Asus OSD Gamer

Hi all,

Just to make other players aware of an issue I have noted with FFXIV and other programs.

I recently installed some new games on Steam and found I was BSOD'ing soon after they launched with "atkdisplowfilter.sys" blamed as the culprit. I had also noticed increased stutter/lag and crash to desktop when playing FFXIV with "display driver stopped working" messages appearing.

When I researched "atkdisplowfilter.sys", I discovered that a number of other people had been having similar issues where games were having poor FPS (where they once had good FPS), BSOD's, and crashes to desktop.

The common theme here was the ASUS OSD Gamer software which comes with a lot of ASUS motherboards.

Having completely uninstalled this, everything is now running absolutely fine (and those other games now run perfectly too), and so far FFXIV has been completely stable for 1 day and counting.....

So if any of you with random GPU crashes/stuttering issues who have some trouble with some other games have ASUS mobo's or GPU's, try uninstalling the OSD Gamer software to see if that helps.

Rig Specs

Case: Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred
Mobo: ASUS P6X58D Premium
CPU: Intel Core i7 930 OC'd to 3.2Ghz (air)
Cooler: Zalman CNPS9900-LED
GPU: ASUS ATI Radeon HD 5970 2048MB
RAM: OCZ Reaper 6GB 12800C6
PSU: Corsair TX 950W
HDD1: 2x Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II in Raid 0
HDD2: Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II
Mouse: Logitech G500
Keyboard: Microsoft SideWinder X6
DVD: Sony Optiarc AD-7241S
Monitor: Dell UltraSharp U2410 @ 1920x1200, 60Hz
OS: Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit