Black Preview Screen FIX - NVIDIA/GeForce Cards

brian-v5019 wrote on 3/2/2017, 1:26 PM

I struggled with this for a long time, when it was actually very simple, so I created this tutorial to help other newbies like me:

Black Preview Screen FIX - NVIDIA/GeForce Cards:

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Jam_One wrote on 3/4/2017, 9:10 AM

nVidia CUDA Toolkit 8 installs the driver version 376.51
(which is not included on the "Game-ready list").

That's about it, no Voodoo magic.

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Never install "GeForce Experience" - you don't need it.

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If you have multiple nVidia cards, make sure they all are physically connected with their "SLI cables" and "SLI" mode is engaged & actually operating.

OldSmoke wrote on 3/4/2017, 9:23 AM

nVidia CUDA Toolkit 8 installs the driver version 376.51
(which is not included on the "Game-ready list").

That's about it, no Voodoo magic.

That may have fooled me. Did you test this by installing back the latest driver after the toolkit?

Jam_One wrote on 3/4/2017, 9:31 AM

No, I did not do further "investigation".
Mostly because I do not have this problem in my working config with SLI=On. And I don't see reasons to update the drivers frequently.
2 x GeForce GTX 760 x 4096MB / Win 7 Ultim x64 here.

My personal primary concern about drivers is that some of them force me to frequently "re-activate" the configuration for my monitoring TV. (All "buttons" and "flags" in the driver are in their proper states, but levels/contrast on TV change --> need to "switch" everything "off and on again".)

These days I'm with v.376.33, mostly out of laziness and due to the fact I still haven't had to "re-activate" the TV-set's settings so far (which is good).

OldSmoke wrote on 3/4/2017, 10:05 AM

No, I did not do further "investigation".
Mostly because I do not have this problem in my working config with SLI=On. And I don't see reasons to update the drivers frequently.
2 x GeForce GTX 760 x 4096MB / Win 7 Ultim x64 here.

My personal primary concern about drivers is that some of them force me to frequently "re-activate" the configuration for my monitoring TV. (All "buttons" and "flags" in the driver are in their proper states, but levels/contrast on TV change --> need to "switch" everything "off and on again".)

These days I'm with v.376.33, mostly out of laziness and due to the fact I still haven't had to "re-activate" the TV-set's settings so far (which is good).

That means we don't know if the installation of the toolkit repairs the preview for newer drivers. I may test it this weekend.