Nvidia driver has stopped working

[antonius86]

Nvidia driver has stopped working

Hi guys,

Every now and then 5 seconds to 30 minutes after the game starts, the game freezes, crashes and I see a notification from the Nvidia system tray icon saying that Nvidia drivers has stopped working bla bla bla.

I tried several things:
- rolled back the drivers to tha GTA5 ones
- reinstalled the new drivers
- windowed, full screen, everything low settings, v-sync on/off
- unplugged seconds monitor
- underclocked my gpu to default clocks (Mine was factory overclocked by Asus with 8 or so Mhz)
- cleaned the pc and gpu from dust

Nothing worked. Examining the situation, the temperature of my gpu does not even get that high when the crash occurs. Max 60 degrees.

One thing though, when this crash happens the fan on my gpu is spinning on high speed. So I tried this:

Using the over/underclocking tool, I set the fan speed to 100% and I was able to play the game 2 hours no problem. After which the fan sound got me and i thought, lets try 90%. Worked 30 minutes, so lets try 80%. Worked 15 minutes, so lets try 70%. Did not work 15 minutes, so lets put it back to 80%. Did not work 10 minutes, so I put it back to 90%. Did not work eighter. Haven't tried 100% again, because it was already late and I needed a slight sense of hope that fan speed on 100% would work and today after work I would be able to play the game.

 

[Maede]

I have a GTX 680 and underclocking helps, but the game still crashes from time to time. Really anoying.

 

[YrdenNerf]

You said GPU don't get too high tempature, i had similar problem. download GPU-Z, check whats the clock speeds u get ? I had 162Mhz which was a bug that was somehow solved by RESTART-ing windows (not shutdown, just a restart. maybe it matters).

 

[antonius86]

@Maede, Did you underclock it lower then the specs from Nvidia itself for the card?

@YrdenNerf, I checked those values after changing them in the over/underclocking tool, just to verify my actions. They were correct. Also, restarting my PC came across like 20 times trying to get stuff to work (or did you mean something else by it?)

 

[Wrathe]

Set power management to maximum in nvidia control panel for witcher3.exe and in windows power settings set it to max performance. Now get msi afterburner or something similar and bump up the max voltage slightly as well as increasing any %/minimum voltage a bit.

Do of course be careful with changing settings like this, if your card is factory overclocked I'd suggest downclocking a bit and then upping the %/minimum voltages and not touching the max voltage.