Games that hate an overclocked GPU.

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I built my new rig this weekend and spent most of Sunday tuning and Overclocking the CPU and GPU.

Got a nice stable runs with moderate overclock (4.6ghz CPU +150mhz offfset on GPU) nothing to taxing and it ran Firestrike, Valley and Heaven stable for over an hour with no significant temp rises.

Played the free copy of Rainbow 6 for about an hour, no problems. quick go on the witcher 3, no problems. Forza Horizon 3 couple of races OMG that looks amazing in 4k.

Then things go abit iffy Battlefield 4 locks up while testing, Overwatch locks up and says "Rendering Device lost" blah blah dont OC your graphics card.

To get a whole match out of Overwatch i have to remove the OC and close down EVGA Precision XOC completely, with BF4 i have to half the GPU overclock and that was only a quick test.

I have taken the GPU overclock off completely now.
Anyone got any advise or is it a case of those games just wont play ball?
 
Thinks its just those games wont play ball - I had a pretty good overclock on my current card and would play fine in most games, firestrike ultra, etc etc - but damn did gta online not like it, it wouldnt crash instantly - but it would crash randomly - maybe after 30 mins mayb after 1 hr 30 but it was only in the game, after a clean install incase it was a problem with the game (had recently swapped from amd to nvidia for the card) still no ball, droppd the OC by 25mhz - no issues since

I suggest trying the same - drop the oc and try the games that crash until you get it stable
 
Unfortunately this simply means that some aspect of your overclock was unstable (barring any driver/software issues but from what you've said that sounds unlikely). The stability tests you ran didn't stress the same aspects of your GPU and hence gave you a false idea of what was a stable overclock.
 
Just thought I'd add that I see you said you oc your CPU and GPU - I highly recommend that you only do one at a time - so if there are any issues you know whats causing it
 
I have found Bf4 didn't like my overclock too, my 970 clocked in FH3 is pretty stable but the same oc on bf4 and I'll start getting dx errors and the game bombs out
 
Doco said:
Just thought I'd add that I see you said you oc your CPU and GPU - I highly recommend that you only do one at a time - so if there are any issues you know whats causing it
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Yeah CPU was first and after i've removed the GPU OC so far everything is stable with the CPU at 4.6ghz.

Its kinda annoying i want to ramp up my 1080 Hybrid but right now it looks like ive paid for quiet not fast (or faster anyway), maybe ill take another crack at it next weekend.

Would switch to Afterburner over Precision X help? Overwatch in particular would crash is the app was even running.

Which other games are known trouble, so far its overwatch BF4 and Doco mentioned GTA Online.
 
House said:
Yeah CPU was first and after i've removed the GPU OC so far everything is stable with the CPU at 4.6ghz.

Its kinda annoying i want to ramp up my 1080 Hybrid but right now it looks like ive paid for quiet not fast (or faster anyway), maybe ill take another crack at it next weekend.

Would switch to Afterburner over Precision X help? Overwatch in particular would crash is the app was even running.

Which other games are known trouble, so far its overwatch BF4 and Doco mentioned GTA Online.
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Afterburner is better yes. The games aren't trouble, it's your overclocking. Ignore bench thread results and speeds. A 1080 at anything over 2000+ is good and 2100 is very good for gaming clocks - speeds that can run any game, prolonged periods even in summer temps without crashing. Running firestrike for five minutes at high clocks won't tell you much.
 
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FrenchTart said:
Unfortunately this simply means that some aspect of your overclock was unstable (barring any driver/software issues but from what you've said that sounds unlikely). The stability tests you ran didn't stress the same aspects of your GPU and hence gave you a false idea of what was a stable overclock.
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^This basically. In my experience there is no such thing as a game that *hates* GPU overclocks, just unstable overclocks being exposed when the GPU is pushed in certain ways. Sometimes however Nvidia release drivers which are factory OC unfriendly and mess with voltages or fan profiles.
 
either its the tool used like msi afterburner in bf games or unstable oc.

ahha can remember bfbc2. the king of finding if your oc was stable :D.one guy on here used to make me laugh stable oc on a i7 920 yet couldnt play bfbc2 for more than 10 minutes without crash.:p
 
I've actually stopped overclocking GPU's of late, the gains are rarely noticeable to me at 1440p so i just don't bother. CPU however is of course a different story.
 
GTA V is king for crashing both unstable GPUs and CPUs in my experience

I use it as a final pass of stress testing lol
 
HazardO said:
^This basically. In my experience there is no such thing as a game that *hates* GPU overclocks, just unstable overclocks being exposed when the GPU is pushed in certain ways. Sometimes however Nvidia release drivers which are factory OC unfriendly and mess with voltages or fan profiles.
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Bang on Sir. If its actually crashing the game its too high and isnt stable. I have mine at 2050mhz and the very worst case games will clock it down to 2000 butr will not crash. Weird how BF1 will run flat out and keep the 2050mhz clocks but Crysis 3 will unde-rclock it a bit though
 
As many above are saying it's not a game in particular it's an unstable overclock, just because it's stable in some games does not mean a different game won't pull on it's strings in a different way where it isn't stable.
 
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