Can't Launch half of my games - nvd3dum.dll

Jens12

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Long story short I can't play most of my installed games. They either crash after about 10 seconds of being open (in this case it's Space engineers), or they don't launch at all (CS:GO, Killing Floor, Skyrim, FO:NV, Red Orchestra, Planetside 2, and even 3d Mark). I doubt it's a steam issue because Arma 3, Warthunder, Farcry 4, Binding of Isaac and FTL all work fine, and my temps are completely fine (I have the card overclocked) and monitored through 4 applications.

Every time the game crashes I receive the typical "Program has stopped responding" and see that nvd3dum.dll is the fault module. I've tried reinstalling .Net, DirectX, and my nvidia drivers. I'm currently on 344.75, but I've tried 347.09 and 347.25.

All of my games were working fine about a week and a half ago, and all of a sudden they just started crashing (CS:GO was the first). Funnily enough it's the nvidia gameworks titles that work (along with Binding of isaac and FTL). The only thing that I could think did this was that I updated my drivers through Geforce Experience. Other than that I have no idea what caused this.

Specs:
i7 4790k @Stock clocks (temps are fine on this)
Noctua NH-U12P SE2
GA-Z97X-Gaming 7
Crucial Ballistix sport 8gb (tested these with memtest86, they passed after 12 hours of testing)
Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 (have it overclocked +150 base clock and +290 on the memory, tried stock and still wouldn't launch my games. Temps are fine and the OC is stable after Unigine Heaven and long sessions in Farcry, Arma and Warthunder.)
PCPower&Cooling Silencer MkIII 600 watt (I had my old rig with a phenom 2 x4 965 and 7870 run fine on it - and I think those used more power than this rig)
Benq 120hz 1080p Monitor
Asus 60hz 1080p Monitor

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
Download DDU here.
Download latest video drivers (again).
Install (extract) DDU.
Uninstall video drivers.
Boot into Safe Mode.
Run DDU to remove all traces of Nvidia files and folders.
Boot back into Normal Mode.
Install latest video drivers from latest download.
Reboot.

Done.
 

Jens12

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Unfortunately this did nothing at all (even in safe mode.). Anything else?
 

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Still nothing. Also warthunder crashed and "nvidia windows kernel mode driver 347/25 stopped responding but recovered" in the tray icon menu.
 

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Wouldn't the fact that Farcry and Arma (the two most demanding games I have) run perfectly fine point it to be something software related? I highly doubt it's the physical card, but i'll try my old 7870 and see if it's just software. My guess is that it was something that's not going away for some reason. Also, I'll try re-installing steam (not DL'ing all my games again), and see if that will do anything. My other problem is that I tried the Planetside 2 launchers from both steam and the SOE site, and neither worked.
 
Running out of software options here, since video card drivers reinstalled, BIOS reset, and chipset drivers (presumably) reinstalled. Maybe try reinstalling latest sound (card) drivers? That would leave just the games themselves.

Depends on how games use hardware, some may be more CPU dependent, others may be more video card dependent. I don't think it would hurt to test the video card, just to be sure there are no hardware issues.

No other programs running in the background?

Maybe malware? Could try running several anti-malware programs in on-demand scan mode such as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Emsisoft Anti-Malware, etc. Suggest several programs (one at a time) because no one program will find all known malware.
 

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I just finished re installing my chipset drivers, ran MB and Avast scans and nothing, but haven't tried my 7870 yet. Would re-installing windows just be easier? Looks like I've exhausted everything but the other GPU, and even if that doesn't work it looks like that will have to happen.