Desktop Composition Is Disabled Error

In my WPF application on .NET 4.0, I am having users report two errors that seem very intermittent and I cannot get a handle on. Below, I am posting the message and the top-most line of the stack trace. I can post the full stack trace if needed.

Message:       {Desktop composition is disabled} The operation could not be completed because desktop composition is disabled. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80263001)
StackTrace:    at Standard.NativeMethods.DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea(IntPtr hwnd, MARGINS& pMarInset)

Message:       Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program.
StackTrace:    at System.Windows.Media.Composition.DUCE.Channel.SyncFlush()

Google is not proving very helpful, so I was hoping maybe you guys have seen them before.

I finally was able to nail down the issue - graphics adapter driver.

This post, along with this one helped me figure it out. Basically, what happened is I had 4 users (out of about 600) that were experiencing issues. They also reported that their screens would flicker at random times and some reported 'task bars turning solid'. This would be what caused the DWM composition error, and apparently if they had multiple programs running that were intensively using the graphics card, it would run out of memory.

I tested using Geeks3d.com FurMark benchmarking program to max out the graphics card then launched my application. It would crash upon opening and throw the outofmemory exception, so I know it wasn't a memory leak.

After updating the driver, I was unable to generate the crash...even with multiple programs AND FurMark running at full blast.

Hopefully this helps someone down the road.