LocutusHUN
460.79 is out...
...and not a single word about if they fixed the idle tdr/black screen issues 

 
Not to be bad news bears but my first 3090 FTW had a weird fan issue as well as the black screen issue so I got a replacement from my local store. Second one had the black screens too and died within hours so, I had to do an RMA. Third one with the black lips have absolutely 0 issues. I don't want to declare this a hardware issue but just wanted to share my experience.

ugh new power management setting on the latest driver, and im back to idle crashes. It was stable on "active" im rolling back the driver.
 
found how to increase the TDR values, trying 10sec, and setting back to "optimal"... ill report back, usually crashes at least once a day, usually if the screen is momentarily static (reading content on a website), and go to scroll or move the mouse, initiating a new frame...

Hello here is my experience:

Only in World of Warcraft, I get this mad fan revving when changing maps and then at some point the system just goes full tilt and black screens with the fans revving mad.

Changing the game power to maximum efficiency instead of optimal seemed to fix the problem + capping the FPS way below my refresh rate of 165.

However I still get one such event every day. I ran fsc /scannow which said it found and fixed corrupt registry entries. Will see how that one goes.

Note: Absolutely no problem with games like Division 2/Cyberpunk/GTAV.

Really driving me crazy.

P.S. No red lights from the card when this happens.

on the 460 driver now, this time trying setting TDR to 10 seconds in the registry. no crashes for 24 hours... fingers crossed.

Ive just read a post on the nv forums.
 
They claim, if you disable RGB on your card, the browser TDR's will stop :D
This would be hilarious if it proves true... i have my RGB also set to temperature changing in PX1... :D

well heck.. been a couple days now and no crashes while browsing. I think this might be the fix (until they fix the root cause anyhow). (the TDR timeout setting, i have not turned off the rgb)

jamesleroux
well heck.. been a couple days now and no crashes while browsing. I think this might be the fix (until they fix the root cause anyhow). (the TDR timeout setting, i have not turned off the rgb)

My tought about this: IF the problem is, that sudden hardware acceleration in browsers (or other programs too) causes the card to momentarily spike the boost frequency above the allowed, and that is causing the crash, isnt there a risk, that extending TDR timeout will kill the card?

I have seen no evidence that it is spiking above anything.

LocutusHUN

jamesleroux
well heck.. been a couple days now and no crashes while browsing. I think this might be the fix (until they fix the root cause anyhow). (the TDR timeout setting, i have not turned off the rgb)

My tought about this: IF the problem is, that sudden hardware acceleration in browsers (or other programs too) causes the card to momentarily spike the boost frequency above the allowed, and that is causing the crash, isnt there a risk, that extending TDR timeout will kill the card?

Argh, spoke too soon, had a browser crash today. Whole system reset.

So far any driver past 456.71 has given me crashes while watching either Twitch streams or YouTube videos.  Glad to see it's not just me, was hoping the new drivers would have fixed it but it just crashed on me, both screens go black and I get two "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." errors in my Event Log...