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[Corgiss]

Since updating to the 350.12 driver version I've been getting a black screen, kick out to desktop with a message in the lower right corner of the screen stating that the Nvidia driver experienced a fatal error and had recovered. Was just wondering if anyone else has had this issue.

[MrMadguy]

Lol. I'm not alone. It started happening after one of the driver updates, but rolling back to older driver (even full uninstall of all driver versions) didn't helped. Then problem disappeared by itself. And now, after another driver update, it returned again. How it happens? In my case it happens after 10-15 minutes of playing only when I start computer after long break, but problem disappears after reboot. On most forums ppls are saying, that it's due to overclocking. Yeah, my video card is overclocked by manufacturer, so it looks like new NVidia drivers are messing manufacturer's overclocking profile somehow.

Edited by MrMadguy, 27 April 2015 - 08:06 PM.

[cSand]

what happened?

AMD's drivers have been relatively solid the last couple ones... meanwhile nVidia's have gone downhill.

Bizarro world or what?


You guys try this tool?

http://www.wagnardmo...om/DDU/info.htm

Then a fresh install of drivers?

Edited by cSand, 27 April 2015 - 08:24 PM.

[Corgiss]

I would go a minute and a half tops before it would crash out. It was late so I wasn't in the mood for experimenting. I wanted to get in a couple quick matches before bed. Will try again shortly and see if a restart did the trick. If not I'll try a full removal of the new drivers and install the previous ones that worked. Out of curiosity I tried SWTOR with the new drivers and that gave me issues as well so it isn't just MWO.

[Xeraphale]

I've had this issue happening since about two updates ago but has pretty much sorted itself out after the most recent patch (which seems to be the opposite of your problem!). I find that it happens in games built on the Cryengine; Evolve also had the same issue.

[Corgiss]

Just tried. It did run for 3:39 before it died this time.

[Roadkill]

Very strange. I've been running 350.12 since it came out with no problems. My rig is relatively new, though, so it might just be that everything on mine is pretty new and so more stable.

Which card are you using? That might be part of it, too. Mine's a GTX770.

[Corgiss]

My card is a GTX 460 v2. Old card but it has run like a trooper up until this latest driver update. Reverted back to the previous drivers via a system restore point and ran around the training grounds for 10 minutes during lunch. Hopefully that's issue solved for the time being. Haven't tried an actual match yet.

[Marvyn Dodgers]

Moving to hardware & accessories

[MrMadguy]

I've just tested my video card in crashing conditions via ASUS GPU Tweak and found out only this suspicious things:
1) Temp goes to 70C
2) My GPU Freq goes beyond max boost value, set on Tuning tab.
3) Power target shows strange numbers - up to 500% (may be bug - should be 50%, I guess)
I will test it in normal conditions (after reboot) and will post my results here.

UPD: In normal conditions results are following:
1) Temp goes to 70C
2) My GPU Freq goes beyond max boost value, set on Tuning tab, by about 100MHz.
3) The only difference - power target shows 94%.
Looks like it's new drivers, messing up with NVidia's GPU Boost technology.

UPD2: Looks like I have fixed my problem.

Edited by MrMadguy, 30 April 2015 - 11:28 PM.

[Tuze]

This has started happening way too often for my liking.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Thread necro alert.

[TwigTech]

Necrobumping this thread. I've been having this issue on and off again for over a month now, and still can't figure out a workaround. If I don't get a black screen, my whole game freezes instead. Does anyone have a solution?

[Ghost_19Hz]

This is an ongoing years old problem for Nvidia. Do a full uninstall of driver using DDU or something similar. Download and install old drivers, maybe try October 2014. Continue until stable driver found as needed.

Some have found relief by uninstalling Geforce Experience, and installing MSI Afterburner instead.

Some undo overclock and that seems to help.

Some have reported that 3D vision drivers are causing issue and to uninstall those.

Really though, no one seems to know what the real fix is. Could be a million things affected by bad drivers.

Its crappy drivers on Nvidia's part, so until they release one that works, good luck.

Edited by Ghost_19Hz, 08 July 2015 - 05:57 PM.

[Catamount]

Ahh yes, those "superior" Nvidia drivers. I've had a 980ti for all of a week now and while I love the card, the drivers remind me of exactly why I jumped to AMD in the first place. This isn't some recent thing. I sold my 8800GTS and got a 4870 precisely because I had gotten fed up with Nvidia's drivers, which by that point had broken a major game in my list (BF2142), not because I needed the additional GPU power at that point. This was just shortly after it came out that Nvidia was responsible for most of Windows Vista's reputation for instability (well, 30%, more than anything else). Several years later, I come back, switching from a 7970 with drivers that have never let me down, and the first thing I get is a never-ending chain of TDRs with Windows 10 10062 (again, AMD's drivers play nicely).

I'm starting to wonder if Nvidia has ever had good driver teams. Still, they have good hardware. What are you going to do? Not buy it?

[Oderint dum Metuant]

AMD'S drivers don't play nicely in Windows 10...but that's more because of a windows issue.
It rolls the drivers back to a set of stock WDDM 2.0 to the point the 200 series are classed as an Engineering Sample.

[Thorqemada]

Do you still have to tell Win10 not to auto-update (auto-degrade) your Drivers?

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Thorqemada, on 09 July 2015 - 01:55 AM, said:

Do you still have to tell Win10 not to auto-update (auto-degrade) your Drivers?

You can. But it ignores the GPU drivers and does hem anyway

[Thorqemada]

Microsoft Windows - quell of Joy...

[Deathsiege]

I was having a similiar problem. Nvidia said update available but the update didn't install correctly and luckily went back to previous version. On nvidias website there was a message to go into your programming, take out a file and replace it. Waay over my head. Old driver works fine. I'll stay right here where I'm happy.