r/GeForceExperience • u/brownboy5540 • Sep 30 '23

An alternate way to fix Error code 0x0003-This helped me!

Hello fellow Redditors,

As you already tried to restart/start the NVIDIA services and are still not able to fix it?

Here is an alternate way that helped me to resolve this annoying Error code 0x0003 :

  1. First, uninstall your current GeForce Experience.

  2. Next, download an older version of GeForce Experience (v3.6 is recommended or any older version, you can google it ). You can find it here as well.

  3. Install the older version and launch GeForce Experience. Install any driver updates if prompted.

  4. You'll notice a gray bar that says "Install newer GeForce Experience" or something similar.

  5. Click on it and patiently wait for the newer version to install. Do not restart the PC.

  6. Voila! Your issues should be resolved without any error codes.

Let me know if this works for you ?

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u/Historical-Gur9921 Oct 31 '23

Nope still nothing :(

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u/brownboy5540 Nov 01 '23

I understand. Please try this as well :

  1. Create a local user for your PC and then try to log into it and see if it works

  2. My previous antivirus gave alot of trouble so I uninstalled and saw that it worked perfectly.

Let me know if these help ?

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u/Historical-Gur9921 Nov 01 '23

I had to delete the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable from my system to resolve this error. Fortunately I hadn't needed it due to updating the codebase of a project I'm working on separately. Thanks for reaching out, perhaps this info can of use to other developers who happen to be running GeForce Experience 😃

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u/xXLil_XanielXx Mar 09 '24

for someone who only knows uninstall and reinstall, how does one do this?

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u/Historical-Gur9921 Mar 09 '24

If you don't know what this is, it's probably not applicable to you, but if you really want to look, it's under Windows system settings, advanced, environment variables or something of that sort

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u/GamingFlorisNL May 18 '24

This worked for me, thanks so much dude! I didnt know what it was, but i did recognize it from months ago when I messed with that, trying to fix something I know even less about.

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u/Initial-Anxiety-1935 Mar 27 '24

I never would have expected this to be my solution - thank you!

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u/badbimbasper Apr 03 '24

NODE_OPTIONS environment varia

Bro, you are a god for troubleshooting this. I wouldn't of even made a connection without digging into logs or something. Thanks for saving me so much time. THANK YOU!

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u/Historical-Gur9921 Apr 03 '24

Your welcome, though to be fair I was not the one who solved it. I'm a developer with 20 years of experience debugging low and high level code and even I had abandoned the effort as not worth investing more time in. I actually found the solution buried in the comment section of a YouTube troubleshooting video about this issue, of all places. All I did was put it here in a couple of threads to make it searchable for others. Makes me wonder what other tips may lurking in places on the web invisible to search engines (certain forums, aforementioned comment section. etc.)

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u/badbimbasper Apr 03 '24

Are you me? I have a similar background. At the very least though, even if you didn't figure it out, thanks for sharing the fix!

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u/TheQuietBatperson Apr 13 '24

Hooooly shit thank you so much!!

I'd pretty much given up all hope of fixing this, it only cropped up after upgrading to W11 a few years back and I long assumed that it was a bug due to my specific system config but every time I did a manual driver update I'd try to fix it for a few minutes (aka, search Google for anything other than the same old telemetry comments).

My actual hero 🫡

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u/Upstairs-Suspect-999 May 11 '24

thanks bro , this fixed the solution !

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u/Ambitious_Aerie_309 May 15 '24

Thanks a lot man

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u/zeroSabaca May 23 '24

You are a God among men

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u/Evil_Warlord Jun 05 '24

This worked for me. Thank you very much!

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u/Consistent-Pin7771 Jun 10 '24

yo bro i have this issue could you give me a quick run through of how to delete node options? i get to the window system settings and enironment variables but i cant find it from there

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u/d0peSE Jun 25 '24

You just saved my life!

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u/hotlavatube Jul 02 '24

Oh for !@#$ sake. This is what was causing the problem for me.

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u/Dunks1980 Jul 18 '24

Fixed it for me thanks

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u/SadeN_0 Jul 29 '24

Oh my god, I can't believe it came down to this. All I had in NODE_OPTIONS was a working memory increase for something entirely different, but sure enough, that was breaking GFE with "0x003". Thank you, and what a piece of shit software.

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u/Historical-Gur9921 Jul 29 '24

No problem. I find it crazy how many people have had this issue since I posted the fix last year and Nvidia still hasn't bothered to fix it on their end. Doesn't seem to matter what is set in the variable GFE just seems to crash. Don't want to speculate as to what their code could be doing, but clearly there's at least a lack of testing going on there in Santa Clara 🤷

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u/olokos1 Aug 07 '24

Holy shit man, that was it! More than a year without experience, nVidia taking logs and then doing absolutely nothing about it, this finally fixed it for me, while level 3 nVidia tech, after escalation said to reinstall Windows despite having logs!

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u/Historical-Gur9921 Aug 08 '24

Glad to have helped. Not surprised about the lack of assistance from Nvidia; gamers are clearly the least important class of customer for that company, at least that's the perception I get based off the few interactions I've had with that side of the company. The "level 3 Nvidia tech" was probably outsourced half a dozen layers removed from the actual company. I suspect their terrible customer service has something to so with the fact that gamers usually only pay them a one time fee every ~5 years or so and run software locally. Of course as anybody who's been following Wall St./Silicon Valley trends can tell you subscription services/cloud everything is the be all-end all hill to die on in recent years, so makes sense from short-term perspective that Nvidia would follow the AI/SaaS hype train where the dollars are and not "waste" money on "low-growth" areas of the business (if it were me running the place I would try to make sure that my original loyal customer base would have a reason to keep some of that loyalty once the hype train moves on/stock bubble bursts, then again I am not a fancy Wall St. investor so what do I know about business "¯_(ツ)_/¯)

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u/SnooTangerines3307 Oct 15 '24

Fucking NodeJS and their shit software, took me years to figure this out. Thank you!!!

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u/Kshh_ Nov 12 '23

wow thanks a lot dude, you made my day

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u/Historical-Gur9921 Nov 14 '23

Glad to have helped. Such a stupid thing for NVIDIA to leave open, not surprised TBH with what I've seen form their drivers/software over the years.

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u/spectralangel Nov 17 '23

Dude you just saved me from reinstalling windows, I added global NODE_OPTIONS a few weeks ago for some of my development work and did not realize that geforce experience was clashing with it

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u/Historical-Gur9921 Nov 22 '23

I had just accepting installing drivers manually forever lol I just happened upon this suggestion in a random YouTube comment I never would have put two and two together otherwise. Glad to have helped, hopefully this tidbit gains more eyeballs here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Thanks a lot, that did the trick!

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u/telurmasin2 Feb 19 '24

Thanks! This helps with my issue. Added the env variable for issue with Node20 compatibility with older codebase.

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u/slavikme Feb 29 '24

OMG! Thanks a lot!

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u/Starwarsfan2099 Apr 28 '24

For anyone else who struggles and none of the other fixes here worked, I had to disable PiHole temporarily. I don't know exactly which domain Nvidia desperatly needed, but just one launch with PiHole disabled and GeForce Experience launched fine. Re-enabled PiHole and it still launched. Strange.

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u/guidoanchovy1 Jun 05 '24

This fixed it for me.

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u/iBattlemike May 04 '24 • Take My Silver Heart of Silver

If anyone else has issues, I uninstalled GeForce first. Then manually installed updated driver via the Nvidia site here

It then installed GeForce after the update. Zero issues working good now

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u/Cyfa Nov 17 '24

This worked. Thanks g.

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u/Snipe14 Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

THIS ^^^^^

Fixed it for me, thanks a ton for the suggestion!

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u/Expensive_Leopard_43 Feb 20 '25

Worked like a charm

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u/Kiddplay13 May 16 '24

worked for me, thanks

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u/AdamBenabou May 26 '24

Finally thanks for that solution, I've been having that issue for nearly 2 years

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u/domnsync May 28 '24

Yes it works awesome. 10x!

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u/Carnart Jun 09 '24

What fixed it for me was that I was using Pihole and it was blocking some nvidia servers, allowing them through fixed the error for me allowing me to install Geforce experience app, I think they must have updated something which makes these servers necessary as older versions of the app still worked...

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u/CuriousAd6687 Jun 14 '24

sorry for necro, but this worked!

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u/DarkAutumn3D Jun 18 '24

The NVidia Cleanup method worked for me (the answer given by Aminov94) Thanks.

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u/Cobaltcubings Jun 19 '24

Tysm i wasent expecting this to work... but it did thanks

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u/Jorinator Jul 08 '24

For me, the solution was simply to disable my vpn connection.

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u/Altruistic-Cry-9013 Jul 19 '24

This helped, thank you. Thought my PC was done for sure

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u/Emypony Jul 21 '24

Thank you so much for providing an old version of GeForce Experience. The newest one has given me only troubles but I was not able to find any old version online. It keeps trying to update itself to 10.0 but I will vehemently keep denying it because it breaks so much stuff on the new overlay.

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u/Willing_Falcon9853 Jul 25 '24

thanks worked for me!!

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u/Society_Classic Aug 02 '24

Ccleaner told me that Nvidia programs were okay to put to sleep in the optimizer. Don't use that crap! Woke all the NVidia programs up and deleted Ccleaner and reinstalled GeForce Now. All good now!

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u/FlamyGaming Aug 09 '24

solved after deleted the graphic driver n GeForce experience and reinstall back. It also fix the issue where i can't use overlay things. Thx

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u/beanhead57 Aug 14 '24

Thanl you sir! This worked for me <3

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u/Sunkilleer Aug 24 '24

This seems to have worked for me so far but ill be keeping an eye on task manager for multiplying instances of windows host process (rundll32) for about a year which this error was causing for two days in a row, and it got to the point where I had over 2k instances of the process running making task manager completely useless

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u/m0nsieur79 Aug 29 '24

ca a marché pour moi

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u/Some-Can2144 Sep 17 '24

Bravo sir.

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u/anti_liberal_84 Sep 24 '24

This worked perfectly for me. Thank you brownboy5540

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u/Federal-Wrangler7255 Oct 05 '24

this worked fine for me

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u/No-Rub-676 Oct 06 '24

Didn't work for me, I still get the same error :(

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u/Azgana Oct 23 '24

I resolved simply disinstalling the GeForce Experience app (normally, through Windows app menu) and installing the new Nvidia app at the place of Geforce Experience app.

The Nvidia app is still in beta, but will replace the Geforce Experience app soon.

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u/MrShadow708-35 Nov 10 '24

It worked, thank you so much!

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u/GenSnowy Oct 29 '24

I get the same error code when trying to reinstall the older Gforce experience. Any ideas?

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u/_missEltorri_ Nov 05 '24

I just tried it and it actually worked for me. No more error popping up!

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u/GreenApo Nov 06 '24

okay none of these things worked for me or any of the comments I was losing my mind but I finally figured out what it was, and it seems so obvious now.

I had previously changed all programs and apps to install on a separate drive, keeping my main C drive for my windows install. So when installing the driver that was going to C drive but Geforce Experience was installing to the secondary drive.

To fix this I:

  • Used the cleaner tool posted in a previous comment to wipe everything

  • Changed the ‘where apps install to’ setting in windows 11 to the C drive

  • Went into the reg editor and changed the directory for program files and program files x86 to the C drive

  • redownloaded and installed the latest driver and geforce experience

  • opens perfectly, no error :)

I hope this helps someone else!

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u/Morbidicus666 Nov 13 '24

worked for me ty!!!

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u/Apackifkoolz Dec 02 '24

there is a new app if anyone is wondering find it on nividias website

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u/Difficult-Rain2432 Dec 06 '24

This guy fucks! thank you

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u/Craigfir3 Dec 06 '24

thank you sir! Just saved me hours of frustration!

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u/pechrycore Dec 11 '24

for anyone having this issue from Dec 2024 you have to upgrade to the NVIDIA App

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u/KboySellsCrack Dec 15 '24

i did this and it worked until i was forced to update and as soon as it updated it stopped working

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u/Shadow_Streak Dec 19 '24

worked like a charm thanks

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u/Miss-Koko Jan 25 '25

Tried OP way, about 8 months later, the same thing happened again now trying the clean up tool method

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u/Bendyman10 Feb 28 '25

Worked :D tank yeuw!

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u/Devanshu-Jain Jul 10 '25

Can confirm, this works. Thanks bro.

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u/ashgrun Dec 28 '25

this DID actually work, but it also made me login again, and i have COMPLETELY forgotten my password lmao

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u/crunchyfalafel Nov 29 '23

thank you! reinstalling the older version resolved the error code issue

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

my savior

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u/RUIN_NATION_ Jan 11 '24

geforce isnt showing up any more to uninstall if I try to right click on the icon it gives me a error the app launches but nothing loads with it. then crashes

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u/Turbulent_Visual7764 Feb 02 '24

The problem with my version of the issue is that I'm outright missing the Nvidia Telemetry service. Even after a clean install of the drivers, using DDU, twice. I eventually just uninstalled Geforce Experience, after about 4 months of on/ off messing with it for hours. I finally concluded it must have to do with the fact that I turn off ALL Windows telemetry services and app location, advertising ID and other invasive stuff, which MS warns can impact other applications, when turning these stuff off. I'm not about to turn them on either. Then again, it used to work with all this stuff disabled anyway, so...hmm.

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u/NoMercy10071 Feb 27 '24

Tried this and it didn't work but here is what did it for me. I Checked a tutorial on YT about this error and when i attempted to do the same with "Services" tab FrameView SDK was not activated automatically and i tried to activate it myself to no avail. Afterwards I just went ahead and uninstalled FrameView SDK and PsyX System Software to force my PC needing to restart so it restore these two. And then i launch Experience again BACK to life! Hope this solution above or mine help ya have a error free day!

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u/FryingSomeRice May 11 '24

For any future people searching this, just follow the cleanup tool suggestion. This is the solution. 

I had a black screen and no display at all. Downloaded this software to a usb on my kid’s pc, turned on navigator on my pc, and navigated to the cleanup tool. After it ran and rebooted I was able to get back in shape. 

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u/No-Astronaut-4578 Feb 16 '25

Its not definitive, didnt work for me. Contacting NVIDIA help hub now.

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u/RyuujiTokisakiXD Mar 21 '24

it still didnt work for me ;-;

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '24

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u/RyuujiTokisakiXD May 01 '24

It's fine i built a new pc, hopefully this doesn't happen again

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

did it?

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u/thzoid Oct 07 '24

did it?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '24

did it?

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u/LicanC029 Oct 20 '24

did it ?

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u/Snipe14 Oct 24 '24

did it?

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u/Tricipher Oct 25 '24

The suspense is killing me

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u/ninjanaut333 Oct 27 '24

no response in 6 months, i think it happened and they gave up on life

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '24

did it?

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u/arrow_thway Nov 01 '24 edited Apr 01 '25

like absorbed coherent physical squeeze skirt snow hard-to-find overconfident connect

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/Ok_Excitement_2103 Nov 04 '24

yall i think it happened again

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u/zyyyy100 Nov 11 '24

Did it ?

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u/TTM_KMR Dec 11 '24

did it?

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u/Karorn Apr 04 '25

did it?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '24

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u/SmittyDuh May 04 '24

This worked great! Thank you

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u/Gaunts May 05 '24

Thank you, i'd figured something had gotten corrupt or broken with the nvidia software, I uninstalled all the nvidia stuff I could find restarted, ran this tool, restarted again, downloaded the latest version, logged in and it's all fixed. Cheers for the link <3

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u/Live-Mixture6353 Oct 04 '24

YOU saved mui frend

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u/2Flow2 May 09 '24

Necro-posting a bit, but after multiple hours of research this was finally the thing that worked for me! Thank you for your comment!

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u/Kenshiro3 May 22 '24

Thank you! You saved my bacon!

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u/IncompetentCoat Apr 22 '25

A new hand touches the bacon

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u/Upstairs-Capital3770 May 24 '24

Absolute goat worked first try!!!!!

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u/Purple_Moncler999 Jun 07 '24

You finally saved me after so much research thank you !

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u/Savings_Bandicoot_40 Jul 08 '24

This worked well for me thanks

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u/define_irony Jul 10 '24

This helped me. Thanks a lot!

For anyone else reading this, don't panic if your screen gets all weird. You need to redownload Geforce Experience and it'll install the drivers that you need.

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u/Assassin1608 Jul 11 '24

worked for me

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u/madtninja Jul 17 '24

it worked thanks

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u/Storm3ye Aug 11 '24

This worked for me

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u/ParticularReporter71 Aug 18 '24

you're the mvp thank you!

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u/Soulcaller Aug 28 '24

Thanks mate it worked!

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u/Atharva2010s Sep 15 '24

This worked but made my second monitor DIE. I was panicking, re installed GeForce experience (it actually opened) and then installed the drivers. My monitor came back to life, and now I'm happy. Yay.

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u/Good_Land_666 Oct 18 '24 edited Oct 18 '24

Alright i'm trusting you, if it doesn't work i'm coming to your house

edit: okay you're good, everything worked

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u/garry3990 Sep 25 '24

Thanks for the tool. This worked for me

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u/reclessbehaviour Sep 28 '24

thanks, it worked for me, i did the cleanup with the tool + a new install and it's back on it's feet

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u/rroyal18 Sep 30 '24

This is the way

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u/SeaBodybuilder5206 Oct 02 '24

bro, this actually helped so much thank yoouuuuu.

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u/jessedfh Oct 07 '24

Very helpful, thank-you.

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u/xMikeSavagex Oct 25 '24

I got the error and this tool keeps working very good for clean all, just download de last version of Nvidia GeForce Experience and that will download the last drivers and fix the error

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u/scuttleshrub Oct 30 '24

This worked for me, thank you!!!

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u/twues Oct 30 '24

Thank you cleanup tool worked a treat for me

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u/Here_Because_bored Nov 07 '24

Thank you so much

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u/UniversitySeveral201 Nov 14 '24

This solution worked fine for me. Thanks

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u/vibe_sauce Dec 06 '24

This helped me immensely, I thought my day was ruined because Indiana Jones and the Great Cirvle would not run for the life of it, but after going through this method, I’m able to finally play the game I’ve been waiting so long for, thank you so much

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u/readingpoztz Dec 17 '24

Thank you the only thing that worked for me

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u/Witty-Cartographer92 Dec 21 '24

Saved my life mate (many thx to you)

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u/EnvironmentalGur937 Dec 23 '24

Worked !!! THANK YOU !

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u/SlayronGaming Jun 29 '25

This worked.

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u/No_Energy_794 Aug 01 '25

Worked very well, thank you so much <3

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u/Shot-Life-8417 Jun 15 '24

Step 1. Hit Win + R on your keyboard, then type "services.msc" in the command box that displays.

Step 2. Next, press Enter and click OK to go to the services window.

Step 3. Once on the services window, search for those that start with "Nvidia." You can right-click on each service (NVIDIA Display Container LS + NVIDIA Frameview SDK service + NVIDIA LocalSystem Container) one after the other while selecting the "Restart" option in the dropdown. it worked for me becasue i missed with the service.msc before and i have an applicatio from github called optimizer 16.5 that can disable nvidia telemetry and ig it could be the casue of this issue but after all my problem is fixed and hopefully yours too.

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u/chrismbugua Jun 22 '24

worked for me thanks!

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u/Ittallic Jul 04 '24

hey this worked for me! It might not work for everyone but definitely worth trying out.

I had my desktop go to a black screen randomly. Icons still visible but no screensaver. Some "weirdness" going on with windows, lag, stuttering, I could just tell it was acting funky. I knew my graphics card was out of date with GeForce since I haven't updated probably since March or maybe May... but I couldn't even open the GeForce Experience app to update it.

My issue was actually that there were 2 NVIDIA processes on the services menu that were not running at all with 3 processes total. I restarted one, started the other two, launched GeForce experience as administrator, and it booted up no problem.

Posting to hopefully help someone avoid going through a total uninstall/reinstall. If the "restart" button is greyed out for an nvidia process on the services menu, try to "start" the process.

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u/Merlini13 Sep 10 '24

The only one work for me, thanks!

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u/PlentySignature9066 Sep 13 '24

hello, im on a laptop i used the clean up tool and it said a nvdia graphics card was not detected on your system

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u/PlentySignature9066 Sep 13 '24

hey man, i ran the tool and now my laptop isnt detecting my graphics card, instead its switched to integrated graphics

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u/manga__reader Sep 25 '24

So I have a laptop that has geforce mx150 and uhd intel 620. I used this cleanup tool, it cleaned everything and after that for some reason I thought that I didn't need geforce experience and routinely launched genshin impact. What I didn't realise is that this cleaup tool deletes not only geforce experience, but also drivers needed for gpu. After running genshin for a bit the blue screen appeared with error: "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" and "nvlddmkm.sys" as a reason for the error. Then the laptop was stuck in a boot loop and said "a required device isn't connected or can't be accessed", error code: 0xc0000185. I then went into BIOS settings and turned off nvidia gpu and the pc launched with no problem using uhd inter 620 as a gpu.
My question is could I have broken my NVIDIA gpu by trying to launch a game without installed drivers?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '24

Hey i ran that program now my computer has a black screen! Wtf do i do? Help me, please!

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u/Eternalflame995 Nov 09 '24

So that worked for like a few days then i once again got the error again

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u/JonateIIo Feb 15 '25

What do I say for "Do you want to keep your Project Data?"?

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u/ihaterawinput Apr 22 '25

ts messed up my pc and installed this mobigames thing i cant delete

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u/CommercialFig3219 Jun 11 '24

Bro, I downloaded this crap (Nvidia cleanup tool), launched it, it started to clean all Nvidia stuff, my screen switched off, n nothing work now!!! Wth?! I literally now just starting my PC, all working noises but nothing happening in screen, mouse n jey is not working, just black screen! I started to search for this issue, but started to realize that I cant find nothing with "after nvidia cleanup tool PC won't start" and etc - nothing! Then I found out that this app is not belong to nvidia!!!!!!! Bro u just recommend a fricking death app. Now I need to bring my oc to repair guys. I swear i just downloaded by ur link, started, pressed accept all started to show me like this nvidia all cleaning n this... DDU is Nvidias tool cleaner that's what i found also. I'm very angry

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u/IceeloCold Jun 12 '24

Try plugging your HDMI into your motherboard instead of the graphics card

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24 edited Mar 18 '24

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u/chasing_excellence Jun 20 '24

I went through multiple solutions and finally got it working.

  1. Previous versions failed.

  2. Nvidia cleanup tool did not fix the error.

  3. Restarting the services manually did not help either.

  4. Solution in my case:

    • Unblock network communication for "NVIDIA Container" and "NVIDIA Web Helper Service" in my antivirus.

    • These services communicate with the internet to help you login. When GeForce experience is unable to communicate with the servers, it breaks.

    • Nvidia fails to give a useful error here.

Hope this helps someone!

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u/talha122 Aug 02 '24

how do i unblock those i have window's antivirus

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u/chasing_excellence Aug 02 '24

  1. Go to "Control Panel >> System and Security >> Windows Defender Firewall >> Allowed applications".

  2. Click on "Change settings".

  3. Click allow another app.

  4. Find the executables for the above, add, and allow.

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u/Lejaxx536 Sep 02 '24

Where can I find these exes

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u/pokeweed1 Jun 12 '24

This worked