Display Driver Response Error

[ohblaargag]

As the topic title suggests I am encountering an error that says the following when playing Skyrim: "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered. Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 359.06 stopped responding and has successfully recovered." This error causes the game to freeze and the screen to flicker for a few seconds before going back to normal. However, after a little while (about 30 to 45 minutes into playing) the game will fully crash and when trying to re-enter the game I get a "Failed to Initialize Renderer" error and my graphics settings are forcibly reverted to having no anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering to which I cannot turn back as the setting has been removed. Restarting my Laptop temporarily fixes the problem but it eventually reverts to this state again. Now before you say anything my graphics driver is up to date and I tried a clean reinstall of the game. Also, I know some people have experienced errors sort of similar to this but I haven't found something that addresses my issue in particular. Lastly here are some things to note:

 

-This only happens when playing Skyrim and has just recently started (aka hasn't given me this sort of trouble in the past). Games and software like Team Fortress 2, Source Filmmaker, Sonic Adventure, etc. that I have installed on my computer do not give me this error. So I doubt it's an error with my graphics card as a whole.

 

- I've tried reverting to a previous driver version but again I still get the error.

 

-My Laptop specs are as follows:

 

Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-bit

Intel Core i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.50 GHz

Nvidia Geforce GTX 860M

Installed RAM: 8.00 GB (7.91 GB Usable) (This MAY suggest a Memory issue. Key Word: MAY)

 

 

So what could it be: Graphics Driver Issue? Buggy Install? A Mod (or mods)? Bad/Faulty Memory?

 

Please respond at your earliest convenience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ethan277]

I am fairly certain this is a driver issue. I'm have experienced the same sort of slowdown/crashing with Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and even several other games. Oddly, any source engine games seem to work fine, as do a few others.

 

You and I even have the same graphics card and 8 GB of RAM.

 

Recently the issue has gone from the slowdown to eventually crashing to just instantly crashing on startup.

 

A lot of people seem to be having this issue across various system specs and operating systems (my OS is windows 10 home 64-bit)

 

It seems that all we can do is wait to see if it gets fixed.