graphics card driver keeps failing

[smiithers42x]

So on the 18th of December iv bought myself GTX 650 DirectCU 1GB GDDR5, since then i couldn't get the full gaming experience.. recently i got Battlefield 3. And after the and after a longer gaming sesh (2-3) with my mates i get this effect on the screen:

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Then within 5-20sec my battlefield crashed and i get a windows window saying some graphics drivers have failed and are recovered now. so right first thing in my head is drivers.... so i go and check for drivers im all up to date... kind of forgot about it told my self it just a random crash and will not happen again...
but it did... next thing poped up into my head is heat, might be over heating... so i wack the GPU fan to 100% (GPU tweak) before a game of battlefield... played 3 hours 12 minutes (timed) and bam same effect and the drivers fail... temperature said max 54... (was max 68 with automatic fan speed)... next thing i did is rewire my whole system clean it blow dust out and stuff like that... Nope same happens again.. so i google some stuff and it comes up that it might be most prob GPU problem not my system? any thoughts from you guys/ladies out here what it could be? or what could i try or do ?


For the reference my system is:
GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H
Intel i5 3570K 3.8GHz
Kingston HyperX Blu 2GB x4 (8GB) 1333MHz
GTX 650 DirectCU 1GB GDDR5
CoolMaster 550W PSU


Please say any thoughts might help me

 

[SeraphX]

Is the card overclocked?

Have you tried rolling back to the last set of drivers?

 

[smiithers42x]

Card is standard... rolled back to the old drivers nothing happened reinstalled all the drivers nothing happened.... ive updated the bios and will give another go at it today see if it still crashes

 

[Sam_Boyce]

Smiithers42x I also get this one my GTX 660 SC GPU. Mine can be at random times and can go hours without happening. I was recommended on using the EVGA OC Scanner to stress test the card to see if it is the card.

What version or drivers are you running? Mine is on:-

Version: 314.22 WHQL
Release Date: 2013.03.25

 

[smiithers42x]

well my is an asus card, driver version is nvlddmkm / 9.18.13.1422 (im using ASUS GPU Tweak)

and this is what EVGA OC Scanner shows me:

Stress test been running for 5 minutes no problem at all

Did you manage to solve your problem? or is there no solution to it?

 

[trickynickyuk]

Does it happen with any other games or just BF3 ??

 

[smiithers42x]

It happened to me on The Saints Row The Third after some time playing .... and Far Cry and Arma 3

 

[tommybhoy]

Try this:

You can down clock the core by 100MHz or/and them vram too, and see if it's stable, if it is then there is not enough voltage going through your sample.

Problem with being voltage locked you can't add more to cure the problem yourself.

If you have any luck with dropping clocks, then decide whether to keep it with lower clocks or rma/dsr it-as you paid for the specs advertised.

 

[Davanius]

Same driver crashes happen to me using the last two driver releases. Never has two drivers in a row been so bad on my config from Nvidia.

I can reproduce the error every time by joining a server and then quitting while loading or as soon as the bf3 icon appears, so if I join the wrong server, it's better to get in game first and then quit.

It started happening in January. Nvidia needs sort out their drivers.

 

[smiithers42x]

Well ill try lowering the clocks and the vram too and see what happens... im at work at the moment so ill chech it later on today thanks guys

 

[smiithers42x]

Well that seem to fixed it... lovered all voltage and core by 2%