The BOSD happens because of faulty drivers, hard disk, RAM, or any other component of your computer. One of the BOSD errors is VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE. If you are reading this article chances are very high that you are facing it on your computer right now. Don’t worry this error is easily fixable. I will guide you through what VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE is, What are the reasons behind it, and most importantly how can you fix it.
What Is Video_TDR_Failure (atikmpag.sys)?
Every computer has a graphics card installed in it. The Graphics card has different drivers to function including Graphics Display Driver. When Video_TDR_Failure happens the Graphics Display Driver of the graphics card stop functioning. You might be curious what is TDR. It is Timeout, Detection, and Recovery. As the name suggests when Graphics Display Driver will have an issue. It will take some time out. Then the detection occurs to understand where the problem is and then try to recover from that problem. Every time Graphics Display Driver will have an issue Windows will stop first and restart the driver to fix the issue. When Windows will not able to recover from the issue, It will lead to the blue screen of death with error code Video_TDR_Failure.
Cause Of Video_TDR_Failure error
The reasons are very simple. When a graphics card gets used beyond its capabilities. The graphics card will get overloaded. It happens when a lot of graphics resources are needed. The works such as video editing, playing games with high graphics, 3D modeling. Now when you have gone through the possible reasons. You should follow some best practices. While doing graphics-intensive tasks take a break. It will reduce the workload from the graphics card and such an issue will not occur in the future. But these advices are for the future, What about now. You are already facing the issue. Don’t worry, below are the solutions you can try out.
How to Fix Video_TDR_Failure error?
1. Update Driver
The very thing you can do to fix the Video_TDR_Failure error is to Update Drivers. To do so follow the below steps:
Right, Click On Your Start Menu. It will be in the bottom left corner of your computer with a Windows Logo.
After clicking the start menu you will get a window where you will find options like Apps & Features, Power Options, Event Viewer, System, Device Manager, Network Connections, Disk Management, and all. In these options click Device Manager.
After clicking device manager all the settings under it will be opened. You will find an option named Display Adapter. Now expand Display Adapters. Then you will find the name of your Graphics Card. As in my case, It is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.
Right, Click on the name of the Graphics Card. You will get an option Update Driver. Click Update Driver.
Now the system will ask How to do you want to search for the driver. There will be two options. First, Search Automatically for drivers, and second Browse my computer for drivers. If you will pick the first option Windows will search for the best driver available for the computer and then install it on your device. Obviously picking this option will need the Internet.
So make sure you are connected to the Internet. In case you are going with the second option, you will have to manually download the driver for your graphics card from the website of the manufacturer and then browse the files of the driver to install it manually. The second option will be a little tedious. I will better suggest trying the first one. When you will select the first option, Windows will start searching online for drivers.
After searching for a couple of minutes you will see the result if any driver update is available. Make sure to update drivers if there is any update available. In my case best driver is already installed.
That’s how you can update Graphics Display Driver on your computer. Once you updated the driver’s chances are your issue will be resolved but if it still persists. Follow along the below steps.
2. Adjust Power Settings
Right Click on start menu and search for Control Panel.
Click on the Control Panel. You will be greeted with a Window with an option to adjust different computer settings.
Now find Power Options among all the options and click on it. After it, you will find a window in which you can choose or customize a power plan for your computer.
Power Plan is basically a collection of all the settings related to power like Display, Brightness, and Sleep Timing. It manages how power is getting used on your computer. You might see three plans: Balanced, Power Saver, and High Performance. There will be an option to change plan settings on the right of all three plans. As in my case, Balanced is selected by default so I will Click on Change plan settings that are in the right of Balanced plan.
On the next screen select change advanced power settings.
Under advanced settings and expand Wireless Adapter settings.
Under it, you will find power-saving mode. There will be different power-saving modes. You have to select Maximum power saving among them.
After selecting it click on Apply and then OK to save it.
3. Run Power Command
Right click on start menu and in the search box type Command Prompt.
Now click on Run as administrator.
Windows will ask you to allow the app to make changes on your device. Select Yes.
On the command prompt screen run this command ” powercfg – h – off” after entering this command press enter. Now restart your computer.
I can guarantee that following the above steps will fix Video_TDR_Failure on your computer. There is no need to follow along nine different ways to just confuse you. It is a straightforward solution you can try to get rid of this issue.
Conclusion – Solving the Video_TDR_Failure Error
Video_TDR_Failure is one of the common BSoD errors. It is frustrating to see such errors but nothing to worry about as it is easily fixable. All you have to do is to update the drivers, adjust some power settings and run a power command that I provided. I hope by following the above steps you are able to fix this issue. If yes let me know in the comments. If not let me know that as well. If you are facing some other issue you can ask us about that as well. We will try to help you. Also Read:
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