Driver Has Stopped Responding - Nvidia Driver Crashes

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 19:47

Right, I've had my browser up and running with plenty of usage since 3pm (353.00), that's nearly 5 hours without a driver has stopped responding. The latest drivers would give me one every 10mins..

Now on to The Witcher 3

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 19:51

Silent_Scone said:
Makes sense, polling period is how often the card is checked for shifts in clock speeds. What did you change it to out of interest?

It was on 500-1000, it's now on 5000

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 19:54

What did you think I changed to ?

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:17

So far so good in the Witcher 3, running sweet as a nut with great frame rates

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:55

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=02581221908536439035

The Witcher 3 still running really well, 353.00 VSYNC OFF in game - Full Screen - Unlimited Frame Rates - MSI Afterburner capped 70FPS - 5000-6000 polling Rate in Monitoring

Here is the driver I'm using, I was originally to before I upgraded and all hell broke loose

DRIVER LINK

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 21:14

Yeh everything was working perfectly, but in my rush to have the latest drivers I jumped for the 353.06 and 353.12 then everything went wrong. First all those driver had stopped responding problems, then the big game crash. Thought it was just my end and I saw a flood of issues on this forum and guru3D.

Hopefully, HOPEFULLY the polling rate of 5000-6000 on MSI and the 353.00's fix it

shankly1985 said:
Does msi afterburner polling rate effect performance?

See this -

You can also configure the polling rate, which is the amount of time MSI Afterburner should check your hardware to gather stats. I recommend leaving the polling settings alone, if you set those values really low you might actually hurt performance while playing games because MSI Afterburner is querying devices too often.

I've set a much higher polling rate because I don't want it constantly checking/updating, plus someone else mentioned it fixed their driver stopped responding issues

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 22:14

Blame, try the drivers I mentioned and if you are using MSI Afterburner, the polling tweak. What's to lose?

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 23:23

Well no driver has stopped responding or The Witcher 3 crashes today, so I'm staying on these drivers and the msi afterburner tweaks I did

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 00:27

Radox-0 said:
So far so good having rolled back to 350.12. The latest ones were giving me crashes every hour or so with some hard crashes thrown in for good measure.

Great so that's two drivers recommended then, think I'll add these to the OP

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 00:34

Done edited

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 11:17

If you get Witcher 3 crashes, it may not just be your drivers

It can be the game

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 11:36

Try the polling tweak if you haven't already

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 12:28

opethdisciple said:
Are these issues occuring because you guys are oc'in your cards and or running apps like aferburner etc?

NO!

I'll say that for the third time this week

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 13:10

Ayahuasca said:
They gave you an unreleased driver?

No wonder he doesn't have any problems, he's from the future

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 14:03

~>Dg<~ said:
you know the most stable recent driver is 344.11 right ?

also most people who get that are oc their cards. check they stable.

Either trolling or didn't read any of the posts above

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 15:01

Silent_Scone said:
LOL 352.86 completely fine -353.06 - Witcher 3 game issues.

Better ?

353.06 was problematic for me too, 353.00 not so, but strangely they are mobile drivers with desktop support

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 15:03

dml3 said:
This issue happens a lot with pirated games. There are litecoin miners in those files. Will cause that "stopped responding" issue 100%

LOL post of the day, thanks dml3 I needed that

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 19:09

PaulyD said:
Just had driver stopped responding on the desktop with the 353.00 drivers, was idle with twitch streaming on 2nd monitor.

Have changed hardware polling rate to 5000 from 1000 in MSI AB, will see how it goes now. If another happens will go back to 350.12 as they were perfect for me

Well that sucks

Thanks for trying the next tweak, hopefully that fixes it

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 19:30

Silent_Scone said:
Talking to CDProjectRed with ideas to stop the issues in Witcher 3. I have neither AB or PX installed, though.

Do note that if it is related to crashing, Angry Joe also said he had three hard crashes in the game and one infinite loading problem

Neil79 · 8 Jun 2015 at 20:17

Another positive

It seems upping the polling rate in Afterburner fixed both Chrome crashes and game crashes. Using Afterburner 4.1.1 with a polling rate of 6000 and driver 353.06 has so far stopped the random crashes and recovery in chrome and the games tested are Far Cry 4, Unity, and Witcher 3. Normally driver would crash/recover after around 1/2 hour to an hour of activity. Only been changed for ~a day so far, but looks promising.

On this end, computer has been on since 4pm, still no driver has stopped responding in chrome/games when fixing the polling rate

Remember though that other gpu monitor software will most likely also have polling rates which need to be changed.

Wonder what Nvidia and or MSI Afterburner has changed :confused: