Civ display driver stopped

[Nikola]

display driver stopped responding and has recovered..........is a note that show's to me when i play civ and crash the game.I don't know what to do please help!!!!!!!

 

[z220580]

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Display" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">4101</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-02-29T07:28:55.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>3566</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>xxx</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>nvlddmkm</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>



Sorry to say but your Graphic card has issues. Update driver or try a few tweak, if nothing works, time for warranty.

 

[Gordon Brittas]

I think this might be better here.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=409

 

[z220580]

display driver stopped responding and has recovered..........is a note that show's to me when i play civ and crash the game.I don't know what to do please help!!!!!!!

Quite a known issue arising , google for it and you'll see.

 

[The_J]

I think this might be better here.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=409

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Ontopic: Please provide a DXDiag file (a what?), then we might be able to say more.

 

[Nikola]

here it is

 

[The_J]

Oh, that's a powerful computer, so it's not hardware related.
......
The graphics card driver is nearly a year old. While this should also be totally sufficient for a 1.5 years old game, I'd still suggest that you update it.

 

[Nikola]

i updated it and nothing,i adore civ and played it almoust 8 months and didn't had any probem,but few days ago that just happend.I bought this computer just for civ,a tried everything,searched all google and nothing,removed drivers,inserted new ones 12.4 and nothing

 

[timtofly]

If the hardware itself is not dying, then you may need to clean the dust out of your computer; for it may just be overheating. If there is no dust clogging the cooling vents of the GPU, then the robust nature of CIV 5 has found a weak spot in the card and if it continues to get worse, the card will need to be replaced like z220580 was trying to say.

 

[z220580]

I also bought a pc for civ n that issue started a month after n it got more frequent. I tried everything, from changing power supply to full, tweaked civ 3d settings in nvidia, changed phys x, even tweaked the registry to give windows more time to recover from the failure. The error stopped for an entire month n last week out the blue it happened again, I sent my gaming laptop to Asus now. No civ for 2weeks :-(

 

[Nikola]

i think it's RAM,i changed places of RAM cards and problem dissapired,it's insane but worked.

 

[timtofly]

i think it's RAM,i changed places of RAM cards and problem dissapired,it's insane but worked.

You might want to look into replacing that DIMM. As robust as the game is, it might find the glitch again sooner or later.