Since upgrading from a GTX660 to a GTX970 I'm getting the occasional 'crash' to desktop, the screen goes black and then E: D vanishes. At this point I scrabble around to try and kill the game as it's normally when in combat, flying through asteroids or just jumping to a new star.
For me this is accompanied by a 'Warning' level event 4101 in the eventlog that says "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
This is a common error from searching both in the FD forum and elsewhere on the internet. It effects some people with some games. In my case I can play the new Tomb Raider game without any issues, so it must be some interaction between the game and the GPU (load, usage spikes, temperature fluctuations or whatever).
I've been trying to stop this occuring and there are many, many different 'fixes' which I thought it would make sense to put in one place for anyone else struggling with this.
Fixes that have appeared to help others (in the order that I'm going through them):
1) complete clean removal and reinstall of the most recent drivers. I used http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/...-download.html Tried, no joy
2) going back to an earlier driver version Tried, no joy
3) upgrading the PSU to ensure proper consistant power to the card Tried, no joy
4) down clocking the card Tried, no joy
5) adding a key for TdrDelay to the registry Tried, no joy
6) running the game in windowed mode. Tried, no joy
7) changing the GPU fan profile to be more aggressive Tried, no joy
8) changing a setting in nvidia control panel -> Display-> Adjust desktop Size and Position ->Scaling, choose "fullscreen" and MAKE SURE TO CHECK" override the scaling mode set by games and programs". Tried, no joy
9) Set Power Management Mode in NVIDIA Control panel to 'performance' Tried, no joy
10) forcing xboost mode (might just be EVGA cards)
11) Check and replace system RAM one way to check it RAM checked. no errors found
12) I use COMODO for security - try game mode.Tried, no joy
13) Replace the card under warranty.
14) editing the firmware on the GPU itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjEQmZrRmtE
15) full clean re-install of the operating system
I've now tried 1-9. Of course if I now have success I don't know if it was no. 8 on it's own or a combination of one or more of the others but....
If I need to find more suggestions I'll add them here and I might change the order I try them.
Has anyone else overcome this and did it following other guidance?
UPDATE: Added a couple more things to try if needed.
UPDATE: Added more things to try and decided to add comments for what I've tried so far