Display Driver Stopped Responding and has Recovered Windows 10, 7 & 8 | Fixed 100%

In this video, I will show you how to fix unresponsive or frozen screen with the following error message:
Display driver stopped responding and has recovered.
The screen freezes for few seconds then becomes black before getting back to work, but in some cases it may persist for a minute or so with a pop up notification error message saying that “Display driver Intel HD Graphics Drivers for Windows 8 or windows 10 has stopped responding and has successfully recovered” and the error message may keep popping up until the user restart the computer.


This error is more common with Intel graphic adapter, but it may appears with other display adapters such as NVidia GeForce, AMD or any graphic card.

This laptop is a Lenovo y510p with Intel HD graphic 4600 and NVidia GeForce GT755m, but the methods are applicable to other laptops such as Dell, Hp, Asus, Acer, Toshiba or any other laptop or desktop.
In my laptop, the issue appears several times a day while using the Google chrome browser and the screen becomes unresponsive for 2 or 3 seconds, so I fixed the issue by disabling the acceleration from the settings as you can see later on the video. However, in your computer the issue may caused by another app or game, or it may related to a general issues and I will show you how to deal with all of them. But if the source of error is the defective graphic adapter, you have to contact the laptop manufacturer for maintenance support or replace the corrupted graphic adapter with new one.

First: Updating graphic drivers.
If there are more than one graphic adapters in your laptop, you have to determine which one is the source of error from event viewer:
Press on windows + R keys to open Run dialogue.
Type eventvwr and hit Enter to open Event Viewer. Also you can open it by right-click on start icon and select Event Viewer from the list.
Double click the custom views to expand it and Select Administrative Events.
Search for Display error and select it to show the error details.
If the event detail not shown, click on view and select Preview Pane to show it.
In my case, the error is related to Intel HD graphic Driver based on the error details that say, “Display driver igfx stopped responding and has successfully recovered” and the event ID number 4101.

How to update Intel drivers in windows 10, windows 8 or windows 7

Second:
Update the windows operating system and or Microsoft dot net framework.

Third:
Enable high performance mode from energy management or disable power saver mode from battery settings.
Fourth:
Change system Visual Effects for Best Performance:

Fifth:
Disable hardware acceleration from the settings of a specific app or game.