I am getting the following error message all of a sudden. "The display driver "NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version xxx (320.49) stopped responding" ETC ETC. This GPU was installed in my Prodigy build {in sig} with a fresh install of Windows. Furmark crashes, but EVGA Scanner does not, Fallout 3 crashes with the error and that is the only game I have on this PC. All has been working fine since I bought the card http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=260542 Anyone have any suggestions?
Oh no thats my card!! is your driver the WHQL version if not then get this version as the older version has some serious issues
yeh just read up on it and this particular driver has caused some serious issue. You need to get the latest WHQL or higher version and the problems should stop
there was a beta version which was causing the issues so it could be that Glenn installed that version
Several times. I think I am narrowing down the problem as I have removed the lastest driver and installed version 314.22 and I have just run a Burnin test with Furmark and the readings are these. Burn in test 1920 x 1080 for 15 mins. Core:953MHz Mem:300MHz Temp: 82° GPU Load: 99% GPU Power: 103.4% Mem load: 6% Fan: 46% No Pproblems though I admit the above numbers mean little to me. But no error message but Fallout 3 still crashes at almost the same place. Unfortunately I have no more time for investigation now so will try one or two ideas tomorrow in relation to Fallout 3.
I've been running the 320.18 drivers, first on a pair of EVGA 2GB 550 Ti Superclocked cards and now a pair of EVGA 2GB 660 Ti Superclocked cards and have yet to have any issues. I've been running the 660s about a week or so, the 550s several weeks before that on those drivers. I've played Metro LL for a bit and ran its benchmarking tool without issue. Also run Valley 1.0 and Heaven 4.0 without any issues on those drivers. I do run MSI Afterburner just to monitor temps and set a custom fan profile. I haven't touched EVGA's already OC'd settings. I don't do any CPU overclocking either for that matter. Note: I'm running 1920x1080 rez, could be a combination of drivers and resolution causing some of the reported issues, maybe??? Personally, I suspect that at least some of the complaints about 320.18 stemmed from user OC'd cards. Probably a good idea to rebaseline the OC and work it back up when new drivers come out. EDIT: I haven't tried the 320.49 drivers yet. I went with 320.18 earlier than I usually do with new updates. I usually wait a month or so to make sure there aren't any concerns. Since I've had no problems with the 18 drivers, I decided to keep them rather than rollback. EDIT: While I don't have Fallout 3, I have run Skyrim, Metro Last Light, and Battlefield 3 quite a bit (and a little bit of Hawken) on the 320.18 drivers without any issues.
I have tried to sort this issue out this morning, even installed another game,(Crysis 3), just in case Fallout 3 was corrupted in some way but no joy the games crash almost immediately. Strange thing is I can run Furmark, MSI kombustor with no problems, the Nvidia Hair Demo gives me issues, so I can only assume that I have a faulty GPU.
Try uninstalling the NVIDIA HD audio drivers. I had a problem very similar to this and that fixed it for me. EDIT: Also are you running speedfan? Stanly tweedle had some issues with speedfan causing the drivers to drop over on this thread
I will certainly try the your suggestion in regard to the audio drivers, cheers and no I am not using Speed fan.
Further to your suggestion on removing the Nvidia Audio driver,it seems to reinstall on restart. How do I stop this?
