He’d tried everything. Clean reinstall. Disabling the MPO. Editing the TDR delay in the registry. Nothing worked. The 4090, that beautiful, expensive slab of silicon and copper, had been turned into a paperweight by a piece of software designed to make pixels run faster.
“Fine,” he grunted. “We go back.” rollback nvidia driver
Holding his breath, he opened Blender. The viewport spun. Smooth as silk. He dropped a heavy particle simulation onto the timeline. No crash. The render chugged past 99%, hit 100%, and saved the file with a satisfying ding . He’d tried everything
Now, Blender crashed on viewport rotation. After Effects threw a “GPU Memory Full” error for a simple blur effect. Even his wallpaper, a serene 4K shot of the Alps, stuttered when he moved a window. Editing the TDR delay in the registry