Journal #6768

Any way you can grab the old drivers?
And check out Omega Drivers
Usually they're better than the real drivers anyway.

Stop spreading lies, Tet. The Omega drivers might have been "better" ten years ago, but they are a joke these days. Only install drivers from the vendor website. The Omega drivers were only ever the exact same drivers with some settings changed, anyway - so there's zero chance of them preventing a BSOD caused by the official drivers.

There is a list of older drivers on nvidia website, but most of them are just older versions of this one, and I don't remember the version I had before. (I hadn't updated for a while.)

Until you buy a new card, just install the original driver that came on the cd of the video card. That's if you still have that cd...

That driver is way too old, If I do that I'll lose about 40% performance and steam will keep bugging me that the driver version is way too old.

Wait. you mean to tell me that a wonderful amazing all-powerful Nvidia card is having...problems?

LOL. Only now I realize what ATDestroy pointed out.

Btw skals, you can get a fairly good video card for about 100-150$.
Don't get a very powerful one though because your CPU will be limiting it(that's what I'm noticing in GTA4 in my case).

I'm not really good with these kind of things... My pc is old itself that's why I'm hesitant on buying a video card. If I want a good video card I'd probably have to buy and upgrade many other aspects of the computer and I'm not handy with PC's so I wont be able to!

What CPU do you have?
Is your video card on PCI Express ?

How do I check this out mate?

Well, the simplest way is by checking the video card's box(if you still have it). But I'm 100% sure it's PCIe because I had the same model (7600GS) and it was PCIe.
For the CPU, just right click on My Computer and go to properties. It should specify the brand, model and speed.

ATDestroy hit it on the head, if you're having problems with a video card THAT old... Might be time to upgrade.

Seriously, a Radeon 4870 is only what, 120$?

Lol penguin. I do not mean to spread lies.
I did not know that they were not as good as vendor drivers. A friend recommended them to me a few years back and i had no problems with them, so i forwarded the information here.
My apologies, i only intended to help.

It seems everyone forgot the all mighty DEVICE MANAGER.

Get into the device manager, double click on your card, click the Driver tab, and click the "Roll back driver" button. This should undo your latest driver update.

I don't know if he can even get into windows, if he had he would have uninstalled it the regular method.

@ Striker, this?:

Intel(R)
Celeron (R) D CPU 3.20GHz
3.19GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM

I think it would be better to get a new system over all rather than buying a new video card now.

That really isn't a bad rig.

Oh, celeron...

As striker said, that will be restricting you, unfortunately, but the ram is good, and the card is still good if you upgrade the cpu. (In the event you only have enough money to upgrade the cpu and not the video card)

lol, you even have almost the same processor as mine(I don't think there are big differences anyway, mine is not "Celeron" but "Intel Pentium D", also 3,2 ghz :D)

For reference, I bought Ati Radeon HD4850. It works very well in most of the games(I can run Crysis on high details for example). Some games will run at a slower FPS(like GTA4), but not because of the video card, because of the processor(physics...).
And as for mapping, don't worry, with the latest drivers everything works fine.
Although mine has 512 mb(and for what games I'm playing it's really enough), I recommend you getting a 1gb one. Most of the new "open world"(huge maps) games will require more than 512 mb to run in high details.
Be careful though, if you're not willing to pay too much money for a 1GB card, rather than purchasing a 1gb one that will have poor processing performance stick to a 512 version. It's better that way ;).

You could rollback your GPU drivers (via System Restore or just by uninstalling the current ones and reinstalling the old ones).

Guys, I decided to wait a while and save up for a new system over all, I want a better and more flexible operation system than celeron. So I won't buy a new video card for now... and I also think I found a solution other than rolling back drivers to this crashing problem. It only happens when I'm browsing the internet with a couple of youtube tabs open (I think it's due to youtube using a lot of cpu, prolly the same for other high cpu websites), so I'll avoid doing that. This way I can keep the upgraded performace with new driver and avoid crashes.