Can those of you who have had any Driver Has Stopped Responding and or Driver Crashes in games with the latest drivers more especially 353.06 and 353.12 please reply.
It seems to be happening to more and more people now with Nvidia based cards, as such ManualG has stepped forward requesting more information, see here - http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=399780
Most people are pointing fingers at Nvidia, while others are pointing them at MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision.
http://forums.evga.com/m/tm.aspx?m=2343546&fp=1
UPDATE : Perhaps a Maxwell only issue?
************ POSSIBLE FIXES ************
25/06/15 UPDATE FROM NVIDIA
26/06/15 UPDATE FROM NVIDIA
AND DRIVER RELEASED
21/07/15 UPDATE
It seems to be happening to more and more people now with Nvidia based cards, as such ManualG has stepped forward requesting more information, see here - http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=399780
Most people are pointing fingers at Nvidia, while others are pointing them at MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision.
http://forums.evga.com/m/tm.aspx?m=2343546&fp=1
It happened to me today as well, in all I counted nigh on 16 driver has stopped responding crashes while using chrome (HW ACC OFF) and one driver crash while playing Witcher 3 causing it to corrupt all my recent saves. The previous driver 347.88 and 350.12 have been perfect. My 980 GTX has been faultless since purchase
UPDATE : Perhaps a Maxwell only issue?
Yeah I it can't be a coincidence. They did something to un-gimp Kepler based cards and now Maxwell has problems.
************ POSSIBLE FIXES ************
Revert to the Nvidia 350.12 drivers a good number of members are now reporting these drivers have fixed their "Driver has stopped responding" in Chrome, Firefox and crashes in The Witcher 3.
Or try the Nvidia 353.00 drivers, worked brilliantly for me!
Lastly Nvidia 352.94 drivers, Guru3D rates these drivers very highly
If you are using EVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner make sure to set the monitoring polling rate to at least 6000 or 7000, some users have reported a low polling rate has caused driver has stopped responding with the latest drivers. ( Good number to set for any Nvidia driver )
Disable Hardware Acceleration in Chrome and or Firefox
Setting PhysX to Auto or CPU in CP has fixed crashes for some people in The Witcher 3
Enabling K-BOOST only while playing games, be warned this will cause your card to use all of it's potential in games, full core clocks and volts. This may fix the TDR of lower power mode when it shouldn't be doing as such in games. Turn off K-Boost when in windows.
25/06/15 UPDATE FROM NVIDIA
Originally Posted by ManuelG View Post
Correct. Thanks to everyone for their help. We will be releasing a hotfix driver soon which we hope addresses the desktop TDR issues that users reported with drivers newer than 350.12.
Not sure if I can go into detail but suffice to say it was timing related which is why it was very difficult to reproduce in our labs for so long and thus why it took a while for us to root cause the problem.
26/06/15 UPDATE FROM NVIDIA
ManuelG said:
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up for the hotfix driver to address desktop TDR issues users have been reporting with the most recent drivers. The hotfix driver has passed QA testing and we have also reached out to a dozen end users who have posted feedback that they were experiencing desktop TDRs with drivers 352.86 and above and those users all came back saying the driver fixed the issue for them. The hotfix driver will be posted later today. This driver also includes a fix for a bug that would introduce a 5 second delay when alt-tab in a game if you have an SLI configuration with a G-sync monitor
AND DRIVER RELEASED
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3694/
"This is a GeForce Hot Fix driver, version 353.38 that addresses the following issues:
Chrome Crashes/Freezes/TDRs
Delays when starting or switching apps & games with GSYNC enabled"
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...vers/announcing-geforce-hotfix-driver-353-38/
21/07/15 UPDATE
People are still having problems with TDR's and game crashing, most with these problems have gone back to the 350.12's and have had no problems since. Do not use the 353.51 leaked NDA drivers, they may well give you a grey screen of death
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