tortilla1

Hi there, I'm having the same problems with my NVidia display driver as described by Phil Nolan. I have brand new PC with an NVidia GTX 260, running Vista 64 bit. I've had the display driver stopped working error a couple times with computer rebooting, and also the so called TDR errors, were the Display Driver stops working but then recovers itself automatically. (Read about TDR here : http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=31913). The problem has been happening more frequently recently and I tried everything reverting to older drivers, the newest drivers, system restore (bad idea), but have not been able to get to the bottom of it. I had a serious bluescreen when running Mass Effect PC game, bluescreen (nvlddmkm.sys = nvidia display driver)...and now even games that were running fine before are crashing after about 10 minutes. But also in 3DCoat when I'm retopologising a model, the program freezes after a bout 10 minutes now, everytime, and I have to restart it. (3DCoat_Alpha61). So now I'm not sure what is the problem, NVidia display driver, Vista 64, Mass Effect PC game or the installation of 3DCoat_Alpha and the installation of the DX9 drivers to make it run ??? I was planning to do a new clean install of Vista, to repair any possible driver corruption, but not looking forward to that. Maybe I'll try the newest Alpha (67) first and see if the problem persists.... cheers stefan (hey I love those topology tools !)