Nvlddmkm

[Old_Geezer]

This is related to questions I have posted previously.

I'm getting a game freeze/crash on a regular basis. On checking the logs I find this nvlddmkm seems at the root of it, or near to it. Have been trying various things to try to stop it to no avail.

(Nvidia is convinced it isn't their driver; the graphic card fans are all working fine and the temperature plateaus at 80° C anyway according to a graphics test I downloaded. Have no reason to think the power supply isn't fine. Game options set to minimum everywhere makes no difference. Neither does unplugging one of the monitor displays. RAM test shows no problem, but more RAM is on order anyway.)

Against my better judgement, since I was told it was a Win 7 issue at one site, I opted to upversion to Windows 10 a few months earlier than I intended.

So far two issues :

a) nvlddmkm is still an issue. The logs / log screen looks different but digging in it is the same problem ! "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." Their idea of recovered is that it managed to get control back to the user but the game still has a white screen and has to be closed via the task manager again.

b) Despite all claims that all my files will remain where they were, it seems to be a lie. Outlook 2003 is not finding a datafile containing older e-mails,and which I often look into to check things. I tried searching for *.pst (in a DOS window because the Explorer search is as useless as ever and pretends it can't find things) and I thought I'd found 2 possible files, but on adding them it turned out to be different paths to the same blessed file it was using as the current one !!! Any thoughts on what Windows 10 had done to it, and where it might be found ?

One tries to sort one problem and simply adds to them :-(

[Old_Geezer]

PS

Where is the Windows Update in Start ? I don't want MS thinking it hilarious to reboot my PC when I'm not there as it used to do in Window 7 before I stopped it. Can't spot the option.

Also I recall some warning that the system default would set to being tracked (!!!) unless I changed it in a browser. Anyone have any details on this ? Is it one browser or any one uses ?

[hc4361]

Regards the Windows updates in W10 just type Windows Updates in the cortana box in the task bar, or click on the Windows icon - settings - update and security

[SlackAlice]

As regards the graphics problem found this for you (amongst others). If your GPU temps are 80C then you should be ok.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2665946

Do as hc4361 suggests as regards Windows Updates, but have a read of this as well,

http://www.techkhoji.com/stop-windows-10-from-using-your-upload-bandwidth/

Cannot help you out on the (Office?) Outlook 2003 issue as regards the .pst file. Mine switched over fine. Tried the Windows old Folder?

[Old_Geezer]

Thanks. Had assumed cortana was some sort of speech recognition thing and was avoiding. Still can not find the control to be asked when to install though; only one that allows one to define when to reboot. Which seems strange.

It seems the outlook file had previously existed in the Windows.old file, but seems no longer there.

I'll check the links thanks.

Latest version and previous ones have been tried to no avail. It happens when minimum is running and the game options all change to low. It is perfectly possible that the GPU is taking more time than "acceptable" but one of the things I tried was first extending and then turning off that timeout in the Registry to no avail. That said, I was instructed to use DWORD not QWORD so maybe there's an option there.

Have to be away from the PC for a while now, I'll give that a try later.

[pinkyboyid]

Windows 10 Update settings can be be accessed by pressing the Windows keyboard Icon key and the "I" key combination together, which will display the 'Settings' panel. Then select 'Update & security'>'Windows Update'>'Advanced options'

[Old_Geezer]

Darn. Thought the QWORD suggestion was looking good, but no; it's just gone again. Was a semi-recoverable crash though. Other windows recovered but as usual, not the game.

Maybe I'll try adding QWORD TdrLevel = 0.

[Old_Geezer]

Nope, despite being turned off, the disabled timer is still firing off the W7 (!?) timer causing the Nvlddmkm driver to stop responding.

[SlackAlice]

Make/Model graphics card?

[Old_Geezer]

According to the e-mail that the Win 10 seems to have deleted, I ordered an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, but any detection programme I run tells me it is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 ?!? Wish I'd kept the box.

The memory I ordered arrived so I removed the existing to test the new on it's own. So I have 8G RAM in now. Unsure if that will help. (Graphics card has 4G allegedly.)

It is only freezing a few times a day now, which is either a temporary thing to fool me (that's happened before) or a genuine improvement. May turn off and put the vacuum over it in a while. Not that overheating seems to be an issue but you never know.

[Togo]

OG the longer you run w10 the better it will get. Keep forcing through all upgrades I still check 2 or 3 times a week. Make sure you have the updates set to run automatically as well.

[CrapAtCryptics]

There might be something in this that helps
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Fix-the-Nvlddmkm-Error/

[Old_Geezer]

:-)
That was the link with the info I worked my way through before posting. Cheers anyway.

The QWORD change coupled with the RAM doubling seems to be holding up for now, but I've been fooled before.

[Old_Geezer]

Relating to Win 10, found one idiotic change already. The dates in Excel are set to locale = US !!! In all my spreadsheets they are getting confused. Bloody UScentric MS. Going to have to find out how to correct it.

Country or region for Win 10 is already set to the UK. Must be a change it made to Excel (maybe Office in general) somehow. Why the heck did it even contemplate changing that ?

[Old_Geezer]

ARRRRHHHHH ! All date formats have change to US and selecting them all and opting to change them back to UK screws every one up as it tries to change the month and day for those already in existence and which were fine until Win 10 screwed them up !!!! Why on Earth are folk saying it is ok and the bugs ironed out ? Hope to God I have a back up untouched yet by this MS idiocy.

[Togo]

You'll notice that Excel recognizes some of the dates but for most it won't. You'll see the dates that Excel has recognized as right-aligned cells and those it didn't recognize, and assumed was text, as left-aligned cells. If you look closely you'll see that even the cells Excel did recognize as dates are wrong - the months and days are switched.

It can be quite a task to fix all of these dates. In the early days I tried various techniques to solve this problem, but all of them were time consuming. Then I discovered a simple little trick using Excel's 'Text to columns' option.

Here's what you can do...
1.Highlight the cells (only one column wide) containing the dates. You can select the entire column if you like.
2.From the Data menu, select 'Text to columns'
3.In the dialog box, select the 'Fixed width' option and click the Next button
4.If there are any column break lines (vertical lines with arrows) through the data area, double-click on them to remove them all. Then click the Next button
5.In the 'Column data format' section, select MDY (or whichever date format you need) from the Date dropdown. This tells Excel the format of the imported dates.
6.Click the Finish button.
http://www.theexceladdict.com/_t/t040519.htm

I think it is more of an ongoing excel issue than MS Geezer.

[Old_Geezer]

Cheers. I'll try that when I get back in the new year. Unconvinced it is an Excel problem rather than W10 though as Excel was fine with the dates previously. Now it's no longer clear it even knows what the dates in the row are. Tell it to change all selected cells back to UK and it starts swopping the month and day values even though they look ok, they just have to be accepted as UK not US.

[gl556tr]

MS' OS - in particular 10 - is deplorable, with reliability rapidly approaching zero. Trust ditto. This situation has been reflected by several sources whom I know personally. I have finally taken up Unix. All the necessary additional SW packets that one normally has to pay for on the MS platform are OpenSource, which are just as good, if not, better. I had been running MS Win in tandem with Ubuntu for a year. MS' poor performance has simply facilitated my decision to go to the Unix OS earlier.

[SlackAlice]

These are the latest drivers for your GPU.

http://www.geforce.co.uk/drivers/results/96215

Check to see if yours are the same. If not d/l and install them.

[Old_Geezer]

Just an observation re the Excel thing.

Win 10 and Excel 2003 and Win 10 has changed the locale to be US for no discernible reason. Open the same spreadsheet in Win 7 and Excel Pro plus 2010 and it doesn't try that stupid trick. The spreadsheet looks ok and the locale is correctly showing UK. It's one thing to no longer support an older version, quite another to opt to screw it up by changing one of its settings, presumably for a laugh.

[Old_Geezer]

Cheers SA. Won't be at my PC for a while now, but I know NVidia has got me to try umpteen, both latest and older. I'll check it out when I can but from experience I'm fairly sure new drivers (unless they have suddenly decided they've found a bug they were denying having) will have already been tried.