Fix VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (nvlddmkm.sys) blue screen of death

Very good video Brian. I really appreciate the clarity and quality of the instructions especially as I used to repair computers for a living a long long time ago, (when you needed two people at least to lift a 10 Mb Hard Drive). Nowdays I have to maintain my son's game rig and I find your videos especially helpful. Great work, keep it up.

Bri ! Thank you, sometimes problems with PCs just need input from someone as calm and methodical as yourself. By ticking the box to stop windows installing drivers on ddu solved my 2 day headache. Also I had been using a program called nvslimmer I now no longer use it as I believe this had an impact on games not loading / crashing. Once again thank you from Tyne and Wear 😎😎😎

I thoroughly enjoy these types of videos. I learn something new every time I watch.

Aww I should've known the DDU a few days ago when I was having issues with someone's laptop's display. But thanks! Your videos are all very helpful!

Very informative, keep up the good work Brian.

hello! may I ask why is it important that it is 32bit instead of 64b whenever we create another folder in GraphicsDrivers in Registry Editor? Thank you

Thank you, my apex legends has been crashing for 2 weeks now and after trying many solutions, the CMD one worked.

Haven’t even checked if it works but already just a great video to help clean up your pc thanks

Wow this video just came in time, been having this issue every other night

Thanks a lot....i was facing this TDR issue with the previous version of Gimp when using the focus blur function. However now with Gimp 2.10.22 the issue is solved...Have done several tests, and the TDR blue screen failure is gone

Best tech channel on KZfaq for that I would like to say thank you for keeping us informed and updated. I really appreciate your time and effort in making this channel one of the best KZfaq channel's on here. 🤟😎👍

Thanks Brian. Appreciate the information. 👍

thanks so much for this helped me my games are much more stable now

Great information and thank you for all of your help.

I bought a renewed evga 2070 super XC and I keep getting crashes randomly only while playing games. Pc remains on, but cannot get to desktop. Game audio stops, and the monitor says no display port detected. Upon restarting everything seems fine. I bought a brand new 650w 80 plus gold evga PSU to support this card which is the recommended wattage. I have fresh installed drivers, tried different ports, bought a new mother board, and still do not know the issue. Does the XC come overclocked by default? Maybe I need to under clock it.

you make great video's that are easy to understand

thank you very much, i did all the steps just to be sure and it fixed my problem my game stopped crashing :D

What exactly does the registry edit do?

Hello Brian, you show the error screen at the beginning. As I already had such an error screen but it disappeared very quickly I was not able to read the error. Now I do not know what kind of error it was. How can I archive this error screen so that I can look at it later in peace to take appropriate measures? Thank you very much for your help. Your videos are excellent and very informative and all tips shown are very easy to follow. I wish you and your family health and happiness. Bernhard

Sometimes you get a graphic driver problem when you express install it time after time. Sometimes you have to remove the driver using the DDU program and then install it again. I just had to do that after not having a problem express installing them for months even a couple of years. I think custom installation through GeForce Experience can do a clean install of the driver, but it doesn't do anything to the registry. To my knowledge.

Great video, and very informative! Thank you for your time and effort.

well done - good solution for the mere mortals out there...

Thank you very much for this video.

I've just used the ddu to uninstall, I followed the steps and got to reinstalling the amd radeon software for my gpu that I had downloaded beforehand. It completed the first installation at 6:23. However, now it has completely frozen on the "second" installation at 6:57... what do I do now? My computer has frozen and I'm not sure if turning it off during this download/update is a great idea, yet I can't see another way around it... God its so frustrating, just want to play tarkov crash free for at least two raids

thank you it seemed to be a faulty driver thanks for the video man dropped you a like what a headace ahahha

I have an asus tuf gaming and i tried updating the driver, still does it. I tried putting it in maximum power saving like how other videos said and its still doing it idk what's going on anymore :< its occuring more now

How does that registry stuff work? It seems to have fixed my issues, but I'm curious why it worked

Thank you so much this video helped me fix my pc that i gave up on , so thanks dude

hey, I always get error' Video Dxgkrnl' when running heavy applications or games using Nvidia VGA on my laptop. I've tried to reinstall windows and install the latest and the old drivers found on the laptop website But the result is the same, I always get the error. In the end I could only run light applications because I couldn't solve the problem. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with this problem? Device : Asus X550VXK, SSD 1tb, 8gb Ram, GTX 950m

I fixed it by washing the card in dish washer multiple times then with CIF and Fairy soap and used soft toothbrush ! Idk tbh but this a second mxm you I’m fixing with this method Ofc use some medical alcohol after the wash and hair dry and leave it to further dry and heat on its own in the boiler room on a soft cloth! Work so far like a horse not once a blue screen or code 43 ! Be ware though not to overdo because it kind of wears out the square inductors ! Otherwise all good day 5-10 times u can dish wash it at 70 degrees and test after each wash over night heat in boiler room and u know it gets super hot there !

Could you tell me how do you record screen when you're in the boot screen? Also while the PC is not booted and in the checking screen.

I just ran into this issue on my AMD Ryzen 5700G 32GB DDR4 system. It is a MinisForum mini PC, that packs some punch. It was working fine, then moving into a new office, it all seemed good... until gaming. Standard operations worked fine, movies, browsing, office work, even simple 2D games... it was just 3D gaming where I would get an unexpected reboot, error 41. I reinstalled my OS and some games, and of course, ensured that the OS and Device Drivers were current. Same issue, reliably. When the 3D kicks in, it reboots. Temperatures are all good 50-60C. Well, long-story short (too late), I found out that I just had too many devices plugged in to my power connections. It wasn't an issue with my PC at all, not with the hardware, not with the software. The PC was unable to pull the power it needed for that type of processing, so it rebooted. I plugged in just the necessities into the surge protectors and it is all 100%. Thanks for your thought process here. It got me on the right track, though it was a different cause than yours. Have a good one!

Thanks For Your Time.

Help I open game pc fifa 21 and black screen when starting, keyboard still active Capslock but all hotkey not responding, before it HDD has 2 bad sector, I turn off windows by power button 4s seconds, after that 5 minutes I startup again. This is destroy my hardwares ? (crash random)

capturing the BSOD error message makes it possible to fix the specific cause of the OS failure or windows crash.

What's Activation Broker in Registry Under System?

Absolute legend

registry editor work!! thanks a lot!!!!

I've ran into a similar issue only happens when playing RDR2 I get the "WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR" i'm beginning to think the latest updates messed this game up.

Hi Brian , what theme name you use on that beautiful nature scene ?

Maybe it may graphics card, but my PC gets stuck with the blue screen if I'm just doing like basic stuff but if a start a game before that happens it going well until I quit the game, I have to be playing or having a game in the background if a don't what a blue screen

Is it needed to be in save mode to do it?

sooo i tried almost everything in this video and It's safe to say my pc is dying :(( thank you for the help but i dont think i can upgrade anything on my pc for some time how you have a good day!

It didnt seem to work to me, I just uninstalled the driver using DDU and installed a fresh one but while its installing my PC crashed and showed me the same error (nvlddmkm.sys failed) can someone help?

Jesus Christ thank you so much. The second option worked for me in 2022

when it comes to startup settings to enter safe mode, im spamming the safe mode key and puts me into shutdown.

Thank you

Yo bro good video but what about 64bit value? what if select 64bit?

So i went to task manager to see if all my hardware was running correctly and the first thing i notice was 3 of 4 of my slots were being used (DDR slots) so i unclamped my RAM sticks and made sure they were plugged in 100%.. and its better now 😅 so make sure your hardware is fully intact, sometimes windows will even halt usage if the chasis is exposed

do stress tests identify crashes? i cant find out why my pc is crashing!!!

i had crashes every time im on msfs2020 just flying and it just crash right in the middle ;(

What is the Difference between the Dword(32bit) and Qword(64bit)

If did funmark and it worked well, my graphics card, does it mean my graphics card is not problem ?

Do these methods work for windows 11?

If have the problem that when gaming it hard locks and that gives the blue screen and then my pc wont turn on for 30 minutes to a oure My System Spec's case: Sharkoon TG5 Glass Red motherboard : MSI Z370-A pro Ram 32GB DDR4 : Crucial Ballisti (2x8GB) G.Skill TridentZ RGB (2x8GB) CPU : Intel Core i7 9700K Coffee Lake GPU : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud II Rood PSU: coolmaster 750 gold full modular

Thanks for these tips. Unfortunately in my case, I did everything in this video: uninstalling and reinstalling my drivers, checking for any viruses, checking my RAM, updating to latest windows update, even swapping out graphics cards. Still, my pc crashes when launching a game. I’m simply frustrated. Edit: it was a faulty power supply, replaced it and now everything is great!

Nice helpful video. Can blue screen error occur due to old mechanical hard disk?

I tried to download it and it didn't work, it keeps doing it every minute and my sound on my laptop keeps cutting out so imma just get a new one

Me have same problems before... But is not GPU problem...BSOD fix when I changed my 2666 vram to 2400 speed at bios

im 64bit laptop im gonna choose DWORD (32-bit) value? or Qword (64 bit) value pls help

I live in middle east so what should i choose

You failed to explain the 'Delay' keys that you added to the Registry. You just said 'add these', but didn't say what they do or why the value of 20 has any significance.

hello brian i have i3 3rd gen 8 gigs ram 8gigs gpu rx580 while gaming i counter blue scree with no signal message i dont what is going on can you hep me on this issue idk what to do shed some light on it please i am very confused

I need some serious help. Safe mode DDU gave me a driver timeout somehow after doing the process. I have cleared my shader cache, changed my power options, run my games in lower settings, and nothing helped. Still get a blue screen and no way to play. I can use it and watch videos fine. I’m now currently doing a factory reset of every setting and app if that doesn’t work then I’m going to take a bat and DESTROY my computer. Gonna upload to KZfaq.

I'm getting crashing, pc restarts while playing mw2 and vanguard and has blank screen. I have to force shutdown to turn off computer then press the power button again to start it back up to get windows back on.

it seems that i have a problem with nvidia graphic card since when i am playing using intel graphic card there isnt a problem but when i use nvidia graphic card it crashes and restart sometimes it freezes and sometimes it will crash even if i dont start a game also i cant use my nvidia control panel because it freezes as well i tried updating but it doesnt work and aslo i changed to older drivers at first it seemed to be working but then it started crashing and freezing again anyone knows any fix pls ?????

my blue screen is.. hm. when i blue screen i see the repairing ur pc thing at 0% and just restarts before it hits any number.. and it restarts before i even see the error code.. help

hello me pc crash fotnite and far cry 3 Then I have to restart the computer to get out and what I do will work

when i want to do the command prop thing, it says "Access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges or the disk may be locked by another process. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode and make sure the disk is unlocked". I have no idea what this means. Can somebody please help me?

my pc crashes and has these blue patches around the screen then bluescreens, will this SUPPOSEDLY work?

Hi, I've done all these but no solution. Unable to play any game as they all crash and sometimes also bluescreen. Oddly enough, when benchmarking, no such issue. The following are the specs (All at stock values) PSU: Cooler Master 750 W CPU: i7-8700k GPU: Zotac 3070 Twin Edge RAM: HyperX 32GB (16x2) OS: Windows 10 Pro

Why does mine still crashing after using the ddu?

how about intel uhd 600 please

I still crash but I have a lot more time on the game before it was between 2 and 10min now it's 1h30 2h. idk maybe its my power supply ??

I tried everything using ddu for a fresh driver even sfs/dism still same problem

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I have a brand new custom built pc. I just got it last week trying all kinds of stuff. Haven’t been able to play one game since I got it. Would this help me with new pc it crashes every single time in warzone after few min I reinstalled game tried different settings

Hey im from philippines. Can i download the DDU? Because the locations are netherland germany and us only

I follow this and now i have a new BSOD problem which is "registry error" how can i fix this?

I Don't get a blue screen but my screen goes completely black and the blue button turns to orange and then it starts to do this buzzing sound and then it restarts

Is this a windows problem or laptop problem ..?

how do i put the file to the drivers file

while playing GTA san andreas my pc crashes, can the solution fix my problem?

What do you mean by "fresh install of windows 10". Delete windows 10 and download it again? Would that wipe the pc data?

It happenned when I played mk9 for a long time

Idk if you gonna reply to this but I’m not able to connect to internet and I can’t proceed with the next step

Hi! My problem is when i try to play games the pc crashes but not with blue screen, it just goes black and restarts it. I updated the driver, and still nothing Any help?

I can't run furmark ... What does it mean ???

Is this Computer Or Pc Like Laptop Or both?

mine hard freeze and i need to manual restart when gaming only

i use 650 watt psu but i trieed using 850 watt psu but that also didnt go well

Can i use DDU without going to safe mode?

How do i know what graphics card i have??

What about green screen while playing games?

When I play spintires. And after some tym I get a BSOD now I will try updatin/installin and uninstallin my gpu software.... ....

i tried most of the things in youtube but still didnt fix it i need help pls help me

This did nothing and i still get that stupid blue screen qhen i plug my monitor uo

Like every time I play a game like Roblox and not even 1min into the game It just makes my screen stuck and gotta reset which is very annoying

I'm so lazy to do that but it dont matter I'll try