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


(dlux) #401

[QUOTE=J-Nyle;319032]Just for reply, when your PCI-E frequency is “Auto” it’s not stay at 100Mhz (range from ~98 to ~103Mhz depending of PCI-E and PSU voltage)
I’ve play 5hours without any crash or other error report (before that, 15min playing crash)

Before find that solution, i’ve most probleme in OpenGL with most other application (3D studio MAX, Photoshop, Furmark, OpenGL Extension Viewer) and now No problem.

For me it work, to you to see… i’m not selling anything[/QUOTE]
I just checked my bios, and it was already set manually to 100. So yeah, placebo :slight_smile:


(Instant_Soldier) #402

DN and System Shock 2 didn’t cause me any problems, and the Myst games are for chicks.

Plus, I remember a time where people stayed on topic in forum-threads and kept their bitchin’ and whining in the threads where it belonged. If you wanna rage, that’s fine, but do it in the appropriate place and stop filling the tech-threads with your vocal diarrhea :mad:

I’ll say what I want, when I want and where I want, lady. Crispy isn’t shy, and he’s more than capable of moderating if he chooses to. In the meantime, try a big glass of water and a multi-vitamin, because your brain chemistry is off if this stuff makes you this p1ssy.

I gleefully await THE PATCH! :cool:


(farnsworth) #403

[QUOTE=dlux;319031]Are you for real? DOS games soundblaster support was always kind of meh, lets not compare 16 year old DOS games to windows 7.
Games back then were tested WAY more thouroughly then they do now, that’s a plain fact.
You couldn’t just release a buggy game, because only a small percentage of gamers had internet to download a patch.
Also there was no way to bring out a patch for console games.[/QUOTE]

Maybe they were tested more thouroughly back then, I don’t know about that. But the hardware and OS’s were way simpler too and still there were bugs. And patches were distributed through game-magazines in pre-internet times. Also, I never played on consoles since the SNES, so I don’t really care about that. But you’re right, lets not compare DOS and Win7. :slight_smile:

My point is simply, that you’ll always have bugs in every software, and the more complicated and diverse the machines get, the harder it is to test for all eventualities. Granted, Brink was one of the more unfortunate releases in recent times, but I’ve had worse (had to wait for over 3 months before a patch and new drivers were released for DoW II so i could finally play it).

Now I’m flooding the thread with useless banter almost the same way as I accused the ragers to, so I’ll stop here :smiley:


(Chex) #404

TBH, I haven’t had a crash for some time since I stopped doing scavenging.
Maybe it’s just luck, but I haven’t had a crash for some time (spanned over multiple sessions) then I got comfortable and started scavenging again and after 2-3 scavengings, I got another crash 2 seconds after the actual scavenging. Haven’t had a crash since, and I’m not scavenging any more.
It’s like the “F” actions on bodies are broken.


(Instant_Soldier) #405

[QUOTE=farnsworth;319096]
Now I’m flooding the thread with useless banter almost the same way as I accused the ragers to, so I’ll stop here :D[/QUOTE]

Wow, talk about a personality shift! I guess that vitamin worked, huh? Nah, you’re just making the same mistakes that all stuck-up hypocrites do. It’s ALL about YOU baby, especially on the intertubes.

Maybe they were tested more thouroughly back then, I don’t know about that.

Yeah, huh? This sure didn’t stop you from commenting like you knew what you were talking about, did it lady?


(farnsworth) #406

[QUOTE=Instant_Soldier;319148]
Yeah, huh? This sure didn’t stop you from commenting like you knew what you were talking about, did it lady?[/QUOTE]

first of all: I never wrote that games were not tested better back in the days, I was simply stating the fact that those old games had their share of problems too and that no software is perfect.

second of all: The only thing you’ve contributed here after your very first post was entitlement, paternalism and trolling in every single thread you posted in.

and 3rd: welcome to my ignore list, say hello to the mangiraffedog-guy :tongue:


(Instant_Soldier) #407

[QUOTE=farnsworth;319167]first of all: I never wrote that games were not tested better back in the days, I was simply stating the fact that those old games had their share of problems too and that no software is perfect.
[/QUOTE]

Reread me post, “rager boy.” At no time did I say that games were perfect back in the day, just better tested than today. dlux said the same thing, and you kissed his butt like crazy.

second of all: The only thing you’ve contributed here after your very first post was entitlement, paternalism and trolling in every single thread you posted in.

So, now, after making an utter fool of yourself, you want to make ME the problem. Let’s take these examples of your intellectual sloth one at a time:

Entitlement - Sure, $60 buys a lot of that in gameland.

Trolling - If you were anywhere NEAR as smart as you think you are you’d know that most people use that term to describe any post that they don’t like. So no terror for me there, ma’am.

Paternalism - Do you even know what this word means, dorf? I’m not interested in being anyone’s daddy. You, however, seem smitten with the idea that anyone and everyone needs to bow to your toothless “logic.”

and 3rd: welcome to my ignore list, say hello to the mangiraffedog-guy :tongue:

AND to top off your dysfunctional personalty, you’re a coward too. You started this with me, out of the blue. I said NOTHING to you. So yeah, slap your hands over your ears and hum. I couldn’t care less.


(phryzz) #408

W7 64bit, GTX 460 768MB, tried…

[ul]
[li]latest whql and beta, no help
[/li][li]underclocking, no help
[/li][/ul]

I have also been experiencing random crashes (like in topic). After 2 crashes in 5min I got bit desperate and started to poke graphics subsystem. I installed 266.58 drivers and made some changes to brink.exe profile that I usually do for games (see attachment). After this I have played several hours with only one crash. This kind of tuning is like voodoo, but desperate ppl could try it :slight_smile:


(Jet Black) #409

[QUOTE=phryzz;319223]W7 64bit, GTX 460 768MB, tried…

[ul]
[li]latest whql and beta, no help[/li][li]underclocking, no help[/li][/ul]

I have also been experiencing random crashes (like in topic). After 2 crashes in 5min I got bit desperate and started to poke graphics subsystem. I installed 266.58 drivers and made some changes to brink.exe profile that I usually do for games (see attachment). After this I have played several hours with only one crash. This kind of tuning is like voodoo, but desperate ppl could try it :)[/QUOTE]

I guess I’ll give this a try later… I want to play the game so badly.

I’m using the latest Betas and I see some weird activity when I change settings even close to yours (Triple Buffer forced = No Start, Performance Mode = Immediate Crash with Artifacts).

I don’t think I have any games that require the latest drivers, so I’ll step down to 266 and see if I can match your settings. I have a similar setup, just with SLI.

EDIT

phyrzz: How did you come up with some of these settings? I’m just wondering if you just threw a Hail Mary and set a bunch of settings, or if you did it one-at-a-time to find a result?

I did all the settings you had (save for forcing AA with no AA option) and the game actually started. I’m just not sure if it looks quite as good as it did before (I’m specifically looking at the Texture Filtering ‘high performance’ setting you have), but I’ll give it a shot.

Anyway, again, did you try one and then another until you found stability?


(phryzz) #410

[QUOTE=Jet Black;319235]
phyrzz: How did you come up with some of these settings? I’m just wondering if you just threw a Hail Mary and set a bunch of settings, or if you did it one-at-a-time to find a result?

Anyway, again, did you try one and then another until you found stability?[/QUOTE]
Hail Mary one. Actually I just set off everything that I thought I won’t be needing. I have no idea which one is making game (or display driver) stable, or is it sum of all settings by lowering load on gpu. Maybe problem is that latest driver.

Anyway… since game worked so well yesterday, I probably won’t be messing with settings anymore. I’m used to play games with low quality settings and I don’t mind if game looks ugly. Looking for crash causing settings might set off my cortex bomb. :stroggbanana:


(PeZzy) #411

If you have antivirus programs or instant messangers that create desktop popups, you might try disabling them. I had this problem happen less often when I reduced the popups.


(AnthonyDa) #412

It’s not voodoo at all.

The main settings for brink.exe (noticed the ark.exe for brink too? :p) that you must try on the nVidia control panel are :

-Turn off threaded optimization. (important)
-Power management mode to MAXIMUM performance. (might reduce micro freezes if you are experimenting it).

Imo it will only last longer before the game/PC crash, but you’ll still crash after a while.


(aziztcf) #413

(Jet Black) #414

[QUOTE=AnthonyDa;319536]It’s not voodoo at all.

The main settings for brink.exe (noticed the ark.exe for brink too? :p) that you must try on the nVidia control panel are :

-Turn off threaded optimization. (important)
-Power management mode to MAXIMUM performance. (might reduce micro freezes if you are experimenting it).

Imo it will only last longer before the game/PC crash, but you’ll still crash after a while.[/QUOTE]

For me, at least, there is one more thing: Install a driver other than the latest beta. Currently on 266.58 and can actually turn on Maximum Performance for BRINK where with the beta that resulted in a game that won’t run.

What surprises me is that Splash Damage hasn’t come out and stated “you know, we tested exclusively with driver version *., so while this gets fixed, you might want to downgrade”. There would be far less Voodoo if we knew that at least.


(AnthonyDa) #415

a game that won’t run.

You mean it crashes at startup?


(Jet Black) #416

No. If I set the latest beta drivers to Maximum Performance, as soon as I see the character select screen, I get artifacts and a driver lost connection error. In the default mode, the game at least ran for random periods before crashing. 266.58 has allowed me to set things to max performance without the instant error.


(Amon Amarth) #417

So has there been any progress on this? I’ve been gone for a while, and I don’t know if the dev’s are finally going to fix this issue.


(MaximumDespair) #418

Not that i can see… waiting with zero information from anyone official is still the current situation…


(asus) #419

Bump, back to page 1.


(_KaszpiR_) #420

interesting that this issue occurs also in ETQW but on very rare occasions.

stable …now it crashes
8800GT (burned) -> gtx460