Hello, hope someone can help me with this one. Basically I have been getting a lot crashing while playing computer games, these is so far only proven on steam games.
Originally I was getting the NVLDDMKM error message with a blue screen, I followed the known fix to replace the file in the Nvidea folder but the only thing that sorted was stopped the blue screens, instead of the blue screen I now have one of 3 different issues,
1. either the game window will go black,
2. the whole PC will completely freeze and I cannot do anything - No keyboard or mouse commands will work,
3. The game freezes and i get the error message saying my graphics card has stopped responding and windows has recovered the problem - game either continues eventually or completely crashes out.
I have tried a number of suggested fixes, I have a feeling its all to do with the "NVLDDMKM" error am getting but I am unsure if it is possibly another issue because i have swapped my graphics card with one of my friends - although my friend might have had issues with this card before.
PC Specs
OS: Windows 7
Processor: AMD Phenom(TM) II X4 965 Processor 3.40GHz
Ram: 8 GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA 890GPA UD3H
Current Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTS 250
Old Graphics card (Downgraded to see if it made a difference): GeForce GTX 285 Black Edition
SSD As boot Drive
HDD for holding Games (2 HDD's in total)
Case: Antec Nine Hundred
PSU: Corsair 650W
Disk Trays 3 (1 Blue ray, 2 DVD RW)
This issue mainly started happening after I upgraded my computer to an SSD, I clean installed windows 7 and all my drivers onto the SSD and games onto SSD i then started having issues, so I wiped my SSD again, reinstalled all my drivers, and installed my computer games on a different HDD to see if that will make any difference which it did not.
I was originally using my GeForce GTX 285 when I started getting these issues, it was happening fairly frequently, I then borrowed my friends Graphics Card which is a Nvidia GeForce GTS 250, the issues still happen but not as much, (I will be swapping the cards back soon to see if it happens more or less again soon) I am fairly sure my friend occasionally got the "Graphics card not responding and windows has recovered from this issue" error message
I had a thought it might be my power usage which using a website estimated my max usage to be around 550w which put me off that idea, although I could be wrong or put something in incorrectly.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Originally I was getting the NVLDDMKM error message with a blue screen, I followed the known fix to replace the file in the Nvidea folder but the only thing that sorted was stopped the blue screens, instead of the blue screen I now have one of 3 different issues,
1. either the game window will go black,
2. the whole PC will completely freeze and I cannot do anything - No keyboard or mouse commands will work,
3. The game freezes and i get the error message saying my graphics card has stopped responding and windows has recovered the problem - game either continues eventually or completely crashes out.
I have tried a number of suggested fixes, I have a feeling its all to do with the "NVLDDMKM" error am getting but I am unsure if it is possibly another issue because i have swapped my graphics card with one of my friends - although my friend might have had issues with this card before.
PC Specs
OS: Windows 7
Processor: AMD Phenom(TM) II X4 965 Processor 3.40GHz
Ram: 8 GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA 890GPA UD3H
Current Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTS 250
Old Graphics card (Downgraded to see if it made a difference): GeForce GTX 285 Black Edition
SSD As boot Drive
HDD for holding Games (2 HDD's in total)
Case: Antec Nine Hundred
PSU: Corsair 650W
Disk Trays 3 (1 Blue ray, 2 DVD RW)
This issue mainly started happening after I upgraded my computer to an SSD, I clean installed windows 7 and all my drivers onto the SSD and games onto SSD i then started having issues, so I wiped my SSD again, reinstalled all my drivers, and installed my computer games on a different HDD to see if that will make any difference which it did not.
I was originally using my GeForce GTX 285 when I started getting these issues, it was happening fairly frequently, I then borrowed my friends Graphics Card which is a Nvidia GeForce GTS 250, the issues still happen but not as much, (I will be swapping the cards back soon to see if it happens more or less again soon) I am fairly sure my friend occasionally got the "Graphics card not responding and windows has recovered from this issue" error message
I had a thought it might be my power usage which using a website estimated my max usage to be around 550w which put me off that idea, although I could be wrong or put something in incorrectly.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.