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Display Driver stopped working and has recovered

By Anonymous
display driver stopped responding and has recoveredWhile playing games, watching movies on internet, or using application that need graphic acceleration, the LCD or LED screen gets randomly black for few moments or your PC may temporarily hang or become unresponsive and you receive the
following error message:

 "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

this behavior can occur for one or more of the following reasons:

  • you may need to install the latest update for your display driver
  • visual effects, or too many programs running in the background may be solving your PC down
  • The GPU is taking more time than permitted to display graphics to your monitor
  • If you are using an older video card,there may not be a video driver that is fully compatible with your version of windows.

To resolve this issue follow the steps:

Step 1]

  • Install the latest updates.
  •  You might need to set windows update to automatically download and install recommended updates.Installing any important recommended, and optional updates can update system features and other software that might help to fix your hardware problems.
  •  Install software from the device manufacturer, for example if your device came with a disk,that disk might contain software that installs a driver for the device.
  • Reinstall your Operating System.
  • Uninstall graphic driver.
  • Download and install latest graphic driver.

If installing the latest updates did not resolve the issue then follow


Step 2]  Investigate possible issues with visual effects or background programs

  • having multiple programs,browser windows, or email messages open at the same time can use up memory, and cause performance issues, try closing any programs or windows that you are not using.
  • you can also adjust your PC for better performance by disabling some of the visual effect. Here's how to adjust all visual effects  for best performance.   
performance information tool window
  1. Open performance information tool by clicking start button,and then clicking control panel. In search box type performance Information and Tools, in the list of results click on Performance Information and Tools.
  2. Click adjust visual effects. if you are prompted for administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.



      3.Click the Visual effect tab and Adjust for best performance and then click OK.


For a less drastic option select Lets Windows choose whats best for my computer.

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