Video drivers constantly crashing in VMware

[Frajirek]

Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version XXX.XX stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Solution, wrking for me on Windows 7 64bit with GTX295 and GT460

Import to registry, backup before use that.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DCI]
"Timeout"=dword:00000014
"TdrDdiDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrLevel"=dword:000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers]
"TdrDdiDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrLevel"=dword:000000



Timeout Detection and Recovery of GPUs through WDDM

 

[Vortex]

It is a problem outside VM
Host ended up having zero free ram.
I pinpointed it to be some kind of memory leak of VmwareWorkstation 8 as when all VM goes offline, memory recovers.
Testing it on Vm9

tested on VM9 still eating memory on host gradually

 

[Wintermute]

oh, btw, i think the crash issue is solved in workstation 9 , i think i had one driver crash during the night but my vm's recovered as the host, part of their desktop was black, but the games were running fine.

This happens to me almost every night. If the screen is totally blank, but you know things are still running (eg diablo mouse pointer visible, cpu load normal) you can just suspend the vm and then quickly turn it on again. Amazingly things keep running normally and you can see your windows again. Would love to find a perma fix for this though.

 

[hetsig]

Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version XXX.XX stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Solution, wrking for me on Windows 7 64bit with GTX295 and GT460

Import to registry, backup before use that.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DCI]
"Timeout"=dword:00000014
"TdrDdiDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrLevel"=dword:000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers]
"TdrDdiDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrLevel"=dword:000000



Timeout Detection and Recovery of GPUs through WDDM

Is this specific for each video card or can I do this on mine to? Running with GT 530

 

[declensionsone]

should be able to do it on all graphics cards. If you try it do get back to us, I've switched to linux since starting to this thread.. kinda wanna switch back to win 7 cus botting seems to run smoother on it.

My other computer on win 7 which is a i2600k and radeon 5850 runs fine for some reason, no driver crashes.

I'm no longer have memory leak issues, no idea why. Using the setting "fit all virtual memory into reserved host ram" I'm using vmware 9.

Another thing is, i found out people really weren't bullshitting when they claimed to run d3 on only 1gb ram per VM. The way to do it is you have to use win 7 32bit, and allocate 1 gb paging file. each of my d3+ bot uses around 800-850 mb ram, before it was using 1200 on 64bit os.

Also, I have a question, in processor settings, do you guys use preferred mode "automatic" ? or intel vt-x/EPT

 

[Hugemanity]

Just tried Hyper-V.
GPU-Load increased right the way it should be as on real desktop. D3 now utilizes GPU as it should instead of VMware.
Bad thing is that when you connect via RDP you session locks of disconnect, but I sorted it out.

Excellent. What resolution did you take to stop RDP from locking when you reconnect?

 

[finni]

Also, I have a question, in processor settings, do you guys use preferred mode "automatic" ? or intel vt-x/EPT

would like to know that too

 

[FrenchBot]

Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version XXX.XX stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Solution, wrking for me on Windows 7 64bit with GTX295 and GT460

Import to registry, backup before use that.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DCI]
"Timeout"=dword:00000014
"TdrDdiDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrLevel"=dword:000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers]
"TdrDdiDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrDelay"=dword:00000014
"TdrLevel"=dword:000000



Timeout Detection and Recovery of GPUs through WDDM

This seems to have fixed it for me; I also set my GPU voltage to a fixed number.
So far no more driver crashes since 24h, not sure it will last though...