Fix 'Display driver stopped responding and has recovered' error in Windows 10/ 8/ 7

When ‘Display driver stopped responding and has recovered’ shows at the right-bottom corner of your desktop or laptop, you might find that your machine get a temporarily black screen. Well, this is not the only one symptom while ‘Display driver stops responding and has successfully recovered’ error occurs. Let’s see the complains from hundreds of thousands Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7 users.

- I keep getting ‘Display driver stopped responding and has recovered’ error when I play games in my Lenovo computer
- The message ‘Display driver Intel HD graphic drivers for Windows 8(R) stopped responding and has successfully recovered’ showing on the task-tab every 3 minutes. How can I fix?
- My Windows 10 screen goes black and then the message ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’ appears
- The error of ‘display driver has stopped responding and recovered’ looks like the second page on the attached PDF if the browser is open.
- When I click on a folder, download or upload a file, Windows 7 shows ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’ on the right corner of the task-tab
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If there are a lot of graphic/ display/ video related programs running at the same time, ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’ error might typically happen. Well, please don’t worry, this issue could be easily erased.

Reasons for ‘Display driver stopped responding and has recovered’

Why the computer or laptop says ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’? You might be wondering the reasons leading to this error. The causes are various and complicated, but this issue occurs for one or more of the following reasons.

- Your video/ graphic/ display drivers are outdated, broken or corrupted.
- There are many programs or applications running at the same time.
- The GPU takes more time than permitted to display graphics, which also called GPU timeout.
- The GPG gets overheating.

Solutions to ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’

There are some useful solutions to solve ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’. You might need to get a try one by one as this issues caused by various reasons.

Solution 1: Update the graphic drivers

The problematic graphic drivers is a possible cause resulting to ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’. But, you could use Driver Talent to check if the graphic driver is the certain reason. Driver Talent is designed to scan, update, backup, restore and reinstall or uninstall the Windows drivers you need to. It is powerful and professional to deal with the various driver problems.

Also, you could download the compatible graphic/ display/ video drivers from your machine manufacturer’s website (including Asus, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, HP, Dell, Sony, LG, etc.) or the graphic card manufacturer’s website (including Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc.). With the instruction, you could install it manually.

Solution 2: Close some programs Running in the background

Do not run too many programs or applications or browsers simultaneously, or the computer or laptop performance could slow down. Please try to close some of them.

Sometimes ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’ occurs when you are using a specific file, program, or application. End or reinstall it to check if the issue is resolved.

Solution 3: Increase the GPU processing time

The operating system could be unresponsive, or pop out the message ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’, if the GPU is unable to recover and reset the graphic hardware within 2 seconds. You could increase the GPU processing time by adjusting the Timeout Detection and Recovery registry value. Exit all the Windows programs and follow the steps:

- Click ‘Start’ -> type ‘regedit’ -> double-click on regedit.exe from the results list

- Browse to and click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers

- On the ‘Edit’ menu Click ‘New’ -> select DWORD (32-bit) or DWORD (64-bit) value -> Type TdrDelay as the name and click Enter -> double click on TdrDelay and type 8 fro the Value data and Click OK.

After reviewing the above-given solutions, the ‘display driver stopped responding and has recovered’ error could be resolved. If you have alternatively valuable tips or recommendations, please leave a comment to help others. For other problems, you could go to source center to get more detailed solutions.