No, I haven't had any problems with Nvidia drivers since I got this R9 almost 1 year ago. I let it update through Geforce Experience and I'm running 461.40 now with no problems.
Aurora R9 with i9-9900KS, 64 GB Crucial Ballistix @ 3200 MHz, 2 X RTX 2080 Supers in SLI, Kioxia 2.0 TB NVMe SSD.
Seems like a driver/installation problem since the older driver works OK.
Is DirectX Diagnostic (Dxdiag) showing any problems after these 10 minute black screens?
I've had issues with about half of the nvidia drivers released since I got my R11 a few months ago. Doesn't matter if I fresh install, etc. Some of them simply are choppy in games, or similar, and I go back to the last ones that worked for me. I remember thinking the problems started when the 3000 series was released, and wondered if whatever they were doing for the 3000 cards was messing up other stuff. (I have a 2080 Super.)
Anyway, the 460.79 are the last ones that have worked okay for me, and I'm just going to stick with them for the time being. I've just had issues when trying all since: 460.89, 461.09, and 461.40.
Yep newest drivers forced me to take out one of my 2080 TI's. I can not get both to work again with any drivers. I decide to to keep it out for another build.
I even lost my windows on one attempt to get both cards working again. Ended up with 457.51 and only one GPU in I was tired of playing with it at that point.
1. I've had issues with about half of the nvidia drivers released since I got my R11 a few months ago.
2. I remember thinking the problems started when the 3000 series was released, and wondered if whatever they were doing for the 3000 cards was messing up other stuff. (I have a 2080 Super.)
3. Anyway, the 460.79 are the last ones that have worked okay for me, and I'm just going to stick with them for the time being. I've just had issues when trying all since: 460.89, 461.09, and 461.40.
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1. Lame of Nvidia, but not all that surprising.
2. Probably. When it happens, that's usually why.
3. It's like the old days. New drivers were not 100% reliable on older gen cards, so it negated any new features. Like then, I find a working/stable driver for my 2-3 year old card and I stick with it (until forced to find another).
Sometimes, (once you get to this point) ... the WHQL driver that Windows tosses you is the best one.
The other thing is that Nvidia is also pushing out game ready drivers automatically via Windows update. My PC also black-screened and froze after a Nvidia driver auto-update last week installed via windows update.
My rig has Dual RTX 2070 Super: If I disable SLI, can I manually download/install latest driver on one card at a time and then enable SLI or do I have to leave SLI disabled? Please reply w/ step-by-step instructions. Thank you.
@nazkel My rig has Dual RTX 2070 Super: If I disable SLI, can I manually download/install latest driver on one card at a time and then enable SLI or do I have to leave SLI disabled? Please reply w/ step-by-step instructions. Thank you.
Directx june 2010 is no longer available for download.
Not even the RTX 3090 will support SLI. Nvidia announced it “will no longer be adding new SLI driver profiles on RTX 20 Series and earlier GPUs starting on January 1st, 2021,” and RTX 30-series GPUs will not receive SLI profiles at all. Games that use DirectX 12 or Vulkan multi-GPU implementations will continue to work, but those are very few and far between. “Existing SLI driver profiles will continue to be tested and maintained for SLI-ready RTX 20 Series and earlier GPUs,” the company says, and SLI will continue to work for creative and professional apps.
Rival AMD phased out Crossfire and multi gpu as well. Support has become non existant in recent years, as graphics cards are powerful enough to drive 1440p and 4K displays with a single card.
Tesla1856
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February 11th, 2021 22:00
I've seen some really bad Nvidia drivers (back in GTX-1070/1080 days), but 3 in-a-row is unusual.
At the break-neck pace they are releasing drivers, the stable one you found is not old so you can just run that one for a while.
Good troubleshooting.
If you must upgrade your Nvidia driver now, try this one:
NVIDIA STUDIO DRIVER
Driver Version: 461.40 - Release Date: Tue Jan 26, 2021
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No, I haven't had any problems with Nvidia drivers since I got this R9 almost 1 year ago. I let it update through Geforce Experience and I'm running 461.40 now with no problems.
Aurora R9 with i9-9900KS, 64 GB Crucial Ballistix @ 3200 MHz, 2 X RTX 2080 Supers in SLI, Kioxia 2.0 TB NVMe SSD.
Seems like a driver/installation problem since the older driver works OK.
Is DirectX Diagnostic (Dxdiag) showing any problems after these 10 minute black screens?
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February 13th, 2021 16:00
I've had issues with about half of the nvidia drivers released since I got my R11 a few months ago. Doesn't matter if I fresh install, etc. Some of them simply are choppy in games, or similar, and I go back to the last ones that worked for me. I remember thinking the problems started when the 3000 series was released, and wondered if whatever they were doing for the 3000 cards was messing up other stuff. (I have a 2080 Super.)
Anyway, the 460.79 are the last ones that have worked okay for me, and I'm just going to stick with them for the time being. I've just had issues when trying all since: 460.89, 461.09, and 461.40.
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February 13th, 2021 19:00
Yep newest drivers forced me to take out one of my 2080 TI's. I can not get both to work again with any drivers. I decide to to keep it out for another build.
I even lost my windows on one attempt to get both cards working again. Ended up with 457.51 and only one GPU in I was tired of playing with it at that point.
Tesla1856
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February 13th, 2021 19:00
1. I've had issues with about half of the nvidia drivers released since I got my R11 a few months ago.
2. I remember thinking the problems started when the 3000 series was released, and wondered if whatever they were doing for the 3000 cards was messing up other stuff. (I have a 2080 Super.)
3. Anyway, the 460.79 are the last ones that have worked okay for me, and I'm just going to stick with them for the time being. I've just had issues when trying all since: 460.89, 461.09, and 461.40.
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1. Lame of Nvidia, but not all that surprising.
2. Probably. When it happens, that's usually why.
3. It's like the old days. New drivers were not 100% reliable on older gen cards, so it negated any new features. Like then, I find a working/stable driver for my 2-3 year old card and I stick with it (until forced to find another).
Sometimes, (once you get to this point) ... the WHQL driver that Windows tosses you is the best one.
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February 13th, 2021 19:00
The other thing is that Nvidia is also pushing out game ready drivers automatically via Windows update. My PC also black-screened and froze after a Nvidia driver auto-update last week installed via windows update.
nazkel
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February 14th, 2021 14:00
I'm having the exact same issue on my R11 with dual 2080Tis. I'm stuck on 451.67 version.
nazkel
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February 14th, 2021 17:00
One additional piece of info - the problem appears only when SLI is enabled. If you disable SLI then the newest available drivers work fine.
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February 15th, 2021 00:00
My rig has Dual RTX 2070 Super: If I disable SLI, can I manually download/install latest driver on one card at a time and then enable SLI or do I have to leave SLI disabled? Please reply w/ step-by-step instructions. Thank you.
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@nazkel My rig has Dual RTX 2070 Super: If I disable SLI, can I manually download/install latest driver on one card at a time and then enable SLI or do I have to leave SLI disabled? Please reply w/ step-by-step instructions. Thank you.
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February 15th, 2021 17:00
NVIDIA is abandoning SLI and pushing the fixes onto game developers.
NVIDIA is in it for the money and does not care about games.
Coin miners and Compute is what is driving sales for multi gpus.
OPEN GL and Directx 9 10 11 needed by games is also going away.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/apps/hh452744(v=win.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN
Directx june 2010 is no longer available for download.
Not even the RTX 3090 will support SLI. Nvidia announced it “will no longer be adding new SLI driver profiles on RTX 20 Series and earlier GPUs starting on January 1st, 2021,” and RTX 30-series GPUs will not receive SLI profiles at all. Games that use DirectX 12 or Vulkan multi-GPU implementations will continue to work, but those are very few and far between. “Existing SLI driver profiles will continue to be tested and maintained for SLI-ready RTX 20 Series and earlier GPUs,” the company says, and SLI will continue to work for creative and professional apps.
Rival AMD phased out Crossfire and multi gpu as well. Support has become non existant in recent years, as graphics cards are powerful enough to drive 1440p and 4K displays with a single card.
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February 15th, 2021 19:00
RIP SLI and Crossfire etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyS38nrcXPk