New NVIDIA driver stops PSP Pro x3 opening

[Phil47]

Hi there,

A couple of days ago I got a box appear on my computer screen (I don't know how - I think I had been out of the room) which suggested updating my NVIDIA driver(s).
I think it had the NVIDIA website address at the bottom of the box. Anyway, I went to the NVIDIA website and looked for updates for
my GTX 260 video card. It came up with GEFORCE/ION DRIVER RELEASE 256 Version : 258.96 WHQL. Release Date : 210.07.19.
So I downloaded it.
The next thing I know is that about a day later that PSP Pro x3 and Photo Project Creator will not open. Accompanying both is a different box saying that
there are incompatible versions of NVIDIA drivers which have been detected. One of the boxes says to update my driver (or hardware)
to a version that supports DirectX 7.0 or higher.
So I went to the NVIDIA site to find out what rubbish I had downloaded in 258.96 WHQL (above) but they seem to have no way to communicate with them.
How beautifully helpful I thought. How considerate of them.

So, here I am asking for some assistance to sort out this mess please.

Thanks,

Phil.

[Trev Bowden]

System restore ! To before the install of the new drivers Or Device manager, Display adaptor, you GFX card, drivers, roll back
Nvida have a history of producing new drivers that don't work with PSP and taking 3 or 4 attempts to get it right.

[df]

System restore ! To before the install of the new drivers Or Device manager, Display adaptor, you GFX card, drivers, roll back
Nvida have a history of producing new drivers that don't work with PSP and taking 3 or 4 attempts to get it right.

Also if you go into Start > Control Panel > Device Manager you can right click on your video card and roll back the driver to a previous version.

[marty2010]

"Also if you go into Start > Control Panel > Device Manager you can right click on your video card and roll back the driver to a previous version."

On my system it is LeftDoubleClick on the video card then select the Driver Tab .. then select Roll Back Driver.

[ronzie]

A good source for NVidia and other types of cards including cleanout utilities, beta, and full releases of previous versions is:

guru3d.com

Check out their download catagories. You could also search their forum for issues. It is a gamer's site, primarily, but then gamers really stress their hardware.

[Phil47]

Thanks guys for the suggestions - the System Restore worked ok and I can open the software again!

However, it did send a message saying System Restore was not fully completed etc etc but everything worked ok so I left it at that.

Not very happy with NVIDIA though