Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Here are a few things you can do if the display driver stopped working on your Windows 11/10 computer:
1] Restart Graphics Driver
Restart Graphics Driver and see if it helps. Use the key combination Win+Ctrl+Shift+B on your Windows keyboard. The screen flickers and goes black for a second, and will be back in less than a second.
2] Check Graphic drivers
If you receive this message frequently, you may want to check if you have the latest Display Drivers installed on your Windows computer. Update them to the latest versions. If the problem started after updating it, then you consider a Rollback. If you wish to reinstall the device driver, follow these steps:
Open Device Manager.Right-click on the name of the deviceSelect UninstallRestart your PCWindows will attempt to reinstall the driver.
3] Check Visual Effect settings
If you have tweaked your Visual Effects, you may want to reset them to defaults. You can do so via Control Panel > Visual Effects > Select Adjust for best performance, OR Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer.
4] Disable Hardware Acceleration
If you are on low-end computers or if your current video card or video driver does not support GPU hardware acceleration, then you should try and disable Hardware Acceleration and see if it helps you.
5] Modify Timeout Detection and Recovery Registry value
You may also have to increase the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) processing time. You can do this by modifying the registry value for Timeout Detection and Recovery. To fix this problem automatically, you can download and run Microsoft Fix it 50848. See if it applies to your system. To do it manually, follow these steps: Open Registry Editor and go to the following registry subkey: On the Edit menu, select New, and then select the following registry value from the drop-down menu specific to your version of Windows (32 bit, or 64 bit): For 32 bit Windows Select DWORD (32-bit) value.Type TdrDelay as the Name and then select Enter.Double-click TdrDelay and add 8 for the Value data and then select OK. For 64 bit Windows Select QWORD (64-bit) value.Type TdrDelay as the Name and then select Enter.Double-click TdrDelay and add 8 for the Value data and then select OK. Since this is a TDR-related issue, you can also read more about troubleshooting Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) crashes. Hope something helps! Related read: NVIDIA Kernal Mode Driver has stopped responding and has recovered.
