display driver stopped responding and has recovered windows 10

[epic_legendz]

I think a while after upgrading to windows 10 my game would crash and I would get the message "display driver stopped responding and has recovered". It happened once in a while and I ignored it but now it happened right after the game started. The game in question is GTA V. I have the latest drivers, and the gpu is not overheating its stable around 55'c in-game. I have a gtx 980 btw.

Does anyone know a fix?

Any replies would be much appreciated!

 

[hang-the-9]

Is it only happening in that one game or in all of them? Did you try removing and re-installing the drivers?

These errors if not coming from a Windows/Driver issue are often due to a bad video card, maybe power supply or RAM.

 

[Mark_1970]

I used to get this heaps with my gtx 770 OC , always when the card got too hot. i used a temp monitor that read the temps of the gpu, gpu memory, gpu vrm. As temps got high in the mem/vrm software failed. turning up gpu fans above 80% stopped it. or turning down the cards oc down to reference gpu settings stopped it also, either one. conclusion was temps as cause. Now i have another pc but using same 770, the case has hi flow fans up front and no obstructions, allows fans to cool gpu nicely and never has this happened again without the gpu fan/oc tweaks. And yes gpu temps seemed not too bad when it did this, so believe its the affect on gpu mem/vrm

The factories really pushed their overclocks to the edge of stability and cooling must be great

 

[SuperJ9587]

Take a look at some comprehensive steps I've outlined in this article here: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2886448/solved-display-driver-recovered-blue-screens-gtx-670-windows-x64.html to solve this issue.