Application has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware

Tarman

Tarman

Tarman

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Hello team,

I have a bit of a mildly infuriating issue right now..

I have an Asus Strix 2080 TI water cooled graphics card; and every time I run a game, after about 5-10 minutes of gameplay, it'll crash to desktop.

In the event viewer, I'm seeing the following error:

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
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I've googled a bit on this; and there isn't a straight answer on how to resolve..

I've tried:
  • Clean install of drivers in safe mode using DDU
  • Adding registry keys to set TDR delay to 20 seconds
  • Underclocking the graphics card
  • Setting all system overclocks to defaults, and below

After setting the TDR delay; windows reports the error differently..

Application gpu_stressor.e has been blocked from accessing Graphics hardware.
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I'm at the end of my tether, and not sure what to try next.

I've not tried formatting or anything yet; trying to keep that as a last resort.

The highest I've seen the GPU temps go is 63c under 100% sustained load. CPU no higher than mid 50's.
My thoughts now are perhaps the water block isn't making good contact with part of the card? So maybe the core isn't exceeding 63, but other parts are? I donno..

Please Help.

Dave
 
Asus Maximus Hero 10 mobo
i7 8900k
16Gb RAM
EVGA 850 G3 power supply

I'll give the bios a wee update over lunch and report back.
 
OK.. updated the BIOS.. still having the same problem..

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
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When it crashes, I am playing Shadow of Mordor.. When the screen goes black, I can still hear ingame sounds...
It's a bit inconsistant; sometimes it crashes to desktop, and the sound obviously stops, but when it black screens, you can still hear the sound.
 
Webzta said:
Are you running 2 separate power leads to the GFX card?
Try disable XMP
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2 seperate leads yeah.. the power supply is brand new.. installed last weekend.

I'll try disabling XMP..

I think it was initially disabled, but had enabled it again previously when resetting everything.

Also.. new DP cable installed.

Will change disable XMP the now, and test shadow of mordor.. Will report back.
 
Webzta said:
It's a long shot mate but worth a try - I had similar issue with TD2 that turned out to be the cause.

Is it all games/benchmarks or just Shadow of Mordor?
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All games.. VR included.

XMP was already disabled in the BIOS.. or at least set to [Auto].
 
Yeah, it happens in 3dMark; and even in MSI Afterburner.. though I'd expect it to happen there really.
Every game bar factorio, it happens.
It's massively frustrating. Just testing now anyway. Will report back.
 
I may have fixed it..
Don't want to jinx it by speaking too soon, but went half an hour in shadow of Mordor with no problem

I took the card out and reseated it.. it didn't look like the thermal paste on the GPU was spread evenly enough.. on the left side of the chip.

Stuck a bit more of the paste on, spread even then put it all back together again.

Going to test some more.. will report back
 
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