Display driver windows kernel mode driver, version 344.75 stopped responding

It has NOTHING to do with stress, voltage or any other bull****!!!! It WAS working. Not only Inguisition, Advanced Warfare but my Starcraft II DOESN'T WORK now!!!! And it was on this card and this hardware for more than a year now! Kernel stops working after 5 minutes. It has nothing to do with hardware malfunctions or overclocking. I'm not overlocking anything. It's pure software. This driver sucks and it's making the hardware unusable and broken. I want my money back **bleep** from nvidia!!! It hangs sometimes even when I'm watching DVDs or BluRays!!!!!! And i have i7 extreme.  660GT and 16 gb RAM. SSD drives and everything was working great BEFORE you ruined my station with your sorryass driver.

@Pasarella280 wrote:

It has NOTHING to do with stress, voltage or any other bull****!!!! It WAS working. Not only Inguisition, Advanced Warfare but my Starcraft II DOESN'T WORK now!!!! And it was on this card and this hardware for more than a year now! Kernel stops working after 5 minutes. It has nothing to do with hardware malfunctions or overclocking. I'm not overlocking anything. It's pure software. This driver sucks and it's making the hardware unusable and broken. I want my money back **bleep** from nvidia!!! It hangs sometimes even when I'm watching DVDs or BluRays!!!!!! And i have i7 extreme.  660GT and 16 gb RAM. SSD drives and everything was working great BEFORE you ruined my station with your sorryass driver.

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has this been happening since Dec 10th, or 11th?

it may not be the driver at all...

Microsoft releases "Silver Bullet" update.     <<< open this link in a seperate tab/window as it is an outside link

this kb update was deigned specifically to erradicate an earlier update...

the earlier update was causing abnormal UAC actions, and preventing 

people from fully installing any further updates, and other software.....

also try rolling back your driver to 344.65, and do a clean custom install,

and ONLY install the graphics driver and physX, make sure everthing else is DESELECTED

and try running the games again.

then, please, report back here with the results.

I truely understand your frustration. I too, am to the point where (with this game) I am 

ready to pull out what little bit of hair I have left.

While waiting for the game to be pathced to no end, or pulled from Origin to be reworked,

I am trying to help other gamers understand what is happening within the game, 

and also trying to help them stabilize it to a playable state.

so please read the article in the link, as I think it may help you.

as well as the few suggestions I have given.

on another note please read my other post about poor performance, crashing and resource allocation here....

Ongoing investigation into high resource allocation/usage

hope this helps you. 

-MFS

Then it is probably more likely it was some windows update or is the nvidia driver, try rolling back to 344.60 or earlier. Also if it worked over a year ago, tried cleaning out the dust from the heatsinks, fans, PSU recently? Also the TDR crashes seems to be well known with Nvidia they even released a statement about it. You'll just have to keep reverting to older driver until you find a driver version which doesn't cause the driver has stopped responding. Or just try and downclock the card.

Try downclocking your core clock. You can do it using MSI Afterburner. If that doesn't work, either your card is overheating or it's dying.

You can also try doing a complete uninstall of the driver (which means also deleting all files related to Nvdia found in your hdd and registry) and then reinstalling only the graphics driver and the Physix driver.

There might be an issue with the IRQ priorities. If you have a dedicated sound card on board, it might be conflicting with the HD audio driver that is usually installed along with the graphics driver.

Yeah it seems to be a conflict with old realtek drivers at least according to people on the nvidia and sevenforums. I used to get the crash on my 590 gtx I had to revert to an old driver like 331.88 or something, any newer and it would crash, but there eventaully came a driver when it worked fine again, (if you use SLI try with only one card enabled). Now I don't have the 590 plugged in anymore but a 970 and it works great so far. (Also the vram on the 590 isn't enough to do anything really, it said 3gb vram, and I expected to be getting 3gb of vram, but since its build in SLI it only had 1.5gb useable vram(since it is split over both gpus), but they don't advertise that in the specs...

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/126584-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-responding.html

DA:I requires lots of vram at least if you're maxing the settings. On the second picture you can see it hitting above 3GB vram usage.

http://imgur.com/i2jJBRm,juBto5l#0

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@Maevos wrote:

Try downclocking your core clock. You can do it using MSI Afterburner. If that doesn't work, either your card is overheating or it's dying.

You can also try doing a complete uninstall of the driver (which means also deleting all files related to Nvdia found in your hdd and registry) and then reinstalling only the graphics driver and the Physix driver.

There might be an issue with the IRQ priorities. If you have a dedicated sound card on board, it might be conflicting with the HD audio driver that is usually installed along with the graphics driver.

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It is an issue with the coding in the game. dot. period. end.

It cannot be fixed playerside. DOT. PERIOD. END. 

however the game can be made somewhat more stable, and have a little more time between crashes with nvidia gpus, or slightly less stuttering with AMD using the mantle api.

DOT!     PERIOD!    END!

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@Herethos wrote:

Yeah it seems to be a conflict with old realtek drivers at least according to people on the nvidia and sevenforums. I used to get the crash on my 590 gtx I had to revert to an old driver like 331.88 or something, any newer and it would crash, but there eventaully came a driver when it worked fine again, (if you use SLI try with only one card enabled). Now I don't have the 590 plugged in anymore but a 970 and it works great so far. (Also the vram on the 590 isn't enough to do anything really, it said 3gb vram, and I expected to be getting 3gb of vram, but since its build in SLI it only had 1.5gb useable vram(since it is split over both gpus), but they don't advertise that in the specs...

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/126584-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-responding.html

DA:I requires lots of vram at least if you're maxing the settings. On the second picture you can see it hitting above 3GB vram usage.

http://imgur.com/i2jJBRm,juBto5l#0

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It is an issue with the coding in the game. dot. period. end.

It cannot be fixed playerside. DOT. PERIOD. END. 

however the game can be made somewhat more stable, and have a little more time between crashes with nvidia gpus, or slightly less stuttering with AMD using the mantle api.

DOT!     PERIOD!    END!

It only happened to me twice so far of the 60 hours of total gameplay. Just before the driver crashed, noticed the gameplay was really stuttering.

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@Maevos wrote:

Try downclocking your core clock. You can do it using MSI Afterburner. If that doesn't work, either your card is overheating or it's dying.

NOT TRUE. and Jinnrou, once you have 30 years of experience working on computers, and custom building gaming rigs, then by all means, I will have a little more respect for your train of thought as to what is dying.

Downclocking was suggested on page 4 of this entire forum, basically day 1 of release in the US... and has had no substancial impact on performance. Yes, the game doesn't do well with factory OC'd cards. period.

it just furthers the premise that the game needs to be re-coded for better performance and stability across all platforms.

You can also try doing a complete uninstall of the driver (which means also deleting all files related to Nvdia found in your hdd and registry) and then reinstalling only the graphics driver and the Physix driver. <<<which was my suggestion to begin with, but rather than doing a complete uninstall, my suggetions was to do a custom clean install, and only select the main driver, and physx.... my way insures all of the other unnnecessary nvidia drivers/software was certainly removed.

There might be an issue with the IRQ priorities. If you have a dedicated sound card on board, it might be conflicting with the HD audio driver that is usually installed along with the graphics driver.

all of the issues that people are having across all platforms with performance and crashes, is due to coding errors in the game which cannot be fixed by the end-user.

however, if you set your system to output the audio,

to 24 bit, stereo, 44.1 KHZ, 

and the ingame audio settings to stereo/headphones

it does help with a minor increase to stability......

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 downclocking only gives a little more stability (with this game) as (once again) it IS A CODING ISSUE WITH THE GAME THAT CANNOT BE FIXED BY THE END USER!

Ongoing investigation into high resource allocation/usage and poor performance

Just go to the first post in that thread, and read the whole thing.