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Is my 1080 dying or something else?

Gredawarha

Gredawarha

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Dear all

Yesterday I loaded up my PC to play Cities Skylines. After running steam and then the game within a few moments of restarting my saved game the game would crash back to the desktop. This has not happened before.

I tried it again several times and the same thing would always happened, within a few minutes of playing the game it would crash back to the desktop.

I have a gigabyte Windforce GTX 1080, I updated to the latest drivers but still the same issue. I tried the game without my GPU overclock by resetting MSI Afterburner, it still crashed.

So I tried some stress testing. I ran:

Heaven for 5-10 minutes. No issues.
Cinebench test a couple of times. No issues
Furmark for 5-10 minutes. No issues.
Blender benchmark for 5-10 minutes. No problem.

Temperature wise I am getting around 70c and 65c maximum on the GPU and CPU respectively.

I tried Skylines again and once more it crashed but before it crashed I noticed the roads in my city were an odd colour.

I ran a few other games t his morning before work, admittedly a quick go. Company of Heroes ran but the buildings were bright pink! I ran Forza Horizon 3 which played fine with not crash or obvious sign of any issue.

Bit of searching on google suggests it could be a driver issue (but I have updated the driver) GPU or possibly PSU.

While at work I have left the PC downloading Star Wars Battlefront 2 from Origin as all the games so far except for Forza are through Steam to see if this is a Steam issue.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
 
Most likely an updated driver or game bug. If it's not crashing the benchmarks it's unlikely to be the hardware itself.

I also had trouble in some games if I had the Steam or Origin chat client enabled. Disable that nonsense.
 
Quick update, Battlefront has downloaded. So gave it a quick bash before I have to leave the house again. Game loaded up, selected single player got the famous "long time ago in a galazy far far away" scrawl and then boom, crash back to desktop. So I guess that with it crashing on an origin game and steam rule sit out as a steam issue.

Sigh.
 
Gredawarha said:
Quick update, Battlefront has downloaded. So gave it a quick bash before I have to leave the house again. Game loaded up, selected single player got the famous "long time ago in a galazy far far away" scrawl and then boom, crash back to desktop. So I guess that with it crashing on an origin game and steam rule sit out as a steam issue.

Sigh.
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Sounds like a driver issue to me. Grab a driver cleaner type tool, uninstall the driver via add/remove progs, boot into safe mode and run the driver cleaner tool. Then install drivers again from scratch.

Doesn't sound like the card itself to me.
 
Curio said:
Sounds like a driver issue to me. Grab a driver cleaner type tool, uninstall the driver via add/remove progs, boot into safe mode and run the driver cleaner tool. Then install drivers again from scratch.

Doesn't sound like the card itself to me.
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I have read about DDU is that something that people recommend for clearing out existing drivers?

I have already removed the drivers in safe mode using device manager and the installed the lated driver from the Nvidia website but that didn't work. I am hoping a third party application will remove it more thoroughly?
 
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Gredawarha said:
I have read about DDU is that something that people recommend for clearing out existing drivers?

I have already removed the drivers in safe mode using device manager and the installed the lated driver from the Nvidia website but that didn't work. I am hoping a third party application will remove it more thoroughly?
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Yup, DDU removes every last trace. I actually used it the other day on a new build that was having issues. Fixed it right up.
 
Okay so used ddu and I thought it had worked, loaded up Skylines and must have played 30-60 minutes then I got a BSOD quoting "dxgmms2.sys" which appears to be driver related :mad::mad::mad:
 
Gredawarha said:
Okay so used ddu and I thought it had worked, loaded up Skylines and must have played 30-60 minutes then I got a BSOD quoting "dxgmms2.sys" which appears to be driver related :mad::mad::mad:
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Yeah, that looks to be a fairly common error with nVidia/Win10. I'm seeing lots of posts saying that installing an older version of the drivers often fixes it. That sucks :(
 
Okay tried removing the CPU overclock, still crashed, removed the RAM overclock and Star Wars Battlefront has just loaded and not crashed. Process of ellimination is that it was the RAM overclock despite it being fine for months
 
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