This fix will only work for NVIDIA cards. If your drivers crash with any other card, please contact me.

Graphics drivers crashing usually lead to a black screen with sound (possibly looped) still playing in the background. It will continue to hang for around 2-5 seconds. This guide should fix the problem completely, as well as help with other known issues.

1. Right click desktop, click NVIDIA control panel.
2. Click 'Manage 3D settings' under '3D settings'.
3. Click the 'Program Settings' tab.
4. Select sonic2app.exe either by using the drop-down or pressing the 'Add' button.
5. Look for 'Power management mode' under the settings and set it to 'Prefer maximum performance'.
6. Press apply

This should help, if not fix the problem. If there are any other issues, please feel free to comment.

Note: I'm not hosting this marathon, but I'm here to spread news.

Sonic Speed is a planned marathon that will be showcasing various speedruns from many Sonic games. It will be starting sometime in February 2016, raising money for Child's Play @ http://childsplaycharity.org/ .

The two main organizers are Paulie9990 and LittleBigness who can both be found at their respective Twitch channels.

The marathon is invite-only, meaning that you can only run a game at the marathon if you are approached by one of the two organizers. However, you could still contact them if you do feel that there may be some needed change.

You can find the marathon's Twitch channel at http://www.twitch.tv/sonicspeedmarathon and more information on the marathon here: https://goo.gl/BlATzm

After experiencing this problem for a very long time, I decided to try my hardest to fix it. All of the answers that I looked up did not help at all. If your graphics drivers crash and you are using an NVIDIA card, it's your lucky day!

How to check your video card on Windows 7:

1. Press start and search for 'device manager'. It should be the first option.
2. Click the arrow next to display adapters.
3. If the video card you are using has the term 'NVIDIA' in it, then this solution should work.

Note: this will only fix the problem when you are viewing the video input from OBS, so if OBS is not up and showing a preview, your drivers may still crash.

1. In OBS, click settings.
2. Click on the encoding tab on the left.
3. Select the Nvidia NVENC encoder.
4. Press OK.

The problem should now be fixed, congratulations! :D

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