Driver Click Start, Run, and type -regeditNavigate to: HKey Local Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Locate the -GraphicsDrivers- key,

and right-click on it. Click -New- and -DWORD Value- (it will say 32-bit if you are on a Windows 64-bit) Label the new value -TdrDelayDouble click on TdrDelay, and enter the number of seconds you want Windows to wait before timing out. The default is two seconds, so start out with 6, and you can make it a few seconds longer if it doesn't fix the issue. Close the registry editor and reboot the computer.

Microsoft introduced a feature called Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) since Windows Vista. Basically it is a timer that counts how many seconds the video card has stopped responding to the OS (2 seconds by default) and it assumes the video card or driver has crashed. It restarts the video subsystem in an attempt to prevent a crash.