Games keep crashing nvidia 9600gt

[eamonn79]

Games keep crashing with my nvidia 9600gt and windows 7. The game boots up fine and plays for about 10 mins then crashes!!! Anyone having the same problem?

 

[Sassa]

Did you installed latest nVidia drivers???

 

[eamonn79]

yip

 

[Sassa]

I had same problem when I installed drivers via Windows update.
So if you installed them too, you should uninstall all drivers and install only latest nVidia drivers without those from Windows update.

 

[TGSoldier]

Don't forget to uninstall in safe mode using driver sweeper

 

[Sassa]

Drivers can be also uninstalled through device manager...
Worked for me.

 

[TGSoldier]

Drivers can be also uninstalled through device manager...
Worked for me.

Sorry, my post must have came across the wrong way. Uninstall like normal and then run Driver Sweeper in safe mode to get rid of those leftover files that could cause problems.

 

[Sassa]

Sorry, my post must have came across the wrong way. Uninstall like normal and then run Driver Sweeper in safe mode to get rid of those leftover files that could cause problems.

Exactly.

 

[Mark]

Sorry, my post must have came across the wrong way. Uninstall like normal and then run Driver Sweeper in safe mode to get rid of those leftover files that could cause problems.

I don't know why you guys think that it's necessary to use 3rd party programs to remove the drivers, I have never had to uninstall a driver or run Driver Sweeper to upgrade to a new driver, maybe for ATI drivers that's necessary (as they are all buggy as hell) but I don't think it applies to Nvidia drivers, they have always been trouble free for me and I always have the latest drivers so it's usually once a month they get updates.

 

[TGSoldier]

Well driver leftovers can cause stability and startup issues.

From the first time Driver Sweeper helped me with a problem, I never went back.

It's like a clean install vs an upgrade. But to each his own right?

 

[Sassa]

I do my uninstall through device manager and never had problems..

 

[TGSoldier]

But to each his own right?

Right? Not everyone has the same problems.

 

[Mark]

I guess so, but I'm pretty sure that the old drivers get removed anyway when installing new drivers,so in that respect it is always a clean install and if nvidia thought it was a problem then surely they would implement a driver sweeper in the install process, anyway as you say, "each to his own".

 

[Sassa]

Right? Not everyone has the same problems.

Absolutely.

 

[eamonn79]

Hello everyone did all of the above and games still crashing any ideas??? cheers!!!

 

[bytemuncher]

@eamonn79,

I am having the same issue with a 9600gt and Win7 RTM 64bit. All games crash after about 10 minutes or so. Using the latest Nvidia drivers. Going to try the uninstall utility in safe mode just to see but don't have much hope for that as you already mentioned you tried it.

I have a feeling this is Nvidia's way of nudging us "hey, time to buy a new video card". Maybe a new driver release will resolve the issue and I'm also going to keep trying to fix it on my own... but in the meantime I'm also looking very closely at the new ATI 5870 & 5850 cards.

Anyway, if I find something I'll be sure to let you know.