Latest Nvidia update sort of broke my card?

[AlienNova]

So I've recently built a new PC, it's a week old, with a Nvidia GTX 650 TI (Sort of budget build). It worked flawlessly for a couple days, getting hyped for Fallout 4. Then the latest driver update for Nvidia came along. First thing I noticed was that my gpu would crash on the loading screen of Fallout 4, not a big deal a lot of people are having this problem. Give up trying to fix it because everything either doesn't work, or just makes it worse. Then I noticed that other games started crashing my gpu. Mainly TF2 and Grav, both of which crash when loading the game, just like Fallout 4.

When I found out it was my gpu, I immediately rolled back to the previous update to no avail. Then after more trouble shooting I decided to just do a system restore to a day before the driver update. It's still not working!

Everything was working fine on this computer until that update! I can't think of anything else that would be causing this problem!

I really don't want to have to buy a new graphics card because I work a minimum wage job with only 30 hours a week.

I've attached a text file for dxdiag if you might think it's useful. I would also attach a NFO file for msinfo32, but it doesn't look like I'm able to

 

[Darren]

I actually spent several hours fixing this problem on my friend's laptop yesterday. I'm assuming it's the same problem. Code 43 showing an error in Device Manager that it has stopped working?

First, update the BIOS. This might fix it by itself, but if it doesn't continue with the below.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4567#bios

Secondly, uninstall the NVIDIA drivers using DDU. Launch it, it'll prompt a reboot to safe mode. Do it, and select the NVIDIA drivers to remove and reboot. Upon reboot check Device Manager and see if the card is recognized. If it is, let Windows update install the driver for you, either automatically or by right clicking and "Update Driver" within Device Manager. Reboot and see if it sticks and doesn't cause problems.
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

If not, shut it down again, disconnect the power, and pull out the CMOS battery on the motherboard. Leave it out for at least 5 minutes, and depress the power button a few times during this to discharge any power. Reinsert the battery and reboot. If prompted, load the optimized defaults for now.

See if it's identified correctly. My friend's laptop would show his 740M as a 3D Video Controller. The time I got the driver install to take, it popped up again as the 3D Video Controller. If that shows up in any of these steps, right click on it, uninstall, then wait a minute and then scan for hardware changes within Device Manager. In my case, it popped up for a few seconds as the 3D video controller again, then correctly identified it and installed the correct driver. The driver it installs initially will be an older Nvidia driver that should install. If that one stays and correctly identifies without crashing after a reboot, let or make Windows 10 update it and it should be the latest version.

The cause of the problem, at least for my case and I'm guessing yours, is the WDMM version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model

Yours is listed as version 1.3 in the dxdiag, which is what was used in Windows 8.1. Windows 10 uses WDMM 2.0, but it's not installed/corrupt. It doesn't get properly identified and has a conflict, causing driver failure. Not entirely sure why a normal driver install doesn't work, but it seems finnicky.

If the above doesn't work, you could also try uninstalling using DDU again after a CMOS reset.

There's also a chance I'm WAY off base, but your issue matches up well enough to make me wonder. He also was working fine, but then had a single crash in Fallout 4, and after that his driver would not install correctly. Even weirder, I got his card to identify correctly by simply shutting it down, removing the laptop battery for a few minutes, and then putting it back in. Upon restart it briefly misidentified it as the 3D Video Controller then installed a functioning driver that was then updated to the latest Nvidia driver that you originally installed. Resetting your CMOS should accomplish a similar thing and maybe help.

Out of curiosity, is this PC custom built, and did it have a different OS on it before that wasn't Windows 10?
Edit: Just saw it was a custom build, so assuming no previous OS. Wonder if Fallout 4 crashing in itself causes this. It's fairly buggy.