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just another windows rant ...

Post by Halvhjearne » Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:28 pm

well heres another windows fail story ..

my gaming computer had been running fairly well lately, and i did kinda suspect something was coming up, since my experience tells me, that whenever windows is running at its best, it almost always bows under when least expected ... and so it did ;)

today i noticed my friends pc telling about a new nvidia update, and since it was stated on nvidias homepage, that they recommended this driver update for users playing newest games like bf3 (which i play a lot), i thought ... why not upgrade and maby get an increase in fps? :D

and hers why i should have never done that and just left it as is ... course once i had ran the update the first time (and it actually said successful finish), i thought id take a game of bf3, but now got a message saying that some nvidia files were corrupt and my gtx 580 acually didnt comply with ether dx 9, 10 or 11??? :?

now i began getting a bit angry, becourse how could this happen, it said successful finish wtf??
well ill just reinstall the older nvidia driver again and be done with it, since there is an option to do a "clean" install,where its supposedly should remove all older and/or conflicting software ... but no no no, thats not how win 7 and nvidia driver software works, course now whenever i try to run the updater, it just immediately say "NVIDIA DRIVER INSTALLATION FAILED" and i couldn't even uninstall the software in any way.


sollution ... dont use windows ... however since theres still no way of playing bf3 on linux and propperply never will be, i kinda have to wast idk how many hours installing windows (again) ... god i hate windows and especially all the windows updates ... reminds me of the greek mythic creature called a hydra ... sigh :cry:
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Re: just another windows rant ...

Post by Davee » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:04 am

Contact customer support...
Or get a mac.
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Re: just another windows rant ...

Post by nisarg_kolhe » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:37 am

You can just restore your PC before the installation of the drivers was done, try it maybe it will work! ;)
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Re: just another windows rant ...

Post by JJS » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:30 am

Halvhjearne wrote:sollution ... dont use windows
No. Solution: Never change a running system. If it runs fine, don't update the driver.

Also:
- nVidia drivers can be uninstalled through the control panel -> software function, try that
- if it fails, uninstall the driver through the device manager
- if it fails, uninstall the driver in safe mode

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Re: just another windows rant ...

Post by m0skit0 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:09 am

Davee wrote:Or get a mac.
ROFL.
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Re: just another windows rant ...

Post by Halvhjearne » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:31 am

Davee wrote:Contact customer support...
nisarg_kolhe wrote:You can just restore your PC before the installation of the drivers was done, try it maybe it will work! ;)
nevermind me .. i wasnt actually hoping for any sollution here ... i was just ranting course i needed to blow off some steam, but thanks anyway
JJS wrote:Never change a running system. If it runs fine, don't update the driver.
i know, i know .. my own fault and my punishment for trying to increase usability of windows ... bad move on my part :lol:
JJS wrote:- nVidia drivers can be uninstalled through the control panel -> software function, try that
didnt work ...
JJS wrote:- if it fails, uninstall the driver through the device manager
didnt work ...
JJS wrote:- if it fails, uninstall the driver in safe mode
didnt bother ...

already installed a new system now ... this time i might consider ghosting the hdd (before i mess it up, lol)
Davee wrote:Or get a mac.
yea .. unfortunately, they are extremely expensive in denmark, and besides afaik they dont work well with windows games :lol:
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Re: just another windows rant ...

Post by m0skit0 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:01 am

Halvhjearne wrote:yea .. unfortunately, they are extremely expensive in denmark
They're expesnive everywhere... It's a PC running MacOS X which costs you extra 1000$ because it has a bitten apple...
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