you: Are you referring to that W110ER laptop you've used to provide HD 4000 vs. 7660G benchmarks and that you've used Intel reference drivers? If yes, I guess that's your issue.

You probably can obtain an optimus driver from your manufacturer. The Intel HD driver provided by manufacturers are designed to switch to support the slave-master model, not available on the Intel site.

If its Sager
(before you do anything make the drivers and graphics adapters Microsoft generic VGA.)

1. get the whole manufacturer custom driver from Sager (It should be probably 100MB larger than Nvidia's reference driver)
2. install
3. restart
4. install 320.18, custom setup, clean install

Not sure if it works for you but the general idea has worked both on my PowerXpress based system and Optimus based system from time to time. Referring to my 2 main laptops in the sig.

 

Thanks, but Optimus is part of the mobile drivers now, and has been for some time. It's the Optimus driver that switches not Intel. The stock drivers from Intel and nVidia do work, done it dozens of time, just this time something got botched. I just did a Windows reinstall using drivers directly from Intel and nVidia and everything works great now.

It's not like it used to be where switchable graphics required proprietary drivers. nVidia Optimus and AMD Enduro are built into their drivers.

 

Right, but I never had success with that personally.

 

Unfortunately if you install drivers from Sager, it's like over a year old.

 

I'd say it's better to have on year old drivers and a system that works without a hitch, than some new drivers, with which system behaves erratically.

 

The older drivers are just the stock Intel and nVidia drivers anyhow and not necessarily all that stable.

 

HTWingnut, when you update your GPU drivers do you do it from the device manager or with the Nvidia Installer that starts after extraction? I run Windows 7 and I tried upgrading the Nvidia driver from the device manager and it worked beautifully. Before I was uninstalling everything; running driver sweeper, going into safe mode, and the Nvidia installer would still fail on me. The driver would work and update, but the updater was broken, and Physx wouldn't update properly either. I had to install that update separately. I am really surprised at how well this last update went, and I am going to continue to use the device manager to update my GPU.

It is worth a shot if any of you are having any failures or issues. Let Windows handle the update and you probably won't be disappointed.

 

I haven't had any issues since I've had this laptop nearly a year, and that includes at least a half dozen different drivers, probably more, including back and forth to and from beta and whql drivers using the regular install/uninstall method.

 

its the gpu drivers man. many dudes in the geforce forum are reporting issues with the latest one. some guys on sli not even being able to post and issues even after uninstall for many.

 

I figured out the issue. I don't know why I didn't think of this. I recently bought an external USB powered LCD. When I reinstalled the drivers for it after Windows reinstall , it broke things again. I uninstalled the drivers and voila, everything works fine. Dang it, I really wanted that external LCD too.

edit: I tried to keep the LCD service stopped and not load the background process with msconfig, and it still caused issues. So I couldn't even manually activate it. So I uninstalled the LCD drivers and all is fine again.

 

Haha, that's weird. I would have never guessed that would have caused the issue.

Glad you figured it out.

 

Did you try it with the 314 gpu drivers? Could be the drivers not playing nice with the display.

Sent from a Galaxy far far away

 

Tried it with 310, 314, 320. Same issue. And also with the drivers on the CD that came with the LCD plus the latest on their website. I emailed them and explained the situation, however I don't expect any kind of resolution. They will probably just email me a link to their drivers on the website.