[xgibbousx]

Anyone else get this error while playing X-Plane v9.0 in Vista?

It seems to stop if I uninstall the Nvidia drivers and use the Vista default ones, so clearly it is a problem with the Nvidia drivers. Just wondering if I am all alone on this.

Thanks.

[Tonka]

Anyone else get this error while playing X-Plane v9.0 in Vista?

It seems to stop if I uninstall the Nvidia drivers and use the Vista default ones, so clearly it is a problem with the Nvidia drivers. Just wondering if I am all alone on this.

Thanks.

Which drivers are you using? I had a similar problem with some drivers released a few months ago, although the problem never re-appeared after a restart.

[xgibbousx]

Thanks for the reply.

I am using the 169.12 beta drivers. I have had this problem with every driver released since January 2007. I have gotten this error in other games but not nearly as often as in X-Plane. It feels like the video card hardware is the problem but I am not sure now since I get stability while using the default Vista drivers.

Basically, my screen goes black for a second, crashes x-plane and then recovers to my desktop with the error popping up in the system tray on the bottom right of the screen. After it happens once, it happens even more frequently in x-plane. If the error occurs too many time in a row (while using an app that doesn't fully crash) I get a BSOD BCode 116.

This is a terrible problem and I have yet to find a solution for it even after a year of searching. The closest I have gotten is to use the old Vista default drivers.

This post has been edited by xgibbousx: 09 December 2007 - 04:18 PM

[Tonka]

Thanks for the reply.

I am using the 169.12 beta drivers. I have had this problem with every driver released since January 2007. I have gotten this error in other games but not nearly as often as in X-Plane. It feels like the video card hardware is the problem but I am not sure now since I get stability while using the default Vista drivers.

Basically, my screen goes black for a second, crashes x-plane and then recovers to my desktop with the error popping up in the system tray on the bottom right of the screen. After it happens once, it happens even more frequently in x-plane. If the error occurs too many time in a row (while using an app that doesn't fully crash) I get a BSOD BCode 116.

This is a terrible problem and I have yet to find a solution for it even after a year of searching. The closest I have gotten is to use the old Vista default drivers.

It certainly is a terrible problem, What card is it you are using and what are the rest of your system specs?

[razael]

vista sucks..dont use this thing

[o_brienaustin]

I have only seen this the odd time for x-plane 8 or x-plane 9 on vista - does not happen regularly for me. For me the error appears after several hours of using x-plane and not enough to cause me a major headache. This 'display driver has stopped responding and has succesfully recovered' error message has been troubling nvidia's drivers in EVERY driver that has appeared for vista.

Over on nvidia's forums they refer to this error as a TDR error. It has been said that the major problem they have had in writing a driver to work on vista is partly due to Microsoft's efforts at Digital Rights Management and vista machines continuously polling themselves to make sure users are not doing any illegal copying.

Service pack 1 is rumoured to appear for vista next January or February and it is intended to increase stability and improve driver compatibility and I would expect that this should improve things because the hard core gamers have been screaming about this problem for the last 12 months and how it has rendered their expensive hardware unusable.

Make sure that you install the following hotfixes for vista which are supposed to help a bit.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html

I used to get this all the time playing 'armed assault' on vista so much so that the game was unplayable and I gave up on it.

One final thing - I don't know for you but driver version 158.24 was one of the more stable ones for me (this is a few months old but I still use it)


Cheers
austin


My specs
Vista x64 with all updates Core 2 duo 6600, 8800 GTX, 4GB RAM

[vaca232]

vista sucks..dont use this thing

A display driver error like that would probably take XP down completely. The error isn't Vista's fault, it's Nvidia's. Vista handles a display driver failure really well actually.

on the other hand, a logitech USB driver bluescreened my computer a few weeks ago...

[vaca232]

I posted links in this thread
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=28517
to a few hotfixes that fix a bunch of problems in Vista. One of them is supposed to address issues with some GPU's. Give them both a try

[xgibbousx]

Thanks everyone for all of your suggestions and help so far :-) I put this up on the Nvidia forums and there was only one response telling me that it's my problem not Nvidia's. For the record here are my system specs:

Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo
1x BFG 8800 GTX
4 GB Patriot RAM
MSI 975X Platinum Plus Motherboard (BIOS ver. 7.4)
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
2x Samsung 250 GB Spinpoint Harddrives RAID-0
1x Seagate 500GB IDE Backup Harddrive
Toshiba Samsung Writemaster DVD-R
CoolMax 600W PSU

I will try out some of your suggestions and keep you updated on my progress.

Thanks again for the great community.

[eddy_tn]

I experienced the "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" on X-Plane 9.00 beta 7 on Windows XP SP2, Intel 915G integrated graphics (driver WHCL 6.14.10.3829, 5/6/2004). The computer is 2-3 years old and is at the office, is not my primary PC, and I don't expect to use it for anything other than to sample X-Plane. I just wanted to add this information to the thread, stating the problem may not be limited to Vista or a certain kind of graphics card. I haven't experienced this error, ever, on any system, software, or driver until now. Was running 1024x768 windowed in a 1600x1200 desktop. Windows reverted to the VGA driver (I ended up at 640x480x256 color) and told me to reboot.