As far as I can tell, Nvidia sends a PopUp advising of a new update, he gets it and install on top of the old drivers... not 100% sure but, by not uninstalling the old drivers, he may have some remnants of old drivers corrupting the new ones causing havoc in his registry.Also how do you keep your drivers up to date? Manually?
I have seen this happening on some occasions, more so when you don't uninstall PhysX before installing the new one.
Aside from uninstalling and reinstalling the game, I would also make sure to try this from now on...
Uninstall Graphics Drivers
Or follow this one as well... do the same with PhysX drivers
How to: Remove your Nvidia GPU Drivers.
Yeah I tend to use GeForce Experience, it's been very good for me so far but I wasn't sure whether the OP's card was supported.
My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Custom Build
- OS
- W7 Pro x64 SP1 | W10 Pro IP x64 | W8.1 Pro x64 VM | Linux Mint VM
- CPU
- i7-4790k @ 4GHz (4.4GHz Boost)
- Motherboard
- ASUS Sabertooth Z87 (BIOS Rev 2004)
- Memory
- 16GB DDR3 Kingston HyperX Fury @ 1600MHz CL 9-9-9-27
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- EVGA GTX 980 Classified
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- Realtek Onboard
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- Samsung S27D390
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- Hard Drives
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Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD |
2TB WD Caviar Black |
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... did you do any of the other things we advise? did you went ahead and uninstall the AUDIO & VIDEO drivers, clean the registry from remnants and install a new set with elevated admin rights?