There seems to be quite a bit of discussion going on in various forums concerning these TDR/Application has been blocked/Display driver stopped responding/ errors for Windows 10. None of them seem to have come up with a stable/working fix. With this happening, it makes having a graphics card completely meaningless.
It seems that any workload on the GPU will trigger this, though I cannot be 100% sure seeing that nobody including myself has found a conclusive cause/fix for this issue. Many have claimed that it is a Windows 10 issue; again, I am not sure and I don't think anybody else is either. I have been using Windows 10 for a few months now but this has only started to happen in recent weeks. When this begins to happen seems to differ from user to user.
Before applications started to crash I noticed a bit of distortion and a lot of blue/green pixels when running 3D apps.
I do not know and cannot confirm if this has anything to do with the actual problem.
I am mainly receiving the two notifications "Application has been blocked..." and/or "Display driver stopped responding..." and a TDR error pop-up message for selective applications.
*I started running stress tests with MSI Kombustor and have noticed that some of the tests will run without any issues and some will crash immediately or within a couple seconds.
WORKING STRESS TESTS:
All Furmark tests
Tessellation Burner
[B] OpenCL Julia4D (GPU-2048x1024)
[B] Plasma (1M-particle)
CRASHING STRESS TESTS:
[B] HDR+Shadow+DOF -> NVIDIA open GL Driver TDR detected error
All PhysX tests -> All 3 errors [TDR, blocked, stopped responding (black screen reset)]
[B] Tessellated Spheres X32 -> All 3 errors
Tessellated Spheres X64 -> All 3 errors
All Lakes of Titan tests -> All 3 errors
All tests were run without anti-aliasing in 1280x720
TRIED FIXES (none have worked):
I have re-installed Windows (10 Pro)
Used DDU in safe mode to remove all traces of all display drivers
Re-installed + clean installed NVIDIA drivers (latest)
Re-installed + clean installed previous versions of NVIDIA drivers
Used MSI Afterburner to lower Core/Memory Clock MHzs by at least 100
No other NVIDA software installed
Performance Mode On/Vsync Off/Set PhysX Processor to GPU in NVIDIA Control Panel settings
High Performance mode in Windows Power Options settings
Modified TdrDelay (set to 8~10) and TdrLevel (set to 0)
Confirmed there is no adware/spyware/virus
Confirmed there are no hardware issues/mounting issues
Taken my computer to a technician (inconclusive/no results)
Attempted to install drivers in compatibility mode (not possible/compatibility issues)
All settings were reverted to their default state after fix attempts.
This is my dxdiag file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8nvYpb65wd-S1F2T2NQTE9LaGM/view?usp=sharing
Windows 10 Pro
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
16.0 GB RAM
64-bit OS, x64-based processor
