How To: Fix Nvidia OpenGL Errors/Black Screen/Driver Stopped Responding Problems

This is perhaps the best, and most efficient method of fixing Nvidia OpenGL/Black Screen issues. It has to do with Nvidia Powermizer and we're going to disable it. Be sure you've done the following:

- Have set the Power Management from 'Adaptive' to 'Maximum Performance'
- Have Clean Installed Drivers (removed all previous Nvidia Display Drivers and Installed Fresh ones)
- That your graphics card is NOT damaged or overclocked too high

This requires you to mess with your registry, so before to make a back up prior to attempting what is seen in this video.

Thanks to miemens of the NotebookReview forums for this workaround.

You can also try this software to disable Nvidia's Powermizer, however I'm not sure if it works (many say it does):
http://somemorebytes.com/wp/index.php/software/nvpmmanager/

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[0oDarkLordRevano0]

Sounds like a mechanical keyboard ;D

[Psychronicle]

@0oDarkLordRevano0 Yessir :D Razer BlackWidow

[arttechuk]

@TheColombiano17 i just installed it and set powermizer to disable while mainspower was plugged in and that's all i did and never had a problem since. i just looked at what nvidia driver my gtx 560m is using and its 8.17.12.6837 that's driver date 27/04/2011 hope that helps.

[mcDa4o]

won't work for mee :((( help me please ( i tried lazy way ) becouse i don't know where to put dwords please help me

[TheColombiano17]

@arttechuk i dunno but for me is not working tho, maybe i'm doing it wrong but my problem is that i play modern warfare and when i'm going to start a math a black screen shows up and minimize the game i can still hear the shooting and stuff and after is minized a massage pops up saying that "NVIDIA display driver has stopped working" i'll appreciate the help

[arttechuk]

@TheColombiano17 i backed up the reg just in case but all was fine and i have not had any problem with my lappy ever since i disabled that damn power throttling crap. i play a lot of games and would say i push the laptop hard and its working fine now.

[TheColombiano17]

@arttechuk hello i was wondering if i have to back up my computer first before using this please respond thanks

[xtrustox]

Also for lazy people here are the 4 regedits to add

PerfLevelSrc - hexidecimal value of 3322

PowerMizerEnable - hexidecimal value of 0

PowermizerLevel - hexidecimal value of 1

PowermizerLevelAC - hexidecimal value of 1

D-word 32bit

[xtrustox]

Btw you skipped one of the registry entries in the video :P PowermizerLevel to be exact, otherwise thank you for this and hopefully this helps me out XD (not sure if there is a annotation up for it in the video since i was listening by ear while doing this, just noticed that you had skipped it)

[arttechuk]

i was going to edit the reg but im lazy so i downloaded the Powermizer from the link you provided and installed it, set it up to keep max power when in plugged in mode and applyed rebooted and omfg it worked like a dream i can now watch youtube vids without them going crazy or black screening. thanks for uploading this vid mate i appreciate it.

i used this on asus74sx windows 7 ulimate brand new laptop & crashing straight out of the box. bad bad asus for allowing that to happen from a new lappy