Display Driver Stopped Responding - BF3 Crashing

[Gregster]

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.

I got a Bios update from Gigabyte which kept my OC but ramped up the volts which stopped my Driver stopped responding problem.

I had to email Gigabyte to get it though.

 

[gbgt2]

You can bump the voltage up in afterburner which is what I needed to do with my MSI cards because they were not stable with the voltage and OC that MSI sent the cards out with ...

 

[stevie_vee]

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.

I did this and installed the latest drivers (296.10) and all seems to be ok now. Not one crash(touches wooden desktop)

Thanks a lot Gregster

 

[Gregster]

Glad to help.

 

[siege2]

Drivers, unstable and Nvidia in the same sentence, that can't be right. Are you sure your not running an AMD video card?

you may or not be, Iam running a 7970 and it runs my battlefield 3 very smooooooooooth thanks.

kenneth

 

[mmj_uk]

I got a Bios update from Gigabyte which kept my OC but ramped up the volts which stopped my Driver stopped responding problem.

I had to email Gigabyte to get it though.

Yeah it's not something they'll publicise too much ie. "our cards are all unstable without this bios" so you have to go looking for them, much better for them to stay quiet and have everyone think that it's an NVidia driver issue.

The NVidia driver recovery thing is just a symptom of the card crashing in most cases.

In almost all cases where people have this issue they have a non-reference vendor overclocked card.