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DABhandUK
Copper Contributor
May 19, 2026

25h2 Update forcing GPU to not be recognised by apps/games

As per title, this only recently happened with the up to date update from 5 days ago (I believe it was 5 days ago) and after this I noticed while trying to load up Subnautica 2 like I had done normally it was laggy and crashed, strange.. other games did the same (except some older DX9 titles), so I load up 3D Mark and noticed some of the test said I am not running compatible hardware not seeing my 4070 Ti Super.

I reinstalled windows to a 23h2 state, and for 2 days no problems, then I thought ok maybe it was a silly glitch and then updated to 25h2 yesterday and everything was fine, until tonight it happened again, while playing I notice a sudden drop in fps and there it was again the same problem 3D Mark not recognising hardware but the day before it did, and Furmark doesn't even load.. and I noticed in Event Viewer some dll files are not loading either.

The NVMe drive is fine no errors.

This only happens in 25h2 and I am at a loss, because for a few months I was running 25h2 fine.

Any insights or if people have experienced this and had fixes that would be great.

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  • Eimerson's avatar
    Eimerson
    Iron Contributor

    Download the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers directly from the NVIDIA website, not via Windows Update. Use NVIDIA's Clean Install option during driver installation to remove previous driver remnants.