Display driver has stopped responding but has recovered

GoRx wrote: Right-click on the Graphics card, select "Update Driver"

This is generally not the best advice, as the process you describe loads the WHQL driver Microsoft has been provided with, which is usually well out of date.

OpenGL implementations have been getting a lot of attention in recent driver updates, so it's usually better to get the driver directly from the web site of the maker of the video card.  Failing that, getting a better video card is an option.

-Noel

Still no answers months later? This is unbareable.

I had so many problems with my HP Touch Screen computer with the Nvidia card crashing everytime I tried to use Adobe Flash that I gave up and bought an iMac.  No more problems.   But it is interesting that Steve Jobs won't let Flash on to iPads or other touch screen devices because he thinks it is too unstable.  Or is it a problem between Apple and Adobe???  Nvidia card did not get good reviews at the lower end but it was just too much to deal with and luckily HP got tired of dealing with me and took the machine back.  I also found in the logs that there was an error when Windows 7 was installed at the Factory and every time they had me do a Factory re install I was just putting the same problems back where they were.  Not getting fresh discs with new systems is a BIG problem for saving pennies.    Switching over to a Mac hasn't been that hard and they give you all the discs ---but I went with the extended warranttee just in case.  Good bye Driver Display Message!!

This seems to be an epdemic. I have just picked up a new system (Windows7 64 bit) with a GT249 low end card because I do not play games (probably should have just run with onboard), I have virtually no applications as I am gradually transferring files from an old PC. I was setting up my e-mail using Windows Live Mail and bang up come the above message. Now I really am computer illiterate and I have read about 3,000 blogs on this subject 2,990 I didn't understand, however given my new box with nothing on it except W7 and WLM and the fact that the 3,000 suggestions have not come up with any permanent solution it seems obvious that the problem lies between Windows and the card manufacturer and they will of course remain silent.

What an indicment on the industry

The crashes keep getting more frequent so I tried turning off OpenGL support. Didn't help. Now I'm getting frequent errors about the OpenGL driver losing connection with the display driver and having to close Photoshop. When PS is restarted it pops up a message that it encountered a problem with the display driver and has temporarily disabled GPU enhancements.

This makes me wonder how it can temporarily disable GPU enhancements when they are off to begin with?

A member of the HP crash team was able to resolve my issue finally.  It was the 32 bit software that I used with the Belkin cable to set up my new 64 bit computer. The cd went in my old 32 bit computer but evidently it still pushed all the files and photos etc. with enough code to start the ball rolling down hill.  Then I added my old Microsoft keyboard which probably had 32 bit software.  Plus I bought an APC unit that had, yes, 32 bit software.  So piles and piles of little things kept getting added on top of each other and the system kept crashing.  We did a Factory Restore and I did things totally differently this time and my system seems perfectly stable now.  It really had nothing to do with the display driver.  The guy I worked with was fantastic!  He called me and spent hours on the phone with me giving me step by step instructions plus walked me through the difficult stages.  He said to have the new system run faster after doing the initial out of the box set up, let it sit for about 10 - 15 minutes and shut it down.  Reboot and let it set, and go through that for about 4-6 times to get all the programs and all the drivers going where and when they should.  THEN get the virus software that shipped with it, Norton in this case up and running and connect to the Internet.  Shut down between updates and do that again several times.  Only after ALL up dates have been installed do you move on to the Microsoft up dates and again you shut down and reboot in between downloads to make sure everything goes where it should and works correctly.  WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!!!  Hopefully this will be the end of it and I will be very careful about what goes on my 64 bit system from now on.  Perhaps others should check to make sure they haven't used the drivers for their printers that aren't right which was another thing I had done.  Just one little thing after another.  No wonder the thing kept crashing!  I'm not sure 64 bit is ready for prime time yet....

Hope this is helpful to somebody else.

All day with PS and none problems. But of course  a completely new critical events - NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service

Never mind, PS is stable, i'm happy.

Kind regards,

widelec

Funny you should mention 3D games...

If only you knew what an incredible ball of yarn OpenGL is under the covers.  It's no surprise that every 4th post on this forum is about it not working just right with Photoshop.  But OpenGL CANNOT be ignored because it provides access to the incredible power of the modern GPU.

Bravo to Adobe for braving this territory.  No doubt the video card makers / driver writers will settle their systems down now that serious Photoshop users expect them to actually work for something other than teen entertainment.

-Noel

Welcome again

After many hours of tests, there's my result:
1) ps is more stable in opengl mode (the same alert) but gives no possibility to save - stop responding
and gives new event:

- System
  - Provider
   [ Name]  Application Error
  - EventID 1000
  [ Qualifiers]  0
   Level 2
   Task 100
   Keywords 0x80000000000000
  - TimeCreated
  [ SystemTime]  2010-10-05T17:40:02.000000000Z
   EventRecordID 3069
   Channel Application
   Security

- EventData
   Photoshop.exe
   11.0.2.0
   4bf2d91c
   nvoglv64.DLL
   8.17.12.5896
   4c378ebb
   c0000005
   000000000071be4b
   1408
   01cb649b5a158ed7
   C:\Windows\system32\nvoglv64.DLL
   947622a1-d0a7-11df-977f-e43b6086d9b5

2) in directx mode hangs after 10 sec at some circle selection but still responding

purchase of different card is not a solution
I have no other problems with gtx260
...and google is full of problems concerning HD 4670 and windows 7 and "display driver has stopped responding"
summarise: no warranty that a new card will change anything and work properly, better to find another resolution

I will try this trick with DriverSweeper.

Driver version: 258.96

I spent 3 weeks trying to solve this problem on January 2010, but I gave up and came back to xp. I was thinking that it was w7's or first drivers' (universal versions) imperfection. I have installed the w7 again now, but nothing has changed, the problem is still the same.