Hardware crashes may occur when a hardware device and the corresponding software device driver are no longer able to communicate with each other. VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics card is no longer able to respond to display driver commands. When this situation arises, the display driver will reset the graphics card. Depending on the current state of the system when VPU Recover is activated, applications that are running may be able to fully recover from this reset. In other cases, running applications may be closed, and the user will be returned to the Windows® desktop.
The ATI VPU Recover Tab
ATI VPU Recover Tab
Enable VPU Recover checkbox
Enables VPU Recover.
Prepare an Error Report checkbox
When VPU Recover is activated a dialog will prompt you to submit an automatically generated error report to ATI. This error report will help ATI to determine the cause of the problem and help create more stable drivers. To disable this feature, deselect the Prepare an Error Report checkbox.
