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Best way of stress testing a GPU?

Nitefly

Nitefly

Nitefly

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Hello

I’m having dreadful issues getting Resident Evil Village to run. Every 10 minutes or so it just dies, most frequently to desktop (a mysterious ‘application error 1000’ aka dies for no reason) and a couple of times it has done the dreaded black screen, implying a GPU fault.

I did have a similar issue when running Alien Isolation, obviously an older game, which was solved with a mild undervolt.

I’m running a 3090 (gigabyte vision) with a 5950x by an 850w PSU. Motherboard is ASRock B550 Razer. Hard drive is WD black sn850.

I suspect that there is an error with the GPU or power running to it. But I have no idea how to find the culprit, hardware or otherwise.

Honestly it’s just depressing as heck. Makes me want to throw the lot in the bin.

Help :(
 
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watercooledman said:
Driver issue ?
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There are a handful of people complaining of similar issues online rather than a mass wailing of pain. I have the latest nvidea drivers installed.

There is mentioning of rolling back the drivers to an ancient version (360 ish - it’s now on 460 ish) which seems bizarre, pretty sure the driver would pre-date my card. Haven’t tried that because it sounds like mumbo jumbo.
BlueInf said:
You can always throw it at me instead of the bin :)
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I wouldn’t want to burden you with such disappointment.
 
Nitefly said:
I believe so but what is the best utility to log this? Thanks :)
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Download afterburner, and toggle the fps/temps/ for cpu/gpu etc and enable the overlay.

So in game you'll be able to monitor these stats and see how everything is performing.
 
Don't use DDU, it does more harm than good.
Just re-install the newest driver, click 'custom' and tick the box to do a clean install.

Could also try updating the cards bios to the new one that was launched recently supporting re-sizable bar if you haven't already as it may fix other bugs too.
 
no_1_dave said:
Don't use DDU, it does more harm than good.
Just re-install the newest driver, click 'custom' and tick the box to do a clean install.

Could also try updating the cards bios to the new one that was launched recently supporting re-sizable bar if you haven't already as it may fix other bugs too.
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Thanks mate will give it a whirl.

Hitting the hey but will try some of this out tomorrow. Really appreciate the replies as it gets you down a bit after trying everything you can to fix it! :(
 
spartapee said:
How? Never heard of that one before. (genuine question, not being a *****)
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In the past it could be useful because both AMD and Nvidia used to leave things behind that could cause conflicts. That stopped happening years ago. DDU runs the risk of removing things you don't want to remove so can just cause extra problems. Nowadays there are no benefits at all from using it. It's one of those programs which are a relic from the past where the benefits used to out way the cons, but now it's the other way around
 
Nitefly said:
Hello

I’m having dreadful issues getting Resident Evil Village to run. Every 10 minutes or so it just dies, most frequently to desktop (a mysterious ‘application error 1000’ aka dies for no reason) and a couple of times it has done the dreaded black screen, implying a GPU fault.

I did have a similar issue when running Alien Isolation, obviously an older game, which was solved with a mild undervolt.

I’m running a 3090 (gigabyte vision) with a 5950x by an 850w PSU. Motherboard is ASRock B550 Razer. Hard drive is WD black sn850.

I suspect that there is an error with the GPU or power running to it. But I have no idea how to find the culprit, hardware or otherwise.

Honestly it’s just depressing as heck. Makes me want to throw the lot in the bin.

Help :(
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Check your system RAM in the first instance. Some times an overclock or even the XMP profile can be stable for almost everything but then a game will come along and expose some slight instability. Try either increasing the voltage slightly or putting it back to 2133 or 2400 to see if this corrects the problem. It is still happens then at last you can rule it out.
 
GPUPI is said to be the Prime95 for GPUs. What is lacking out there is an exclusive VRAM testing app, like memtest. Most seem to focus on the GPU.
 
Nitefly said:
Honestly it’s just depressing as heck. Makes me want to throw the lot in the bin.
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Don't do that. I will come pick it up :p

What I would suggest it do a clean install of Windows. You can try and run OCCT (it is free for personal use) which also find instability quite quickly. Set RAM to XMP if overclocked. Reseat the GPU (I know it sounds silly, but it is actually very easy to mess it up and be confident you installed it right). Make sure you are not daisy chaining the pci cables going into the GPU. Every cable should be a separate one from the PSU to GPU.

Worst case scenario if it is the GPU, you will need to get it a RMA replacement, which sucks as it may potentially take a long time in this environment.
 
Nitefly said:
Hello

I’m having dreadful issues getting Resident Evil Village to run. Every 10 minutes or so it just dies, most frequently to desktop (a mysterious ‘application error 1000’ aka dies for no reason) and a couple of times it has done the dreaded black screen, implying a GPU fault.

I did have a similar issue when running Alien Isolation, obviously an older game, which was solved with a mild undervolt.

I’m running a 3090 (gigabyte vision) with a 5950x by an 850w PSU. Motherboard is ASRock B550 Razer. Hard drive is WD black sn850.

I suspect that there is an error with the GPU or power running to it. But I have no idea how to find the culprit, hardware or otherwise.

Honestly it’s just depressing as heck. Makes me want to throw the lot in the bin.

Help :(
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These issues only after Win 10 April KB updates?
 
Hi all thanks so much for the additional input - I haven’t had a chance to try again since yesterday but will go through systematically and say how each attempt goes. Cheers :)
 
Nitefly said:
Hello

I’m having dreadful issues getting Resident Evil Village to run. Every 10 minutes or so it just dies, most frequently to desktop (a mysterious ‘application error 1000’ aka dies for no reason) and a couple of times it has done the dreaded black screen, implying a GPU fault.

I did have a similar issue when running Alien Isolation, obviously an older game, which was solved with a mild undervolt.

I’m running a 3090 (gigabyte vision) with a 5950x by an 850w PSU. Motherboard is ASRock B550 Razer. Hard drive is WD black sn850.

I suspect that there is an error with the GPU or power running to it. But I have no idea how to find the culprit, hardware or otherwise.

Honestly it’s just depressing as heck. Makes me want to throw the lot in the bin.

Help :(
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Resident Evil with everything cranked up is a great stress test for a GPU. It’s sniffed out an unstable GPU overclock that no other game has been able to so far for me, by drawing more wattage than anything before it.
 
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