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Overwatch & Nvidia Driver Issues with 1080ti

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Kevin5255

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Hey all, this started happening only in the last couple weeks and it's worrying me. I'll be playing Overwatch, and it'll freeze the game. I get an error that I can't even Alt-Tab to view, but I can read some text that pretty much says Overwatch and my drivers aren't playing nice (1080ti as I mentioned).

I did the Guru3d Safe Mode driver clean, reinstalled fresh updated drivers, even cleaned my computer case. Still I'm getting this same error. I will try to screenshot it when it happens again. Anyone else having similar issues? It's really bothering me because I'll be winning a competitive match, the game crashes, I manage to restart in time to re-join the match, and even when we still win I get a loss on my record from the crash and a ban from competitive mode for leaving. Very frustrating. I'm at my wit's end, I'm about to but a different graphics card this is happening so much.
 
Going to have to be more specific. If you can get what the error message is we can have a better idea of what is going on. Do you see any warnings or errors in the Windows Event Viewer related to the crash?
 
No warnings or errors in the Windows Event Viewer, just a single pop-up error box. I'm going to try to get a screencap or pic of the error message. In the meantime I'll install the hotfix driver. Thanks for your help everyone.
 
It just happened again. Banned from competitive for 2 hours thanks to a dying graphics card of a stupid driver issue. I've cleared and reinstalled the drivers three times and installed the hotfix drivers Depepe mentioned.

The error was an pop-up window from Overwatch saying "rendering device lost!" after that the computer is unresponsive. I can't alt-tab onto the desktop, I can't even access the task manager. It needs a hard shutdown.

I can't get a screenshot since I need to restart every time the error occurs, but I'll snap a pic with my phone and upload it.
 
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Kevin5255 said:
It just happened again. Banned from competitive for 2 hours thanks to a dying graphics card of a stupid driver issue. I've cleared and reinstalled the drivers three times and installed the hotfix drivers Depepe mentioned.

The error was an pop-up window from Overwatch saying "rendering device lost!" after that the computer is unresponsive. I can't alt-tab onto the desktop, I can't even access the task manager. It needs a hard shutdown.

I can't get a screenshot since I need to restart every time the error occurs, but I'll snap a pic with my phone and upload it.
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Sounds like a driver recovery error, though if that were the case an event would show in the Event Viewer. When it locks up, can you Windows+L on your keyboard to lock your PC? In other games where it seemed like my whole PC was locked up, doing the lock shortcut showed that just the game was stuck. The lack of an event in the Event Viewer makes me suspect a game bug and not a driver bug.
 
Kevin5255 said:
It just happened again. Banned from competitive for 2 hours thanks to a dying graphics card of a stupid driver issue. I've cleared and reinstalled the drivers three times and installed the hotfix drivers Depepe mentioned.

The error was an pop-up window from Overwatch saying "rendering device lost!" after that the computer is unresponsive. I can't alt-tab onto the desktop, I can't even access the task manager. It needs a hard shutdown.

I can't get a screenshot since I need to restart every time the error occurs, but I'll snap a pic with my phone and upload it.
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did you ddu before installing the new drivers? do you have any overlays or monitoring software running that might interfere?
 
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