Hardware Acceleration, should I set to None??

[Ahura]

Got this error http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/R...28d5de349#here

Not the frist time, but not common. Maybe once or twice a month.
The driver is latest so that leaves only the Acceleration. However, giving the purpose of what Acceleration do to my understanding I will ask if it is ideal to set it to None.


Monitor has anything to do w/ this?

Thanks

[shadowpr]

Can you give us more info.

System specs?

When does this happen?

Other than new drivers, what else have you done?

Do you get a bsod at all?

[Ahura]

8800 GT Superclocked
XP Home
AMD Athlon x2 5200+ 2.6 stock

2x 24" lcd

Other than driver, nothing else. No BSOD so far.

This usually happens out of the blue. The steps leading to it are I run a game, exit the game (even w/out playing it), the whole system just go into static state (cant move mouse, cant ctrl alt del, etc) for like a minute or two, then more usual I'll restart and get the Win error.

In this case, last time it happened just last night, I ran CSS then exit w/out playing. The system stopped response for like a minute. I then ran Medieval Kingdom then exit w/out playing again, got a second non-response, THEN bam nvidia driver error. The whole thing shut down and my resolution dropped back to 1970's 8-bit. Had to restart, then got the error msg.

[mjkovis]

I would recommend uninstalling the current drivers and using a driver cleaning program such as THIS to make sure everything is uninstalled. Reboot and then reinstall the most up to date drivers. See if that helps first.

A lot of times updating a driver can contribute to getting errors like this without uninstalling properly. Try it and see if that helps.

[Ahura]

I use CCcleaner

This is how I un/install. Uninstall, safe mode, delete the folder in C:\nvidia\version, run ccleaner, reboot, install new driver. Im pretty sure that is jsut as good as a cleaner way.

[glc]

No it's not.

[Ahura]

Isnt CCleaner removes in the same manner as those other cleaner??

By cleaner way I meant a different approach, not the program.

[glc]

No. Driver Cleaner Pro knows exactly what to look for because that's what it's written for. All CCleaner does is use the Windows uninstaller.

[Ahura]

Siiiigh

Installed 180.50

COuldnt find Drive Pro so I settled for Driver Sweeper. Uninstall/safe mode Sweepr/reboot n' install.

Now all that left is to wait n' see.

[mjkovis]

Originally Posted by Ahura COuldnt find Drive Pro so I settled for Driver Sweeper.

I left the link to Driver Cleaner Pro above in my previous post. Here it is again just in case you would like to use it. I had it attached to a word...

Driver Cleaner Pro

[glc]

Mike, did you try to download it?

Update: This software was removed at the request of the publisher. A newer version of their software is still available yet shareware, to be found at the author's website. As an alternative we'd like to recommend you Driver Sweeper (completely free), please click here.

[mjkovis]

Originally Posted by glc Mike, did you try to download it?

Whoops. Good call. I've had it for so long (since I bought it) that I forgot you can't get the freeware version anymore. Need to remember to check those old downloadable links in the future.

[Ahura]

http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/R...8-ed802a9b8823


Latest stop error w/ respect to mentions above. WHat now? decrease acceleration? and to how much?


Edit:




Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh new driver AGAIN!


Should I update to 182.xx???
Nothing in the update log mention anything about stop error or driver related error.