Display driver stopped responding in vlc 2.0.0

[krisod]

Hello.

I downloaded the vlc 2.0.0-rc1 build jan 26 2012 05:11:59 a while back but did not start testing it before yesterday.

*** While reading on the forum and writing this post I read about the nightly build and downloaded the 2.0.0 build 15. feb 02:18:55. Have the same problem with this one. ***

What I experiences while playing with the GPU accelerator on is that sometimes after 5-15 minutes of playing the screen starts to be blury and I get big pixels on the screen, lik 1x1 cm on 24'.
I also found that if I try to jump in the movie I also get the same big pixles and it takes between 5 and 15 seconds before the picture is back to normal.
Have a screen shot that I can send.

Codec info: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC part 10 avc 1, 1280x528p. Have tested with 3 drferent movies, 720p in mkv format.

To day I have had 3 times there both my screens have become black and I got the windows message that the Display driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Just berfore the sreens went black I started to get fibrillation in the vlc window and vlc stops working. I have not have any display driver problems with the driver I'm running now so I think it can be related to the new vlc.
Have been using 1.1.11 without any simular problems.

I tried to send a error report when I restarted vlc, but I got a message that it could not connect to the FTP server.
Is there a place I can find this in case you want to see it?

This is what I can see in the windows event viewer:

System:
22:36:35 The Windows Error Reporting Service service entered the running state
22:36:37 Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Application:
22:36:36 A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (4)
22:36:37 The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was disabled by a running application
22:36:37 Faulting application name: vlc.exe, version: 2.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f21a715
Faulting module name: vlc.exe, version: 2.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f21a715
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000016d5
Faulting process id: 0x11ec
Faulting application start time: 0x01ccec295e254812
Faulting application path: C:\Users\Kris\Downloads\New folder (2)\vlc-2.0.0-rc1\vlc.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Users\Kris\Downloads\New folder (2)\vlc-2.0.0-rc1\vlc.exe
Report Id: 23032484-581d-11e1-bb3d-90e6ba693289
22:36:37: Windows error reporting.
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: LiveKernelEvent
22:36:44: Windows error reporting.
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: vlc.exe
P2: 2.0.0.0
P3: 4f21a715
P4: vlc.exe
P5: 2.0.0.0
P6: 4f21a715
P7: c0000005
P8: 000016d5
P9:
P10:
These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Kris\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_vlc.exe_6c18f675b059b954c7af33e35d1942369488a_0b5d699e

CPu use on vlc is about 5 % and memory usage about 150 mb about the time I had this problems.

My system:
Mainboard : Asus Maximus II Formula
Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2833MHz
Physical Memory : 8192MB (4 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM )
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, driver 285.62
Hard Disk : C300-CTFDDAC128MAG ATA Device (128GB)
Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional Media Center 6.01.7601 Service Pack 1 (64-bit)

Cound not find anything about this cind of problem in the forum so I dont know if this is a known problem or if it only me!!!

Hope anyone can give a feedback on this problem.

Thanks in advance, Kris

[nkoriyama]

Can you try to play with disabling hardware acceleration?

[TypX]

Did you take the 64bits version?

[VLC_help]

System:
22:36:35 The Windows Error Reporting Service service entered the running state
22:36:37 Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Buggy drivers. (or broken hardware)

[xomby]

I'd strongly suggest you try the following (after taking a deep breath):
1. make sure your GPU cooler is not clogged with dirt, and that the heatsink/fan is working properly (I've seen those cards with warped heatsinks, which made the card overheat when stressed, its WORTH LOOKING and/or cleaning/fixing).
2. make sure you're running the latest drivers (non-beta, non-rage, etc.)
3. make sure your SSD is not the issue (http://hddscan.com/)
4. good luck!

[carelljones]

Setting the Power management mode to "Prefer maximum performance" indeed fixes this problem. Well, for me anyways.

[krisod]

Hi.

Thansk for the tips. I will try this and test tonight

[krisod]

Hello.

To TypX, im running the 32bit version.

I downloaded the newest nightly build 17.feb, before I did this last tests.

I have now gone over all of the suggestions and still have the same problem.

When I have trided with disabling hardware acceleration I have not been able to provoke it.
The videocard driver is the newest none beta version.
I used gpu-z0.5.9 to check the load and temperature on the vidoegard. Temperature 69 degrees, no change from desktop to playing video. GPU load is 8 % (desktop 2%), memory usage 420 mb (desktop 300)
and video engine load is 8-10 %(desktop 0%).
And just to say, I have no overclock at all on this computer.
I have tried to play several games, BF3, Crysis 2 and Civilization V for about 2 hours eatch, to try to stress the videocard and see if I could provoke the same videocard driver stop without sucess.
I did also play the 4 mkv videos I had this problem on in 2.0.0 on 1.1.11 and there they play all fine!!

Anyone have any other ideas?

[Roddude]

I've read that turning off the NVIDIA Display Driver service in services.msc sometimes helps problems like this.