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Games crashing with new card

reckoning

reckoning

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Hello,

I've recently purchased a Geforce GTX 760 card to replace my 460 and every game I load up is crashing. They are crashing within seconds of loading the game normally between the logos\credits screens and the main menu.

After spending the last few days trying different drivers and many, many other things I think I may have found the cause of the issue.

I changed my games so that they run in a lower resolution and in windowed mode instead of full screen mode and i'm seeing an error message popup that I couldn't see in full screen mode.

The message is "display driver stopped responding and has recovered". I believe whatever is causing this message is making the games crash.

If I put back in my old card everything works fine so its just a problem with this new card.

Anyone have ideas what's causing this error and can it be caused by a faulty card? Overclockers have said I can RMA it and they will test the card their end, but how do I know it will do the same of their test systems?

Can anyone help please?
 
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Hi, yes updated BIOS to latest version along with my audio drivers. I've just had the message popup again and I wasn't even playing any games, just in Firefox.

One other thought can this be caused by lack of power to the gfx card? I have a 530W PSU.

I'm running Hardware monitor and its reporting the voltage as 0.875v min - 0.900v max, no idea if this sounds right or not.
 
Hmmm...I don't think it sounds like your psu is the problem, though of course I could be wrong there. Not sure what else to suggest, sorry. Have you taken a look on the Nvidia forums?
 
Try different drivers and if that still doesn't fix it, return the card. Seen that happen a few times and either was needed.
 
Yes tried the Nvidia forums as well. Still looking for answers.

After spending the last few days on this i'm thinking the only thing left is to return it. Only concern is that Overclockers have said that they will set the card up on their test systems to confirm the fault. If no fault found i'll be charged and presumably i'll be sent back a card I can't use. If the card was D.O.A it would be pretty black and white but as i'm just seeing this windows error message i'll have to hope they see the same message on their end, or else where does that leave me?
 
Can you install msi afterburner and increase the voltage a tiny touch.
The error driver stopped responding happens when a card don't have enough voltage.
 
Shankly, if the card isn't receiving enough juice to function properly what's the root cause of the issue do you reckon? Is this fault with the card, my psu, the motherboard?

I shouldn't have to install third-party software and manually change voltage settings in order to get the card working properly, i'd rather just replace the faulty component (whatever that is?).
 
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Shankly, if the card isn't receiving enough juice to function properly what's the root cause of the issue do you reckon? Is this fault with the card, my psu, the motherboard?

I shouldn't have to install third-party software and manually change voltage settings in order to get the card working properly, i'd rather just replace the faulty component (whatever that is?).
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It can happen with pre-overclocked cards. If you dont want to change the Voltage you could always down clock it and see if that works. If it does then that will explain you need more voltage.

When I say up the voltage we talking a tiny touch here nothing to much.
 
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