Newest nvidia drivers crashing

Yesterday i updated my old 19x.xx drivers into 258.96 (64bit version).

While my assassin's creed 2 framerate practically doubled, my computer also crashed twice yesterday, which i cannot remember happening ever before.
Today my screen shut down for a moment and i got a message "nvidia driver stopped responding and was recovered." or something along those lines, also which i cannot remember seeing before on this laptop.

So i was wondering if this could be in the driver itself, or the "wrong" way i installed it.
By wrong i mean i just installed it on top of my old drivers.

Should i just wait until newer drivers or do a "proper" install?

 

Did you OC your GPU?
If yes, try stock settings again.

If not, how did you go about installing it? You installed it over your old drivers?
That's definitly the problem then.. uninstall the drivers, then go into safe mode and do a Driver Sweeper, then install the latest again

Mine works fine, (GT 330M OCed)

 

Funnily enough my laptop just crashed again.

No i don't overclock anything ever.

I just installed it without doing anything about the previous drivers.
I'll try clearing old drivers first.

 

Here's a step by step guide on the best way of updating the drivers:

Download driver cleaner HERE

this is a great program which will delete all traces of drivers as sometimes when you uninstall them they leave behind files which can cause issues when you come to install new drivers. We’ll use this in a minute

Download the latest drivers for your operating system 32/64bit.

Extract/ copy the files to a temporary directory such as c:\temp


Go to the control panel > program and features > scroll down the list and find NVIDIA > then select NVIDIA and click uninstall. It will ask if you want to restart the system.. click yes

Press F8 on startup and go into windows in safe mode.

Run driver cleaner and select NVIDIA drivers.. then clean.

Go to the control panel > system> device manager > graphics card. Right click on any present and click uninstall

Restart the system and go into windows normally. Install the NVIDIA drivers listed above which you put into a temporary folder

Restart the system.. and fingers crossed all should be well!

 

Isn't that too much? All I do is use driver sweeper to delete the drivers -> restart -> Install new drivers -> restart. And all goes well, I never had any issues.

 

i use the same drivers on my 8690 and they are rock solid.
they give me good frame rates, better graphics quality and i have never had a single crash.
i even overclock them although they seem to o/c a little less than 186.81.
i suggest you follow mrdj's recommendation.

 

its the way resellers advise to do it so its the way i advise others.

 

Have you tried the Nvidia 259.47 driver? http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...-v259-47-whql-drivers-released-ms-update.html

 

I did a proper install of the same drivers and haven't had any signs of any kind of problems so far
I didn't know it could cause such a trouble to do an average-joe update.

But anyways thanks for the help guys.
I guess i'll come back if the problem returns.