W10 & Witcher 3

As most of you know by now, I am not a gamer, that is Will's forte, not mine.  He is also my go to Geek when I run across something I don't understand or fuck something up.  He speaks techno-geek, nerdish and pcsnobbish with the best of them.  Will is currently playing Witcher 3 which has superior graphics and requires a large speedy video card like Will's GTX970.  Well Witcher 3 has been crashing on Will ever since the W10 install.  Through a painful trial and error process Will discovered the problem.  W10 'babysits' your device drivers and upgrades them automatically through Windows Update.  This is all well and good except if you have hardware whose software support is not yet W10 compatible.   W10 was overriding Will's settings and installing a beta version of the driver for the GTX970, thus undoing everything he had done to solve the problem thus far.  He discovered this when he caught Windows Update in the act.  He has thoughtfully provided us with his instructions for a solution that he posted on the either the Witcher 3 or W10 Sub-Reddit, I don't remember which one he said.  Here it is:

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This is important so PAY ATTENTION.

Microsoft is pushing a Beta driver 352.63 down Windows Update. Windows Update is auto over-riding your drivers.

It is incredibly difficult to stop this.

I found this out after getting multiple crashes, despite rolling back the driver to previous versions. I caught Windows Update, installing GTX 970 update when it was checking for updates.

It has been over-riding my driver in my sleep!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I do not need Windows 10 to be my parent.

So, how do we fix it. This is going to be a doozy so stick with me.

Part 1:

Hit Winkey and type advanced system settings.

Should look like this: 

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Select Hardware tab Select Device Installation Settings

Choose these settings: 

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This prevents Device manager from auto downloading hardware updates when you restart or aren't looking.

Part 2:

Now we move on to the next part. (Note this is only if it has over-ridden your driver, if it hasn't move down to part 3.)

Hit winkey and type in Device Manager and launch that.

Find your display adapter and then right click it

Select Uninstall and also the little box to delete software

Wait

After it is removed from the list, select "Scan for Hardware Changes"

Reboot computer

You are now ready to install the driver you want to install, so do that.

Reboot again.

Part 3:

Go here and get this tool: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930?utm_source=twitter[3]

This enables showing/hiding of updates coming down Windows Update.

If you followed all my instructions correctly at this point and it's not checking for updates. You should be able to run this tool and find the driver update to hide.

This is how:

Launch the .cab file, it will look like this: 

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Select Next It will begin searching for updates so wait patiently.

Select Hide Updates

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You should see this (Note, I'm actually under Show Hidden Updates here but that is because I already hid the update earlier, this is how you unhide updates but you want to be under Hide Updates)

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Select the driver update to hide

Say Next.

It should tell you it has completed successfully and will not install that update.

That's it,

Happy Witchering.

Edit: Current Beta Driver is 352.63 as of this post.

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That's it straight from the horse's mouth as it were, it is even in English not techno-geek, lol.  So if you have been experiencing this type of situation with your version of W10 conflicting with your hardware's drivers, this is a solution that will work for you.   Leave a comment if you have an alternate solution that works for you!

Your Monday with Mozart features two works in A Major for Clarinet.  Posted down below is Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K581 (Reconstructed for Basset Clarinet) beautifully performed live by the Hagen Quartet and your Soloist on Basset Clarinet, Sabine Meyer.  Over on my tumblr, you may join Ms Meyer along with Staatskapelle Dresden and Conductor Hans Vonk for their performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in  A Major, K622.

Now it is time for our mutual indulgence in our underwear fetish with this sexy edition of Monday's Undies posted down below.  Over on my tumblr, Edward Wilding is your Hottie of the Day!  Thanks for the visit, see you again soon.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!

Ensemble Week

Happy Monday, All.  The day has dawned bright and sunny after a weekend chock full of rain storms.  I am ready for a little sunshine and warmth along with just about everyone else in Texas.  For the last few weeks we have explored Music from the Grand Master Musicians and Composers focusing on a specific instrument.  This week I thought we would take a look at Music written for a Musical Ensemble.  Wikipedia tells us this about the Ensemble:

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, typically known by a distinct name. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families (such as piano, strings, and wind instruments) or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles.

In Western classical music, smaller ensembles are called chamber music ensembles. The terms duet, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet, nonet and dectet describe groups of two up to ten musicians, respectively. A group of eleven musicians, such as found in The Carnival of the Animals, is called either a hendectet or an undectet (see Latin numerical prefixes). A solo is not an ensemble because it only contains one musician.

As this is Monday Ensemble Week runs smack dab into Monday With Mozart, which is a good thing.  Mozart was quite adept and prolific at Music for the Ensemble.  I have two excellent examples to share with you today.  Posted down below you will find the Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K 581 "Stadler Quintet" with a performance by the Hagen Quartet who add Sabine Meyer as the Clarinet Soloist to round out the Quintet.  Over on my tumblr, you will be delighted with the Divertimento for Wind Sextet in B Flat Major with a performance by Consortium Classicum. 

Then to brighten everyone's Monday take a gander at these lithesome lads in their Monday's Undies posted down below.  Also be sure to check out the 'Snake Charmer' Hottie of the Day! over on my tumblr.  Thanks for starting your week here at Nichevo, see you again soon.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!

Record Setting Day in Dallas & Denver

The thousands of fans gathered at NFL Stadiums in both Dallas and Denver definitely got their money's worth yesterday as DeMarco Murray and Peyton Manning raised the performance bar at their respective positions.  Murray's 28 carries for 128 yards gave the Cowboys running back his 7th straight 100 yard game to open the season, something no other NFL RB has ever done.  Murray's efforts pushed him past the immortal Jim Brown into the top spot among the elite of the NFL.  Brown's record had stood for 56 years before falling to Murray whose 4th quarter TD after setting the record helped to seal the win over the Giants 31-21.  His performance along with Tony Romo's 17 of 23 for 279 yards left the Dallas Cowboys in a place to which they have been unaccustomed in recent seasons.  Alone atop the Standings in the NFC East at 6-1 which happens to be the best record in football at the moment.  The Cowboys have that club all to themselves for this week anyway.  Next up for them is the first of two annual grudge matches with traditional division rival Washington Redskins on Monday Night Football.  

After taking in Murray, Romo and the Boys, the Sunday Night Game was very much to my liking also.  The SF49ers were in Denver to play  Peyton Manning and the Broncos.  When I tuned in after I got home from work, Denver was already up 14 - 0.  It only went further down hill from there for the boys from the bay as Manning shredded them with 3 TDs in the first half to surpass Brett Favre's 508 NFL record.  He added another nifty 40 yard TD in the second half to set the record (for now) at 510 as the Broncos dismantled the 49ers 42-17 before a national TV audience.  I admire Manning as a football player and a human being, all these accolades could not go to a nicer guy or better example of a sports role model.  Who knows how high the bar will be when Peyton finally decides to hang up his guns and retire.  I just hope it is not too soon, he is a lot a fun to watch on any afternoon or evening as the case may be.  I would only root against him if the Broncos were playing the Cowboys, but that is not yet on this seasons schedule.  The only way the Boys and the Broncs would play this year is if they met in the Super Bowl.  While I AM NOT calling the Cowboys a contender for the title as yet, I am hard pressed to find a better team in the NFC at the moment, and we all know Denver is a legitimate SB caliber team.  This season just gets more interesting week by week.  I am looking forward to each weeks games a lot more this year and it is definitely good to hear the Cowboys being talked about as among the best teams in football again.  

That brings us to the entertainment portion of this little foray into on line journalism for today.  Of course, since it is Monday, it is time for your Monday With Mozart Musical Moment.  Today's featured selection is Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K 622.  George Szell leads the Cleveland Orchestra featuring Robert Marcellus as the Clarinet Soloist.  More Monday With Mozart Musical Merriment is posted over on my tumblr with Sabine Meyer and the Hagen Quartet performing Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K 581.  

Then finally for today is this week's marvelous collection of muscly men struttin' their stuff in their Monday's Undies just for you guys visual appreciation after the video.  Then today's Hottie of the Day! over on my tumblr is Red Hot! in Blue!.  Thanks for sharing your Monday with me, see you again soon.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!