Nvidia Display Drivers Keep Crashing

[GrayHD]

So I got a MSI GTX 970 about two months ago and everything has been going perfectly fine until recently. What's happening is the screen will go black for about 1-3s and then it will come back up and continue working perfectly fine. This happens completely randomly... sometimes I'll play a game and nothing will happen and it will work fine with no crashes, other times I'll be browsing a website and it will happen. So I'm honestly not sure what's causing this. I recently updated the drivers a few times that were for the new game released as well as the GTX 980Ti release. I also overclocked my GPU recently, the overclock was completely stable in Unigine Heaven 4.0 and FurMark, but then I ran a game (Witcher 3) and it crashed so I lowered the overclock and it seemed completely stable until this started happening. I then completely reset the GPU so there's no overclock and it keeps happening. I don't think I actually damaged the card because the temps never got above 70-75 degrees and I never saw a single artifact. Games still run perfectly fine and everything else does except for when this happens, it's just sort of annoying as it happens randomly. Also, for some reason when the screen goes black there's no popup saying that Nvidia drivers have crashed, instead there's just a little warning icon in the taskbar in the bottom right corner and when I click on it, it just disappears. I've never had anything like this happen before so I'm really not sure what's going on. Any help would be really appreciated.

 

System Info:

 

i7-2600k @ 4.2GHz

Asus Sabertooth Z77 Motherboard

MSI GTX 970

TX850M PSU

Adata 120GB SSD + 1TB WD Black HDD

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

[Altecice]

Reset all your overclocks (including CPU) and see if it still crashes.

[Lord_Karango17]

Did you upgrade drivers recently? because driver crashes seem to a be a recurring problem for some people on the newest driver, although the crashes they mentioned are not like yours in the sense, than the game also crashes for them...

[Hunched]

The most recent two Nvidia drivers cause crashing in most programs that use hardware acceleration, like Chrome for example.

You can find hundreds if not thousands of complaints about this from the past week from people who previously had 0 issues.

[GrayHD]

Reset all your overclocks (including CPU) and see if it still crashes.

 

 

Did you upgrade drivers recently? because driver crashes seem to a be a recurring problem for some people on the newest driver, although the crashes they mentioned are not like yours in the sense, than the game also crashes for them...

 

 

The most recent two Nvidia drivers cause crashing in most programs that use hardware acceleration, like Chrome for example.

You can find hundreds if not thousands of complaints about this from the past week from people who previously had 0 issues.

 

Thanks for all the replies, so I'm assuming its the new Nvidia drivers but I'm still going to reset my CPU overclock and see if that helps. Also, do you think it would cause any problems if I reset my drivers to an older version? And any idea what was the last driver that didn't have this crashing problem?

[Lord_Karango17]

Thanks for all the replies, so I'm assuming its the new Nvidia drivers but I'm still going to reset my CPU overclock and see if that helps. Also, do you think it would cause any problems if I reset my drivers to an older version? And any idea what was the last driver that didn't have this crashing problem?

On the geforce website, it will give you a list of non beta drivers, and just puch the 2nd or 3rd from the top. Only really difference will be a lack of support for the new releases that these drivers are made for.

 

Rolling back would likely lead to worse performance in witcher 3, and other recently released games, depending on how far you roll back.

[GrayHD]

On the geforce website, it will give you a list of non beta drivers, and just puch the 2nd or 3rd from the top. Only really difference will be a lack of support for the new releases that these drivers are made for.

 

Rolling back would likely lead to worse performance in witcher 3, and other recently released games, depending on how far you roll back.

Alright thanks, just rolled back to the 350.12 driver which I think was the last one without problems. I've already beat the witcher 3 so I'm ok with not playing it for a little while Thanks for your help

[SteveGrabowski0]

Alright thanks, just rolled back to the 350.12 driver which I think was the last one without problems. I've already beat the witcher 3 so I'm ok with not playing it for a little while Thanks for your help

 

Yeah, 352.86 was a nightmare with my 970. I haven't even tried 353.06 since 350.12 is great in everything but Witcher 3.

[Captain_WD]

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Hey GrayHD,

 

Try to restore your build to a point before the drivers were installed and see if the problem persists. If yes, the problem might be coming from one or more of your parts and you would have to run some stress tests or check the monitor. If no, simply try the latest stable drivers or contact the manufacturer of the GPU and ask for some advice.

Also you can try another monitor on your computer and see if there are any changes. Try also running your OS in safe mode.

 

Captain_WD.