display driver crashing

April 6, 2012

This is starting to be a common problem that occurs everyday. I am using firefox 11 with the adobe flash version 11,2,202,228 plugin installed. Whenever i watch youtube or any other flash video, windows 8 will say that the display driver crash and has recovered. Here is the error message:

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Nvdia system information:

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 04/06/2012 17:55:06
System name: WIN8

[Display]

Operating System: Windows 8 Consumer Preview, 64-bit

DirectX version: 11.0

GPU processor: GeForce GTS 250

Driver version: 296.17

DirectX support: 10

CUDA Cores: 128

Core clock: 675 MHz

Shader clock: 1458 MHz

Memory clock: 900 MHz (1800 MHz data rate)

Memory interface: 256-bit

Total available graphics memory: 3839 MB

Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB GDDR3

System video memory: 0 MB

Shared system memory: 2815 MB

Video BIOS version: 62.92.9A.00.00

IRQ: 18

Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

[Components]

easyDaemonAPIU64.DLL 1.7.12.0 NVIDIA Update Components

WLMerger.exe 1.7.12.0 NVIDIA Update Components

daemonu.exe 1.7.12.0 NVIDIA Update Components

ComUpdatus.exe 1.7.12.0 NVIDIA Update Components

NvUpdtr.dll 1.7.12.0 NVIDIA Update Components

NvUpdt.dll 1.7.12.0 NVIDIA Update Components

nvui.dll 8.17.12.9617 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdsync.exe 8.17.12.9617 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.12.9617 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdbat.dll 8.17.12.9617 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdapix.dll 8.17.12.9617 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

NVCPL.DLL 8.17.12.9617 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvCplUIR.dll 4.3.870.0 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvCplUI.exe 4.3.870.0 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvWSSR.dll 6.14.12.9617 NVIDIA Workstation Server

nvWSS.dll 6.14.12.9617 NVIDIA Workstation Server

nvViTvSR.dll 6.14.12.9617 NVIDIA Video Server

nvViTvS.dll 6.14.12.9617 NVIDIA Video Server

nvDispSR.dll 6.14.12.9617 NVIDIA Display Server

NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.12.9617 NVIDIA Media Center Library

nvDispS.dll 6.14.12.9617 NVIDIA Display Server

PhysX 09.12.0209 NVIDIA PhysX

NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.12.9617 NVIDIA CUDA 4.2.1 driver

nvGameSR.dll 6.14.12.9617 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

nvGameS.dll 6.14.12.9617 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

System specs:

CPU Type QuadCore AMD Phenom II X4 925, 2800 MHz (14 x 200)
Motherboard Name Asus M3A78 (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)

Motherboard Chipset AMD 770, AMD K10

System Memory 6144 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)

BIOS Type AMI (09/22/09)

Display:

Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (1024 MB)

Multimedia:

Audio Adapter Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card

Anyone have any fixes for this? I am using the latest geforce drivers, firefox and adobe flash. I know windows 8 is beta, but why is it this happening