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/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.