Window freezing at random times (driver issue)

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bowserknight
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Window freezing at random times (driver issue)

Post by bowserknight »

So I've been playing with GZDoom for ages now and never had any problems until recently. About 2-3 months ago, I noticed that the whole game just freezes at random points, or to be precise, only the window freezes but you can still hear all the sounds in the background. Also everytime this happens, I get the message "Graphics driver didn't respond and was restored" (it's a rough translation, it's in german for me). I've read that updating the drivers helps, but I tried several drivers now and nothing seems to change anything.
Also, this doesn't only happen with DOOM, it also happens when I play things like "Enter the Gungeon" or when I try to play some games in fullscreen.

So my laptop is as follows:
-Windows 10
-Intel Celeron Quad Core Processor N3160
-Intel HD Graphics (no idea if there's any number with that, it doesn't say so anywhere)
-4 GB DDR3 L Memory
-1000 GB HDD

I'm not sure where I can look up the current driver version, could maybe someone tell me?
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Graf Zahl
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Re: Window freezing at random times (driver issue)

Post by Graf Zahl »

This is better placed under "Technical issues".
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