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Right, but that's my point. You're playing a game and the display crashes — I guess it's nice in theory that the rest of your system stayed up, but you're still
by stouset 10y ago
Right, but that's my point. You're playing a game and the display crashes — I guess it's nice in theory that the rest of your system stayed up, but you're still more than likely just going to reboot, no?
If not, how exactly do you plan to restart the graphics process?
- thomastjeffery 10y agoLot's of options here: ssh from my phone and restart the driver. Go to a fallback ui, and restart the driver. Have a system util notice the driver is misbehaving incorrectly, and restart it.
- wmf 10y agoWindows automatically restarts the GPU driver after a crash; the screen goes black for a few seconds and then all the windows come back up. It can also upgrade the GPU driver without a reboot. It's not used often but it's pretty handy.
- dEnigma 10y agoThis impressed me a lot a couple of months ago, when my GPU driver started crashing about every 5 seconds while playing a game, and Windows kept restarting it, without even killing the game. The performance was abysmal of course, but still pretty neat.
- taneq 10y agoI think that was the moment I realised I liked Windows 7 more than XP. Installed new graphics drivers, expected "you must reboot your system", instead the screen went black (I had a moment of 'oh crap') and then came back up with 'installation complete.' Very impressive if you're used to XP.
- mwcampbell 10y agoIf the OS itself doesn't automatically recover the graphics process, you could always fire up your OS's built-in screen reader and use it like a blind person until you can get the graphics back up and running.