Don't know if anyone else has had issues but the latest Nvidia drivers, dated 10/07/2016, broke my game.
I'd been playing Horizons and, when I stopped for a break, noticed that Nvidia was notifying me of a driver update.
I did the update and all seemed well. That was until tried to play Elite.
The game appeared OK up to the point where the Start option appears. The game went to the spinning ship screen and just sat there....
I tried Horizons & non-Horizons versions, restarting the launcher and re-booting the PC. Same result every time.
I've now been into Device Manager and done a driver roll-back and that has fixed it.
So there' s definitely something strange in that update that doesn't agree with my system.
I tried other games and it seems that Elite was the only thing affected....
Strange one, and I think I'll wait for another release to come along before I update drivers again!