Video drivers stop responding when using dx10 (I think thats the reason) - by biffenbob
biffenbob on 2/8/2009 at 23:07
Alright, to the best I can tell this happens when ever a program uses directx10. I say this because when ever I try and play the following games or run these programs on dx10 mode my screen will turn black I can hear sound going and I have to cntrl +alt+delete to get the screen back and then windows tells me my display driver has stopped responding.
Things I've tried it with:
Company of Heroes happens just as the map finishes loading and the game should start.
Crysis demo same time as coh, the level will finish loading and then video drops.
Resident evil 5 bench test program (found here (
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_re5_downloads.html))
For all of them they run in dx9 fine, but when I go to 10 they stop working correctly.
I am using vista 32, have a 8800gts. I have tried updating graphic/sound/directx all with no changes. Any help/ideas is appreciated thanks.
bikerdude on 2/8/2009 at 23:40
the obvious suggestion would be to install the laster version of the driver and DirectX...:thumb:
biffenbob on 2/8/2009 at 23:53
Yea tried that, all of those are up to date.
Fafhrd on 3/8/2009 at 00:24
Do nVidia cards have a 'GPU Recovery' option somewhere in the driver settings? You might want to turn that off if it's on. On ATI cards (before they took it out of the drivers) that would cause all sorts of problems like you're describing, since it randomly decides the GPU isn't responding and resets it.
biffenbob on 3/8/2009 at 01:44
I went hunting through my driver settings and google and could not find anything like that. I did see something similar thats part of vista, but couldnt tell if you can disable it.
EDIT: Ok kept looking and ended up here (
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/wddm_timeout.mspx) I cant even pretend to know what thats about, so I hope disabling it isnt the fix for this problem.
bikerdude on 3/8/2009 at 10:16
How old is the card, its possible that it might be faulty..?
biffenbob on 3/8/2009 at 18:07
Its about a year and a half old, so its possible. I hope its not hardware, but I do have a support ticket submited to evga (my cards maker). Still waiting to hear back from them.
bikerdude on 3/8/2009 at 20:46
Quote Posted by biffenbob
Its about a year and a half old, so its possible. I hope its not hardware, but I do have a support ticket submited to evga (my cards maker). Still waiting to hear back from them.
Have you got a friend who pc you can put it in to test..?
biffenbob on 3/8/2009 at 21:35
No one who has vista sadly.
bikerdude on 3/8/2009 at 21:51
Quote Posted by biffenbob
No one who has vista sadly.
Where are you located..?
