GTX 970 stable in benchmarks but not games?

MrH · 30 Dec 2014 at 13:22

I'm having a bit of a weird one, my overclock is stable in Furmark and Heaven even with 8xMSAA but it causes driver errors with event viewer showing "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered" in multiple games. I've tried 344.80 and 347.09. +230/+300/110% is the overclock with stock voltages.

setter · 30 Dec 2014 at 13:28

Quite often this is the case unfortunately. For games try backing off a little on the oc.

MrH · 30 Dec 2014 at 13:38

setter said:
Quite often this is the case unfortunately. For games try backing off a little on the oc.

Yeah, I've found a good benchmark tool, it's called the Grim Dawn alpha, it was crashing instantly with my original OC, as I turn down the core it takes longer to crash, I made it to about 5 minutes that time. It seems I'm on the bad side of RNG though.

setter · 30 Dec 2014 at 13:42

I had a windforce gtx 670 that would bench at 1320mhz core, 7500mhz memory. Heaven, valley and all the various other benchmarks used on here. Would crash pretty quickly in bf3. Backed the core down to 1300mhz and it ran rock solid for months until i added a second and ran them at stock.

MrH · 30 Dec 2014 at 13:56

setter said:
I had a windforce gtx 670 that would bench at 1320mhz core, 7500mhz memory. Heaven, valley and all the various other benchmarks used on here. Would crash pretty quickly in bf3. Backed the core down to 1300mhz and it ran rock solid for months until i added a second and ran them at stock.

I'm working my way down -5 core at a time and each time the game lasts longer before producing the driver crash, currently at +195, honestly I hope becomes stable soon because I don't want to be doing this all day

setter · 30 Dec 2014 at 13:58

What game are you testing with? Ive always found the bf games or crysis 3 to be very good at exposing an oc, wether it be gpu or cpu.

MrH · 30 Dec 2014 at 14:06

setter said:
What game are you testing with? Ive always found the bf games or crysis 3 to be very good at exposing an oc, wether it be gpu or cpu.

Grim Dawn, it seems to crash the fastest of the few games I have installed. I don't have BF3 or C3.

roozor · 30 Dec 2014 at 16:02

Dota 2 is my OC benchmark. For both CPU and GPU. Seems to crash easily if oc'd too far whereas other games/benchmarks run fine

MrH · 30 Dec 2014 at 18:40

Well after much trial and error it seems +170 on the core is about all I can get out of her while being stable. I'm still with +300 on the memory, but I can't be bothered to do that as well today, another time!

Ste · 30 Dec 2014 at 22:25

Same challenge, getting about 45 mins stable on Crysis 3 and then it'll bomb out with that error. I'll get there