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    Video card driver failing

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by dmacfour, May 11, 2008.

  1. dmacfour

    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    So I just recently started using Vista again, and am getting a strange driver issue. Sometimes my game freezes up and my screen flashes a few times. After a few seconds, gameplay returns to normal. I get an error message saying something like, "driver stopped responding and recovered"? I'm running the 174.31 drivers and it happens at stock clocks rarely and every so often when I'm at 580/445 OC. Strangely this crash appears to happen under XP as well when running Rainbow Six Vegas 2 at the same OC. About my overclock, its always been stable up until now.
     
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  2. dondadah88

    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    try 169.04
    when you have a driver failer that means you push your computer gpu to high
    i also suggest you install ati tool and run the picture and so if you see any mistake when ocing
     
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    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    I've done both of those before.... no artifacts in ATItool (but much higher than 600/455 becomes unstable), and 169.04 has always been fairly stable even though it doesn't perform as well.
     
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