Ok, so this just happen to my MSI Laptop Ge72VR 7RF. (Using the Nvidia 1060)
I open my laptop and wanted to play a game. Frames and everything is normal.
I wanted to do some Adjustment on the NVIDIA Control Panel. Only that it doesn't appear when I right click on the Desktop.
I click the game Icon and open it from there and I got a popup saying "You GPU is not connected". What the F?
I click my Taskbar to open NVIDIA GeForce only that its not even there. Luckily I had the Icon on my Desktop so I double-click it.
I can open NVIDIA GeForce Experience oddly enough and the game was indeed running on the GPU.
Again I check NVIDIA GeForce Experience and there was a Drivers update. So I Downloaded the Latest Drivers, Express Installed and my NVIDIA Control Panel is back. on the Desktop right click and the NVIDIA GeForce is back on the Taskbar.
I even restarted my Laptop for safety measures and it appears everything is back to normal.

So basically, did the Previous Driver Version of NVIDIA had a Suicide Switch or something that forces me to download and install the latest driver??

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Mmh, odd. I think the last batch of drivers were buggy, because for me it broke the order in which the windows are supposed to be shown so notifications and the like weren't always on top and it was kinda annoying. But today's update fixed the issue (at least so far), it wouldn't be the first time that they break something and fix it around a week later.
I have a GTX 750 Ti by the way.

7 years ago
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Hmm, it was true the previous driver was indeed buggy.

7 years ago
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Maybe it just died on its own, or maybe nvidia has a way to remotely kill it if something goes wrong in order to force people to update and get rid of the bugged one... I think I'm going in full on conspiranoic mode there :P

7 years ago
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So... anyone else got this problem before?

7 years ago
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It is a Windows 10 problem. By default, ti tries to maintain the hardware drivers for you. This means whenever their system detects a new version, they silently uninstall the old one and install the new.
Only in case of graphics drivers, it is not working. The OS uninstalls the old drivers but the new ones are never put back. I had this issue for weeks before figuring it out. You either have to be on the lookout and install the new drivers whenever you see this is, or you need to disable automatic driver updates on Windows.

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Precisely.
If you're downloading Win 10 updates manually, you can avoid the issue simply by not allowing Nvidia driver updates through Win Update, but if you've still got it auto-updating, it's just going to keep breaking on you.

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Ugh x.X but to disable the update to the Drivers is difficult on Windows 10 unlike on my old laptop which still uses Windows 8.1

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Um .... stupid question .. since i bough a pc with 1050 for my little brother recently .

Did you connect your monitor to the Video card , or to the motherboard :) ?

He had the same issue as you ( on game startup after updating the latest drivers ) where Fallout 4 would not detect his videocard.
Turn out it was simply cause i had connected the monitor to the motherboard , and the game was thinking i want to use the Intel Integrated graphics instead of the video card..

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(Psst: he has a laptop…)

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Uh... somehow i missed that part :D

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Yeah I'm a Pure laptop User so I can't answer that XD

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If you connect your monitor to the motherboard, you would be using the Intel Integrated graphics because most motherboards today come with an Intel graphics processor, that's why the game is using it.

So in other words, the monitor should be plugged into the 1050, and there could be many reasons why Fallout 4 is not working correctly with 1050 so some research online would be needed. However, a possible solution could be this:

In the NVIDIA settings Control Panel go to "Manage 3D Settings / Program Settings " and look for Fallout 4.

Then set your Fallout 4 game settings to HIGH and see if the game runs

7 years ago
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Uh i managed to fix that after about 8 hours of googling stuff :)

7 years ago
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Wait a minute, it seems I had a brain fart and utterly misread what you wrote XD
I thought you were asking if you should plug the display cable into the motherboard or GPU, and that the game wouldnt load properly with 1050 so you tried using the Intel graphics

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I think the problem lies with the latest windows update, same thing happened with me, uninstall all nvidia drivers and download them from nvidia website again ;)

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XD i didnt even need to uninstall all nvidia driver.
I just downloaded the latest and let it do the Uninstall and install

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