Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding, but has succesfully recovered.

This problem has happened to me recently, and now i can't play any game whatsoever without either random polygons appearing on the screen, or the game crashing giving the same error message (Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding, but has succesfully recovered.)

My system is a VAIO VGN-FZ17G, with a Nvidia Geforce 8400M GT.

This is really pissing me off, and if anyone has any solutions, I would be extremely grateful.

 

Have you tried reinstalling your display drivers?

Guide

 

A change of drivers will fix this

 

have you recently changed any drivers? (even if its not the video driver) I changed my sound driver a while back and it caused some stuttering with the sound, causing my video driver to do this. So try rolling back any recently changed drivers.

 

were you OCing the GPU when you received this message? I hope you didn't blow up the GPU

 

dude dont scare him
i get the same message when i overclock or UNDERCLOCK my ATI HD2600 with AMDGPU clock tool..but for me its a 20 sec monitor shutdown, then its on and gives the message, but sometimes i can change clocks without the driver crashing..weird problem..

to OP i get a driver crash when changing clocks manually, maybe when ur GPU changes clocks automatically it happens to you, so best advice change driver....else dunno

 

I guess it's pretty common. I get it too. Ah the wonders of Vista. XP was so much better...

How do you know which video driver you should use? I don't want to end up experimenting if that's the case. Latest version doesn't always work.

 

i use official toshiba drivers for A200 Vista 32... for my HD2600, they are pretty regularly updated, about every month or so...havent had any serious problems with them except this over/under clocking issue...but its tollerable

 

Definately needs a video card driver update.
Update to 169.28 or something 1st,
then move up to 174.** something


cheres!

 

okay, after updating my drivers, i no longer get this problem with the driver. However, when running an old game with low requirements that my comp can handle at maximum graphics (Neverwinter Nights), as i did before the driver messed up. now, sometimes the whole screen is fuzzy with blue, pink and many other colours. I can make out the screen and have a vague idea of what's happening, but other than that, it's unplayable. the only thing that works is lowering the graphics. might this have any connection with my recent driver problem?

out of curiousity, why do you suggest updating in such a manner, ie not directly to 174.**?

 

Some drivers are for specific fixes, some perform better, some dont. You have to try out a couple of drivers before you can get the perfect one for you

169.09 is the most stable so far

 

I get that error on my desktop if I OC my GTS a little too much, lightly backing off the clocks solves that problem

 

i never/have never OC'd my graphics card.

 

Well, I have not overclocked yet either...
There are many different drivers, thats why I suggest that...
169.28 was a specific like "milestone" driver, (for me, at least).
so yes. try.