constant bad wu-s on my new laptop

[doghead9]

Days ago I updated my Nvidia driver and it's working properly. then there's some other update ( I think it came from the Windows side ) and now it's not working properly again.
so sad

[Neil-B]

run another update/install of the nvidia drivers ... Windows (and sometimes Linux) updates or even system vendor updates (especially on laptops) can bork the nvidia drivers - I keep the latest nvidia driver install package on my kit specifically for this situation ... I always check after WindowsUpdate.

[bruce]

I always check after WindowsUpdate.

So do I. When Windows decides to update the drivers on nV GPUs, they REMOVE OpenCL. I think they see a dependency between the video drivers and the OpenCL code even though OpenCL may not formally change. Rather than leaving OpenCL alone, they seem to fail to understand that it's okay to use products that are no longer supported by Microsoft.

My plan is to install updated nV drivers when they do something other than just fixing specific games. Then MS sees that their processing of an updated driver package is unnecessary since I'm already at or beyond the version MS expects.