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Posted Dec 1, 2011 23:10 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: SPICE by drag
Parent article: The first GNOME Boxes release

> when launching a 3D game or some app or something the entire screen will
> go black and then restart up again. What has happened (from what it seems
> like anyways) is that the kernel caught a exception or some other problem
> with the graphics drivers and had reset everything

I'm pretty sure these glitches you're describing are actually GPU hangs/crashes, which are handled by resetting the card: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487336
A real driver crash still causes a blue screen.

Linux can recover from these, too (at least the Intel driver does).


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