Game crash due to nvidia error 13, any thoughs ? - Printable Version

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Game crash due to nvidia error 13, any thoughs ? - Stratodog - 15.11.2009

I've been getting some random game crashes. After about 2 or 3 minutes of the computer being frozen it goes back to the desktop and I get the following error:
"The NVIDIA OpenGL Driver encountered an unrecoverable error and must close this application. Error 13"
I'm thinking of updating my drivers, however I've never done this before and I'm a little timid about it. Is it as easy as downloading the new driver and running and .exe file or something?

If anyone has solved this problem I'd love to hear what worked.

Thanks.

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- *Steppenwolf* - 15.11.2009

Hey, Stratodog. For many weeks I was unable to play without getting the same error 13 message. Sometimes I could play for 2 minutes, sometimes 10, but inevitably my game got cut short. I tried many driver versions for my 9800 GT/on Vista64 before sticking with driver version 8.15.11.9038, which hasn't crashed yet (knock on wood). You should be able to go to the Nvidia site and download from a list of drivers. Koroush Ghazi wrote a thorough guide to Xp and Vista at Tweakguides.com, in it is what you need to know about updating and removing old drivers. It's pretty easy. Good luck.

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- Stratodog - 15.11.2009

Thank you very much *Steppenwolf*, I'll get right on it.

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