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    Posted: 31 Jul 2008 at 5:47pm
I was playing TF2 when the game froze. I alt-tab and had a message that one of my display drivers was not responding and is working now. I go back to game and it goes again. Then I get a bluescreen. I restarted the computer and played TF2 again for 1hr and everything was fine. Should I be worried? Also I was listening to music with window media player while I was playing when this happened.
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Originally posted by harleyman

I would call it a hick up...Did you get an error that a video device had failed and then recovered?
If so its a commomNvidia driver thing...If it happens again I would check any messages clostly and post it here....
 
 
If it keeps it up I'de drop the driver and try another.....It bluescrenned as a result of the stopped responding deal..Not to worry there...
 
 
 
Play on....


Thanks Harley. Yeah I did get an error that vid card had failed and then recovered. Good to hear that its common and not something wrong with my system, was scared for a bit LOL
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From what i read up on it, this issue can be caused by the video cards falling completely out of sync with each other...at least thats the rumor. Usually they are always a bit off, hence the term microshutter with SLI, but sometimes it gets to a point where the game can no longer function because when a frame is due its not up yet.
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Originally posted by harleyman

Here is the report on this ..You are the first I have sen in months about this...It was a pain for quite a while....What drivers are you using? And have you changed them recently? 
 
 
 
 


Using the 7.15.11.7519 drivers. I have not touched the drivers.
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Posts: 287 		  Quote Rolet Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 31 Jul 2008 at 8:53pm
Yeah, seems like its not a big problem. I was playing age of conan for 2 hours and it ran perfect. Looks like it was a fluke!
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Do not dismiss this as a fluke.  When I first started getting this error, I assumed the same things; it's a driver issue, it's Vista, and was told the same by the digitalstorm crew.  Later, I find out that it was actually a bad video card that became progressively worse causing more and more of this error.  The repair and eventual and eventual total reconstruction of my PC was a nightmare causing me to be without my spanking new, very expensive PC for about 3-4 months.

I got it back about a month ago and had none of these errors at first, but as of now they are a hourly experience yet again.   I truly hope I don't have to got through the nightmare of servicing again.
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