I was playing Warhammer II Total War when the launcher told me to update my graphics driver to improve performance. Today I just went to Task Manager and updated my GTX 560. When that happened after I restarted the computer the resolution went to 800x900. Even after going up to 1280x1024 I still had black bars to fill in my screen and it wasn't the native 1920 x 1080 resolution. So it made my specs worse what the hell? Could I go back to a older version and fix this, or is there a way to keep the new update and fix the black empty space?
Go to Task Manager to update your video drivers... W.. Huh? Am I misunderstanding your post?
You're supposed to do that either through Nvidia GeForce Experience or by downloading new drivers from Nvidia's website.
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
this will help. It's a full uninstallation
So I got that, but Geforce Exerpience with the Game ready update still didn't fix the small screen with the large black borders. Could I rollback the update on Task manager?
So if I did that plus Psy's driver link would that fix the problem? I want to keep the best update possible without wrecking my screen.
a good laugh
but yeah, DDU will remove the drive
then just download the most recent drivers and install them
Well I did the thing. Got DDU to remove the drivers and Geforce Experience just to be sure. Before that I downloaded the latest drivers (in the form of Game Ready Drivers for my GTX 560) but did not install them until DDU was done. Once Nvidia was clean from my computer I restarted the computer, ran the Game Ready installer, restarted it again and the small screen with big black borders still remain. I have no clue why that didn't work but here I am with a screen too small for my monitor.
can you show us where you do that in task manager please? im very curious
install older drivers that work. No, drivers with “Game Ready features” don’t matter at all. It doesn’t matter which version you run, the software will run if the hardware supports it.
All I get when looking up drivers is Geforce Game Ready Driver and older versions for the GTX 560 so one with specifically that name is harder to find now
Also teaches me not to try and fix shit close to midnight.
use ddu and rollback, the recent nvidia drivers are meh
can you confirm whether the game is outputting via your GPU? I've had this occur before where some games decide to use the integrated CPU graphics over the dedicated card.
check the display tab in dxdiag.
Ddu apparently has a driver installer built in so I'm wondering if I can uninstall again, use the installer, then use rollback on device manager.
It is fixed! I got rid of the new drivers, installed a Game Ready Driver back from October 2017, and everything is normal again. Though I hope WH II Total War can be less laggy at high settings.
Sorry for the bump but where do I find this option? I got everything fixed but now I'm as slow as molasses on my games for some reason but I think it's running on my integrated CPU graphics.
Just fiddle about with the screen stretching settings in the nvidia control panel
Apologies if it seems like I'm posting all over the place with the issue, but yeah I fiddled with nvidia control panel for both the oldest drivers I could find and the recent compatible versions and nothing really changed too much.
I'll send you some screenshots on what to look for when I got home from work
I never found a solid solution, because I couldn't force my games to run via the GPU with the Nvidia panel for some reason. You should be able to right click a program and 'Run via Nvidia Graphics card' or something to that effect, or force a program/global settings in Nvidia Control Panel to use the 'High Performance Graphics processor'. I can't remember the exact steps but if you google 'force game to use nvidia gpu' or something like that you'll find plenty.
I may have seen something like this on a older computer, but I haven't seen it with this one yet. I'll look it up if it's doable though.
Can't wait to see what you may have.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/145250/dbd70acc-d427-4780-afb6-ab21aaf849f6/image.png
"Preffered graphics processor" , make sure its set to high-performance NVIDIA processor .
This is on my work laptop and for some reason I can''t get to the screen stretch settings on it.Can't show you screenshots of that , I remember having similar problems with some games like you and I fixed it by trying different combinations on that screen , I can't recall atm which settings I use exactly.
Here's the other menu I mentioned .Dry different combinations of scaling mode and "perform scaling on"
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/145250/b53a2fa2-1544-4554-bcab-7a1badd72137/image.png
Strange, I only have the 2nd option. The drop down menu for Global Settings Preferred Graphics Processor isn't a option for me, but I do have all of the other options below that.
https://twitter.com/Scrxtchy/status/1060761838105677824
https://twitter.com/Scrxtchy/status/1060763041820622848
Not the first time I've had to this, but it was unrelated to resolution, display would not receive any video from the graphics card
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/83b694be-2a10-4fb0-b70c-5d47ef8ad1b9/image.png
Well now my screen is flickering with no change since the update. That new Radeon card can't come any faster.
Try going into program settings and click on the game you want to play and check if you have the preferred graphics processor option there
Tried that before, and it didn't work even when I set the apps to global settings. Again I don't have the preferred graphics dropdown option in 3D settings. Can't be my HDD because it's been running with 35GB of space just fine. Removed some unneeded apps too so it's something else.
Anyway my new Radeon GPU is here. Going to wipe all nvidia driver settings, anything related to the GTX 560 before putting the new GPU in so hopefully that fixes that.
My card:
Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 570 4GB GDDR5 PCI
Finally got my new GPU and everything is running smoothly now. I guess my cousin just ran his card down all these years I bet and it was starting to buck if that's even possible. Still I don't want to worry about my AMD global settings now but I think from a few accounts I should avoid SSAO.
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