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Display Driver Stopped Responding - BF3 Crashing

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Keep getting this error thrown at me while playing battlefield 3 :confused: Keeps crashing the game, getting fed up with it now :(
 
Then if it's not the drivers it's the card at fault.

Forgive me if I sound patronising, not sure how clued up you are on switching drivers...

Uninstall everything you can from the control panel or use something better like Revo Uninstaller.

Download Driversweeper

Reboot in safe mode, run Driver Sweeper.

Reboot and install another driver.
 
Could be one of your cards.

Funny you should say that I know your going via the spec in my sig. Right at the minute there is only one 580 in the system the other is being replaced as it was fautly. It was behaving really weird and putting its fans on full pelt etc when I started the PC up
 
Today, I had the same problem with my 580. I think it's the driver, didn't have any problem with the previous driver. My gtx 580 is a brand new replacement from MSI, less then 2 weeks old.

Only crashed once, the driver stopped responding.
 
I found the latest WHQL Nvidia drivers unstable in BF3 so rolled back to beta ones (not the latest ones but before those) which have been fine for me except the occasional crash to desktop.
 
I had pretty much the same thing with ATI (6870). i was a conflicting driver issue since i still had my drivers from my 5450. That message would pop up everytime i did anything. I deleted All Ati folders from users and program files, deleted it from control panel and deleted it from paths. after that i did a clean install of the latest drivers and it works fine.
 
Had the same problem. Under clocking the card by a very small amount (or until you no longer get the problem) did the trick for me and everyone else with the same problem.
 
Underclocking a 580. Just doesn't sound right. The game ran fine up untill Sunday then i start to get random driver crash's.

I've tried different drivers, running the card at stock speed. Dont know what else to try. Any more idea's anyone.

Thanks.
 
I had this when I had my GTX 460 with mainly BF3 but sometimes with other games as well. Seemed like a driver issue to me as with each newer driver that came out this occurring decreased for me. Have a look on the nvidia forums, might be more people complaining about it on there?
 
If you have the latest drivers installed (295.73) and you still have the problem try this.

1. Open REGEDIT

2. Using Windows 7, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\GraphicsDrivers

3. Once there you will most likely have to create a new DWORD (32bit users) or QWORD (64bit users). Name it TdrDelay.

4. Once created, change the value to 8. This will allow the GPU 8 seconds to respond instead of 2 seconds.


Also it would be a good idea to run memtest86+ to make sure your memory is good. (this has been the cause of a lot of "the display driver has stopped responding and has recovered issues")

Let us know if this helps your problems as many others are also having this issue.
 
That problem is due to the overclock i sed to get it a lot lower some settings and it will be fine.

I think the oc'ing statement has some legs.

I was hoping it was driver related, but I get a similar message moreso when I have increased my OC further on my 7950.
 
Try putting your cards back to NVidia reference levels if they're 'overclocked editions'.

Vendors are selling overclocked cards that are unstable basically, most of them released new BIOS's with increased volts.
 
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