Black screen then either shutdown or nvlddmkm stopped responding error

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After using any 3D heavy application, after awhile my screen will turn black for awhile and either crash and restart or come back and give me an error saying my display driver stopped responding. This can happen while I'm still in the application or after. For example

-Play Skyrim
-Finish playing Skyrim and close the program
-Do something else
-Sudden black screen
-crash

I've tried updating my display drivers and rerolling to older versions and I still get crashes. I found a way around this error and that is to restart my PC after using any 3D application but this is kind of a hassle and would rather get this fixed.

Here are some screenshots from my Event Viewer which I'm hoping will help you help me.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15949445/1.JPG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15949445/2.JPG

I have a GTX 760 with the latest display drivers.

If you have any idea how to fix this or need more info please let me know.

Here's the error I'm getting
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15949445/312321321.JPG

 

[mniasfreemag]

CAn you do a clean install of the nvidia drivers and see if the problem persists.

 

[redness]

Already tried that with DDU. Problem still persists unfortunately.

 

[mniasfreemag]

does your message look like this : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff569917%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

 

[redness]

Yup but with nvlddmkm instead. Sometimes instead of nvlddmkm it just shows my display driver version

 

[redness]

It happened again and I got a screenshot of the error

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15949445/312321321.JPG

 

[mniasfreemag]

If you are overclocking the GPU using MSI Afterburner or EVGA precisionX, please set it to the default config ( do not over clock it) to see if that resolves your problem,

I think it might be the dreaded TDR bug with the nvidia card. It is very hard to troubleshoot this and resolve it. There are a few things you can try to see if it resolves your issue. It has worked for some before,

1) From the control panel, select the power options, click change plan settings , click advanced power settings, click the PCI express and set the link state power management to off
2) from the nvidia control panel, select manage 3d settings, select global settings, select power management mode and set it to performance.
3) the third option is to find an earlier version of nvidia driver, the one you had before the crashes started and see if it works ( need to do a clean install).

Let us know if any of the above solution worked for you.

 

[redness]

If you are overclocking the GPU using MSI Afterburner or EVGA precisionX, please set it to the default config ( do not over clock it) to see if that resolves your problem,

I think it might be the dreaded TDR bug with the nvidia card. It is very hard to troubleshoot this and resolve it. There are a few things you can try to see if it resolves your issue. It has worked for some before,

1) From the control panel, select the power options, click change plan settings , click advanced power settings, click the PCI express and set the link state power management to off
2) from the nvidia control panel, select manage 3d settings, select global settings, select power management mode and set it to performance.
3) the third option is to find an earlier version of nvidia driver, the one you had before the crashes started and see if it works ( need to do a clean install).

Let us know if any of the above solution worked for you.

Will do and no I don't overclock. Question though, do these methods have any effects on my performance in games?

Also, I noticed 1 and 2 are both related to power, does this mean it is my power supply at fault here?

Anyway will try your solutions and see how things work.

UPDATE:

So I tried #1 and sadly the problem still persists. for #2 I don't have a performance option, only adaptive and maximum. #3 I already tried a long time ago

 

[mniasfreemag]

number 2 set it to maximum.

No ypur power supply is not at fault, we are trying to set the graphics card to run at full tilt all the time instead of it clocking down. I am not sure whether your case is a TDR error (bug), but if it is it is very hard to solve. You can search on google about this, there are pages and pages of threads on nvidia forums.

You might want to check your graphics card too, if you have access to another comp, you can try plugging in the graphics card in that to see if it causes the Windows os to crash. Alternatively you can install Linux OS like ubuntu or Mint( you can play some of the steam games on linux too) and see if you get errors when you run your cards on them.

 

[redness]

number 2 set it to maximum.

No ypur power supply is not at fault, we are trying to set the graphics card to run at full tilt all the time instead of it clocking down. I am not sure whether your case is a TDR error (bug), but if it is it is very hard to solve. You can search on google about this, there are pages and pages of threads on nvidia forums.

You might want to check your graphics card too, if you have access to another comp, you can try plugging in the graphics card in that to see if it causes the Windows os to crash. Alternatively you can install Linux OS like ubuntu or Mint( you can play some of the steam games on linux too) and see if you get errors when you run your cards on them.

Okay so far, after following your #2 advice my problem is solved (so far). Tried stuff that usually caused the crash and no more crashing! I have to ask though, what did this setting do exactly and why did it suddenly start causing me to crash?

 

[mniasfreemag]

Well I am glad that one of the above solution worked for you, I am not exactly sure why Windows causes TDR error, but i believe it is driver related/windows related. Windows does not give enough time for the graphics card to respond and this is made worse by some versions of nvidia drivers. Making the graphics card run in max performance mode makes the card run at max speed all the time, so i guess windows does not have to wait long for the graphics card to respond. I am not exactly sure of the inner workings of the nvidia driver and windows OS.

 

[redness]

If I had reformatted or changed my video card (but still a Nvidia card), would it have fixed my issue as well?