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Also check out /s/ModAbuse.
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Been wrestling with this one for a while. So, a while back, Microsoft decided they were tired of all the blue screen jokes, so they decided to do away with blue screens all together. In comes TDR, "Timeout Detection and Recovery". So basically, instead of letting things crash, giving you a blue screen, TDR monitors, and preemptively shuts down things that are crashing, then reopens them. The problem is, shit still crashes, just that the crash is swept under the rug, instead of giving you a blue screen that has lots of nice diagnostic info.
So, I've been having problems with my my computer crashing these past few months, making gaming quite the chore. Instead of having a nice blue screen telling me exactly what the problem is, I now have to dig through my event viewer, and try to find the offending event, and try to fix the proper problem. So, after troubleshooting for a while, I eventually find out that it's a problem with my graphics card. Fuck me, my computer is 5 years old, been overclocked since day one, so hardware failures are more than expected, and I don't have the money to build a new one. So, do the usual, open the case, reseat the cards, blow out the dust, etc. Crashes are worse. Decide to switch my SLI bridge around, because who knows. Crashes are better. Ok, must be a problem with SLI. Is it the bridge? Is it one of my cards? Get a new bridge just in case. Still crashing. Go digging through the event viewer again, and finally find out, my NVidia driver is crashing. Ok, nice. I now have something to work with (which would have been right on my screen from day one, without TDR).
So, to the internet! Find a nice long post (nvidia.com) about how it's a known issue with TDR, that's been there since it was created for Vista, along with a link to a massive thread of how people solved the issues. So, I start making adjustments, and after a few months of troubleshooting that would have been seriously shortened if I just had a fucking blue screen, I am crash free again, and can finally game in peace.
tl;dr GIVE ME MY BLUE SCREENS BACK YOU FUCKS.
For those of you who care, there was a conflict between my RealTek audio driver, and the NVidia audio driver. NVidia driver uninstalled. But thanks to the things I did to try and fix problems, my cards are running at levels I could have never imagined before.
Been wrestling with this one for a while. So, a while back, Microsoft decided they were tired of all the blue screen jokes, so they decided to do away with blue screens all together. In comes TDR, "Timeout Detection and Recovery". So basically, instead of letting things crash, giving you a blue screen, TDR monitors, and preemptively shuts down things that are crashing, then reopens them. The problem is, shit still crashes, just that the crash is swept under the rug, instead of giving you a blue screen that has lots of nice diagnostic info.
So, I've been having problems with my my computer crashing these past few months, making gaming quite the chore. Instead of having a nice blue screen telling me exactly what the problem is, I now have to dig through my event viewer, and try to find the offending event, and try to fix the proper problem. So, after troubleshooting for a while, I eventually find out that it's a problem with my graphics card. Fuck me, my computer is 5 years old, been overclocked since day one, so hardware failures are more than expected, and I don't have the money to build a new one. So, do the usual, open the case, reseat the cards, blow out the dust, etc. Crashes are worse. Decide to switch my SLI bridge around, because who knows. Crashes are better. Ok, must be a problem with SLI. Is it the bridge? Is it one of my cards? Get a new bridge just in case. Still crashing. Go digging through the event viewer again, and finally find out, my NVidia driver is crashing. Ok, nice. I now have something to work with (which would have been right on my screen from day one, without TDR).
So, to the internet! Find a [nice long post](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/discover/37768/nvidia-statement-on-tdr-errors-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-/) about how it's a known issue with TDR, that's been there since it was created for Vista, along with a link to a massive thread of how people solved the issues. So, I start making adjustments, and after a few months of troubleshooting that would have been seriously shortened if I just had a fucking blue screen, I am crash free again, and can finally game in peace.
tl;dr GIVE ME MY BLUE SCREENS BACK YOU FUCKS.
For those of you who care, there was a conflict between my RealTek audio driver, and the NVidia audio driver. NVidia driver uninstalled. But thanks to the things I did to try and fix problems, my cards are running at levels I could have never imagined before.
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