Display Drivers in Win10

Butch Moore wrote on 3/28/2016, 9:24 AM
After Microsoft decided that I really did need Windows 10 last Thursday evening and pretty much blew my weekend, I've finally got the old I7-3770 up and running again.

I run an old NVIDIA GTX 650 video card. Not great or really even close, but does/did the job and it's paid for. I operate two monitors and a single HDMI output as a preview device in VP13. GPU Acceleration is off.

From a fresh Win10 install, I loaded the latest drivers (364.51). Playback is now very sketchy. Even in preview mode, video does not playback as smoothly as before. Unfortunately, I lost the version number of my previous drivers.

1. Is there a recommended Win 10 driver version for the GTX 650? 2. Or, is this a Win10 problem? 3. Or, am I SOL?

Thanks!

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 3/28/2016, 9:56 AM
Sorry, can't help with Windows 10. I won't be doing Windows 10 until later this year on a new system. Have you gone to the nvidia site for drivers?
Butch Moore wrote on 3/28/2016, 10:39 AM
John, the version 364.51 is the latest/recommended for the card...but my video is simply not as snappy as it was.
john_dennis wrote on 3/28/2016, 11:06 AM
My best advice is not to let big multi-national companies run you life. I upgraded my laptop to Windows 10, didn't think it was worth the hassle and restored my last system image of Windows 7. Windows 10 on my other machines is out of the question.
Maybe others have recommendations based on experience.
ushere wrote on 3/28/2016, 5:33 PM
i had a 650 when i updated to 10*. saw no difference in performance. try a clean install of drivers rather than update?

*changed to 960 recently
flyingski wrote on 3/28/2016, 5:50 PM
+1 on the clean install of Windows 10. I just built a new system with mostly state of the art parts but put in an old GTX 560Ti because the power supply I had on hand wouldn't support much more. I'll replace the power supply and video card later. Anyway, I used the latest drivers and Vegas 13 runs like a champ. OS upgrades rarely work as well as a clean install.
PeterDuke wrote on 3/28/2016, 6:16 PM
Do you have a backup image of your old system? If so, make a backup image of your current system, restore your old system and check the driver version.

I have upgraded my Win 7 to 10 and notice that it is very sluggish at times for even the simplest housekeeping tasks. One of these days when I have a spare day or two or ... I will try a clean install.
PeterDuke wrote on 3/28/2016, 7:07 PM
If you haven't done so already, I suggest you download a copy of Windows 10 build 10586 (AKA 1511) which accepts your old Windows key for a fresh install (should not be needed in your case, since the computer has already been validated. You should therefore be able to skip the key request.)

When asked for version at download, I suggest that you select "both" to get both 32 bit and 64 bit versions, and select to put then onto a bootable thumb drive. You will need an 8 GB drive to receive both versions. The Home or Pro version will be installed according to your old windows version.

See
https://techjourney.net/how-to-download-official-windows-10-build-10586-v-1511-mct-iso-adk-sdk-wdk-hlk-mobile-emulator/
to get the download link for build 10586 MediaCreationTool.

Here is another download link
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench

Select
Edition: Windows 10
Language: English (en-us, for USA and Australia) or English International (en-gb for UK)
32 bit or 64 bit (no both)

There is only DVD ISO file option.