Nvidia driver stops responding then recovers in DX10 games

[Tank]

using a 8800GT 512mb

When i play any game that uses DX10, the nvidia driver stops responding, the screen goes blank then recovers. it's getting really annoying.

GPU-Z temps turn up nothing of interest, peaks at 70 degree's under severe load but other than that nothing much else.

i also cleaned it out.

any ideas?

[Necuno]

using a 8800GT 512mb

When i play any game that uses DX10, the nvidia driver stops responding, the screen goes blank then recovers. it's getting really annoying.

GPU-Z temps turn up nothing of interest, peaks at 70 degree's under severe load but other than that nothing much else.

i also cleaned it out.

any ideas?

i get this from time to time when i open mirc and win7 goes hey i've restarted the gpu driver.

[Tank]

running win vista 32-bit ultimate

[kerbyross]

Hi Tank.
some things to tinker with..
Make sure you have the latest drivers , sometimes even beta drivers have fixes for your issue.
Then I have some questions about your rig.
Has it ever worked perfectly ?
What is your PSU WATTage ? and how much hardware are you powering with it ?
Are you seeing any errors in the eventlogs ?
When last have you installed a clean OS ? Have you reinstalled the game ?
Do all the games do this or just the one ?
Perhaps the game needs to get patched ?
Some ideas im throwing around as we dont have alot of details
Let us know ?

[Tank]

CPU: AMD Phenom 2 955 Black Edition @ 3.2ghz
Mobo: Asus Crosshair 2 Formula nForce 780a Bios revision 2003
RAM: 4x 1gig Kingston Hyper-X ram DDR2 800
GFX: 1x Chaintech 8800GT 512mb
HDD:1x Seagate 120gb Sata
1x 250gb Seagate Sata
1x Maxtor 250gb Sata
PSU: Coolermaster Realpower PRO 850watt
Case: Coolermaster HAF 922
DVD/RW: Asus DRW2014L1T
Keyboard: Logitech g15
Mouse: Logitech MX518
Speakers: Logitech X-530 5.1
Monitor: 23" Samsung 2333SW wide
O/S: Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

But seems it's fixed now.

I tried uninstalling it again and loaded onlythe driver files this time via Windows and not the Nvidia installer. seems to have fixed it