Losing display driver when switching algo's or pressing stop

[Endacy]

I am having the following issue:

When auto-switching algo's or when pressing stop, screen goes blank and windows shows "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered", and sometimes when it crashes the connection to the GPU is lost as well, the only way I can get it to pick up my graphics card again is by re-installing the driver and restarting NHM

NiceHash Miner: v1.7.5.12 GFX card: MSI 1080 ti Gaming X Driver version: 382.33 (and tried 382.05) OS: Windows 7

[Squall-Leonhart]

Try setting the debug option in nvidia control panel,

i've a feeling there is an underlying driver bug since i experience it on my reference clocked 1080, but testing reference clocks is a requirement for submitting driver bugs.

[Squall-Leonhart]

After you have, fill out the driver feedback form at

http://surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?pi=6e7ea6bb4a02641fa8f07694a40f8ac6

[S74nk0]

@Endacy Please try this patch copy it to NHMv1.7.5.12 folder and try it instead of the standard version. This should make graceful shutdowns and reduce the chance for driver crashes. Please try this and report back if it reduces driver crashes.

[Squall-Leonhart]

I tried that patch and it doesn't help. the nicehash software instead failed to close one of the 2 miners and it continued operating, or in a few cases didn't close either of them. one was an excavator instance, the other decred

force closing them with ctrl+c would still hang the driver and TDR (atleast on the 1080 instance).

Going by the fact a similar issue is occuring in boinc, it looks like a driver fault.

[Endacy]

@S74nk0 I did not notice the driver loss issue again, but did have the same issue as @Squall-Leonhart where one of the miner instances sometimes does not close when switching algo's. Thanks.

[Squall-Leonhart]

have updated to 382.33,

TDR when stopping mining now occurs on GTX 1060 as well. Clearly a driver fault.

[Bill48105]

Anyone know if an older driver solves this? I'm seeing it on more so when having multiple 1060's in the same system especially more than 2 cards. nvidia driver crashes during benchmarks (so only 1 card is going & shouldn't be PSU, pcie conflict etc), if benchmarks complete shortly after trying to start mining (ethminer shows 3 cards then driver crashes, then it restarts with just 2 cards) and even with 1 or 2 cards at random when clicking stop in nicehash miner. Was thinking of trying win10 to make sure not a win7 issue.

[taco1911]

this occurs in win 8 too, usually in switching between library and lyra2rev2. it does not occur (or occurs much less often) on my windows 10 machines.

[kennycrypto1]

Got the same problem with my gtx 1080. Tried so many things... Right now, ccminer works fine with nicehash. But the other miners, ethminer for example, crashes my display driver when it changes the algo or when i press stop.

[sampsonskizo]

I know this is an older thread but I'm having the same problem. Everything is up to date on a brand new build with a GTX 1080.

[spybart]

I'm having the same issue.