bf3 and 560ti issues

[trackpin]

Hi all,

I have a gigabite 560ti oc twin fozer 1gb and for me to use it ok ish i had to reduce the overclock, it seemed to work 70% of the time.. thing is i bought 2 to run sli and found my motherboard wouldn't run them so decided to upgrade my hole pc but not cards

upgraded to i5-3570K (ivy)
p8z77 m/b
ssd
16gb 2133hhz ram
560ti oc tf in sli

however im having the same issues with bf3, again game locking up and getting sound loop, only way to resolve it is to restart the pc, tried using msi afterburner ,but unshore what settings to use, tried searching the net and come across all diff ways to do it, still no luck

 

[mp260767]

what psu are you using with the config, and what drivers have you got loaded.

what clock speeds are the 560's showing is afterburner ?

 

[SouthEastBlue]

I had a 4870 1GB that used to sound loop lock up in BF Bad Company 2, and whatever I tried there was no way to fix the problem. The most popular answer I found was that it was something to do with a sound card/sound drivers.

Strangely the card was fine in EVERY other game, so could be something to do with the Frostbite engine throwing up problems with cards that may be slightly faulty or something, where as other games don't push them as hard? Not sure... Either way if the fault keeps happening I would try and RMA the card.

Do both of your cards work fine individually? Or only an SLI fault with the new card?

 

[andybird123]

I would return the 2nd 560ti 1GB as quickly as possible anyway... I found that 1 or 2 made no difference to BF3 in terms of maximum playable settings, as soon as I tried Ultra textures or 4xMSAA it would have lags down to <20fps... the same settings that were playable on 2 cards were also pretty well playable on one card

for what you should be able to sell them both for (or return one and sell the other) you should be able to get a 2GB+ card that will enable you to run Ultra settings

you say that you are running 16GB 2133mhz ram, is it set to run at 2133? is that just by XMP? you've not adjusted any voltages? I found my 1866 memory wasn't 100% stable until I increased IMC voltage manually and VDDC

 

[tommybhoy]

Welcome to the forum.

I think you'll find it's the latest BF3 update that has broken the game again in some configs, read lots of posts that you get a black screen on a sound loop with Nvidia gpu's especially 560ti's.

You can try to putting your 560ti to stock clocks, upping the voltage slightly in AB, apply the settings and then quit AB(it will keep the settings), then launch BF3.

 

[trackpin]

all games play fine with both cards ,also play ok with single cards,,had the same issue when only using 1 card with old system, even when i had changed them over,

psu is 750w

afterburner is showing
volts= 1000
core clock= 900
men clock= 2004

drive= 8.17.13.142, 15/05/2012

reading up on it it seems to be a issue with the 560's and other players are having the same issues

 

[atmax1]

I have a evga 1gb 560ti and mine goes to the desktop and kinda locks up I have to end the process as It wont open again.

 

[tommybhoy]

core clock= 900
men clock= 2004

Stock gpu clock is 822MHz, I would try that, it has worked for others in the past with BF3.

 

[trackpin]

i guess im gona have keep trying the afterburner to get a workaround

shame we need to do this when you spen so much on graff cards !! oh well

 

[mp260767]

i guess im gona have keep trying the afterburner to get a workaround

shame we need to do this when you spen so much on graff cards !! oh well

in my experience its an historical thing with the battlefield games whereby they've always seemed to be very tetchy when its come to overclocking, used to be with cpu's but bf3 seems to have included gfx cards in that as well .

 

[Azen]

I used to have that issue on a 295 I would try the sound fixes to see if that helps (before leaping on the rest of the 560 pile) I beleive the fix is to lower the windows hardware quality of sound. there is alos a command line (within windows) fix to up System Memory usage that's worked in the past.

Having done those if it's still an issue then see about fixes for GFX cards.

Note I've got 2 x 560 ti DIRECTCU II (ASUS) and it's fine for me on high (get some slowdown on Ultra). Wish I'd read up more on cards before getting them (Budget constraints - might upgrade in year or so) but they are fine through out haven't had a crash yet.