Help with Nvidia control panel crashing.

JWall421 wrote:I'm having issues with my graphics card control panel, and hoping someone here could give me a little direction. I've tried Nvidia's forums, but they don't seem to have any answers worth a darn. 
I'm not getting the most from my graphics card for my Sims game because I can't control the settings with the Nvidia Control Panel when it crashes seconds after trying to change the 3D settings. The driver is completely up to date, as is the control panel. I've tried reverting back to the previous driver with no luck. Then I updated the driver again using a "clean update" (I think they call it), also with no luck. Those were the only two suggestions on Nvidia's forums. There seems to be no support for problems with this control panel!
I did download the GeForce Experience, but I have no idea if it will help because I can't get my computer to switch to the graphics card from the Intel HD Graphics 4000. I'm under the impression that I can only accomplish the switch using the Nvidia Control Panel.
I run a Nvidia GeForce GT 650M on a HP Pavilion dv7 laptop with Windows 7 64 bit. If more hardware/software info is needed please let me know, and please use layman's terms. I know some tech jargon but I am not fluent! I know how to open the device manager and run dxdiag  That's about where it ends!
Any suggestions will be more than appreciated, thanks!

Hello,

Do you get some sort of error message ? And did you re-boot the computer after the "clean un-install" ? If not, you may try repeating the procedure, with the additional re-booting step in between.

If that still doesn't work, there is a more thorough guide here in the opening post, if you want to "embark" on that. But be sure to follow all steps as precisely as possible !


Also, go to your Program files location of NVIDIA; that would be in your case (probably) C:\Program files\NVIDIA Corporation\Control Panel Client.

Inside the folder, right-click on the nvcplui.exe and choose "run as Administrator", but that's more a guess, rather than a real solution.

If you want, keep us updated.


P.S. Unless your driver is REALLY old, there is usually there is no need to update the graphics drivers whenever a new update is released. Unless you always want to be able to *properly* play the latest available games too.   And in your case, I don't think this is the problem. But of course, it won't hurt.