Currently on a clean installed windows 10, running on a EVGA GTX 980 SC and i5 4690k on a Maximus VII Hero. I have been getting "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." frequently when playing games. I have been playing a lot of Blade and Soul lately and I have been experiencing TDRs on over 10 drivers. Please keep in mind, when I was on Windows 8.1, I never experienced any TDRs (with driver 350.12). So due to this, I doubt it is because of a faulty GPU. Here is a list of the drivers in my download folder:

 
All of the drivers I've tried either gave me the typical Event ID 4101 "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." or the list of red errors as seen in this image album: imgur.com/a/ubM8m
 
Please note these errors/warnings only happen when I'm playing a game. At first I thought it was due to Blade and Soul cause that was the only game I've been playing. Whenever I try to spend about 1-2 hours on another game it wouldn't happen. But today I loaded up TERA and played for about 40 minutes and the driver TDR'ed. So now I think it might not be because of Blade and Soul. It comes down to: windows 10, my GPU, or driver? I have my doubts on it being the drivers because I truly have tried a bunch of drivers; uninstalling one after another with DDU and clean installing another. Also because I've never gotten any TDRs in the past with windows 8.1, I don't think it's my GPU either. 
 
So now, other than windows 10, I don't know what else it can be. I thought maybe since this mobo was out before the release of Windows 10, maybe it's due to outdated bios? I have read some people having success in getting rid of TDRs by updating their bios for windows 10. I have never updated or do anything to the bios since I built my PC so I don't know if the bios might be outdated, causing issues with hardware/software in windows 10.
 
I know I can clean install windows 8.1 and test that factor, but I really don't wish to rid of my current windows 10 settings/etc.
 
If anyone has any insights, it would be much appreciated.

Cool GTX
Newest Asus BIOS --- 2015/11/23 ---  MAXIMUS VII HERO BIOS 3003 --- Improve system stability.
 

 

I am aware of that bios update, but will a bios update actually fix the TDRs and issues I'm having?

jtimcampy

Cool GTX
Newest Asus BIOS --- 2015/11/23 ---  MAXIMUS VII HERO BIOS 3003 --- Improve system stability.
 
 
 

I am aware of that bios update, but will a bios update actually fix the TDRs and issues I'm having?

Best answered by ASUS tech support -- what they mean by Improve system stability
 
Step one with stability issues is to update all drivers for: MB, Sound, GPU
 
Look at this:
 
https://forums.geforce.co...ding-solved-/?offset=3
 
 
Google search turned up that this is a Win 10 issue, quite a few people have it since "upgrading to Win 10"
 
 

I have all driver and bios up to date but still get the TDR on the latest nVidia 361.91 from time to time.
also using EVGA GTX 980 SC (ACX version) with no OC on the system.
 
what I realize is that my TDR is somehow related to the hardware acceleration used by browser plugins, mainly Adobe Flash Player.
the problem is no matter my switching it off after an update the plugin switches it on again.
in the browser itself it's switched off but it doesn't really help.
 
so if you are running a browser in the background while gaming, this could be the cause for the TDR.

I have not had any TDR's while browsing, since switching to Chrome.

hellshocker
yes it may fix the problem but I feel like its something other that's doing this I would try to downclock your card -100 on both gpu and memory then run a game and see if it fixes the driver crash or if it lets you play for a longer time before it crash again if so then you may have a card that's going bad  also a power supply that's going bad can do the same things

I'm not entirely sure if it is my hardware, since like I said, I have never had TDRs when I was on windows 8.1 (driver 350.12). I haven't tried downclocking yet though.
 
It happens very randomly, and I mean VERY. Sometimes it can happen in matter of minutes, and sometimes it can go for over 5 hours without crashing. Just about 2 day ago, I played 6 hours without a single crash, then next morning I played about 4 hours without crashing. Then all of a sudden it just crashes.
 
Here are pictures of examples of time interval between crashes: 

 

 
 
 
When the TDR happens, the screen will usually freeze for 1-3 seconds and then restore, and I can alt-tab out of game and still perform actions on chrome, etc. BUT when this happens, the game usually hard crashes (Blade and Soul) and it will be frozen for about 3 minutes and disconnects me from server. SOMETIMES it will just freeze for 1-3 seconds and restore. 
 
Back when I was trying certain drivers (I forgot which one) but my entire computer would be frozen and even the keyboard wouldn't respond when it happens. I would have to restart my PC. This doesn't happen anymore if not much with the drivers I have been recently trying. 
 
First I'm going to try updating BIOS, and see how it goes.
 
As for the Adobe Flash player, I always have Chrome opened when gaming. I have never had any issue in Windows 8.1, and I don't really have videos playing (aren't most video players now HTML5? Does HTML5 still use Adobe Flash?).

Google search turned up that this is a Win 10 issue, quite a few people have it since "upgrading to Win 10"

DeathAngel74
I remember reading that issues can be avoided by downloading win10 full install media. Using the free upgrade feature so that the OS activates with your hardware. Then performing a clean install of Windows 10. Seems a little counter-productive to me. When I upgraded, Windows 10 was a mess. I'll wait for the first service pack to try again, or at least a decent DX12 AAA title.

Maybe that is why my PCs are working fine. I did the clean install after upgrade & activation.

Updated bios to 3003, played Blade and Soul for about 2.5 hours on nvidia drivere 361.43, game crashed, screen froze completely, applications are still running (I can hear friend and talk on skype) but screen is frozen, had to restart PC. 

Sajin
Try driver 347.88 now.

After 361.43, I installed 361.91. My cousin is on 361.91 with a GTX 970 on windows 10 and was playing Blade and Soul with me, he never had any crashes, but then I once again, hard crashed and had to restart PC. Since the bios update it seems my crashes are harder than before. The PC completely freezes, and the only thing I can do it restart it. Before the bios update, when the driver crashes it tends to recover in 1-3 seconds very oftenly, rarely does it hard crash.
 
I'm going to give 347.88 a try, if this doesn't work, I might try to unplug my PCIE extension cable and see if that does anything (maybe faulty extension cable?). But what doesn't make sense is, if it's a hardware issue, why does it crash randomly and only when I'm playing games. If it still doesn't do anything, I might try clean installing Windows 8.1 again. 
 
What are the possible culprits to my problem right now? Did the bios update make it worse? Is it just windows 10 + windows 10 nvidia drivers (but many people have no problems whatsoever)? Could it actually be a hardware issue?
 
Edit: When I install a nvidia driver, is it okay to tick off 3d vision driver, 3d vision controller driver, and the audio stuff?

Cool GTX

DeathAngel74
I remember reading that issues can be avoided by downloading win10 full install media. Using the free upgrade feature so that the OS activates with your hardware. Then performing a clean install of Windows 10. Seems a little counter-productive to me. When I upgraded, Windows 10 was a mess. I'll wait for the first service pack to try again, or at least a decent DX12 AAA title.

Maybe that is why my PCs are working fine. I did the clean install after upgrade & activation.

I bought win 10 home 64 bit oem from newegg new ssd with oem install from dvd no problems what so ever

jtimcampy

Sajin
Try driver 347.88 now.

What are the possible culprits to my problem right now? Could it actually be a hardware issue?

It could be anything, we will just have to track it down one step at a time. Yes, it could be a hardware problem.
 

jtimcampy
I installed 347.88 last night, played about 3 hours last night, today it has been 6 hours since I started this morning, haven't encounter a crash yet.. Fingers crossed, hopefully it really was just driver issue.

jtimcampy
Update:
Started playing at 11am today, just now, 11:10pm, driver crashed, screen froze for about 5-10 seconds and restored itself. HTML5 video I was watching blacked out on my other monitor, had to refresh page. Also my GPU seemed to have... "restarted" ? The fans went to 0% and started back up after the crash. 

Do you have any other games and/or apps that crash? The net is chock full of crash reports for Blade and Soul.  Another suggestion made earlier is to downclock your GPU 100mhz or so on the GPU core and memory to see if that eliminates the crashing.

jtimcampy

HeavyHemi
 
Do you have any other games and/or apps that crash? The net is chock full of crash reports for Blade and Soul.  Another suggestion made earlier is to downclock your GPU 100mhz or so on the GPU core and memory to see if that eliminates the crashing.

I haven't tried another game yet, but it's strange to me because today has been the longest period of time (12 hours) playing the game without crashing. Previously, I get driver crashes from minutes to couple hours. Why are the crashes so random? If it crashes because of the clock speed, why did it take so long today for it to crash but previously took only a matter of minutes to an hour. Also previously I've never experienced the GPU fan resetting to 0% and then restoring back... so this is new..

I can't answer why 'random' events occur. It could be a certain sequence of events executed in the game code.  All I can do is suggest ideas in an attempt to isolate the issue to hardware or software/drivers. I personally have had zero game crashes for quite some time and I'm running a moderate overclock on my 980ti to ~1400mhz. As others have implied, a clean OS install versus the upgrade from Windows 8, seems to be less problematic. I am on a clean versus upgrade install. It might be worth the effort if down clocking the GPU doesn't make a difference.