Solved NVDisplay.Container.exe Stopped Working

During the past few days I've started getting these errors reported in Reliability Monitor presumably from the NVidia driver for my RTX 2060Super GPU. I updated to the latest NVidia driver to no avail. I use NVCleanstall to avoid installing much of the NVidia bloatware. Maybe that's the problem?

Depends upon your setting for NVCleanStall.


There is one option that specifically breaks the the container (and the nVidia Control App), as seen in section 4)

johnlgalt said:

Depends upon your setting for NVCleanStall.

TechPowerUp's NVCleanstall

This is a utility which allows for a more truly custom install of nVidia graphics drivers. From their website: Much of the GeForce Software package consists of components NVIDIA feels are essential to the hardware and form an extension of the product itself. Thus, even the "custom install"...

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There is one option that specifically breaks the the container (and the nVidia Control App), as seen in section 4)

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I only select clean install from the install options

Hmmm. You can clean install directly from the nVidia installer, absolutely no need to use NVCleanStall for that.

Run the installer from nVidia directly, let it extract the files, then when the installer pops up, pick either one, then Agree and continue, and then under installation options select Custom (Advanced), click Next, then check the box for a clean installation.








However, if you still want to use NVCleanstall, here is the way I install the nVidia drivers, start to finish.

Note: This is just my method, and my tweaks applied as I want them, you are not obligated to set any of these tweaks that I do.

First step is to manually download the file myself from nVidia for my RTX 3080 TI.

Then fire up NVCleanstall and tell it to use that driver I downloaded:



Then perform a minimum install:




Let it unpack the driver, then you get your options (Installation Tweaks):



I opt to use previous settings (button at the bottom) that will use the same settings every time so I don't have to remember them all...




And, finally, after it does its magic, I have it also build a package so I can easily install the exact same driver with the exact same parameters without having to do all this again.

All working so far after using Display Driver Uninstaller and the NVidia installation options as above.