Windows Vista Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Hello,

I keep on getting the following error:

"Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." with an event ID of 4101

Once I get this error on my computer, any application that uses the video card does not work correctly until I reboot the computer.

I have tried new drivers and I still get the error. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this from happenning over and over again?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
JSMedina

 

Common

This problem seems to be very common, and I haven't found any solution to it yet. It seems to be a combination of sepecific hardware, vista and the nVidia driver not working together

Some people have found that putting windows in classic display mode helps.

Or if you run your games in Win 98 compatability mode it may prevent the error in game.

There are also reports that running with only 1 stick of RAM can solve the problem.

What graphics card are your running?
what version of vista?

 

I did some searching on this and it does seem to be fairly common. Have a look at this page. There's quite a few things you can try there. Those that work seem to work for some but not others. If you can't find an answer there, there's lots more in this Google search. If it were me, I'd update my video drivers first and then try the other things.

 

I looked through some of the google search and it does seem that this problem is pretty common. I guess I have to do a little testing with my system to see what works.

Thanks for your help!

JSMedina

 

JSMedina, you don't really say what you are doing at the time when you get this error message. I'm saying this because I used to get this same exact problem but only got the message when I was playing COH.

I have since resolved this. In the game options, I had "Shadow Quality" set to DX10.... After changing this setting From DX10 to High, I no longer get this error message. Looks like there's a problem with DX10 and COH.

Although I don't know what you are doing at the time you get this error, Just thought this may provide some help.