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    Far Cry 4 causing nVidia driver to crash

    I'm running a Lenovo Y410P. i7-4700MQ, 16GB DDR3, GT750M SLI 2x2GB GDDR5. I'm running the latest nVidia drivers (344.75). Windows 8.1

    Within a few minutes of starting a game, I'll get a blank black screen that lasts ~2 seconds. That then turns into a blank white screen, and my PC never recovers. If I alt-tab out of the "game" I can at least see my windows taskbar, and from there I can reboot my PC. IF I'm able to pull up the task manager, it shows that Far Cry 4 is not responding. I can't force close it.

    After reboot I'm able to pull up the event viewer and see several errors related to " nvlddmkm ". Once or twice I caught a popup notification in my taskbar that read something along the lines of " nvlddmkm has stopped responding and has recovered."

    I've tried low, medium, and high presets. None seem to have any effect on the crashing. I recently played through Metro 2033 and never experienced this issue, and I've logged hundreds of hours in Borderlands 2 without issue.

    This problem is only made significantly worse by the non-skippable cut scenes. I've been forced to speak to the Golden Path leader and survive the level 1 car wreck easily a dozen times. I'm also getting real sick of having to sit through the arms dealer's "a gun is a bible" speech.

    This game is completely 100% broken and unplayable for me. Please help.

    Edit: I've tried with SLI disabled, no change in stability.
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    Originally Posted by Sean from Ubisoft Go to original post
    Sean12/7/2014 1:44:56 AM
    laptops are currently unsupported for any of our games. Although you may get them to run, they lack the power to consistently play intense graphical games because they are running mobile versions of the processor and card (designated by the M), which inherently prefer power saving over the power the device could put out if it was not a mobile version. Boarderlands 2 had a much lower system requirement in order to run, so your computer ran it fine, this game requires quite a bump up in specifications..
    Ah yes, silly me. There's my problem. It's not a glitch, it's my fault for gaming on a GAMING LAPTOP. 0 effort, really?
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    Originally Posted by jason335i Go to original post
    Ah yes, silly me. There's my problem. It's not a glitch, it's my fault for gaming on a GAMING LAPTOP. 0 effort, really?
    I have the same problem where it shows in me Event viewer "nvlddmkm has stopped responding and has recovered"

    This is definitely a problem with FarCry 4 and the NVIDIA drivers. I play this game on my DESKTOP and I get the same problems as u described.
    I have i7 4790K with 16GB RAM and 780Ti so its not the hardware.
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    Nvidia lol, get a Radeon dude - they are far more reliable nowadays. Also, he is right - Borderlands 2 is a far, far less graphically intense game than FC4 which kicks its arse.
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    Heard from Ubi again, and this time there was a bit more thought put into their reply:
    Originally Posted by Sean from Ubisoft Go to original post
    Sean @ Ubisoft Support Dec 08, 2014 at 05:02 PM EST
    Even at the point where you are at maximum settings, if you were to benchmark your gaming computer, it would be considerably lower on the scale than a dedicated desktop with enough space in the case to cool. While I am not stating that your computer will not run it at all, at this point in time we cannot provide support for next gen games on laptops no matter how nice they are.

    I will however say that nvlddmkm.sys error is a known Nvidia crash that after a quick search I found : http://en.kioskea.net/faq/6210-nvidi...-error-message

    We will still be unable to support your laptop any further.
    I followed Sean's advice and copied in a fresh version of nvlddmkm. I also downloaded a 1.3GB patch yesterday. One of those two seems to have made the game more stable for me. Not quite sure where he;s going with the dedicated desktop comment tho, I've got more than twice the GPU of their recommended minium GTX460. Is he implying that there are faster desktops out there? Of course there are. Whatever, the game runs better now, and I'm happy that I got a reply that didn't just immediately blow me off.
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