By Hally | Last Updated
Many Windows users may have once received an error message saying "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" when they are playing games, running programs or using some applications on their Windows computer. Then the computer screen may freeze and become unresponsive for several seconds. As this error message pops up frequently, it is tedious. This article explores 5 methods to troubleshoot the issue of "Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered" in Windows 10.
Have you ever thought about why your Windows 10 computer prompts you that display driver stopped responding and has recovered? Actually if there are so many programs and applications running on your computer, the GPU will be put under too much pressure and overheating, which will trigger the "display driver stopped responding and has recovered" issue. So if you open a lot of programs on your computer, you can close something unnecessary in order to relieve the stress of the GPU.
You can try to adjust visual effect for better performance to improve your computer's performance and resolve the issue of "display driver stopped responding and has recovered" in Windows 10. Here is the guidance.
Step 1: Enter Control Panel in the search box, launch it, input Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows in the search bar of Control Panel window and then click it to open Performance Options.
Step 2: Go to Visual Effect tab in this panel, choose Adjust for best performance and click Apply>OK. Or you can select Let Windows choose what's best for my computer as an alternative option.
Step 3: Now close the panel and see whether the issue has been fixed or not.
Step 1: Right click your Windows icon on the left corner of your computer screen and then select Device Manager.
Step 2: Go to Display adapters and double click to expand it.
Step 3: Right click your graphics drivers and select Uninstall to uninstall them one by one, click OK to confirm your operation. Then reboot your computer and then the graphics drivers will be reinstalled automatically by Windows.
Step 1: Type regedit in the Windows search blank and open it, click OK to allow this app to make changes to your PC. Then you will come to the window of Registry Editor.
Step 2: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>CurrentControlSet>Control>GraphicsDrivers in the window.
Step 3: Right click an empty space on the right panel, click New>DWORD (32-bit) Value or QWORD (64-bit) Value (which depends on which system you are using), and rename it TdrDelay.
Step 4: Double click TdrDelay and change the value data from 0 to 8. Click OK to save changes and close Registry Editor.
Step 5: Restart your computer to see if it works to fix "amd display driver stopped responding and has recovered issue" in Windows 10.
If the above methods are all in vain for you to settle this problem, you can check if there is a newer version of the graphics drivers on your computer is available or not. If there is, you can download and install them for your computer. How to do? You just need to go to the official website of your GPU's manufacturer and search for it, then download and install to your computer. That is ok. Then the "driver stopped responding and recovered" issue in Windows 10 maybe fixed.
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