Open Gl times out and crashes mx simulator

[al167]

i have been experiencing this for the last year or so, mx simulator just randomly crashes to the desktop and pops up the error in the image below. ive followed all the instructions that the pop up message tells me to do. i have a fresh install of the current nvidia drivers. apparently theres a 2 second time out delay in the windows registry, from which ive tried to increase, (TdrDelay) but with no success. they recommend to turn down my graphics, but im running in normal with 100+ fps.
heres my pc specs.
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz 34 °C
32nm Technology
RAM
8.0GB DDR3 @ 598MHz (9-9-9-28)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P67A-UD4-B3 (Socket 1155)
Graphics
SyncMaster (1680x1050@120Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Hard Drives
977GB Western Digital WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device (SATA) 32 °C
733GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD753LJ ATA Device (SATA) 22 °C
Optical Drives
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203D ATA Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audiothe problem goes away when my peronal folder is empty...
i dont have any issues with any other games, so i think there could be an issue with either my graphics card driver...


i really want to be able to see ither peoples skins ect, so any help would be much appreciated

[jlv]

Does it crash when loading or playing? If it's only when loading, maybe you have a corrupted PNG somewhere. Otherwise, maybe your GPU is getting too hot.

[al167]

only when playing it happens., i just read that this is a common problem after the 260. version of nvidia drivers. and somthing to do with thread optimisation that was introduced after that, gonna try an older driver, and ill repost here soon.

[al167]

ok, that corrupted .png might be it too, ill check into ot.