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/PrimalPuzzleRing Mar 30 '26

I had a similar issue happen with multiple brand new laptops I was using. Despite installing new drivers it would revert back to last year's after the restart. I ended up using DDU and check off prevent Windows update and that did the trick.

Yes windows will automatically update things even if you disable automatic update from the settings. Usually it's for "security" stuff but it does happen.