Heya, seem to have an issue with my GPU and not sure what the best course of action is..
It's an EVGA SSC and was running fine, however Dawn of War 2 has started playing up (and only DoW2). There lies the problem, it always happens with it, in some form or another.. however no other game causes any aggro. I do have issues with windows, with the 'nvlddmkm has stopped responding', I sometimes get this when bootign into windows, as well as previewing images, using Windows Media Player or even looking at a video on youtube.
Now the latter I guess could be a GPU issue, or could infact be driver related. So I've uninstalled drivers, reverted back to 182, which I built the computer on and had no issues with. Still the same problem, albeit it took longer for the DoW issues to kick in.
I've downloaded Ati Tool to test for artifacts, and sometime it locks up and causes a driver fault, sometimes it artifacts every 30 seconds, once it hits 75oC and yet other times it'll be fine.
So my problem is, do I RMA even though it's not repeatable and has only shown issues with one game or do I hang tight and if it carries on/gets worse then try for a replacement.
here's some images of the DoW problem...
The last image is one of the first time I screen shotted the issue back when I was using 182 drivers, and the first 4 are what happens lately. It seems alt-tabbing stops it, but it happens again after a few seconds. I thought it could be overheating, so up the fan to 100% to help reduce the problem, and it does increase the time it takes for something to go like this.
I've posted on the relic forums, and all I was told was to underclock the card as it seems to be a VRAM issue, but would rather try for a repalcement if it's not happy working at factory settings. But like I say it's not something that can be repeated outside of DoW and even then, it's only in Single player.
Seems this session of Ati Tool is artifacting at 20 secs or less and is 30 mins in - the first 15 or so went past without faults, cards currently running at 76oC and has been recently cleaned.
Thanks and sorry for the long post, never had any issues like this in all my time building a comp, most things have either worked or not or a fault that is easily replicated.
It's an EVGA SSC and was running fine, however Dawn of War 2 has started playing up (and only DoW2). There lies the problem, it always happens with it, in some form or another.. however no other game causes any aggro. I do have issues with windows, with the 'nvlddmkm has stopped responding', I sometimes get this when bootign into windows, as well as previewing images, using Windows Media Player or even looking at a video on youtube.
Now the latter I guess could be a GPU issue, or could infact be driver related. So I've uninstalled drivers, reverted back to 182, which I built the computer on and had no issues with. Still the same problem, albeit it took longer for the DoW issues to kick in.
I've downloaded Ati Tool to test for artifacts, and sometime it locks up and causes a driver fault, sometimes it artifacts every 30 seconds, once it hits 75oC and yet other times it'll be fine.
So my problem is, do I RMA even though it's not repeatable and has only shown issues with one game or do I hang tight and if it carries on/gets worse then try for a replacement.
here's some images of the DoW problem...
The last image is one of the first time I screen shotted the issue back when I was using 182 drivers, and the first 4 are what happens lately. It seems alt-tabbing stops it, but it happens again after a few seconds. I thought it could be overheating, so up the fan to 100% to help reduce the problem, and it does increase the time it takes for something to go like this.
I've posted on the relic forums, and all I was told was to underclock the card as it seems to be a VRAM issue, but would rather try for a repalcement if it's not happy working at factory settings. But like I say it's not something that can be repeated outside of DoW and even then, it's only in Single player.
Seems this session of Ati Tool is artifacting at 20 secs or less and is 30 mins in - the first 15 or so went past without faults, cards currently running at 76oC and has been recently cleaned.
Thanks and sorry for the long post, never had any issues like this in all my time building a comp, most things have either worked or not or a fault that is easily replicated.
260 SSC
