Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing on this rig since launch, and have not experienced this issue before or made any significant changes to it, but over the past week or so, the game has been rebooting my video driver about once per day or so. When this happens, both monitors go black (I have dual) for about 3-6 seconds or so, and then come right back up. The game continues playing, everything else is fine, and then a little popup in the corner tells me that my video card has rebooted. Hardly the end of the world in most cases, but rather worrying if this continues.

I have a Geforce GTX 550Ti, running on Windows 7, and this problem only occurs while GW2 is running, and only during the past week or so.

Thats odd. Can you pull up the event log, and see what error number pops up? Im suspecting some sort of driver conflict that would force a reboot of the card.

It was event ID 4101 “Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.”

The weird thing is, as I say I haven’t changed anything on my end lately (nothing new installed or anything), and this problem is new from within the past week. It doesn’t happen instantly, it always takes at least a half hour or more to happen, and sometimes can go for 2-3 hours and not happen at all.

Yeah, that is odd. Try to uninstall and reinstall your drivers and see what happens.
This should walk you through it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/195164-event-id-4101-display-driver-stopped-working.html

If that doesn’t work. Try to do a driver update and see what happens.

Let us know.

Hmmm i was not aware of that. Ill have to check that out. But it makes sense.

Ok, it’s possible my video card could be giving out. I haven’t had any other issues with it, but the other things don’t seem super likely. I don’t have any sort of exotic situation like overclocking.

TDR is not a bug and Nvidia can’t do anything to their drivers that can help failing hardware.

TDR is there to try and reboot the video card when it stops responding for a certain period of time – without having to reboot the computer. If TDR triggers, there’s a very high chance that there’s a hardware problem (I suppose a broken OS might cause this; but I’ve yet to see it).

That’s odd, also playing since launch and same as you experienced this since last big patch. Strange thing it’s not a crash only video driver is rebooting. I’m playing on a laptop video 460m. I have always some monitoring stuff on and it’s definitely not a temp problem. The game is still perfectly playing for me, but I noticed some strange behaviours since last patch it’s like the new update started from a source 1 year ago.

my bet is the power supply, everytime i have seen a TDR is from a failing group voltage regulator on the 12v rail.

Under power options, the pci express tab, try setting link state power management to off.

When I encountered the tdr problem it was due to windows power savings being too aggressive. Definitely worth trying before replacing hardware.