Thanks for all the info, enlightening. Pot blaming the Kettle as usual thus.

NVdia, it's about the same with AMD radeon. I always install the most basic drivers, even deinstalled them letting Micosoft use it's own windows driver.

Also try to avoid any gamers stuff and especially onboard audio; i posted on this a while ago. Also disable the PC's motherboard HD chip in BIOS, and nevertheless the realtek HD drivers keep being reinstalled. To keep them out of the way definitely: just disable them in Device Manager and leave them be marked with a triangle.

One thing you could try is to disable your NVdia's software to save all sorts of stuff occasionally to some unneeded log file, that's a must with AMD called ATIrecord, set it to zero. You do that in the registry somewhere under Local Machine, SEE PICTURE BELOW. And disable any possible hardware (graphics) acceleration in it's driver settings. There is some more editing to do on a motherboards BIOS, but you'll have to find that out yourself for your type MOBO. Gamer sites are often a good source for that sort of info.

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