"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

[BiggLethal]

I had this same problem with my 560Ti, I had to rollback my drivers to an older one to finally get it stable. Newest driver is not always best

[YeaniNah]

me i had that problem too i did research ..and some Hitech was saying the card stronger so not get use and Window7 got a idle for every drivers that dont get use alot ..so they said to go in regedit and change the time laps before get idle ..cos i was checking my videocard in game and my videocard was at 20% use and keep black out ,crash and recover ..then i did what they wrote and no more trouble i dont crash anymore

[Cross]

I had the same problem once:
If it occurs only once, dont panic. Errors happen.

If it occurs many times, your graphics card may be damaged.
In my case, the memory inside was damaged and my retailer sent me a replacement, since then it never occured again (I had a GTX 470)

[YeaniNah]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2665946

[Valmonte]

i've had near zero display driver issues with the 304.79beta drivers, as always remember to do a custom install and check the Clean install option.

[Slade]

Black screen then "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" which will cause ffxiv to crash because of the loss of display driver.(like alt-tabbing out of fullscreen does or turning off my hdtv does)

It happens alot during ffxiv play time. I expect to get it 10+ times a day. I have tried clean install, reinstall graphic drivers, underclock nothing works.

I notice that i will very often get it during browsing my retainer . Though it does happen during other times. I dont think i have had during battle thank god.

Is it cos of ffxiv? is my new gtx 680 the problem? I didnt get it when i played gw2 . FFXIV is going to explode soon so it less of concern for me but i wanted to know is this a common problem with ffxiv?

I do dual box using sandboxie .Though it has happened very often when i havent dual boxed.

It is a new pc so im a bit disappointed by this.

This happens alot with the nvidia 600 series cards and this game. Its not due to overheating though, its a driver issue. The card you are using is more than enough to handle this game but due to lack of support in the form of drivers some of the features will cause it to crash. Turn off ambient occlusion and have msaa to at least 4x. Crashing occurs when the card throttles down from high to low load.

[Alhanelem]

and the fan doesn't even need to go above 50% while XIV is running (which keeps you a lot of margin before having your card to overheat, as the fan speed will be automatically increased as the temperature rise.)

Unless the noise REALLY bothers you, you should always have the fan maxed anyway. I've never had a video card whose fan died before the card did.

[Antipika]

Unless the noise REALLY bothers you, you should always have the fan maxed anyway. I've never had a video card whose fan died before the card did.

Well any high-end Nvidia reference card since Fermi has a loud as sh** fan. I play with headphones, usually my volume is really high, yet the fan at 100% on these card is unbearable. ~30% is barely audible (usually CPU/case fan are more loud). 40~50% you can start to hear it, but it's very small (impossible to notice with headphones). Around 60% it starts to get noisy. Anything above 80% is a jet during take off...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCpNvSb5dU

(I know videos aren't the best to realize how noisy it is, but can give a rough idea, and it only goes to 85% here which is the max allowed by the eVGA tool.)

[Alhanelem]

I play with a headset and can't really hear the fan while playing, even at full blast speed.

[indira]

it aint the driver it the game there something telling the window to do something, then that something does not exits so it crashes.