Video TDR Failure Windows 10

Anonymous
2015-08-08T03:49:08+00:00

I recently upgraded to Windows 10, I had Windows 8.1 before and did not like it so, I was more than willing to upgrade. Since I upgraded I have been getting the "VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE" Error while playing a game on Steam called Borderlands 2. This Error does not appear while playing any other game and did not happen before the upgrade. Any help with this? I have read quite a few posts that talk about updating the Graphics Card's Driver, but it is up to date. Not really sure what to do, other then downgrade back to Windows 8.1 until I can find an appropriate fix for this issue.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-31T20:28:00+00:00

    I've got the drivers from GeForce Experience.

    For getting the TDR failure, thus far it has been a one-off. It happened whilst playing the game, I think quite a few special effects were happening at the time - but I was playing for a good hour or two.  If it happens again, I'll post again. I might have just been unlucky. I've not been able to reproduce it since. But then I am ATM playing in 1080p instead of 1440p because I get 60fps in 1080p and not in 1440p, I'll do a session of running at Max settings at 1440p to see if it replicates.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-31T17:45:45+00:00

    What are the repro steps for getting the TDR failure for Final Fantays XIV? Just launching the game? What happens if you install the 355.82 driveres from geforce.com ? or from Geforce Experience?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-30T10:59:03+00:00

    What the engineer says seems to make sense - I've done a bit of digging on the issue. Sounds like improvements may be needed either in how Windows talks to graphics drivers or vice versa...or both. 

    Initially, I didn't use the Windows 10 driver and just kept my old one from Windows 8.1 (as normally for me, I don't normally need to worry about drivers when I have upgraded in the past) and found after a while of use it just kept randomly crashing the driver. I upgraded to the Windows 10 driver, that stopped and now this happened (VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE). First time though, but I thought I would look into it to try and prevent it in the future.

    Anyway, for the sake of proving data:

    Game: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (Using the Direct X 11 client)

    Graphics Card: MSI NVidia GeForce GTX 980 4gb

    Driver: Version: 355.60 - GeForce Windows 10 Driver

    You are lucky to only have TDR errors, I have seen many BSOD crashes with recent GeForce drivers

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-29T22:47:53+00:00

    What the engineer says seems to make sense - I've done a bit of digging on the issue. Sounds like improvements may be needed either in how Windows talks to graphics drivers or vice versa...or both. 

    Initially, I didn't use the Windows 10 driver and just kept my old one from Windows 8.1 (as normally for me, I don't normally need to worry about drivers when I have upgraded in the past) and found after a while of use it just kept randomly crashing the driver. I upgraded to the Windows 10 driver, that stopped and now this happened (VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE). First time though, but I thought I would look into it to try and prevent it in the future.

    Anyway, for the sake of proving data:

    Game: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (Using the Direct X 11 client)

    Graphics Card: MSI NVidia GeForce GTX 980 4gb

    Driver: Version: 355.60 - GeForce Windows 10 Driver

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-08-25T23:23:23+00:00

    I recently upgraded to Windows 10, I had Windows 8.1 before and did not like it so, I was more than willing to upgrade. Since I upgraded I have been getting the "VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE" Error while playing a game on Steam called Borderlands 2. This Error does not appear while playing any other game and did not happen before the upgrade. Any help with this? I have read quite a few posts that talk about updating the Graphics Card's Driver, but it is up to date. Not really sure what to do, other then downgrade back to Windows 8.1 until I can find an appropriate fix for this issue.

    This is a known issue with this Game and several others

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