Gforce 9800GTX+ (Freezing) Help with New Driver install?

If you try installing the 280.26 Drivers it will give a option to delete the old drivers for you. Then try again. Also does it just full on freeze or will a BSOD come up?

Ya...the Game just freezes. I am not getting a BSOD..... game just freezes...sometimes the sound will be looping...but most often, it just freezes. I did once get a freeze on a greyish screen ..but who knows.


As for properly uninstalling graphic drivers, I thought you had to somehow download a driver cleaner software, then boot into safe mode and either use the driver uninstaller, then the cleaner, then install the new drivers or something like that to properly install new graphic drivers?

I am looking for that information on how to properly uninstall the old drivers, use driver cleaner software, and how to properly boot into safe mode, then install the new graphic driver


thx for any help you can provide

Well if you download the nVdia drivers and choose Custom install then you can select to do a clean install where it will delete the old drivers for you. I suppose you havent overclocked anything?  

I get the same error with some steam games as well i can run supremem commander 2 for about 30min - 1 hour and then the screen just locks and I get static out my speakers. only happens with steam games for me I can run crysis 2 with DX11 patch and high resolution pack as well for hours no issue it only happens with some steam games for me.

My system is an

Processor: Intel Core i7 2600k (not overclocked at this time)
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth P67
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX T1 RAM ddr3-1600 not overclocked
Graphics Card: Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 580 1.5GB

I can run every other game I have for hours but when I run steam games I get this same error as you after 30min-1hr so I dont know if it is your system or something in the steam settings.

Just and Update, today I tried to play Half-life 2 (in windowed mode , after verifying on Steam...just to make sure), after about 10 min of basic gameplay, the screen just turned Opaque (off-white), I could hear the game sound but no visuals. If I pressed Alt/Tab, the music would stop which I am assuming it was switching to Windows desktop..but I could not see the desktop. I tried, Cntrl+ Alt+ Del...no luck.... still opaque screen.... Powered down PC and rebooted. I am guessing the Graphics card may be going out? or perhaps it's a driver issue>? I really don't know.

If this matters, I was monitoring my CPU Cores on the CPU-Core 2 Duo E8500@ 3.16GHz , Core 0 was almost maxed at 100% while Core 1 was less than 20 % being utilized while playing. Temps of the CPU were 55C or less... The GPU temps were @ 69c Before it froze.

Well...that's all for now.... Maybe it's Steam. Is there a way to play these games without Enabling Steam? I have the Full Orange box Version, but Steam starts up every damn time? Can this be disabled so I just play...without Steam?

Again...Thank you all for your assistance