GeForce 461.51 HOTFIX drivers: download & discussion

I'll better wait for the next WHQL one, the past couple drivers since december did all not fix my issues with stuttering/microfreezing several programs while opening or closing them. Also opening NVCP or Windows Display settings caused a small lag/freeze also. The past 3 drivers messed up my monitor too, sometimes upon boot it switches randomly from RGB to YCBRxxx and requires to change it in NVCP back, but it doesn't change until another reboot and changing it again from YCBRxxx to RGB to finally stick. This drives me mad for weeks now. Only happens when games force fullscreen or some random spastics when you run the game in borderless but it still goes from windowed to fullscreen to your settings (Star Wars Battlefront 2 2017) while booting up....had the same issue with BF V, but only on one monitor with my 3 monitor config. Now it happens on all 3 monitors whenever i boot up a game all 3 monitors flicker/turn black and mess with my desktop icons until the game really started and wents to borderless. I think it's the games fault tho.

@ManuelG


Systems specs:

RTX 3090 Asus Strix oc, factory oc with silent profile - latest VBIOS
ASUS VG27AQ as main monitor, Dell S2417DG as left and ASUS VG248QE as right. All on 144hz
MAXIMUS XII Formula with latest bios
10900k stock turbo settings
G.Skill 4000mhz CL15 RAM 32GB
Latest windows update, included optional ones.

 

Thanks guys and girls at Nvidia. Fixed issue with G sync on my LG 48cx. seems good for games at the moment too. Oh yeah..

 

Dissaster driver in The Division 2 on 1080ti.
Perfect with 461.40

 

I uninstalled my previous driver 461.40 to install this one, the installation went through till the end and then failed, and now it looks like I can't install any video driver on my Windows 10.
Any NVIDIA dispaly driver I try to install now fails with the following error in Event Viewer:
Event ID 1002:
The program drvinst.exe version 10.0.19041.662 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
Process ID: 108c
Start Time: 01d6fd62e98a17b3
Termination Time: 27
Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\drvinst.exe
Report Id: 402e147d-3c59-4428-8de7-c43fd5e69d5b
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Hang type: Unknown

Other drivers for other devices that I tried to uninstall and reinstall worked fine, the issue appears only with the NVIDIA display drivers.
My windows 10 is Version 20H2: OS Build 19042.789 . I have an AMD motherboard and a 2080.

What I already tried (out of despair):
- Tried to redownload the drivers
- Tried to reinstall the previous drivers 461.40
- Tried to install the dev drivers 465.21
- Tried to install normal and DCH versions of the drivers
- Used DDU 18.0.3.6 multiple times from normal and safe mode to cleanup
- Checked "SFC /scannow" and "DISM /Online /Check-Health"
- Tried to run the NVIDIA drivers installer as Administrator
- Disabled my Kaspersky antivirus
- Disabled the network
- Ran an antivirus full scan, tried other antivirus scans online and offline
- Uninstalled the AMD chipset drivers
- Checked Windows Update
- Tried to let Windows Update to install his drivers
- Tried to force install the drivers from Device Manager
- Force-removed all NVIDIA drivers from DriverStore
- Reset BIOS settings to defaults
- Performed a disk check


Each time I tried I got the above error in the Event Viewer and the drivers installation failed.

The last time I was able to update the NVIDIA drivers was on the 26th Jan with driver 461.40 that installed without issues.
I understand that this is not specifically related to this drivers version, but the issue started when trying to install these drivers so I am posting it here.

At this time I am using the "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" as display driver.
Please Help if you come up with anything else for me to try.

 

nothing to do with the driver

welcome to div 2's random crashiness.

Uninstall Kaspersky
its not compatible with 19041.782+

DISABLE IS NOT SUFFICIENT.

 

I really wish they would fix detroit become human, I have a 3090 and only getting like 50 percent gpu usage with drops down to 20 fps with stutters and choppy performance. Its literally the only game on my system with this problem.

 

Substantial framerate loss across games I play with this driver. (BFV, Warzone, Black Ops Cold War, Fortnite)
EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING (10G-P5-3897-KR)
Windows 10 Pro (19042.789)
LG 34UC89G-B 34" 21:9 Curved 144 Hz G-Sync IPS Monitor

Also, the windows built-in "xbox gamebar video capture" feature doesn't work with this driver.. it will capture audio and just a video still image...
Roll back to 460.97, and the gamebar video capture feature works properly.

 

nvidia isn't the problem, game is badly made.

 

I completely uninstalled Kaspersky and restarted but still no joy. Drivers install still fail with the same Event.
At this point I am open to any suggestion

 

Get me screenshots of one of the crashing applications loaded module list (resource monitor)

 

Event ID 1002:
The program drvinst.exe version 10.0.19041.662 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
Process ID: 2398
Start Time: 01d6fd781320f9ab
Termination Time: 13
Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\drvinst.exe
Report Id: d68bc562-df59-4547-a160-b2185c7a8dce
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Hang type: Unknown

In Security and Maintenance archived message, I find:
Source
Driver Installation Module

Summary
Stopped responding and was closed

Date
‎07/‎02/‎2021 17:42

Status
Report sent

Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Faulting Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\drvinst.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: drvinst.exe
Application Version: 10.0.19041.662
Application Timestamp: fd859e12
Hang Signature: e572
Hang Type: 0
OS Version: 10.0.19042.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: e57207bee65b585d6d8946dc747af946
Additional Hang Signature 2: d80f
Additional Hang Signature 3: d80faddb69b21d5a5ad70feeda44f5cc
Additional Hang Signature 4: e572
Additional Hang Signature 5: e57207bee65b585d6d8946dc747af946
Additional Hang Signature 6: d80f
Additional Hang Signature 7: d80faddb69b21d5a5ad70feeda44f5cc

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 7f0cb5e4c7c9b0c4501c685e5089e769 (1160917558242174825)

 

if you havent delete windows update cache yet you could roll back to previous windows 19041.746 stable build and try one more time..

 

Do a dism repair in elevated command prompt and then sfc /scannow

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

failing that, grab the 19042 iso or install assistant and do a in place upgrade (repair) to correct anything messed up by microsofts update, the update files themselves are fine, but the procedures can break the os if/when there is jank involved.

 

I was able to successfully install the drivers 461.51 from Safe Mode, and when rebooted to normal Windows the drivers were still installed, so this solves my issue.

 

Yeah, you post that for 999 times and people still will ask for driver fix, it's not even funny at this point.
Game is garbage in terms of quality on PC.
There are still random CPU spikes, and audio crackling problems.

 

I too had to install this driver in safe mode, when I tried "normal" mode my computer would Blue screen:
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x3F5A80)
Bugcheck code: 0x4A (0x77591CFC, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFF903F06D3B80)
Error: IRQL_GT_ZERO_AT_SYSTEM_SERVICE
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

 

@Astyanax @ManuelG

There is a bug in the setup/ driver update, at least in my system.

For at least the latest 10 drivers, not sure, the file nvcpl.dll in C:\Windows\System32 is not updated, I have to copy it manually over the old version, and the file is not used by any other process, so it should be copied by the setup.

 

must have been a file in use situation on your system,

the PendingFileRenameOperations should have been employed to correct this.



no issues installing this file though.

 

Anyone with BLACK SCREEN with HITMAN 3 ....when pressing PLAY button from Launcher?

 

https://imgur.com/a/4dPztF1 it is in the system32 fodler

And no the file is not being used, I copy it immediately after the setup every time with no issues