[{DvT}JonahHex]

Originally Posted by {OF}Erad

{DvT}JonahHex, try uninstalling the Video Drivers, run a driver cleaning program and then installing the latest BETA Drivers. I had the same issue with other games, and the only way I fixed it was completely uninstalling the nVidia Drivers, then loading the latest Beta Drivers. It had something to do with the left over files from the "OLD" nVidia Control Panel. Ever since I did that, no issues at all.

Good suggestions. After posting above, I went to the nVidia forums and found this post, which tells how to manually implement your suggestion - I've used Driver Cleaner before and don't like it so the manual approach was good. Possibly equally important is the fact that I had checked for new Beta drivers earlier and there were none...just 169.09, which I was already using...but after cleaning the old drivers (169.09) out, I checked again for new ones and found 169.12...d/l'd and installed them.

Since doing this (in Vista x64, haven't done anything with XP yet), the "driver not responding" prob seems to have gone away --- or maybe not --- while I've played (campaign and instant action) since installing 169.12, there were a number of times (random it seemed, and not terribly often) that the game would freeze for a second or two, then resume from where it froze. Was this the "driver not responding and has recovered"? ...and it really did recover? I don't know. However, it was infrequent enough, and such an improvement over rebooting, I can live with it...at least for now.

It's getting better and better all the time.