Hello Tomshardware community, I signed up because, after reading through more than a handful of threads describing the same issue, I have been unable to resolve my own problem.
I recently built my first pc, everything appears to be running without any issues, however, I recently downloaded Dirt 3 and anywhere from 20 seconds to 20 minutes, it black-screens my whole TV for a moment, then the game comes back (although it's black-screened) and I get a message something like "The nVidia display drivers 314.22 have stopped responding and recovered." I have tried using the drivers that came boxed with my GPU (version 306.something) and this only delays the time it takes for the crash to occur.
I have disabled DWM. I have added a TdrDelay QWORD in the registry, (value: 8) and they don't appear to have helped (they may have delayed the time it takes for the crash, on average, although it may be a coincidence or my imagination).
I have played the following games for hours at a time with no issues: Dragon Nest, League of legends, and Minecraft. I am adding them for more information for you, although I am quite aware they're probably not as GPU intense as Dirt 3. (It's just the first steam game I downloaded to my new pc - I am well aware it's not really the go-to game for testing a pc's gaming capability)
I am running Win7 Ultimate 64 bit,
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor, 3300 Mhz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 2GB DDR5
RAM: 2x4GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance
PSU: CX600 Corsair 600W.
My system has 1 case fan, and the temperature of my GPU is never greater than 45 degrees C at the time of the driver crash. If you need any more information please let me know I will try to provide it. Thank you for any help you can provide.
I recently built my first pc, everything appears to be running without any issues, however, I recently downloaded Dirt 3 and anywhere from 20 seconds to 20 minutes, it black-screens my whole TV for a moment, then the game comes back (although it's black-screened) and I get a message something like "The nVidia display drivers 314.22 have stopped responding and recovered." I have tried using the drivers that came boxed with my GPU (version 306.something) and this only delays the time it takes for the crash to occur.
I have disabled DWM. I have added a TdrDelay QWORD in the registry, (value: 8) and they don't appear to have helped (they may have delayed the time it takes for the crash, on average, although it may be a coincidence or my imagination).
I have played the following games for hours at a time with no issues: Dragon Nest, League of legends, and Minecraft. I am adding them for more information for you, although I am quite aware they're probably not as GPU intense as Dirt 3. (It's just the first steam game I downloaded to my new pc - I am well aware it's not really the go-to game for testing a pc's gaming capability)
I am running Win7 Ultimate 64 bit,
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor, 3300 Mhz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 2GB DDR5
RAM: 2x4GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance
PSU: CX600 Corsair 600W.
My system has 1 case fan, and the temperature of my GPU is never greater than 45 degrees C at the time of the driver crash. If you need any more information please let me know I will try to provide it. Thank you for any help you can provide.
Playing in DX9 appears to have resolved my issue (played for double the time I've ever played before, because of the crash, without issues, then I just got bored, lol.) I will do some more playing sooner or later because It's a good offline game for when downloading software gives me ping issues for my typical online games.
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