Display Driver Stopped Responding in GRID

[benlanky]

Hi

I've been having some weird problems since installing my free copy of Grid (thanks OCUK )

It plays perfectly well for about 20 minutes, maybe more then quickly locks up and stops responding... the Vista (64bit) message tells me that Grid.exe has stopped working, gives me some exception codes etc then goes back to the desktop (it gives me the option to 'search for a solution online' but I close the prog instead).

I then get a tray message that says ' Display Driver stopped responding and has recovered'.

I found a thread suggesting it was the drivers so I upgraded to 178.15 but it happened again. I also tried playing with the cover off the case (Lian Li with 3 fans running at 100%) but it still happens.

So, is my gfx card borked, or is the display res hurting it (1680 x 1050 Samsung 22") or.... what else?

Thanks for any help.

 

[benlanky]

I've tried the card with and without an overclock and it's the same result - I'd have thought it would be fairly easy on cards though, it's not exactly Crysis is it?

Surprised about the 4850 too, I was looking to that for my next upgrade

Even more so with the 4870, is the game just badly resolved?

Hope Far Cry2 is a bit better...

 

[benlanky]

Have you got Vista set to "disable desktop composition" when running games?Aero eats all your gpu ram and if you don't have much it will start eating your system ram

Not sure, where do I find the option?

Or maybe I should just disable Aero.... but it looks so pretty.............

 

[benlanky]

Thought I'd download 3dmark06 and give it a go and it did exactly the same thing, although it didn't even start properly.

Error log is here:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: 3DMark06.exe
Application Version: 1.1.0.0
Application Timestamp: 454b2409
Fault Module Name: OpenAL32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a783
Exception Code: c0000135
Exception Offset: 0006ecfb
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 9d13
Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Additional Information 3: 9d13
Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8

 

[benlanky]

Thanks, I'll give those a try later.

There's no artifacting during the game, it stops pretty quickly, but I'll try ati tool. Might try memtest too, just to be sure.

Thanks

 

[benlanky]

Had a look at Eggman's link and none of it worked, now I can't even start grid - 'OpenAL32.dll was not found'

On the bright side, it's a different message.

Atitool next.

 

[benlanky]

Hmmm, twenty two minutes in and no errors, although it does beep at me every second which is weird - any ideas?

Thanks

 

[benlanky]

Do you mean for each overclock? Or is there something I don't know.....

 

[benlanky]

Hi

Sorry I haven't looked at this thread for a while, I've been e-mailing EVGA about the problems I was having and running various tests that they recommended. Long and short of it is that I've just RMA'd it so they can test it.

I got over the OpenAL problem with a fix I found online to do with the 32bit and 64bit versions, but the card recovery problem has persisted.

Only problem now is that I'm not going to be able to play FarCry2 when it comes out

Cheers

 

[benlanky]

Yeah, it seems to be something odd about the coding in Grid. My card isn't overclocked at all at the moment, so I suggested to them that it should be able to play the game at standard settings.... hopefully I'll get a nice shiny replacement in time for FarCry2!!

 

[benlanky]

I have similar problems

Grid is always crashing for me! No idea why! Sometimes does it after a lap or2, sometimes after 2 whole races! And then sometimes when the replay is playin!!

This is on a 8800gt... but used to do it on my 3870 too! Just a buggy game perhaps?

Fair point, I don't want to be sending my card off to Germany for a week minimum just to find out it's a problem with the game, and then I get my old card back....

I tried Grid again yesterday, turned on the PC, started the game immediately and it crashed about 10 seconds into the first race. It was one of the Rome tracks which seem pretty gfx intensive, but it rules out overheating.

Any thoughts anyone - the card is packed up but I missed the carrier today.

 

[benlanky]

It might be a driver/windows/game problem. However, there is a good chance that they will send you a G92 8800GT/GTS or even 9800GTX back so if they have given u an RMA number I would be tempted to send it back for a repalcement anyway.

Here's hoping

I did try loads of fixes, including a few recommended by EVGA, so they must think it's card related if they gave me an RMA number.

New user account - there's one I didn't try, but I don't have separate user accounts on my pc, so it shouldn't be a problem. Should it?

A week without gaming? I might have to turn my 360 on..... maybe I should just get Grid for that.....

 

[benlanky]

The problem is probably your motherboards (Asus P5)

How come?

 

[benlanky]

Oh I hope not, can't be bothered with a whole mobo change again....

And, thinking about it, I hope the EVGA engineers aren't reading this thread!!

I nearly went for the Gigabyte too

 

[benlanky]

if you can reliably reproduce the problem, as your running at 3gig just set the memory to 1:1 with the FSB and see if it goes away. IIRC the E4300 runs a 9 multi.

Pretty sure that's what I was running, but I can't check as I have no gfx card!

I'll have a look for the 1.2 nocd crack, just out of interest.

Cheers

 

[benlanky]

Yeah, overheating seems to be the likely candidate, even with all the case fans on 100%.
Only other thing was the voltage on the +12v rail, which was about 0.1v below what was required, which is odd for a Corsair.
I'd love a 4850, but as EVGA don't make them I doubt they'll make me that offer....
Cheers

 

[benlanky]

I would still try creating a new account and running grid in that. Only takes a couple minutes and you won't lose anything just giving it a try

Fair enough, I'll try the card out when it (or its replacement) comes back and then try setting up a user account. Any particular settings I should go for?

 

[benlanky]

Hmmm, just got the card back from evga and the serial number has changed and it's dusty and scratched.... I've e-mailed them to ask why.
The report back from them was that there were no errors found. Hmmm.