"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

[sharazisspecial]

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.

[Elexia]

This is unrelated to FFXIV, it's your graphics driver you need to either update/downgrade or check if your GPU is still actually running well. Even if you dualbox you shouldn't be crashing your driver like this.

[sharazisspecial]

Which one you recommend? cos i tried a few do you know which one works well with gtx 680? I have looked on the internet for answers didnt get them. Its a problem that started with ffxiv so i ask the ffxiv forum if they have found the solution.

I will almost always get it during browsing my retainer. Very suspicious!

[Molly_Millions]

go to the nvidea website and get the latest one. If you've done that, have you updated Java recently?

[ShivenCasull]

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.

I had to replace a video card that used to give me a similar error when playing XIV/BF3.

It would crash once and recover, and the second time it would lock up.

Edit: As long as your card can recover it's likely a driver/software issue.

[Irondude]

I will almost always get it during browsing my retainer. Very suspicious!

haha that's because half the game time is spent waiting for items to transfer back and forth in your menus!

This was happening to my buddy on a laptop he had a 540m. He had to try a few different driver versions before it would stop. Also Try playing around with full screen vs windowed mode. He at one point was using Steam to full screen the game and still browse the web.

[Rylock]

I have this same problem, and it appears to be a driver issue SPECIFICALLY with FFXIV. The card works fine on other, higher stress games, is not getting anywhere near dangerous heat, and the problem is perfectly reproducible. All I have to do is hang out on that one special uldah server, and about once an hour the driver will crash. Then it will either recover and everything's cool, or it will restart the comp and everything's cool once its back up. This is the most recent driver btw, and has been an issue with the last few as well. I would downgrade to try and find something more stable... but we have a week til the engine goes away anyway, so not worth the effort.

Might be something to the full screen/windowed thing too.

[Alhanelem]

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.

Most likely your video card is overheating. You need to stop playing the game before you damage it, and adjust your graphics settings in control panel- Turn up the fan speed to maximum.

The card works fine on other, higher stress games, is not getting anywhere near dangerous heat, and the problem is perfectly reproducible

FFXIV 1.0 is not your average high stress game. It takes WAY more resources than it should for the graphics it puts out. Have you actually checked your graphics card temperature while playing? "stop responding and has recovered" should almost never happen unless your card is overheating.

[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