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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Notebooks and netbooks => Topic started by: Drazek Ironwing on March 14, 2015, 11:30:05 am
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This is going to drive me nuts soon.
I have all the latest drivers installed on my laptop from the gigabyte website and the latest nvidia driver from nvidia.
I have 2 problems:
Firstly - Every time I load a program that initializes the nvidia gpu, my laptop instantly gives me the "nvidia driver has stopped responding and has recovered" message. - it takes me 3 or 4 tries to get the program to finally load without the drivers crashing.
Secondly - I've only noticed this in SMITE so far but it's really annoying, my game will 'stutter' for half a second whilst playing.. usually right in the middle of the action or when I pull off a skill, the game will stutter and it'll throw off my aim and is really frustrating :/
I don't know if these 2 problems are separate problems or are related, however I would REALLY like to get the driver crashing issue resolved!!
Any suggestions?
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Okay I've made some progress!
I found the culprit of all my GTX 980m Stuttering issues, it's the Gigabyte Smart Manager software!
if I uninstall this software, the laptop runs smooth like butter, no stuttering in SMITE at all, perfect gaming.
BUT - without this software I have no sound!? no sound at all, the sound drivers are installed, the realtek drivers are installed, but still, no sound.
This makes no sense to me, but at least I now know it's something to do with the Smart Manager that's causing these issues, so I've narrowed down where I have to search for a fix.
The task at hand now, is to get the laptop working well, -with- the Smart Manager software installed, (besides sound, it also controls the keyboard backlight, fan profile and some other core laptop functions).
Hopefully Gigabyte support can give me a hand? - we'll see.
Strange how these forums seem to be devoid of all life.. - alas I hope this posts appears in a google search!
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Have you had this issue since purchasing the laptop or did it develop afterwards?
I am considering a purchase myself :)
It's certainly a pity that no one from Gigabyte seems to be paying attention to this!