Nvidia Driver Crashes on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista
As a game enthusiast, you must be familiar with the problems if you have Nvidia graphics cards: Nvidia driver crashes, which causes your system to periodically hang, freeze, BSOD, black screen, crash, or automatically exit to the desktop. These issues make you into hysterics especially when you are gaming or browsing.
Many users have reported the questions in our forum and asked for help. The reported problems include: Nvidia driver keeps crashing and recovering, display driver NVIDIA Windows kernel mode driver stopped responding and successfully recovered, Nvidia Windows kernel mode driver crashing after Windows 8.1 update, Nvidia driver crashes constantly when installed a game, can’t install the Nvidia drivers in Windows 8.1, etc.
These are the same kind of issue – Nvidia display driver crashes and stops responding. We have posted a technology article to show you top 4 workable ways to fix this common issue: How to Fix the Display Driver Stop Responding and Has Recovered Error. If you are also in this case, refer to this article.
In this post, we will extend the problems in another angle that you most commonly encounter, and the solutions that work. We think it’s helpful to make you get out of issues and better enjoy your gaming time in computer.
Problems: Nvidia Driver Crashes and Recovers
If you have updated the Nvidia driver but still got problems, like the mouse cursor hangs suddenly, the browser and the whole system hangs indefinitely, or the computer crashes, you probably get one of the 460-560 family cards and the Nvidia driver is above version 314.22.
Other possible issues with the older Nvidia drivers above version 314.22 are that YouTube videos hang, Firefox or Chrome browsers freeze, computer desktop hardly responds, etc.
Solutions to Fix Nvidia Driver Crashes omn Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista
The workable fix if Nvidia driver crashes when you are playing games, is to roll back the driver. If you can’t, uninstall it and then install the new version. In most cases, you can find the new driver in the manufacturer’s website. Download the new driver and manually install it. Be careful when doing this. If you get problems in doing this, try a professional all-in-one drivers download tool to automatically find and download the best-matched drivers. These tools contain all official drivers and offer a handy solution to easily and instantly get needed drivers downloaded. Driver Talent (formerly called DriveTheLife) is highly recommended.
Summary: Nvidia drivers update should be a regular maintenance. This can fix bugs, as well as add some cool features. We do not mean you should update drivers frequently, but you should have a clear idea that new drivers always fix issues you may encounter. The solutions above apply to all computers of brands, including Dell, Asus, Acer, HP, Samsung, Sony, Lenovo, Toshiba, IBM, etc.
If you have any other problems related to computer drivers, leave it in your common or contact us. We will try our best to help you out.
Hi. We have a Samsung laptop with NVidia we installed Windows 10 and suddenly last night crashed. It doesn’t open at all.We tried everything. We put out the battery the motherboard and put it again but nothing. The screen is stacked with Samsung logo and that signal of working. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Did you pull back the motherboard alright?
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