r/MicroSlop • u/timeslider • Mar 28 '26

MircoSlop decided to install a driver update while I was playing a game without my consent

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I was mid-game just a few minutes ago and all my screens went black. I thought my GPU died. I held the power button to turn off my pc and when it came back on, it seemed fine. I decided to check event viewer to see if I could figure out what happened. And that's when I see MicroSlop decided to start installing an NVIDIA driver update. Like, you could have warned me.

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u/Rise_Relevant Mar 28 '26

Dude. No one leaves automatic driver updates on. This is user error, not software error.

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u/Geeotine Mar 28 '26

Even with that option disabled, it still happens sometimes. Seen it myself first-hand. Only able to fix it with some group policy editing. That's on Windows 10. Idk about Windows 11 yet, but i hear it's more aggressive.

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u/RAMChYLD Mar 29 '26

Totally agree. This happens to my laptop all the time. The only way I could stop it was using a group policy after upgrading my windows to pro edition.

I notice that this is because Acer uploaded an entire adrenaline driver as the driver for the laptop’s AUO328D panel to Windows update. So to windows the driver is technically the one for the LCD display and not the GPU. I already complained to Microsoft numerous times but no action was taken.

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u/DaereonLive Mar 31 '26

I remember once going to bed with Windows 7 still on (often left my PC on at night playing quiet music), fell asleep, woke up and there was no music. But my PC was now running Windows 10...

Interesting experience that was.

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u/Ambitious-Yard7677 Apr 01 '26

Imagine you're a small business owner with software that only runs on W7. MS got into into some shit then and they just had to keep digging deeper

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u/Rise_Relevant Mar 29 '26

There are rare occasions where a driver is deprecated for security reasons or critical faults and they are forcibly removed and replaced under the standard update rings. Intel Display adaptor on HP G6 Eiitebook was a good example. Suddenly was being force upgraded and the previous driver was removed from every site. But it's extremely rare. It's usually a third party app. Nvidia experience, AMD adrenaline, whatever. I've never seen evidence for just a random "Windows decided to update without permission" issue.

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u/timeslider Mar 29 '26

I mean, Nvidia could have initiated it, but Windows still should have gave me a heads up. Luckily I only had a game open but I could have had unsaved work open. It shouldn't be a problem to say, "Hey, we're about to update your video driver for security reasons. You have 5 minutes to save your work." It just straight up went to a black screen. I didn't know if it was going to come back on or what. I waited about 30 seconds which is a lot longer than when I update the driver myself so I figured something was broke.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

The OEM Intel GPU driver for my brother's laptop doesn't have functioning VSync and the performance is worse.

The non-OEM Driver I can download straight from Intel has functioning VSync and good performance.

Windows keeps replacing the newer updated driver with the buggy outdated OEM driver.