Windows 10: Question Regarding Video TDR Failure

Hi guys. Just a quick one.

Last night, from nowhere my system crashed while playing a game. The screen went completely white and I had to do a hard reset. When it came back on I noticed there was a new CU update for Windows but while i started to download the screen started to display artifacts and funny colours. I restarted again and noticed after the BIOS screen it started to do it again and then it showed a Video TDR failure with it pointing towards my AMD driver.

I decided to do a reset of Windows and everything is back to normal now but as a precaution I've decided to drop the memory Clock on my GPU down a few notches but not by much.

I was just wondering what can cause video YDR failure? Is it hardware or can it be external factors like overheating etc as it was extremely humid where I lived yesterday. Many thanks

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I still have no answer to my question: Video TDR failure

 

Video TDR Failure

I'm Greg, a volunteer installation specialist and 8 year Windows MVP, here to help you.

This tutorial covers the error most thoroughly:
https://www.xtremerain.com/fix-video-tdr-failure/

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let us know how it goes. I will keep working with you until it's resolved.

 

A Microsoft employee explained it on thread...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...0-315bd023032f

 

Ah that's very informative thank you Bree. If I could only get Spotlight to work now after the windows reset I should be good to go!