OT Did MS tell NVidia about W10?

PeterWright wrote on 9/10/2015, 5:46 AM

I'm not exactly an early adopter, but I decided to try Windows 10 on my editing computer.

It downloaded and installed ok .... but where I previously (for 4 or 5 years) had a two monitor setup, W10 only found one.

I couldn't find Control Panel in W10, but under Settings there was Display, and clicking "detect" brought this: "Didn't detect another display"

Strange - so, to find latest drivers I went to NVidia's site and could find no mention of Windows 10 at all!

I don't quite believe this, but can anyone confirm that I have not entered an imaginary universe?

Rather that back to the future, it seems I have gone forward to the past.

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Carlos Werner wrote on 9/10/2015, 6:38 AM

I had exactly the same problem. Just reinstall NVidia driver after W10 upgrade.
EDIT:
In my case, W10 "forgot" to install the NVidia driver, and used a generic, instead.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/10/2015, 6:40 AM

By default, Windows 10 downloaded (during install I think) the latest drivers for my AMD card & installed them. I would figure it would be the same for Nvidia. You should also right click on the old "desktop" and go to your GPU driver specific display control panel or the Windows one.

I checked the Nvidia site, went to drivers, selected the card in your profile, Windows 10-64bit and clicked "search" and drivers showed up. So I'm not sure what you're not seeing.

PeterWright wrote on 9/10/2015, 7:10 AM

Thanks Carlos and THF,

My previous NVidia Control Panel did not come through along with the W10 upgrade, so I'm currently re-downloading it. Not sure what's going on, but searching for Nvidia in the new Edge browser, brought up a weird sequence of screens, including reported threats to my PC's file security, my credit card, and finally a full frontal of a lady pleasuring herself. Anyway, despite continuous warnings of security threats, I have now installed a new NVIDIA driver and again got two screens working. With W7 I also had a third 4K screen working as external display, but hopefully that will be back soon.

Wish I could stop these spontaneous Browser pop ups. They did happen a bit with W8 but I thought a brand new W10 upgrade would consign them to history.

edit: More questions about W10. Previously I could always right click an image file, such as .jpg, and select preview to see a full size pic. W10 doesn't seem to have this - or has it got another way of viewing?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/10/2015, 8:22 AM

The Win 10 upgrade takes everything you had & just upgrades it. So if something was wrong before it will still be wrong now. I did a "fresh" windows 10 install by installed 8.1 & then using the DVD I made of Win 10 to upgrade right away.

Check your browser plugins/extensions & proxys. Something similar happened to my system a bit ago, no clue from where, but it installed a browser extension for all my browsers & changed my settings. I could never get adblock to work correctly again & IE was the hardest to remove it from because it runs all the time.

PeterWright wrote on 9/10/2015, 8:26 AM

Thanks Happy Friar - something is obviously still amiss and I'll have to seek it out ....

Carlos Werner wrote on 9/10/2015, 8:59 AM

Peter, you should install and run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
It will detect and get rid of most of the pop-ups you described (even the free version).

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/10/2015, 10:33 AM

I could never get rid of them in Chrome. Something was hijacking random links in Chrome & Addblocker in FF wouldn't accept my exception's. A reformat was the only thing that fixed it (tried uninstall, adaware, etc).

astar wrote on 9/10/2015, 12:36 PM

WinKey+I > Updates - make sure to run all the updates here after upgrading, a couple reboots may be needed to get them all. Default windows driver will only support one screen. Win10 should detect your video card chipset and install a compatible driver that should offer multi display abilities. Installing the Nvidia driver is where you want to be anyways.

Next check with:

Motherboard manufacturer for most recent BIOS.

Nvidia for a win10 updated driver.

Intel for an updated chipset .INF update.

Sound card manufacturer for an updated driver.

Check device manager for any yellow icon devices and determine what device drivers need to be found yet. Win10 does a very good job at finding about 90% of common devices. However specialty hardware like buttons on keyboards, laptop media buttons, or internal card readers may require getting a manufacturer driver.

You may want to consider upgrading to an AMD r9-270x, 7970-ghz, or and R9-290x/390x for timeline improvement in Vegas.