Driver Has Stopped Responding - Nvidia Driver Crashes

PaulyD · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:26

980 here, got this on the last two drivers, though the latest was less but the moment it happened I uninstalled them. Was getting it just on the desktop idle though thinking about it Chrome might have been open but minimised. No idea about hardware acceleration but guessing on by default.

Annoyingly happened as I was just overclocking my card, so was making me think it was the overclock! Was a head scratcher at the time

Rolled back to the 350.12 GTA drivers and been perfect. perfectly stable desktop and gaming without single hitch.

I caught up on the Nvidia drivers thread yesterday and saw you suggested the 352 icafe drivers Neil, I installed those yesterday and been perfect since, don't play the witcher so can't comment on performance, but definitely desktop stable so far and limited gaming.

Usually have chrome open on 2nd screen streaming something, overclocked with afterburner.

RogerMesenseless · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:27

I've only had this once with my GTX 980 ACX. Originally I went to install the 353.06 drivers and it failed to install them so I did a system restart and then they installed. It later crashed Bioshock Infinite so I did a clean install (again) and it hasn't happened since. The card is running cool and it's not running an overclock right now. I'm considering reverting to a previous driver as I'm dropping frames in GTA V which wasn't happening before at all.

Edit: Hasn't happened while outside of a game, but it did on my old 770 Lightning about a week ago (that card crashed loads of games tbf).

Silent_Scone · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:28

Strudders said:
So do you thing the new drivers are causing some sort of memory leak that is making the drivers unstable??

No not leak, CPU cache and system memory if conditional can cause TDR events.

Phixsator · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:35

I have no CTDs at all. Everything is stable on the release driver for the 980ti including the gsync hotfix driver. But my god is witcher as the only gaming pushing high amount of temps..every other game is fine but for witcher i have to use a more aggressive fan curve to prevent it from throttling with 1400 on the core..

tommybhoy · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:46

Ayahuasca said:
Fail.

I meant easy for users to fix by rolling back to 350.12.

If you'd read my posts you would see I'd already commented on them using locals to replicate the problem at HQ.

It aint a fix

, especially if it's still present in the upcoming BAK driver, how are you meant to play it TWIMTBP in this driver branches current state?

shankly1985 · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:47

tommybhoy said:
It aint a fix, especially if it's still present in the upcoming BAK driver, how are you meant to play it TWIMTBP in this driver branches current state?

Roll backwards... All will be fixed.

tommybhoy · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:48

I'll try that on the missus shanks.

rtho782 · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:49

No problems here, 980 SLI on 353.06.

Currently overclocked to 1530 core too.

shankly1985 · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:50

tommybhoy said:
I'll try that on the missus shanks.

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:50

rtho782 said:
No problems here, 980 SLI on 353.06.

Currently overclocked to 1530 core too.

Using MSI Afterburner too? What OS

Techen · 7 Jun 2015 at 13:52

On driver version 353.06, Played witcher 3, GTA 5, BF4, No crashing ever so far, Infact the last time my drivers crashed was when my 980 died and went back for its RMA :B

rtho782 · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:04

Neil79 said:
Using MSI Afterburner too? What OS

Windows 8.1 x64.

Don't like MSI, I've got the clocks set in a custom bios and flashed it.

I use nVidia Inspector to find stable clocks then bios mod. Sometimes have nVidia Inspector open for monitoring graphs on 2nd display.

I used to have FRAPS running for my old G19 keyboard but I'm on a K95 RGB now and don't have the keyboard screen, so I use Geforce Experience to have an ingame FPS display.

Ayahuasca · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:09

tommybhoy said:
It aint a fix, especially if it's still present in the upcoming BAK driver, how are you meant to play it TWIMTBP in this driver branches current state?

It is a fix for now, Witcher 3 works fine on 350.12.

If it's still present for the new Batman and the game doesn't run well without that driver then yeah.

I see shanks is trying to get in with the snarky comments again although I've seen him in the AMD driver thread telling people to roll back drivers before lol.

Silent_Scone · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:13

rtho782 said:
Windows 8.1 x64.

Don't like MSI, I've got the clocks set in a custom bios and flashed it.

I use nVidia Inspector to find stable clocks then bios mod. Sometimes have nVidia Inspector open for monitoring graphs on 2nd display.

I used to have FRAPS running for my old G19 keyboard but I'm on a K95 RGB now and don't have the keyboard screen, so I use Geforce Experience to have an ingame FPS display.

We're just too cool for driver crashes. :cool:

Boomstick777 · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:13

Will just add that my system is run at stock while gaming, using desktop. (Only OC for benching)

5820K + Titan X @ Stock.

Game exit to desktop and browser freeze / lock up on every driver above 350.12.

So far 350.12 is solid, no problems.

Silent_Scone · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:16

You run your system completely stock for gaming? I only run GPUS stock.

Boomstick777 · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:28

Silent_Scone said:
You run your system completely stock for gaming? I only run GPUS stock.

Yeah I like a cool and quiet PC for gaming / desktop use. Only OC when benching.

tommybhoy · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:31

Ayahuasca said:
It is a fix for now, Witcher 3 works fine on 350.12.

If it's still present for the new Batman and the game doesn't run well without that driver then yeah.

I see shanks is trying to get in with the snarky comments again although I've seen him in the AMD driver thread telling people to roll back drivers before lol.

Bandaid is the word your looking for.

As for your shankly opinion, I'll look forward to you being so vocal against the countless 'opinions' running Nvidia in all things AMD.

Ayahuasca · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:46

tommybhoy said:
Bandaid is the word your looking for.

As for your shankly opinion, I'll look forward to you being so vocal against the countless 'opinions' running Nvidia in all things AMD.

Nope, it's a fix. Completely gets rid of the crashes and games are still playable. Would only be a bandaid if nVidia didn't acknowledge or fix the problem.

I've already voiced my opinions on the matter, not defending nVidia at all, quite the opposite and have stated they're at fault here.

Neil79 · 7 Jun 2015 at 14:54

rtho782 said:
Windows 8.1 x64.

Don't like MSI, I've got the clocks set in a custom bios and flashed it.
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So far 95% of those with crashing are using MSI Afterburner and or EVGA Precision and the latest drivers