MSI GTX460 - Nvidia driver crashes

[Phenomenologica]

As stated in the title I've got an MSI version of the GTX460, running with the latest nividia drivers (Not the MSI ones). Almost all of the time it works perfectly, when run through a stress test it's perfectly stable and reaches a maximum temperature of about 57 degrees which I think you'll agree is fairly reasonable.

My problem comes in the form of Crysis. Every now and again, it freezes, then after ten or twenty seconds crashes to the desktop with a message about the nvidia nd4_disp driver stopping working and I have to reboot the PC. There is no discernible pattern to it; it can happen twice in half an hour or not at all in 5 hours, anywhere from a graphics intensive fight to the main menu screen.

I'm stumped. What would cause such a sporadic unpredictable error that is, as far as I can tell, confined to one game? If it helps I'm running XP SP3, though I'll be moving to windows 7 tomorrow if the royal mangle plays along. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[The Running Man]

Is the rest of your system overclocked? Persoally im using windows 7 64 with Nvidia 260.63 and never have any issues like you describe even with intense BFBC2 play OC'd to 850/2000 with my MSI GTX 460 1GB.

 

[Phenomenologica]

Is the rest of your system overclocked? Persoally im using windows 7 64 with Nvidia 260.63 and never have any issues like you describe even with intense BFBC2 play OC'd to 850/2000 with my MSI GTX 460 1GB.

I'm hoping the upgrade to 7 tomorrow will sort it out and that it's some kind of software failure rather than a hardware glitch. The rest of the system was overclocked, although curiously it seems to have de-overclocked itself today, as per my other thread on the forum. I'll have to sort that out sometime but it seems to be a separate issue.

I've overclocked my graphics card to similar settings to yours and it's been stable in all the tests I've run on it so I don't think it's a problem with the card itself, though it was normally clocked during the Crysis errors.

 

[Phenomenologica]

As an update, I've moved to 7 and so far no driver crashes. The game crashed to the desktop once early on but downloading the latest patch seems to have fixed that too. Seems it was just a software glitch, fortunately!