Display Driver Uninstaller, it completely removes everything relating to the current driver install. You usually want to reboot in safe mode to use it. Then you reinstall the driver you want to install once DDU is complete and auto-reboots. It’s a way to do a completely clean install, sometimes it may be necessary when things are left over that can cause issues with installed drivers.
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If I just install the old driver doesn’t work?
Dunno, I haven’t gone back to 382.53 in forever. @III_EnVii_III and @GhostofDelta2 would know better than me.
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It usually does, but doesn’t always clear everything out.
I fell victim to this only once switching back and forth between drivers so I could play Gears 4 and Shadow of War respectively.
Its one of those better safe than sorry things.
After playing the gears 5 tech test religiously and getting top 1 % masters in ranked, I have to say as a gears Veteran that this is so tragic. I switched to PC as GoW 4 came out and ended up playing my Xbox more than my PC because of the crashes. Also I’ll mention not only because of the crashes, but the horrendous wait times on PC to find ranked games, most likely due to Xbox players turning off cross play, also affected my decision to play on Xbox. I took a break from GoW 4 and have sold my Xbox many months ago, but now as Gears 5 comes out and it has the same problems as Gears 4, the Nvidia 10 series gpu problem is looking more dire than ever. Same bsod and PC freezes in the middle of ranked games tilts me off the earth every time. Literally no other game on my computer causes me any problems except for Gears, and I don’t want to buy another console just to play one game when I have a PC that should be able to play said game. I really hope this problem is resolved before launch.
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Please try this drivers, Nvidia thinks this will finally fix the issue 
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/149125/en-us
Thanks, downloading now and will update with results for GoW4.
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Best wishes
The funny thing is, out of sheer desperation, I was tempted to try the 431.70 driver a few days ago.
LOL, so much for that fix, just froze on me on around 3rd game of Social Quickplay. 
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I used 376.09 with my 970 and didn’t crash a single time in at least a few dozen hours of game play. But it only works on 9xx and non-ti 10xx series.
Yep, I made it a game and a half before crash.
Simply bizarre. You’re right, I don’t recall even crashing 1 time on GoW4 (1080) in 2000+ games.
But my new 1080Ti crashes at least once per session on GoW4. Only started playing 4 again after a long time.
Still have that same 1080 (non-ti), maybe I should swap it out and test it.
I gave in and finally went back to 382.53 for now, for some reason GeForce Experience says 388.13 is installed. It might have done it by default with how it didn’t update to the latest GeForce Experience version right away, it did like 3 or 4 updates to get to it’s latest version.
Either way, I played a good amount of Social and Ranked, no crashes so far. I also noticed with the Gamebar Overlay’s performance window, the GPU was going up to atleast 91% usage, which it never gets anywhere near the 90%s on the newer drivers.
So it seems like something the newer drivers are doing isn’t handling the GPU usage right in Borderless Windowed mode and/or DX12/UWP environment.
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I tried 382.53 for the first time and it crashed on me. Went through all the steps using DDU as well so I’m just done honestly. Cant be bothered anymore
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would be nice if we could test that theory if only we could test it in fullscreen mode microsoft
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I feel you, I wasn’t even gonna downgrade drivers, I only did it because I haven’t played Overwatch in over a month, and that’s the only other big game I was really playing.
Yea, possibly the Steam version will have dedicated fullscreen. I’m not sure TC will even bother though. I can’t help but fear it’ll be as much of a copy-paste job from the Winstore version to the Steam version as possible.
Sorry to be difficult, but do you know of any other working drivers other than 382.53? Ive heard of a couple other but I cant remember what they were and I’m desperate.
Well, like I said, I downgraded to 382.53, but after clicking on Geforce Experience a few times to let it update for Shadowplay, it seems to have secretly upgraded my driver to 388.13.
It has been running fine on that, so try 388.13 for now, and let us know the results.
Oh, I called this hard.
Oh well, 388.18 just hard-froze on me, had to hold reset. I’m not gonna bother reinstalling 382.53, since it’ll probably auto-upgrade again, unless I don’t let GeForce Experience update, so gonna just go back to 431.60.