For awhile now I have been plagued wih a certain issue with trying to update my Nvidia card with the latest driver. Every time I try to do so the driver DL's fine, then the option to restart PC pops up for the changes to take effect. Once the PC fires up again my desktop goes to hell in the Pixel, Resolution, and Color Quality aspects. The resolution is so far out of decent viewable aspect I can barely navigate around the window to see what changes I am making.
For the time being I have been stuck with using the default driver update that came with the GeForce 9800GT card I bought for STO. It's the only way I can manage to have a decent view for the PC to run in. I've tried going into Display---> then copying all the settings I currently run with that are suitable to use for STO, but even trying to make the changes in the Display section after the latest Driver DL doesn't make a difference. Even setting the known parameters to the actual settings that I like will not fix the over simplifies resolution, pixelation and poor color palette quality.
This is getting to be a serious pain in the TRIBBLE when playing Cryptic games. I'm constantly harrassed by the pre-game launcher scolding me for having such TRIBBLE-tastic video settings that the game needs to run in default mode, which forces me to change the vid quality in options EVERY time I play CO or STO. If anyone here knows of a possible solution to this ridiculous problem I'm having I'de appreciate it.
......Definatley thinking of Radeon after this......
Did you download the correct drivers for your OS (making sure its either 32 or 64 bit) and type of card (although it sounds like you have desktop version not 9800M GT).
When upgrading, go to Programs and Features in control panel and uninstall the last set of drivers, shouldn't have to touch anything with PhysX or CUDA in it, just display drivers (I'm not sure what these are called as I've been using ATI for a while, google if it isnt obvious).
Run Driver Sweeper, select Nvidia Display Drivers only, scan and delete, then restart when it tells you to.
Optional: run CCleaner (Reg scan, make a backup the first time you scan/clean the registry), will need to run the scan a few times as other entries and detected after cleaning some of the old ones. Restart again.
Install new drivers. Restart.
This should solve any confliction with previous drivers, if that was the case.
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Download Driver Sweeper, and maybe CCleaner and install them.
When upgrading, go to Programs and Features in control panel and uninstall the last set of drivers, shouldn't have to touch anything with PhysX or CUDA in it, just display drivers (I'm not sure what these are called as I've been using ATI for a while, google if it isnt obvious).
Run Driver Sweeper, select Nvidia Display Drivers only, scan and delete, then restart when it tells you to.
Optional: run CCleaner (Reg scan, make a backup the first time you scan/clean the registry), will need to run the scan a few times as other entries and detected after cleaning some of the old ones. Restart again.
Install new drivers. Restart.
This should solve any confliction with previous drivers, if that was the case.