Vista - those still having the driver stopped working issue..possible workaround!!

you wont believe how much trial and error i've been going thru..first my work around to a problem i was having with playings videos of any kind, ( in wmp, power dvd MPC, etc etc) which i fixed by finally discovering that if i disabled teh aero theme finally allowed me to play videos with no freezing and hard rebooting... NOW i was playing COD5 and WARHEAD, and a few others... and within 10 mins of playing i get the msg driver stopped responding blablabla, and in some case just a BSOD....and NOW!!!! after playing with NCP i tried this option under manage 3d settings CONFORMANT TEXTURE CLAMP, i changed it from default which was USE HARDWERE to " USE OPENGL SPECIFICATION" and im telling u guys its seems to be working 100% for me( possibly a directX issue causing this? )..i played the first 3 levels of WARHEAD with out any problems or crashes..then to push it..i ended warhead and immediately started COD5 and play FINALLY a full level and a half with out ANY crashes( couldnt even play half a level before which was 5-10 minutes of gameplay)..all those still having the issue GIVE THIS A TRY and follow up with your results THANKs...hope this helps !!

ps: vista is like a baby..u just have to find a way to please it..once you do it'll work with you

update: definetly working for me.. play 40 min of COD 5 straight with no issue whatsoever.. used get driver stopped responding pop up on bottom right after only 5-10 mins of gameplay...i just played 40 mins straight non-stop of COD5..then fired up CRYSIS quickly after and played for 10 mins with alot of intense fighting and action ..NO crash!... briefly some of the things i did: reset my cpu clock back to stock which is 3ghz 1333fsb.. set my ddr 2 ram to 800mhz i had it 1066mhz although its rated as pc8500 ( 1066mhz) my 680i i think is technically supposed only support up to 800mhz.. i basically went into bios and set linked clocks..everything to AUTO and just let everything be stock.... my 2bfg 8800gtx's OC2 are factory overclocked..i left them as is.. i do though have arctic cooling accel x8800 coolers on both which keep them pretty cool..40c idle/ 55-60c load, but b4 i changed my bios setting and nvidia control panel setting to set for opengl spec, didnt matter if the cards were cool or not..i still got crashes... i got single display setting and AFR1, left IQ at default ( QUALITY setting), and i didnt have to remove any sticks of ram i want my full 8GB!!! lol..

update # 2...so it seems i was wrong..my method for fixing this may not be the REAL reason i fixed my crash issues...after further testing i think the MAIN problem was my memory clock .. the reason i thought that it was the opengl thing that fixed it was..because... i had previously..RESET my bios setting to run all clocks at DEFAULT ... i was running my ram at 1066mhz...ALTHOUGH my ram is pc8500( 106mmhz) my mobo is rated to support up to 800mhz..my OVERCLOCK was probably a bit too much for my MOBO to handle ( the "ram" can handle it but not the mobo).. i figured this out cuiz..i reset that little setting in NCP back from OPENGL spec to default "USE HARDWARE"... and i havent had a crash...so it had to be the ram.. sorry guys i may have mislead you.. in thinking that just changing the texture conformant thingy would fix the issues that i know many are still going thru.. my advice is try to reset everything in your bios back to AUTO ( defualt as far as ram, cpu clocks go), it seems overclocking the cpu has no effect and is NOT a problem..i OC'd my qx6850 from 3ghz to 3.33ghz ( left the fsb at 1333mhz) all i did was change multiplier from x9 to x10..i left the seeting for clock to be LINKED..i used to have it UNLINKED to be able to overclock the ram...when i set it at linked..it auto set my ram clock to 800mhz , the rated maximum for my Evga 680i SLI board

Hi EmulatorX,

Thats good to see you work so hard and finally nail that little sucker down that was giving you issues cheers all round