Thank you
I had noticed there was a similar post last year that didn't get answered, so wasn't expecting any replies. Therefore I went back to basics and tried a vanilla install, which worked. So yes a mod.
I narrowed it down to litematica, which is a popular mod.
I should have just taken this approach in the first place but it was late lol. I'm glad I put it on here though as at least one other person has hit this problem when updating software and drivers on a different card.