"Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered". Has anyone else had this error and fixed it? it drives me crazy and freezes up my CAD software! I tried disabling UAC, updating drivers, removing old drivers manually in safe mode and installing drivers again. But I still get the problem. I'm running windows vista Business and my video card is plenty sufficient (NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT). Anyone been able to fix this?

7/20/2009 2:57:32 PM

Damn, NVidia still hasn't fixed this?

I had the same problem with mine a long while ago. I ended up giving up on Vista rather than waiting for Nvidia to come out w/new drivers that would work.

7/20/2009 4:46:53 PM

I didnt think the 9800gt was a CAD card. I think your cad program is trying to use openGL while your video card only supports directX, so it errors out eventually.

Can you set it so the cad program is using software openGL maybe?

[Edited on July 20, 2009 at 4:54 PM. Reason : :/]

7/20/2009 4:52:08 PM

directx is constantly shitting out on me

[Edited on July 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM. Reason : /random and quite unrelated]

7/20/2009 6:27:50 PM

this isn't Vista's fault.

Remove all the drivers you have, and install the latest WHQL drivers from nVidia. In your CAD application, make sure the renderer is set to DirectX, NOT OpenGL.

If you are still getting this message, check the GPU temperatures and voltages against the manufacturer's specifications.

Honestly this sounds like a heat/undervolting issue, not a driver issue. How long have you been using the card before this started happening?

7/20/2009 6:51:01 PM

Quote :

"this isn't Vista's fault"

lol

7/20/2009 6:54:58 PM

^^ what noen said exactly.

7/20/2009 7:21:19 PM

It is a heating issue. Had the same thing happen with my Radeon 4850 while playing various games (Mass Effect, AoE3, etc.). Never happened during normal OS uage. For ATI, went into the Catalyst Control Center and manually upped the speed on the video card fan to resolve. Was set to automatic and only whirred at 50% or so maximum, even during intense use.

7/21/2009 8:08:45 AM

thanks for the responses, I'll look into these things when I get home today

7/22/2009 1:15:18 PM

I love Vista but I get this error constantly, especially if I have Aero enabled. It pissed me off to the point that I removed all the drivers (mine is an ATI card). It seems to crash less often with the default Windows drivers, but occasionally it will cause my computer to restart now.

Huge PITA... but really my only issue with Vista.

For me, it is definitely NOT anything to do with heat or voltage. It can run any game I throw at it no problems. The problem seems to happen most (but not exclusively) when I'm using Windows Media Player... weird, huh?

[Edited on July 22, 2009 at 2:01 PM. Reason : d]

7/22/2009 2:00:08 PM

^What model ATI card is it?

7/22/2009 2:04:11 PM