Unwelcomed Crash Diving

[Captain Dave]

I'm running XP with the 174.93 drivers on 2-7600 GT cards, and haven't had any problems. I get the fps slowdown in the harbors, but that's common.

[Deimos01]

I had this problem for 4 months. Like you I cruised all the forums and tried all the fixes with no luck. I was getting th nvlddmkm error where the display driver has stopped resonding and succesfully recovered. In the end it turned out I had a bad mobo and bad memory stick.

The nvlddmkm error is a generic error message that seems to point to the display drivers as the culprit and, indeed, in many cases that is correct. However, many other things can cause this error including, corrupt OS, bad drivers, program incompatibility, eccessive heat, or bad hardware. Only way to figure it out, unfortunately is through trial and error.

Many want to put the blame on Nvidia or MS but this problem can be lots of other things as well. For me the problem was shoddy Dell hardware.

[tennozan]

Thanks for the insight mates. I am still running through various testing to see if I can find any work-arounds but have my XP within arm's reach in case I finally have enough of this fun in the next week. For better or worse, this didn't happen while I was running XP.