Yeff wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 01:43:55 -0500, Ant wrote:
>
>> I have all the updates from Windows Updates.
>
> It's possible MS doesn't have the latest drivers. Go into "Display
> adapters" in Device Manager and compare the driver dates with what's
> available directly from Lenovo:
>
> <
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/ThinkPad-P-Series-laptops/ThinkPad-P50?LinkTrack=Solr&beta=false>
>
> From there it's showing "ThinkPad Video Features (NVIDIA N16S / Quadro
> N16P) for Windows 10 (64-bit) - ThinkPad P50" being released on
> ı2016ı-ı07ı-ı03.
>
> If that doesn't help you might also look into updating the BIOS/UEFI,
> also found on that page. Only do that as a last resort though.
> Updating the BIOS on a working machine can introduce problems you didn't
> have without updating.
>
And this is where the notion of "supported" comes in,
for prospective Win10 users.
These are the drivers available to you:
1) Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.
Fixed 1024x768 resolution.
Equivalent to the VESA fallback driver in older OSes.
2) In-box manufacturer (NVidia/ATI) driver.
Seems to be an older driver. Not bug free.
May not be the same driver as was delivered
during Win10 Preview times.
3) When your video card "continues to be supported",
a visit to the NVidia/ATI site gives you a newer
driver you can install. This is the driver that
Microsoft isn't delivering. On my ATI, this
was ATI Crimson CCC2.
Now, my laptop is missing (3). It's an ATI, but ATI
doesn't have a driver for download for HD4200 chipset
graphics. That means, when the in-box ATI driver
throws errors, I will be seeing those forever.
If you have a really really old video card (FX5200),
then both (2) and (3) are missing. You can coax Win10
to run with just (1) in place. No good for gaming.
Good for email. Perhaps the web browser or Flash
don't have "hardware acceleration", which they can
detect.
If the video driver crashes in a browser, turn
off "hardware acceleration" in the browser.
If the video driver crashes just when an Adobe Flash
video starts to play, turn off "hardware acceleration"
in Flash.
Paul