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Hello,
I have been plagued by countless annoying random game crashes the past months with my pc with all pointing out to this error (from event viewer) when they occur: "The description for Event ID 153 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
\Device\00000092
Reset TDR occurred on GPUID:100
The message resource is present but the message was not found in the message table"
Have tried numerous possible solutions already from forums, but with no luck.. Fortnite and many other games crash after random intervals. Can anyone suggest a solution for this?
My specs are the following:
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
Installed RAM G-SKILL F4 3200-C16 32,0 GB DDR4
GPU EVGA GTX 980 Superclocked ACX 2.0
Drives Patriot M.2 P300 512GB and Seagate Hybrid HDD 4TB
Motherboard GIGABYTE H510M H V2
Microsoft Windows 11 Professional (x64) Build 22631.3593 (23H2)
Have to note that i recently replaced almost all parts from the pc due to a previous motherboard burnout which killed many components, expect the PSU (which was repaired by the technician) and GPU (which the technician said was saved from the burnout) and the Hybrid HDD (have this HDD since 2016). Apart from this, i restored my windows partition through Macrium Reflect image backup (from the Hybrid HHD saved backup).
Thanks in advance for any possible solutions to this, if any!
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I had this exact same issue and just found a fix for it online!
Search for nvlddmkm.sys in C:\Windows\System32. Right click it and select Properties. Go to Security, and enable user permissions to full control. Click apply, and that's it! Hopefully this should fix your issue as well!
Hey I tried to change permissions for users but it wouldnt let me tick the box to make it full control. How did you change the permissions?
You have to give permission to yourself to change that file. Windows has the permissions set to TrustedInstaller by default to prevent other people from messing with core files.
To do this, open the properties of the file you want permission of, go into the Security tab, hit Advanced (there should be a bunch of names of people with permissions), hit Change next to Owner, and a dialogue box will pop up where you can enter in names. You need to enter the name of your user. It should be like "(computer user name)\Users" and then you can check for it. Once it works and changes your name to the permission, hit apply. Then close the properties and you should have permission over the file. You can now change the Security.
As a measure of precaution, you should change it back to TrustedInstaller when you're done messing around with it.
Hey I tried to change permissions for users but it wouldnt let me tick the box to make it full control. How did you change the permissions?
Recently started having the same issue as well.
Thought it was either the SSD my Windows installation was on or the PSU, but replaced both and the issue persists.
It looks very recent and pretty widespread. Here's a bunch of threads from the past week, all with the same error code:
https://www.reddit.com/r/XDefiant/comments/1d2ww3s/random_crashes_cant_play_the_game_need_help_on_if/ https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1d494x0/help_hang_ups_and_freezes_on_startup_cant_figure/
Tried this fix but ended up with 2 nvlddmkm.sys on the same folder now. Changed both to user with full control in properties which in process removed the "TrustedInstaller" as owner for these files. The game still crashed and event viewer recorded the same error.
