[Renderer] Nvidia OpenGL driver has lost connection with the display driver

(Inkubus) #361

Uh, no, because he’s a bad journalist. He posted it in the News section of the website and it is riddled with immature remarks and a TON of subjective material.
I can see I’m not discussing this with another individual that understands true journalism, so I’m just going to stop there.
I’ve also noticed you get WAY too defensive when anyone disagrees with you. Relax, seriously. No need for extra stress, we all have enough of it these days.

(mR.Waffles) #362

Can you guys stop complaining about each other and that article and let’s get back to fixing the issue. Another response from SD would go a long way. I expected a patch by now, and I’m about to seek a refund. Unfortunately, I bought through D2D so I’m not sure if I can ever get one.

(Vollbernd) #363

I might have a solution for the more tech-savvy among you guys. I use MSI Afterburner to regulate my fan speeds (my GPU tended to go up to 60% fan speeds during gaming without a propper need for it, so I turned that down a bit with it)

This handy tool based on RivaTuner also gives you the option to increase your core voltage. My Leadtek 460GTX OC has a stock voltage of 1000mV and I ramped it up to 1025 mV.

I then reduced my ingame resolution to half my screen size (my monitor is 2560x1600, so I started with 1280x800) I’ve played a few matches without a crash, which is amazing, because so far I only had one successful match, all the other times the game crashed not even passing the 5 minute mark.

Then I increased my resolution to 1920x1200 and got no crashes either playing a few matches so far. My next step will be setting it to my native resolution and try again!

And a final warning: please only do this if you KNOW what you are doing, don’t just go in and twiddle with the knobs - you’re own your own then, I won’t take responsibilty for any of your hardware! :cool:

(rooties) #364

when will this be resolved? i pre-ordered this game almost 5 months ago, but i can’t play it as it crashes to desktop with a nvidia display error every 10 minutes?

please guys, figure it out and patch it - pay overtime if you have to!

(Inkubus) #365

Not much left to say, we’ve all given our info as was requested. The complaining and whatnot is bumping the thread and keeping up awareness :slight_smile:

(Cocodapuf) #366

No it wouldn’t. The very same people would simply reply with raging posts there too.

They’ve responded here and are working on it. They’ll say more when there is something to report or they need more information. If that’s not sufficient for you, you should seek a refund sooner rather than later.[/QUOTE]
I don’t know man, I think you’re just wrong on that one. This is probably one of the wisest things said recently. It would go a long way to making this a friendlier forum if the mods addressed the issue upfront and explained a few things.

People need to know:[ol]
[li]Why the game isn’t working
[/li][li]That the problem is being addressed
[/li][li]What they can do to make things work any better
[/li][li]Which proposed “workarounds” don’t really work
[/li][li]How long until an official fix
[/li][/ol]
In the span of 4 or 5 pages, this thread has devolved from a useful effort to understand the situation to what is rapidly becoming a flame and rage thread. let’s just try to stay on topic and if you don’t have anything important to add, that is ok just don’t post.

And on that note, workarounds that you aren’t sure really work are nothing more than misinformation, don’t post it as fact. For example, if you changed three things at once and then the game worked for hours straight, don’t pick one of those changes and call it the solution, it just makes the thread longer and sends people in the wrong direction.
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(dlux) #367

[QUOTE=Vollbernd;316500]I might have a solution for the more tech-savvy among you guys. I use MSI Afterburner to regulate my fan speeds (my GPU tended to go up to 60% fan speeds during gaming without a propper need for it, so I turned that down a bit with it)

This handy tool based on RivaTuner also gives you the option to increase your core voltage. My Leadtek 460GTX OC has a stock voltage of 1000mV and I ramped it up to 1025 mV.

I then reduced my ingame resolution to half my screen size (my monitor is 2560x1600, so I started with 1280x800) I’ve played a few matches without a crash, which is amazing, because so far I only had one successful match, all the other times the game crashed not even passing the 5 minute mark.

Then I increased my resolution to 1920x1200 and got no crashes either playing a few matches so far. My next step will be setting it to my native resolution and try again!

And a final warning: please only do this if you KNOW what you are doing, don’t just go in and twiddle with the knobs - you’re own your own then, I won’t take responsibilty for any of your hardware! :cool:[/QUOTE]
There’s no need for tweaking stuff in Afterburner.
It’s already known the game doesn’t crash if you play in low resolution.
I crash if I play in 1920x1080, but anything lower I never crash.

(mR.Waffles) #368

Inkubus, you make a good point. Gentlemen, flame on.

(jfunk) #369

I understand your sentiment, but some of these things here just aren’t possible. Besides item #2 (which we already know the answer to, they’ve told us they’re working on it), all of your other items are redundant to number 1.

What can make it work better, what doesn’t actually work, and how long until it’s fixed are all questions that can only be answered AFTER they know what the problem is and won’t likely need answering at that point because the answer will be “install the patch”.

They can’t tell you how long it will take them to fix a problem if they don’t know what the solution is.

That being said, yeah some of the theoretical work arounds being listed probably are not great advice. I’d hardly recommend people go too far out of their way trying anything funky like tweaking their voltage or mixing DLLs from different driver versions in attempt to work around a known software bug. You’ll likely cause more harm than good and none of it is going to make the underlying bug go away. If your card is overclocked or you run at a very high resolution and lower those settings makes things playable for you then great. Beyond that, I’d recommend people just wait it out or cut your losses and move on.

(Instant_Soldier) #370

[QUOTE=jfunk;316763]I understand your sentiment, but some of these things here just aren’t possible. Besides item #2 (which we already know the answer to, they’ve told us they’re working on it), all of your other items are redundant to number 1.
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I for one am not interested in YOUR interpretation of the situation, as if it would be anything other than some derivative of “Shut up and wait. Why? Because I say so! Your anger offends me!” I traded $50 with SPLASH DAMAGE, not you, and I expect THEM to handle customer service duties.

Beyond that, I’d recommend people just wait it out or cut your losses and move on.

A perfect example of what you have NOT been charged with doing. As far as I’ve read, no one has asked you for your “recommendation”, or does unsolicited, patronizing claptrap like this pass as “help” in this forum?

SPLASH DAMAGE, please get a PR person in here and put this to bed. Surely you’re not going to hide behind people like this, who seem intent on ridiculing valid customer complaints out of existence.

(Vollbernd) #371

[QUOTE=dlux;316569]There’s no need for tweaking stuff in Afterburner.
It’s already known the game doesn’t crash if you play in low resolution.
I crash if I play in 1920x1080, but anything lower I never crash.[/QUOTE]

please don’t generalise your own experience! for me, it didn’t work for me at ANY resolution, I had crashes nonetheless. Just because it works for you, that doesn’t mean it’ll work for all, but it might!

Even though we all share a common error message, it still doesn’t mean the fix for each and everyone of us is the exact same and that a upcoming patch will solve ALL our problems.

So for me, this IS a solution and I am sharing it, because it MIGHT get some other people relief and the possibility to play their game.

A lot of you guys around here should really work on your negative attitude… people are just trying to help!

(dlux) #372

If you needed to up the voltage, your card wasn’t stable to begin with. It would crash in other heavy games and especially Furmark/Kombustor.

(Vollbernd) #373

Again, that is an assumption on your account, which in my case is plain wrong. no other game and/or benchmark has ever forced my system to black out, brink on the other hand does, and upping my voltage has so far fixed this.

(Instant_Soldier) #374

I’m glad this worked for you, but I refuse to alter the essential nature of my cards when they function properly, meaning zero HW problems, with all the other games I have loaded. This entire debacle was caused by an obvious lack of testing and a strangely cavalier attitude towards paying customers. SD is going to have to supply/facilitate a workable fix, and soon.

A lot of you guys around here should really work on your negative attitude… people are just trying to help!

So, the simple act of “just trying to help” gives you the right to visit the attitudes of perfect strangers? If helping was really your intent you should be able to do so and step back.

(stapletor) #375

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(asus) #376

Bump. This needs to be on page 1 at all times.

(DjIceman) #377

I’m having a similar issue. Details here:
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27118

Also, bump.

(jfunk) #378

[QUOTE=DjIceman;317672]I’m having a similar issue. Details here:
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27118

Also, bump.[/QUOTE]

I suspect this is indeed the same error you see here. Many of the people reporting this OpenGL crash also get hard locks sometimes and don’t always get dropped back to desktop showing this error. You may find some information on it if you check your Event Log, although with a hard lock sometimes even that doesn’t get recorded.

#379

I run the game on XP and windows 7, and only have this problem on windows 7.

(Instant_Soldier) #380

Just in case no one else has posted this:

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2011/05/20/brink-%E2%80%93-an-update-on-updates/