[ninian947]

I recently swiched from my 7900GS to a 8800GT. I uninstalled my old drivers after swiching cards, and installed the lastest forceware from nvidias site. I started to get my "display driver stopped responding, windows has recovered" with something about nvlddmkm.dll in the error.


The error comes up while playing any 3d games, occuring in World of Warcraft the most. I will get a blue screen some times from it, or chain errors resulting in me having to reboot.

I tried a few diffrent drivers with no help. I reformatted last night, hoping that would fix the error, installed the lastest forceware, and no luck.

I would love any help at all...

I'm running vista 64 bit, Q6600 @ 3 ghz, 3 gigs DDR2 800, P35 DS3L mobo.

Also, if this is the wrong place to post this, feel free to move it or tell me to post else where.

[jazz3000]

have you tried http://www.omegadrivers.net/nvidia.php for the card? Let us know...Jazz

[ninian947]

Originally Posted by jazz3000

have you tried http://www.omegadrivers.net/nvidia.php for the card? Let us know...Jazz

I have before I reformatted last night.

Same error while using them. Also Riva Tuner would not let me change my clocks when I was using the Omega drivers. After swiching back from Omega to Forceware, Riva tuner was seeing my card as my old 7900 GS...

But that was before I formatted. I can try them again if you want.

[jazz3000]

judging by your system specs and the Vista OS 64 bit, almost everything I've read says the 8800GT is not compatible with the Vista. Have you tried Microsoft to determine whether or not the card will work with this OS?, or if there's an idea they can offer you to patch the problem? I think I'd go back to the other Video Card until I determine the solution to decrease the frustration and headaches, and proceed to upgrade after I find the answers. Let us know...Jazz

[ninian947]

I can run anything short of 3d apps flawlessly.

Thus far, I'v had the errors in Call of Duty 4 and World of Warcraft, however, FFXI runs fine. The error comes and goes. It seems taht while rendering more, the error happenes more. Its also quite random, I went over 3 hours last night in wow with no error, yet am getting them non stop now.

As far as I can tell its Vista ready... My box says so at lest :O

[Byte9]

I'm running 32bit ultimate on 2x8700MGT's SLi'd (Dell m1730) and am getting the same problem, however, not in WoW. It only occurs in CoD4 and does not BSoD my laptop. Slight pause followed by a flicker, black screen for 2-3 seconds and video returns and I'm back in business. One extra death to show for it! So Vista is recovering ok...but it is very annoying.

Here's what i can find, looky, at Microsoft's tech net site.

It appears that there seems to be some timing issue and Vista being impatient with the GPU or driver returning info to it. Could be fixable by M$ or nVidia. Right now it seems to be a driver issue where nVidia hasn't implemented something properly within M$'s WDDM guidelines. Anyway, hopefully this will get sorted out before too long!

Byte

Oh, btw, I'm running 156.69 drivers.

[jazz3000]

Byte it sure won't be the first or last issue with hardware, drivers and Vista. Maybe within the next two years we'll finally see a balance again. Jazz