AZAZEL Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Hey fellas.Recently, my display diver has been acting up. Suddenly, the screen goes black, as in the monitor doesn't receive any signal from the graphics card, the fan on the card defaults to maximum speed for a few seconds, and after 5-10 seconds, the image comes back on with this message:Sometimes it happens when I'm playing a game, sometimes when I'm just browsing the web, being reading an article or watching a video on Youtube, it seems very random. Just now, as I was trying to type this, it did what I described above, and shortly after, it did it again, but also notified me that nVidia Open GL had crashed. And then it happened a few minutes later, but three times in a row in short succession, and with seven pop-ups about Open GL crashing, and eventually there was no signal to the monitor at all, and I had to do a hard reboot (after wich everything's been dandy).On all these occasions I've checked temps, and they've been normal (50-60C for the card). This must be a software issue, right? I can't see what would be causing this hardware wise...Any ideas? Specs: i5 2500K Gigabyte Z68 UD4-B3 GeForce 580 GTX (newest drivers, 344.11) 8GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD Windows 8.1 64-bit Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/743239-display-driver-keeps-crashing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I'd uninstall the divers and then redownload and reinstall if you haven't done that already. It could however be a hardware issue with your GPU. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/743239-display-driver-keeps-crashing/?do=findComment&comment=1066348397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZAZEL Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 I'd uninstall the divers and then redownload and reinstall if you haven't done that already. It could however be a hardware issue with your GPU. Already attempted, but I'll give it another go. I'm in the process of building a new PC, but my sis is taking over this one, so I want it to last a little longer. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/743239-display-driver-keeps-crashing/?do=findComment&comment=1066348538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gramps Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 How long have you had this problem, and when did you update your drivers?If you're going to try and uninstall/reinstall the drivers as sivispacem suggested; might I suggest also running DDU as part of your uninstall process if you don't already. (run it in Safe Mode, after uninstalling the driver from Add/Remove Programs) If problem still persists, maybe try a different driver version? Latest drivers aren't always the best; and aren't needed/required if you are not using any of the features from it. Your temps don't seem to be a problem (I had your issue with my ATi card a few weeks back, screen would go black after temps exceeded 98C, and would never come back until hard-reset. Way to much dust in the fans/heatsink of the GPU) Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/743239-display-driver-keeps-crashing/?do=findComment&comment=1066351748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inked_666 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I would even look at downloading a legacy driver, I've had issues recently with the most up-to-date ones crashing consistently, it was with radeon's mind you but it doesn't rule it out completely. I'd say do a driver rollback but considering you've uninstalled and reinstalled the same driver that wouldn't make any difference. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/743239-display-driver-keeps-crashing/?do=findComment&comment=1066356882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZAZEL Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 How long have you had this problem, and when did you update your drivers? If you're going to try and uninstall/reinstall the drivers as sivispacem suggested; might I suggest also running DDU as part of your uninstall process if you don't already. (run it in Safe Mode, after uninstalling the driver from Add/Remove Programs) If problem still persists, maybe try a different driver version? Latest drivers aren't always the best; and aren't needed/required if you are not using any of the features from it. Your temps don't seem to be a problem (I had your issue with my ATi card a few weeks back, screen would go black after temps exceeded 98C, and would never come back until hard-reset. Way to much dust in the fans/heatsink of the GPU) I cleaned the old drivers out thoroughly, and did a clean install of the just released 344.58 drivers, and all seems well. Hopefully it's sorted. Thanks for all the inputz. Gramps 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/743239-display-driver-keeps-crashing/?do=findComment&comment=1066374443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gramps Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Glad it worked (hopefully) Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/743239-display-driver-keeps-crashing/?do=findComment&comment=1066374652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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