Another weird quirk. There’s a set of bookmarked recipes in NEI that show up each time even if I’m working with a new installation. I’m wondering if there’s anywhere MultiMC saves files that i’m not aware of that could be causing this. I can’t include links, how do I link the instance log?

Okay then I dont know what that NEI issue is, sorry bout that. As for your Drivers, maybe try installing some flavour of Linux, or running it from a LiveUSB to see if that works?