Only started happening the past week or so. I've had it happen three times in the past week and I've not made any hardware or software changes that could cause this. Use my computer a lot and it rarely happens but curious as to why it's starting to happen now.
Basically, my screen will go completely black for 2-3 seconds and then everything is normal. If I look in Event Viewer, I can see it's the graphics driver crashing; "Display driver nvlddmhm stopped responding and has succesfully recovered."
I've used the same graphics drivers for quite some time now, so perhaps an obvious fix is updating -- why would that suddenly be an issue with no other changes to my system, though? To be precise, I use the 384.94 driver (and haven't updated as when I last looked at doing so, about 4 months ago, the most recent wasn't all that stable with Path of Exile at the time)
The crash doesn't seem to happen at any particular point by the way, of the three driver crashes it's happened in these 3 situations; as soon as I booted my pc once, another time watching something fullscreen in VLC media player and most recently watching a twitch stream in fullscreen.
System:
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (overclocked to 4.0 GHz)
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150)
Seasonic Focus Plus 750W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1080
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Basically, my screen will go completely black for 2-3 seconds and then everything is normal. If I look in Event Viewer, I can see it's the graphics driver crashing; "Display driver nvlddmhm stopped responding and has succesfully recovered."
I've used the same graphics drivers for quite some time now, so perhaps an obvious fix is updating -- why would that suddenly be an issue with no other changes to my system, though? To be precise, I use the 384.94 driver (and haven't updated as when I last looked at doing so, about 4 months ago, the most recent wasn't all that stable with Path of Exile at the time)
The crash doesn't seem to happen at any particular point by the way, of the three driver crashes it's happened in these 3 situations; as soon as I booted my pc once, another time watching something fullscreen in VLC media player and most recently watching a twitch stream in fullscreen.
System:
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (overclocked to 4.0 GHz)
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150)
Seasonic Focus Plus 750W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1080
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
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