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NVIDIA NVS 3100M crashes DirectX on Win 10

by Apr 9, 2018 8:16AM PDT

Hello everyone this is a bit irking. I did a fresh install of Windows 10. Then installed the games I wished to play (and their redist). I tested these games using the default Microsoft Basic Display Driver. Only one game failed to load. That's fine, go ahead and install the NVIDIA driver as the games barely even function under the MBDD, and one won't load video at all just audio, the other "Failed to create Direct3D device" and I've seen other direct x errors when screwing around in the past to fix it. Which makes me thing it is a driver conflict with DirectX.

Any ideas?

Don't really think computer specs matter here but:

dell latitude
4GB DDR3
2.80ghz i7
NVIDIA NVS 3100M

Thanks in advanced for the help!

Post was last edited on April 9, 2018 8:17 AM PDT

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Same issue on some games, W10 and a Nvidia 360m
by Forum moderator Apr 9, 2018 8:40AM PDT

Sadly the games have started to go past what that GPU had so we had to replace the laptop with a newer GPU.

There was no patch or workaround.

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Them the brakes
by Game_Woes2018 Apr 9, 2018 8:55AM PDT

Thanks for the reply, just seems weird the default MS adapter has support for these games when it is in most cases impossible to actually play most modern games with it.

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Can you clarify something?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 9, 2018 10:25AM PDT

I found the Microsoft choices of drivers to either be OK to completely wrong at times.

That is the stock install of W10 and Microsoft's choice of drivers is OK to get the machine working to the point I can disable Microsoft driver updates and then install what drivers I found to work.

At no time have I found Microsoft's video drivers to be the best. Just enough to get the machine ready for the next steps.

-> There is one huge exception to this finding and it is when the PC is a Microsoft Surface. Then I see Microsoft nail the drivers.

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PS. I want to add this.
by Forum moderator Apr 9, 2018 8:41AM PDT

The issue occurred on Windows 7 so it is not an OS issue. It's the GPU limitations, drivers and games have moved past this old GPU.

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