Latest NVidia update means OR doesn't work anymore

ravells · Nov 21, 2016

I have ED working perfectly and then downloaded (yesterday) the latest Nvidia driver update (I have 2xGTX 780). Now when I boot up the Oculus 1.3 (I have the SDK2) get the welcome screen, and then launch ED Horzions 64bit from my pc, ED runs on my PC main monitor (I have 3 monitors and the OR plugged in), in my OR I get a message saying: "Sorry Elite Dangerous is taking a while to load, if this issue persists please take off your headset and check this app on your computer."

Is anyone else getting this? I expect the new NVidia driver I downloaded has buggered everything up, but I'm not sure how to roll back to the previous one?

Much gratefulness and love for an answer to this problem!

best

ravells

[HJ]-RedRaven · Nov 21, 2016

You can get previous drivers off the nVidia website:

Go to nVidia.com, at top left hit "Drivers" and "All nVidia Drivers"
About 1/2 way down you'll see a link to Older/Beta Drivers - then pick your OS and card family, and it will show you the list of drivers.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Save one you know works - perhaps 375.70 or 375.63

Don't use the driver rollback feature in Windows, or use Device manager to uninstall the driver files. It never gets rid of everything.

Go to guru3D and get their driver cleaner tool. It will want to reboot into safe mode so it can clean all the driver files off your PC.

Let the driver cleaner do its thing - you'll be left with a Windows default graphics driver running your desktop (it may bork all your icon placement).
Then run the driver setup you downloaded earlier.

Good luck, loved my 780GTX, sweet card for 3 years+.

Moonax IRL · Nov 21, 2016

I had to install the previous driver on my 1070 as it shags the memory speed, I was getting less than 15 fps (no VR), so I would reinstall what worked previously.

Use display driver uninstaller for a clean install of the replacement driver. http://www.wagnardmobile.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=673&sid=cc6a4b0c9c8f128163a74aa1ec51c0de

dogbite · Nov 21, 2016

I ran ED yesterday with 375.95 yesterday. I saw no change from previous driver.

Moonax IRL · Nov 21, 2016

dogbite said:
I ran ED yesterday with 375.95 yesterday. I saw no change from previous driver.

Unless they sorted it but I tried it a few days ago and it was crap. It was all over the net when I checked that the driver was broken and in the process of being fixed by Nvidia.

ravells · Nov 21, 2016

Thanks so much everyone. I'll re-install the previous driver and see if that fixes it.

:: It works again! Yay! Thanks everyone! ::

dape · Nov 21, 2016

"Sorry Elite Dangerous is taking a while to load, if this issue persists please take off your headset and check this app on your computer."

before you install previous drivers, check in Oculus Home that third party apps are allowed to run... It is in the settings tab I believe (not at home atm).
I get that message if it is not set correctly.

THE BLOB · Nov 21, 2016

I get he same message since I downloaded ED from with the oculus key so I could try v which I must say is great once I figure out how to get sky go working

but that's another matter. But usually after about 20 seconds it loads in but does take longer than using the ED launcher with the latest drivers

CylonSurfer · Nov 21, 2016

THE BLOB said:
I must say is great once I figure out how to get sky go working but that's another matter.

Do tell more.....

rennarda · Nov 21, 2016

I have seen this issue previously (recently) but the fix for me was to just re-launch ED. I don't know what caused it, but suspect some other task was slowing the disk or system down and that meant ED couldn't launch quickly enough.

THE BLOB · Nov 21, 2016

CylonSurfer said:
Do tell more.....

I would give you the link but don't know how lol but there is a discussion going on on the vr forum if you like YouTube you will love it smack bang in the middle off my Annie where my feet are and the pic looks bigger than I expected long haul trips not an issue

Well worth a look

Rob

CylonSurfer · Nov 21, 2016

THE BLOB said:
I would give you the link but don't know how lol but there is a discussion going on on the vr forum if you like YouTube you will love it smack bang in the middle off my Annie where my feet are and the pic looks bigger than I expected long haul trips not an issue

Well worth a look

Rob

Ah, sorry my mistake - I thought you had it working. I just use Plex for now and look forward to Netflix / Prime support.

THE BLOB · Nov 21, 2016

CylonSurfer said:
Ah, sorry my mistake - I thought you had it working. I just use Plex for now and look forward to Netflix / Prime support.

I got sky go working apart from the problem with my browser not been able to play the program. Logged in skip through the channels no problem until I push the watch button but been informed there working on that particular problem as we speak

Looks very promising indeed and found it quite easy to use

Rob