Problem With Error "Display Driver Stopped Responding And Has Recovered"

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LoneGreyWolf20

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I started getting error the other day and it is generally happening while I play a couple different MMOs. It essentially causes my game to crash. This is while playing Archage and the new Battlefront, but not WoW. After it happens I fire up the EVGA OC Scanner and run it and check the FPS. Generally after the error occurs my FPS drops from the normal 170 or so that the scanner shows down to around 35-50 FPS.

My "fix" is to just reinstall the video drivers (was using the newest 359 drivers from Nvidia) and that seemed to resolve the problem for a time and then it happens again. I have just now gone back down to drivers 358.xx.

My video card is a EVGA GTX 750ti FTW. My power supply is a couple months old and is a Corsair CX600M 600 watt power supply. My motherboard is also only a couple months old as I purchased it the same time I did the power supply. The motherboard is the ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155.

Any ideas what it can be?

It just seems strange that it could be hardware if reinstalling the video drivers fixes it for a time.

I have also noticed that as long as I don't overclock the card, I don't have an issue. However, the OC that I use has been stable for months. Using Precision X 16 I bump the GPU Clock up by 115 and the memory clock by 15. I also raise the mVs by 12.
 
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The "Display Driver Stopped Responding And Has Recovered" basically means the driver has crashed, but was able to restart without crashing the entire OS (in XP, every one of these would cause a BSOD). Typically, this occurs for one of four reasons: Excess temperature, unstable OC/Power, bad GPU driver (happens from time to time), or the card itself is starting to fail.

Given the fact that the card works fine with no OC, it's likely that newer GPU drivers have affected performance just enough to make your previous OC not entirely stable anymore.
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Mark_1970

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I used to get this heaps with my gtx 770 OC , always when the card got too hot. i used a temp monitor that read the temps of the gpu, gpu memory, gpu vrm. As temps got high in the mem/vrm software failed. turning up gpu fans above 80% stopped it. or turning down the cards oc down to reference gpu settings stopped it also, either one. conclusion was temps as cause. Now i have another pc but using same 770, the case has hi flow fans up front and no obstructions, allows fans to cool gpu nicely and never has this happened again without the gpu fan/oc tweaks. And yes gpu temps seemed not too bad when it did this, so believe its the affect on gpu mem/vrm

The factories really pushed their overclocks to the edge of stability and cooling must be great
 
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The "Display Driver Stopped Responding And Has Recovered" basically means the driver has crashed, but was able to restart without crashing the entire OS (in XP, every one of these would cause a BSOD). Typically, this occurs for one of four reasons: Excess temperature, unstable OC/Power, bad GPU driver (happens from time to time), or the card itself is starting to fail.

Given the fact that the card works fine with no OC, it's likely that newer GPU drivers have affected performance just enough to make your previous OC not entirely stable anymore.
 
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