Far Cry 4 - random nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered

litwicki23

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Hello. I am getting random crashes in Far Cry 4 ,nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. My graphic card is Asus Strix 980 ( oc by factory only ) . All my pc is stock. Using 4790k stock. Psu is Corsair 750rm. Tested Prime95, Memtest. Without errors. Also other games are stable.
Only Far Cry 4 is TDR crashing.
The crashes have always been random for me -- sometimes I'd see several in one day, and other times I'd go a couple/few weeks with no crashes.
I'm at a loss as to what causes them. It seems like changing a graphics setting will fix the issue sometimes, but when the crashes eventually return, the same fix does not work. This has led people to think that they found a "solution" to the problem when in fact it's just random luck. You change a setting, it suddenly works, so you assume that that was a solution. Eventually, however, the crashes return, so whatever you did was not a solution after all.
I am using ultra details, ultra shadows ( not soft shadows ) , fur on, godrays on, txaa 2x.
It can be my graphic card or what? Using 352.86 WHQL. Also i tested 347.88 and 350.12 WHQL and the same problem.