So after troubleshooting for a couple hours I've come to find out the latest Nvidia driver (378.49) is preventing my Minecraft from launching. That's fine, easy fix, just revert the drivers right? So I did a driver rollback and all was good....... or so I thought, everything else stopped working! My battle.net launcher black screened on game launch, the ArcGIS mapping software I use would no longer open, basically every other program I regularly use was giving me problems.
Is there anyway to work around this so I don't have to swap drivers every time I want to play Minecraft?
Ohh, finally someone who got the same issue as I did, but fortunately for you, and for many that's updating to nvidia driver 378.49, I was doing some research all night long, and finally got a resolve for this issue, but let's take a look at this:
Here you can see that we're not the only one who's having the same issue with this problem, and I tried in first place to make attempts to a clean reinstall of minecraft, java and video driver before I realize that this version of nvidia driver was the real culprit.
So I resumed my investigation and found something really interesting:
This is an 7 days old issue that finally a guy from NVIDIA Customer Care posted an hotfix 7 hours ago to patch the troublesome version of nvidia driver:
Please let me know if this helped you out as in my case.
Cheers !
FIXED.. At least so far. Everything I have been able to test is back to working as normal.. Thanks for the quick response. Idk why this hotfix isn't yet available in the GeForce Experience launcher. Hopefully it will be soon.
So after troubleshooting for a couple hours I've come to find out the latest Nvidia driver (378.49) is preventing my Minecraft from launching. That's fine, easy fix, just revert the drivers right? So I did a driver rollback and all was good....... or so I thought, everything else stopped working! My battle.net launcher black screened on game launch, the ArcGIS mapping software I use would no longer open, basically every other program I regularly use was giving me problems.
Is there anyway to work around this so I don't have to swap drivers every time I want to play Minecraft?
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FIXED.. At least so far. Everything I have been able to test is back to working as normal.. Thanks for the quick response. Idk why this hotfix isn't yet available in the GeForce Experience launcher. Hopefully it will be soon.
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Dude you're a damn gift from God. I was so pissed off that my Minecraft wasn't launching yesterday. I'll try this when I get home!
Oh hey