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More about my crashes...

Tonytank

Tonytank

Tonytank

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Here is my previous thread...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18223361

Now, after a while i experimented with different drivers and things seem to stabilise a bit. But now i have a new crash of sorts. The game will essentially freeze, either with some artefacts on the screen, black screen or just a plain freeze.

Now, all i have to do is ctrl alt del back to desktop (which has No artifacts of any kind on), then click on the games icon in on the start bar and hey presto, back in the game, running. no worries.

Anyone ever heard of anything like this? I am using the latest Nvidia drivers...

I have just learnt my ocuk mobo bundle i purchased may have been pre overclocked. Could this have something to do with it?

My system is as follows..

Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK "Super-OC" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Sapphire Pure 625W Modular Power Supply
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler
Windows 7 (64bit)
Xtreme gamer XiFi sound card


Thanks in advance
 
Try taking the graphics card down to stock speeds, and upping the voltage. A lot of pre-overclocked cards aren't shipped stable for some reason :(
 
I can that most gtx460s are meant to run at 700 so mine is 80mhz over...hmmm. If i drop to 700, am i going to see much difference in games?
 
I think that has actually fixed it.

Well, I have had a couple of 3 hour sessions on Borderlands since I under clocked too 700 mhz and so far so good.

I have to test with other games but so far I'm happy. No noticeable change in frames either.
 
I am starting to think that the card maybe faulty.

I have been through several driver revisions and I can't see this situation improving.

Have any other HAWK OC owners had similar problems?

Her is my current system again

Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK "Super-OC" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Sapphire Pure 625W Modular Power Supply
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler
Windows 7 (64bit)
Xtreme gamer XiFi sound card
 
Try under clocking the memory rather than the gpu core. I've had to lower my memory speed to 1755 of my GTX 480 to get it stable in heavily demanding games (bc2)

The strange thing is once I have under clocked the memory. I can over clock the gpu core to 800+ on stock volts. So I guess I won't be losing any fps
 
Jfan said:
Try under clocking the memory rather than the gpu core. I've had to lower my memory speed to 1755 of my GTX 480 to get it stable in heavily demanding games (bc2)

The strange thing is once I have under clocked the memory. I can over clock the gpu core to 800+ on stock volts. So I guess I won't be losing any fps
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Yea...for my overclock on my 5850, BFBC2 HATE the memory clock being too high. My core clock can overclock much higher and be more stable with a lower memory clock on that game.
 
my old gtx 260 has issues in bfbc2 with the latest nvidia drivers, had to roll back a set.
 
I have same problem with my 480 ,black screen for 20 sec. then windows says that drver stopped working,starts flickering bottom of screen and top with little black squares (like chess board) when i watch video on any web page.
Tried to reinstall all the video drivers,so far nothing.
So i hope that someone has same probl and has a soliution,cheers
 
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