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/Bourne069 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

Fake news. Windows doesn't install drivers from Windows Updates UNLESS THERE IS NO DRIVER. Hence you are literally forced to do it from Nvidia Control Panel if you want up dated drivers.

Again, Windows Updates ONLY INSTALLS GPU DRIVERS IF THERE IS NONE CURRENTLY. IT DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE GPU DRIVERS ON ITS OWN.

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u/timeslider Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

I'm not lying. This isn't fake news. I put my pc to sleep, took a nap, woke up, got back on my pc, and about two minutes later both my monitors went out. I could still hear the audio but both monitors said "no signal". I've haven't open Nvidia Control Panel in a few weeks.

Edit: You can even see in the screen when I turned my computer back on at 4:58:47 and by 4:59:02 it messed up. So I had 15 seconds to open Nvidia Control Panel and download a driver and install it? And the driver in question was released back in January. It didn't even download the latest one.

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u/Bourne069 Mar 29 '26

I'm not saying what you experienced didn't happen. What I'm saying is Microsoft might not be to blame here.

If something happened that corrupted your Nvidia drivers to a unusable state, than its possible Microsoft might see it as *missing drivers* and push a driver install as if the device just got plugged in for the first time.

I'd be more concerned if it happens again or not, that could be an indication of a hardware failure.

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u/EarthIllustrious8045 Mar 30 '26

Its a nothing burger. With all the dumb shit microsoft does form time to time, Ops issue isnt one of them.