I've seen a few other threads on this but I didn't want to hijack anyone else's thread 
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I've had my PC for just over a year. I am using a geforce 470. For the first half of the year, it's been fine. I used it just for internet, music, films and playing WoW. Not a single problem. I was playing WoW on max settings.
I then started playing Rift, and now and then, the game would freeze, weird coloured shapes. Screen would flicker and then a message saying 'the display driver had stopped responding but recovered'.
Perhaps a bad driver, something wrong with windows. I bought a new SSD, so a clean install of windows on that. Again no problems if playing WoW. It would still crash now and then in Rift.
I started playing Assassin's Creed and sometimes (not as often as in Rift), the same would happen.
Been trying a few trials in other online games, and again the problem randomly surfaces in those
. I can still play wow for hours upon end and it's fine .. double .
I've done a fair amount of research on the topic. An obvious issue seems to be heat. I've cleaned the dust out and monitored temps carefully in games. It doesn't go past 85C and that seems fine for thos card - threshold of 105C. WoW, like all other games makes the temp at 85C.
I've ran Furmark and the temps on that have gone up to 95C, but it didn't crash. Granted I only let it run for ten mins or so, just curious if temps were spiking above 85 and causing the error.
No overclocking has been done. I have a corsair power supply. People have said it could be a poor quality PSU, but a 650W corsair supply should be decent enough?
I have the latest nividia drivers. Have updated the drivers when new ones have came out but no different. When the problem first surfaced thought it could be that so checked and downloaded new drivers.
It's annoying as playing mmos and crashing mid pvp is not good
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Thank you for your help.
.I've had my PC for just over a year. I am using a geforce 470. For the first half of the year, it's been fine. I used it just for internet, music, films and playing WoW. Not a single problem. I was playing WoW on max settings.
I then started playing Rift, and now and then, the game would freeze, weird coloured shapes. Screen would flicker and then a message saying 'the display driver had stopped responding but recovered'.
Perhaps a bad driver, something wrong with windows. I bought a new SSD, so a clean install of windows on that. Again no problems if playing WoW. It would still crash now and then in Rift.
I started playing Assassin's Creed and sometimes (not as often as in Rift), the same would happen.
Been trying a few trials in other online games, and again the problem randomly surfaces in those
. I can still play wow for hours upon end and it's fine .. double .I've done a fair amount of research on the topic. An obvious issue seems to be heat. I've cleaned the dust out and monitored temps carefully in games. It doesn't go past 85C and that seems fine for thos card - threshold of 105C. WoW, like all other games makes the temp at 85C.
I've ran Furmark and the temps on that have gone up to 95C, but it didn't crash. Granted I only let it run for ten mins or so, just curious if temps were spiking above 85 and causing the error.
No overclocking has been done. I have a corsair power supply. People have said it could be a poor quality PSU, but a 650W corsair supply should be decent enough?
I have the latest nividia drivers. Have updated the drivers when new ones have came out but no different. When the problem first surfaced thought it could be that so checked and downloaded new drivers.
It's annoying as playing mmos and crashing mid pvp is not good
.Thank you for your help.
