Crashing During Gaming

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 00:13

Hi all,

I have recently bought a new system as a bit of base to start on, being a returner to PC gaming and modding.

I have a M5A97 Motherboard, 650w PSU, Athlon II x4 640 3Ghz, 4GB RAM and a GTX 760 GPU.

All well so far, works great general use etc.

When i start a game, (crysis 3 or Farcry 3) the menus load fine, but as soon as any 3D graphics appear it doesn't handle it well at all, and crashed shortly after with the screen going very funny and nothing looking like its supposed too.

Iv updated Nvidia's latest drivers, the BIOS to the latest drivers etc etc before testing the games to be honest so i dont know if they would have worked before?

I have used the asus autoTune facility to overclock, but the game is barely being stressful with a system that should play these on the nvidia 'optimum' settings (mainly low).

Can anyone help me, iv bought a PC i cant play games on!

Thanks

Danny75 · 11 Mar 2014 at 00:18

What screen is it? And have you tried using non-3D just to see if that works at least? And without overclock?

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 00:29

I just noticed at the end of Crysis crashing I get

DXGI_Error_Device_Removed

Im not using a 3D screen, sorry just anything 3 Dimensional seems to crash it.

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 01:31

Update...

I have turned everything back down and to OEM settings.
Turned all settings to LOW in the games also and seem to be able to run them.
As soon as I start putting graphic settings any higher I get real delay in the mouse response, or crashing!?

Idleman · 11 Mar 2014 at 01:51

Do you have Nvidia Experience installed?

DXGI_Error_Device_Removed

This could be your Nvidia drivers crashing, Or your Gpu could be over heating or the OC is not stable, did you check temps?
Try running this program with the OC settings on the 760 and monitor your temps.

http://www.necrosan.com/rog/RealBenc...ublic_beta.rar

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 02:11

Idleman said:
Do you have Nvidia Experience installed?

This could be your Nvidia drivers crashing, Or your Gpu could be over heating or the OC is not stable, did you check temps?
Try running this program with the OC settings on the 760 and monitor your temps.

http://www.necrosan.com/rog/RealBenc...ublic_beta.rar

Yes I have Nvidia Experience installed.

Ill try the Realbench and see what happens. I don't think the GPU is overheating, not getting time to overheat.

It may be work mentioning the GTX 760 seems to be a 'mini' version, power fed from the motherboard, single fan etc.

Danny75 · 11 Mar 2014 at 02:36

Cozzi said:
Yes I have Nvidia Experience installed.

Ill try the Realbench and see what happens. I don't think the GPU is overheating, not getting time to overheat.

It may be work mentioning the GTX 760 seems to be a 'mini' version, power fed from the motherboard, single fan etc.

I didn't know there were GTX 760's without power connectors? Could you find out the exact model?

Idleman · 11 Mar 2014 at 02:39

It may be work mentioning the GTX 760 seems to be a 'mini' version, power fed from the motherboard, single fan etc.

But it has the same specs as a normal GTX760 and performs the same.

Idleman · 11 Mar 2014 at 02:50

Danny75 said:
I didn't know there were GTX 760's without power connectors? Could you find out the exact model?

Asus and MSI make them. And you are correct, it requires 1x8pin PCIE to power it. This is probably the reason why it crashes, as it does`nt have sufficient power.

Danny75 · 11 Mar 2014 at 03:07

Idleman said:
Asus and MSI make them. And you are correct, it requires 1x8pin PCIE to power it. This is probably the reason why it crashes, as it does`nt have sufficient power.

That's just not on. Trying to work the GPU to death without feeding it. Should we report Cozzi to the RSPCGPU?

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 03:19

Idleman said:
Asus and MSI make them. And you are correct, it requires 1x8pin PCIE to power it. This is probably the reason why it crashes, as it does`nt have sufficient power.

How, Can anyone upload an image of the connected and where it would go??

If this solves it, please do report me, then shoot me.

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 03:41

No power connector, I just took it out to look and nothing!

Something I did notice, the RAM was in the wrong 2 of 4 slots that the Asus manual for the motherboard recommends.

I would like to point out I bought this, not build it so far lol

Danny75 · 11 Mar 2014 at 04:15

What GTX 760 Mini is it then? Asus, MSI, another?

If you used Asus Auto-Tune, I guess it's the Asus?:

And the connector can be a PCI-E 8 pin or 6+2 pin:

Idleman · 11 Mar 2014 at 07:22

The only mini ITX 760`s I have found, are Asus and MSI.

@Cozzi, can you take a pic of your card, so we can see whether it does or does`nt have a PCIE port. Preferably the 2 thin sides, as seen in Danny`s pic.

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 08:36

The card is labelled up as Nvidia, not Asus.
And I can take a photo, but there isn't an input for any power, It looks very similar to the image f the card posted but without that input.

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 08:43

I performed an ROG RealBench test last night, performed it without hesitation.
This was done with temp monitor open, nothing overclocked

GPU 54deg Max
CPU 50deg Max

Image Editing - 47382 - Time:181.079

Encoding - 31085 - Time:385.642

OpenCL - 8007 - KSamples/sec: 104

Heavy Multitasking - 25825 - Time:378.693

System Score
26973

Cozzi · 11 Mar 2014 at 10:21

Iv spoken with the bloke who built the system and he seems to think the card may be a manufactures version, sent to Dell or someone to use in their systems?

Idleman · 11 Mar 2014 at 10:25

Run GpuZ and post up a screenshot. Should give us some idea of the specs.

Cozzi · 12 Mar 2014 at 21:38

I think this came down to drivers.

The cards out and gone, replaced with a GTX 670 but thanks for your help people!