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970 GTX issues.

Emjay86

Emjay86

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Hey guys,

Ive recently bought a 970 GTX (Got the OCUK/GALAX Infinity model) and recently (as in yesterday) I ran in to a little problem when playing Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Basically the game runs perfectly for a good hour or two and then all of a sudden the performance just drops. It goes from smooth gameplay to as if the frames drop to below 10. I have an MSI afterburner displaying the temps of the card on my logitech LCD and typically on load the card is around 60 but as soon as the frame drop happens the temp drops to around mid 40's. Judging from that it would seem as if the card simply runs at half capacity or something.

Anyone else having this?

Also would this be a simple driver issue? Or do I really need to RMA it -THIS- close to xmas?

Cheers in advance!
 
So far so good. Im pretty sure my temps have improved slightly also. I can only assume my drivers were all over the place. Probably didnt help when I removed the 3D vision drivers the other day too.

Thanks buddy :)
 
So I havn't noticed any issues for a couple of days and then it goes and happens again today.

Ive not really played Dragon Age much as ive been doing other things and been mostly playing Fifa 15, Company of Heroes 2 and a little WoW. No performance issues with those games.

Just spent around 2-3 hours on dragon age and as im halfway into a dragon fight I get massive fps drops along with temp drops on the card, as if its no longer doing anything. Again it does go back to normal after a couple of seconds but in just as many seconds it goes back down again, rinse and repeat.

My temp monitor on my LCD thing is now resembling a flatline.

Anyone else having this issue or should I just return the card for RMA?
 
Just having a quick google around and it seems like a LOT of people are having issues with 970 fps drops. This isn't however that warming to know!

My specs are:

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM: 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z68X-UD7-B3 (Socket 1155)
Graphics: BenQ XL2410T (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (NVIDIA)

Anything in there that could be causing a problem?

Someone said before about potentially overclocking my CPU but im unsure how to go about doing that and also if the temps would go bezerk and ruin the CPU. That said the CPU is on a watercooling loop connected to 1 single and 1 triple rad with 7 fans cooling them (all corsair performance fans).
 
r7slayer said:
I'm guessing you do but have you got the latest bios for your motherboard? The z68 motherboards are quite old and could require a updated bios to run the latest GPU properly.

Also why do you have your refresh rate at 60Hz? You have got a 120Hz monitor lol! Enjoy the smoothness of 120Hz matey lol.

If you could post a screenshot of afterburner showing before and after stats of how your card was running too might help if this happens again?
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Ill have to check the BIOS but I dont recall updating it so its quite probably in need of that. To which how would I go about doing so?

I actually didn't realise my refresh was on 60 so thanks for highlighting that!

And ill get the screenshot when I next spend a couple of hours playing! It seems to alleviate if I quit a game and then restart it.
 
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los said:
Dont know what drivers you are on, but I have seen this in the nvidias driver thread
Confirmation that DAI has stutter with 347.09 for me as well.

Back to 344.80 and all is well.
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Is yours a little stutter though or was it a massive fps drop that pretty much makes it unplayable.
 
I still recommend getting DA:I btw. Ive got 107 hours into it so far and theres still a lot more left for me to do.

And cheers for the info guys.

At least I know the card isnt at fault.

Is this what radeon customers feel like? (I kid)
 
Awahwah said:
I just posted a similar post to this in the nVidia Drivers thread but with BF4.

Make no difference if I OC my CPU/Card or not. I'm actually stock at the moment to try and rule over clocking out but it still happens.

I've just removed all drivers and cleaned via ddu and installed the betas to see if that makes any difference.
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Yea im getting the issue with DA:I like ive said but BF4 doesn't even load (it crashes as soon as the exe starts) and the same happens for WoW. The only time I can get WoW to start is if I change the resolution (from the dynamic super res to my native res 1920x1080) and also launch it TWICE. If I launch it once it goes into a black screen and nothing happens, if I do it twice one of them will go into the black screen and crash and hte other will load correctly.

Im guessing its driver based but it sure is annoying!
 
Awahwah said:
It's defo the Driver. Or put it this way, if nVidia have sent out a load of dogy hardware, they will be getting a load back. Which I very much dealt the e-tailors of this world will like.
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It would also be a little embarrasing considoring they are banging on about the brand new maxwell tech and so on.
 
I have something else that has just happened.

As I was playing a game the screen went black and my monitor popped up with 'no signal available' or something to that affect, as if the card completely stopped working.

Ill watch next time for the stats on my LCD (forgot to look at the time!) but I hope this is to do with the dodgy software.

Oh and trying to change the settings on WoW via the Nvidia Experience program is currently forcing a crash everytime I click on WoW in my games list. Every other game works fine but WoW crashes the program.
 
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ShakeNBake said:
Sounds very odd.

I would say, disable DSR completely for now and just stick to your monitor's native resolution.

Also, disable all AA settings in your nvidia control panel, they can sometimes cause issues in blizzard games.

Might be worth uninstalling nvidia experience completely for the time being too, whilst you are still troubleshooting.

Only other thing I can think of is cable quality (for losing signal to monitor).
Also what is your PSU (brand and wattage)?

P.s. Removing 3D vision drivers shouldn't affect anything (assuming you are not playing with 3D glasses etc.)
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Thanks for the feedback.

My PSU is an OCZ 1250W ZX series and should be perfectly fine for the 970 (it was powering 2 580's previously).

The cables are braided cables that I received with the build from OCUK (I bought a bundle PC about 3 years ago) so I would presume they are ok, but of course theres always a possability they are not.

Im going to disable DSR anyway as it doesn't seem to do anything other than make the UI incredibly small on games which just irritates me.

How do I uninstall geforce experience? Everytime ive uninstalled and reinstalled drivers the experience is part of that driver. It seems impossible to have an Nvidia card with their experience software.
 
Awahwah said:
I've just posted in the CS sub forum asking to return my Infinity Card. The driver problems are a real headache for me. BF4 is not playable @ 4fps, while the GPU is sitting a 4% util.

Very poor and such a shame. Just glad I've kept hold of my 7970.
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My only alternative is to plug my 2 580's back in and set up the watercooling loop again which i really cant be bothered doing.

You get 4fps in BF4?! Thats awesome. Mine crashes as soon as it tries to load.

Same story with WoW unless I load more than 1 at a time in which case 1 of them will work.
 
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