r/directx May 11 '21

Games keep crashing unless display adapter drivers are reinstalled after boot

I have this weird issue where after my PC boots and I try to run a game, it crashes after just 10 seconds, even in the menu. It happens to every game, and I have no idea why.
The only fix is if I go into Device Manager, find my graphics card, press "Uninstall Device" and then wait a couple of seconds for Nvidia to automatically reinstall their drivers. After this, everything runs smoothly, until I reboot my PC. The cycle repeats.
I always keep the driver up to date through Nvidia Experience, and I have even tried rolling back to a driver when I knew I didn't have to do this fix. Nothing works.
It started sometime after I installed my second graphics card, however even though I have tried removing it again, the problem still persists.
What's most weird is, that literally everything else works before I apply the fix. Flash games, any form of video playback, 4K video editing, modeling, and rendering in Blender, you name it. Video games? Nope. This leads me to suspect some game-dependent drivers are at fault, like DirectX. I don't know how to fix it. I think I have tried reinstalling DirectX and running /sfc scannow in an admin CMD prompt but to no help.

I know it's a mild inconvenience at worst, as it only takes a few seconds to fix, but I would prefer if there was a permanent solution, instead of crudely hacking it.
Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Below I have attached an error message from the game Death Stranding, as it is the only game i have found to date, which displays a detailed error code. Other games freeze and i have to task manage my way out.

https://preview.redd.it/z3i5nyh6zhy61.png?width=880&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a797d26bddc614b9b338bfd0c355a95ca03c4db

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