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[1.20a] Display Driver Has Stopped Responding but Has Recovered (Pseudo DX Error)

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[1.20a] Display Driver Has Stopped Responding but Has Recovered (Pseudo DX Error)

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I've always had this issue where about 75% of the time the display driver recovers and I get the Windows recovery notice. The other 25% of the time it ends in a DX error.

Zip - saves, debug, no dump was created - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19969679/Elemental/119m/UDFv0.1d/DriverRecovery/driverrecovery.zip

This is what it looks like right after recovery (zoomed in completely):

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Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

1.20a DX issue. Cloth map. Did a fresh load of Elemental after the prior turn 63 error. Got the issue again 2 turns later on 65.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19969679/Elemental/120a/120a_udfv0211_65_pseudodx.err

Debug Message:  Device has been lost

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Reply #33 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting AlLanMandragoran, reply 7
Thanks Lord Cobol. I actually had the Oct '10 drivers up until about a month ago. Was experiencing the same problem with the old drivers. I fear if I downgrade CodeCritter will yell at me to update to new drivers and then post again.
End of AlLanMandragoran's quote

If you haven't already, feel free to try different drivers if you're not opposed to spending the time on it. This sort of problem is often an issue with the driver itself (nVidia's drivers were broken across the board for a few months after Vista's release with the same issue, for example).

Reply #34 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting kryo, reply 33
Quoting AlLanMandragoran, reply 7Thanks Lord Cobol. I actually had the Oct '10 drivers up until about a month ago. Was experiencing the same problem with the old drivers. I fear if I downgrade CodeCritter will yell at me to update to new drivers and then post again.

If you haven't already, feel free to try different drivers if you're not opposed to spending the time on it. This sort of problem is often an issue with the driver itself (nVidia's drivers were broken across the board for a few months after Vista's release with the same issue, for example).
End of kryo's quote

Thanks, Kryo. Any help or advice you guys can give is much appreciated. If I stay off the cloth map I can avoid the problems but navigating the world using the 3d map is cumbersome. I've noticed it happens within the transition between 3d/cloth and there appear to be particular locations on each map will always cause issues (i.e. once it happens I can reliably force an error by just moving the cloth map around that area).