"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

[Alhanelem]

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

It's not the game. If the drivers crash and it's not overheating, its a flaw in the drivers. There are unexpected problems with various games in drivers all the time- generally it's the driver engineers that address the problem not the game engineers. The engineers are just using the libraries and instruction sets available to them the way anyone would. If they use them and the drivers crash, it's the driver, not the game.
Like 98% of "display driver stopped responding and has recovered" errors are caused by overheating. The remaining 2% are actual crashes.

[KamikazeMan]

I used to get this ALL THE TIME! How did I fix the issue? I got a new video card. I think the problem is related to the video overheating....my old GPU was notorious for that.

[Zezlar]

I had this issue before, and I get it every time I factory default my PC. The fix for me anyways is updating my DirectX.

[sharazisspecial]

I only get this error crash in uldah. Updating to new drivers , clean install of windows or newest drivers does not fix neither does increased fan speed.

[blackada]

I applied the Microsoft Support patch recommended earlier : "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error in Windows 7 or Windows Vista.
I was getting the crash several times a day, nothing to do with overheating, normally occurs when doing nothing, running or calling chocobo.
No further crashes as yet. Also I dont get the minute or so of stuttering when I first log in.


Spoke too soon, just had another

The problem seems to have changed, the only crashes i get now have been when calling my retainer at the point where the retainers inventory is about to be displayed, which is new for me. So the microsoft patch does seem to have modified the behaviour.

[radhaz]

I had that problem a while ago. Turns out the card was sagging and the heatsink lost contact with one of the GPU cores. This might be your problem, maybe not.

Download GPU-Z and check your core temperatures:
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

[viion]

my 2 cents: My brother used to get this all the time.

He never got it on XIV, he never got it on D3, but he got it on many other games. We tried a lot:

- Reinstalling
- Several Drivers
- Full clean of PC
- Replace video card
- Replace video card again
- Replace motherboard
- Replace CPU
- Replace Ram

His PC never got hot, we had cpu temps running and checked them when it occurred and nothing out of the ordinary, it could happen even when not playing games lol.

Nothing worked, it was like he was sinned to have it through some angry computer god.

So he binned the PC, bought a new one from scratch and has never had it since.

[Anakhu]

I was told by EA staff that using 3rd party programs to dual box was against the tos, yet people are talking about it in here like it is not.. wth already, is it allowed or not allowed.. my head is about to explode

[viion]

I was told by EA staff that using 3rd party programs to dual box was against the tos, yet people are talking about it in here like it is not.. wth already, is it allowed or not allowed.. my head is about to explode

EA Staff? why EA?

[Jaimie]

I was told by EA staff that using 3rd party programs to dual box was against the tos, yet people are talking about it in here like it is not.. wth already, is it allowed or not allowed.. my head is about to explode

Don't you need 2 accounts to dual box ? Which of those 2 accounts is violating the ToS ?