First, try terminating the frozen processes:
Before you reinstall drivers, before you blame the game developer, and certainly before you buy a new graphics card: restart gpu
sudo killall nvidia-smi If that fails, reload the kernel module: First, try terminating the frozen processes: Before you
We’ve all been there. You’re halfway through a high-stakes ranked match, or your AI model is finally converging after three hours of training, when suddenly—chaos. The screen freezes, artifacts flash across the monitor, or your frame rate drops to a slideshow. If you have to do this daily, you
sudo rmmod nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia sudo modprobe nvidia Warning: This will kill any active training runs. Save your checkpoints first. Restarting the GPU is a fix for transient errors (driver timeouts, thermal throttling recovery, blank screens after sleep). If you have to do this daily, you are treating a symptom, not the disease.