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    Driver not responding/recovered error / 8600m GT

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by jb1007, Sep 30, 2007.

  1. jb1007

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    Has anyone else experienced this? I find I only see this message when I alt tab out of a game, or if I exit quickly I'll see it disappear. It happens about 10% of the time as far as I can tell. Anyone else? Or know what it could be?

    Vista Home Premium 32 bit. 163.69 drivers (but same issue since the 158 series drivers)
     

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    I have this every time i install a new driver and don't restart! is this what you did?
     
    BigBoy92, Sep 30, 2007
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    Nope... been on this driver for a while now and I have no idea what causes this since I don't notice any hiccups in games.
     
    jb1007, Sep 30, 2007
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    I hope the game you use alt-tab on isn't Oblivion, if it is don't be surprised to see the game crash. Others here have noted this is a game-specific issue.
     
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    Nope not oblivion.. there is no crashing going on, just that notice that pops up in the attachment. I just have no idea what it is or what the impact on the system could be?
     
    jb1007, Oct 1, 2007
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    This is a very widespread problem, just google the error message and see. Some have reported fixing it by using different or updated drivers, ATI officially recognizes it as having no solution for their drivers, for nvidia drivers you could try the solution posted in this thread:
    http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t45605.html
     
    odin243, Oct 1, 2007
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    Thanks odin... gonna try the steps off that link and see if it resolves the problem
     
    jb1007, Oct 1, 2007
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    I was getting the same problem in Vista-Business-64 (w/ 8600M GT, 4gb ram) rather frequently -- though in my case, the screen would lock up (like when playing FEAR or other intense fps), and THEN windows would pop up some time later, and inform me that the video subsystem had stopped working.

    I forget exactly which version of drivers I pulled off of laptopvideo2go, switched back to XP-Pro-32 almost two months ago now, and I don't have any video problems any more.
     
    maditude, Oct 1, 2007
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