Display Driver failed to start, using Microsoft Basic Display Driver instead

[Jordan Lewis]

So I recently bought a second hand EVGA GTX 1070 SC Black and a brand new HTC Vive, and installed Windows 10 Pro.

I downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia drivers 391.35.

I ran Unigen Heaven at 1440p at Ultra settings, and 8x anti-aliasing and the graphics card held a steady 100+fps while maintaining a temperature in the high 70s low 80s.

I also ran the SteamVR Ready test, and my system passed with flying colours.

 

Now, my system is only there for me to play in VR.

Both "The Lab" and "Nvidia Funhouse" both run properly and very well.

However, for both "Rec Room" and "Raygun Commando" crash mid game, at approximately the same scene.

I think crashing for games is fine... but what happens is that the Vive screen goes black (fine, thats okay), AND my main monitor goes black... there's still sound, but eventually my computer reboots.

When I log back in, I get treated with the "Display Driver failed to start, using Microsoft Basic Display Driver instead" message.

 

I've tried removing (completely) the Nvidia drivers and then reinstalling them... didn't work.

Disable Windows real-time protection... kinda let "Rec Room" run a bit more... but when I rebooted to test if it was actually my disabling that let it run, it wasn't...

 

Could anyone help me out?

 

Edit: I'm reinstalling Windows from scratch, but with Windows 10 Home.

 

Oh, and I haven't activated Windows, because I hear the only thing missing is personalisation features.

[TechyBen]

Full specs?

[edit]

PS, seems everyone gets a crash there. The level must be crashing the driver, not the game. Which means it's taking out Windows (though sometimes Windows can reload the driver... but I guess here it's killing the OS when the driver goes down ).

[Ace McPlane]

On 4/16/2018 at 4:32 AM, Jordan Lewis said:

So I recently bought a second hand EVGA GTX 1070 SC Black and a brand new HTC Vive, and installed Windows 10 Pro.

I downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia drivers 391.35.

I ran Unigen Heaven at 1440p at Ultra settings, and 8x anti-aliasing and the graphics card held a steady 100+fps while maintaining a temperature in the high 70s low 80s.

I also ran the SteamVR Ready test, and my system passed with flying colours.

 

Now, my system is only there for me to play in VR.

Both "The Lab" and "Nvidia Funhouse" both run properly and very well.

However, for both "Rec Room" and "Raygun Commando" crash mid game, at approximately the same scene.

I think crashing for games is fine... but what happens is that the Vive screen goes black (fine, thats okay), AND my main monitor goes black... there's still sound, but eventually my computer reboots.

When I log back in, I get treated with the "Display Driver failed to start, using Microsoft Basic Display Driver instead" message.

 

I've tried removing (completely) the Nvidia drivers and then reinstalling them... didn't work.

Disable Windows real-time protection... kinda let "Rec Room" run a bit more... but when I rebooted to test if it was actually my disabling that let it run, it wasn't...

 

Could anyone help me out?

 

Edit: I'm reinstalling Windows from scratch, but with Windows 10 Home.

 

Oh, and I haven't activated Windows, because I hear the only thing missing is personalisation features.

Reinstalling windows should fix this.

That's the nuclear option but it should work so let us know how that goes.

and get your windows activated.

Whoever told you that was wrong.

That's really bad advice.

 

You can get windows keys for like 10-20 bucks from all sorts of sites online.

Just buy one of those. Just make sure you're getting it from a secure site. (says secure with the green lock to the left of the URL).

[Jordan Lewis]

16 hours ago, stateofpsychosis said:

Reinstalling windows should fix this.

That's the nuclear option but it should work so let us know how that goes.

and get your windows activated.

Whoever told you that was wrong.

That's really bad advice.

 

You can get windows keys for like 10-20 bucks from all sorts of sites online.

Just buy one of those. Just make sure you're getting it from a secure site. (says secure with the green lock to the left of the URL).

Thanks

I reinstalled Windows and it did nothing, I'll buy an activation key later.

After talking to several online support chats and troubleshooting for hours... I found out that I had a bad PSU which was failing to power the card when it got to a certain load.

At least that's what I think for now. I'm going to buy a capable, more reputable PSU and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

[Ace McPlane]

7 hours ago, Jordan Lewis said:

Thanks

I reinstalled Windows and it did nothing, I'll buy an activation key later.

After talking to several online support chats and troubleshooting for hours... I found out that I had a bad PSU which was failing to power the card when it got to a certain load.

At least that's what I think for now. I'm going to buy a capable, more reputable PSU and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

Yea, never cheap out on the PSU.

If it blows, it can take the whole rest of the system with it.

Maybe you're best off finding out you need to replace it now than before something like that happened.

[Jordan Lewis]

17 hours ago, stateofpsychosis said:

Yea, never cheap out on the PSU.

If it blows, it can take the whole rest of the system with it.

Maybe you're best off finding out you need to replace it now than before something like that happened.

Yeah hahaha

Thank God it didn't blow up and take the rest of my PC out.

I ended up getting a Corsair TX650 and now its running without issues and no games crashing.

[Rags778]

On 4/19/2018 at 12:49 PM, Jordan Lewis said:

Yeah hahaha

Thank God it didn't blow up and take the rest of my PC out.

I ended up getting a Corsair TX650 and now its running without issues and no games crashing.

hey i have exact same problem after reintsalling windows, the issue is gone or it was still there ? btw i have thermaltake 600w psu 

Ps : i have Armor 1080 Ti

[girnas89]

On 6/8/2018 at 8:06 PM, Rags778 said:

hey i have exact same problem after reintsalling windows, the issue is gone or it was still there ? btw i have thermaltake 600w psu 

Ps : i have Armor 1080 Ti

I have the same problem too....Unfortunately reinstalling windows didn't help...Solutions are much appreciated...