Display Driver Crash?

Tonight on Pinnacle, my game has gone completely black screen and unresponsive twice - once while traveling through Talos Island and again while trying to hospital. The second time, my display was very laggy and stop-motion during my game session. Each time I see an alert icon in my taskbar saying "Display driver has stopped responding and had recovered." But the game is still stuck in black screen, and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Delete my way out of it.

I'm running Windows Vista, and the only thing that seems to be affected by this malfunctioning display driver is CoX; everything else still displays just fine. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this?

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Check this out: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=143598

Between fixes by Microsoft and drivers by video card manufacturers, MOST people can do away with that nasty little bug.

If you're not running the latest drivers for your video card, I strongly recommend updating them ASAP. I also recommend getting any updates from Microsoft if you haven't done that in a while. Are you running SP1 for Vista?

Edit: Make sure you read through all of that thread before making any changes as someone may have said something pertaining to your particular machine which could allow you to resolve the issue without having to go through some of the steps and what not.

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We'll see....

Vista SP2 has the video fix, no black screen "drivers not responding" crashes for many people since it came out.

If you have SP2 and updated video drivers, than post a CoHHelper report and a HijackThis log.

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