When I play minecraft modded or 100% clean vanilla after a random time 1 minute to 30 minutes my screen with flicker off, then back on and be either a random color, or and pattern of random colors and squares. Sometimes it will go back to normal and say something about kernal mode for nvidia has crashed and recovered. I have figured out it has something to do with my ASUS VH232H monitor that I hooked up to my laptop. If I run the game on my laptop screen it works fine.
I have tried updating my nvidida drivers to the latest and even tried the latest beta driver with no luck. I tried a clean install for both, nothing. I have monitored my temperatures of the nvidia GPU and it spikes at 73C and has crashed even at 65C. I have even tried removing my drivers for my monitor and then putting them back. I have also been installing the latest windows updates every few days in hopes that it will fix this with no luck so far. I have also scanned for malware using AVG(it found nothing) and superanitspyware (found some random cookies and what not and got rid of them). I've had this error for about 2 months and I wanted to try and roll back my drivers to see if that fixed it, but I didn't have the option to roll back(not sure why) and I also wanted to go back to a system restore point, but for some reason windows had somehow lost any it had.
Note: This also happens with other games such as Team Fortress 2. This also never use to happen and I've only had my laptop for about 8 months and it only started about 2 months ago.
Information: NVIDIA stuff:
GeForce GT 540M
Version: 314.14
Direct3D API version: 11
Direct3D feature level: 11_0
Graphics clock: 672 MHz
Processor clock: 1344 MHz
Memory data rate: 1800 MHz
Memory interface: 128-bit
Memory bandwidth: 28.80 GB/s
Total available graphics ... 4095 MB
Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB DDR 3
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 2047 MB
Video BIOS version: 70.08.44.00.11
IRQ: 0
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2
Computer stuff:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, service pack 1
Manufacture: Dell
Model: XPS L502X
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 6.00 GB (5.90 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit Operation System
Does anyone know anything else about this or any possible solutions on how to fix this or even anything to try?
The monitor is larger that my laptop and I have no fps issues, I can get 120+fps in minecraft, I don't get a BSOD, but my monitor goes haywire and crashes itself and my laptop. Right now I'm using msi after burner to play with the core clock speed to see if that will help, so far I moved to down to 599MHz from 650MHz and playing with 40fps limit in window mode smaller than my screen and that seems to not have it crash after an hour.
I might be able to try another monitor on Saturday/Sunday, but for now I don't have another monitor I can try.
Do you play windowed or fullscreen? I'm wondering if perhaps the issue is due to resizing a window to fit the screen. If you could tell the exact message when it recovers it might help us narrow down what is going on. Also you might look in the event viewer for system and application errors logged that might provide more clues to help fix your issue. You can open the event viewer by Start>Run>eventvwr>Enter in XP or by just typing eventvwr in the search bar in win7.
When the crash happens if it recovers I get a little windows trap popup saying something about a driver kernal crashes and the version of my nvidia graphics card.
I play minecraft in maximized windowed mode.
I looked through some of the event viewer, but I have no idea which section it would be under(under windows log: application, securuty, setup, system, and forwarded events).
I have tried updating my nvidida drivers to the latest and even tried the latest beta driver with no luck. I tried a clean install for both, nothing. I have monitored my temperatures of the nvidia GPU and it spikes at 73C and has crashed even at 65C. I have even tried removing my drivers for my monitor and then putting them back. I have also been installing the latest windows updates every few days in hopes that it will fix this with no luck so far. I have also scanned for malware using AVG(it found nothing) and superanitspyware (found some random cookies and what not and got rid of them). I've had this error for about 2 months and I wanted to try and roll back my drivers to see if that fixed it, but I didn't have the option to roll back(not sure why) and I also wanted to go back to a system restore point, but for some reason windows had somehow lost any it had.
Note: This also happens with other games such as Team Fortress 2. This also never use to happen and I've only had my laptop for about 8 months and it only started about 2 months ago.
Information:
NVIDIA stuff:
GeForce GT 540M
Version: 314.14
Direct3D API version: 11
Direct3D feature level: 11_0
Graphics clock: 672 MHz
Processor clock: 1344 MHz
Memory data rate: 1800 MHz
Memory interface: 128-bit
Memory bandwidth: 28.80 GB/s
Total available graphics ... 4095 MB
Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB DDR 3
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 2047 MB
Video BIOS version: 70.08.44.00.11
IRQ: 0
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2
Computer stuff:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, service pack 1
Manufacture: Dell
Model: XPS L502X
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 6.00 GB (5.90 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit Operation System
Does anyone know anything else about this or any possible solutions on how to fix this or even anything to try?
I might be able to try another monitor on Saturday/Sunday, but for now I don't have another monitor I can try.
by c0yote
I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
I play minecraft in maximized windowed mode.
I looked through some of the event viewer, but I have no idea which section it would be under(under windows log: application, securuty, setup, system, and forwarded events).