Can I Do Anything Is The Display Driver Stops Responding, But Recovers?

[Kethus]

Seems like if the driver does that the game's visual is irreversibly gone and I can't do anything, even though I can still blindly control my warframe. And I just killed the Stalker solo for the first time too...

[SlyStrike5]

Happened to me 4 times in the last 4 hours.

[Khallisto]

Vista and Win7 use a feature called TDR. TDR baically gives the GPU 2 seconds to process what it is doing and display it on your monitor. If it fails to do so in 2 seconds you get the cool flash on the screen and the dreaded error message. In some cases, the situation get relief by giving TDR more time by setting registry value

 

1. Open REGEDIT

 

2. Using Windows 7, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\GraphicsDrivers

 

3. Once there you will most likely have to create a new DWORD (32bit users) or QWORD (64bit users). Name it TdrDelay.

 

4. Once created, change the value to 8. This will allow the GPU 8 seconds to respond instead of 2 seconds.

 

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/asiasupp/archive/2011/03/22/error-message-display-driver-stopped-responding-and-has-recovered.aspx

 

 

Just a tip: you'll find ControlSet001, ControlSet002, and so on. Follow the steps in each one, not only ControlSet002. Don't create the key in CurrentControlSet. Restart the PC after that.

[Kethus]

It was another folder for Windows 8, but anyway, it still happens after few seconds, even if I set it to wait 60. So can't I link the video card to the game again after it has obviously completely restored?