NVIDIA windows kernel mode driver issue

#1 - March 9, 2013, 12:51 p.m.

“NVIDIA windows kernel mode driver 314.14 has stopped working, but recovered.”

I’m getting this error a lot when playing GW2, no matter where I am. It’s infuriating. The screen will go black, and after a few seconds it will return, but everything is laggy. If I had any web browsers up, they will all be black pages. Sometimes Alt-Tab in and out will remove it, but after a few times it will remain until I restart the game. I have no idea what to do about it. I have a GTX 660ti graphic card.

Ashley Segovia

#7 - March 10, 2013, 7:55 a.m.

Hi Arrowstorm – From what you’ve described, the issue you are experiencing is called a TDR or Timeout Detection and Recovery error that happens with the Windows Vista/7 and the Nvidia Drivers. For more information on this error, please go to the following link:

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/389688/geforce-drivers/nvidia-statement-on-tdr-errors-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-/

As you can see from the above article, this is not an actual issue with Guild Wars 2, but with the Nvidia drivers and will have to be addressed and corrected by Nvidia.