Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered

Overwatch · 05-29-2009, 01:30 PM

Every time I run a game outside of Steam, my screen will go black and the game will freeze after a random amount of time (seems anywhere from 3-20 minutes in). Alt-Tabbing reveals a balloon in the Notification Tray of Vista saying, "Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered".

I have the latest Nvidia drivers for GTX 295 - which is also the GPU I have.

6 GB of RAM, Vista x64... Latest audio drivers...

Any ideas?

bludsuka · 09-15-2009, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Overwatch

Every time I run a game outside of Steam, my screen will go black and the game will freeze after a random amount of time (seems anywhere from 3-20 minutes in). Alt-Tabbing reveals a balloon in the Notification Tray of Vista saying, "Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered".

I have the latest Nvidia drivers for GTX 295 - which is also the GPU I have.

6 GB of RAM, Vista x64... Latest audio drivers...

Any ideas?

no idea dude my one does the same thing. worked fine for the first mayb month then kept getting errors all the time.

makinu1der2 · 09-15-2009, 09:49 AM

List your complete specs including PSU make and wattage.

Post temps and voltages listed from the BIOS.

05-29-2009, 01:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Overwatch Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 12 OS: Windows XP SP3	Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered Every time I run a game outside of Steam, my screen will go black and the game will freeze after a random amount of time (seems anywhere from 3-20 minutes in). Alt-Tabbing reveals a balloon in the Notification Tray of Vista saying, "Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered". I have the latest Nvidia drivers for GTX 295 - which is also the GPU I have. 6 GB of RAM, Vista x64... Latest audio drivers... Any ideas?

09-15-2009, 09:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
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