Soldato
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Might want to try to some older driver versions...as it is not uncommon for newer Nvidia driver to not support older gen cards as well as older version drivers (as strange it might sound).
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PC issues linked to new GPU
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As marine says.
I have 780Ti so does my brother in law and we both have problems, he gets black screen in bops 3 an i get black screen in poe.
Rolled drivers back quite a few revisions (the one before the star wars battlefront update driver) an every thing works fine again.
I have 780Ti so does my brother in law and we both have problems, he gets black screen in bops 3 an i get black screen in poe.
Rolled drivers back quite a few revisions (the one before the star wars battlefront update driver) an every thing works fine again.
Thanks, I've got monitors but nothing that I can view while gaming or one that logs.
Nope, no overclocking done. Used the NVIDIA tool to optimize game settings, but that was about it.
Had a look and there isn't anything of use unfortunately.
Will give this a go, the PSU is about 4 years old.
Thanks, will give this a go too.
Is the PC rebooting too?
I get black screen because the PC has shut down and rebooted. No blue screen of death.
This is very true. My 980Ti can bench at 1550MHz, but in GTAV I get crashes all the way down to 1350MHz.
Usually the driver will crash first though if it's a power delivery/overclocking issue. Is the fan spinning on the PSU?
You can use "log video to file" option in AB to record logs while gaming.
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Soldato
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Hmm, it still sounds like a PSU issue to me but a 750w Corsair should not have any trouble running your system if its working correctly. Bit of a strange one.
Anyway to test it?
My mate has offered to run the GPU in his system to double check the card isn't at fault as well.
Don't want to go starting spending money upgrading parts unless I know for sure what is the cause.
Soldato
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No I wouldn't buy anything yet.
Its worth taking up your mates offer to test the card and try and run it in a similar situation that causes issues in your system (same game with same settings if possible).
You didn't have these troubles with your old card I assume so it could be the new card.
If the card works OK in your mates machine, it might be worth asking if you can borrow his PSU, it is a faff though but will help in diagnosing the issue.
Its worth taking up your mates offer to test the card and try and run it in a similar situation that causes issues in your system (same game with same settings if possible).
You didn't have these troubles with your old card I assume so it could be the new card.
If the card works OK in your mates machine, it might be worth asking if you can borrow his PSU, it is a faff though but will help in diagnosing the issue.
Well I've removed and rolled back the drivers, and *touch wood*, everything seems fine at the moment.
Had a full days gaming yesterday, with GTA V on slightly lower settings and squad on full settings. Will test over the weekend and report back.
Had a full days gaming yesterday, with GTA V on slightly lower settings and squad on full settings. Will test over the weekend and report back.
No reboot or bsod, it's like the driver is hanging an recovers after 2-3 seconds.
Your's might not be recovering an causing it to reboot to save any damage to the hardware.
Update:
Had a play around with the PC yesterday with a friend. As the reboot issue has been occurring again recently, despite the brief joy of rolling back the drivers.
We've placed his old PSU unit into my PC now, and going to run that for a few days. But it appears things has got much worse. GTA V is almost unplayable now, the graphics have been toned right down now. But the game just keeps lagging/jumping, despite the GPU absolutely being able to deal with it, and I'm sure it's not a connection issue.
I think it the CPU.
Some stats from MSI during gaming (all max figures it got to):
GPU temp = 83
GPU usage % = 99
Max FPS = 270
CPU1 temp = 57
CPU2 temp = 56
CPU3 temp = 54
CPU4 temp = 53
CPU1 usage = 100
CPU2 usage = 100
CPU3 usage = 100
CPU4 usage = 100
Last thing I was wanting was to have to replace MOBO, CPU and RAM
Had a play around with the PC yesterday with a friend. As the reboot issue has been occurring again recently, despite the brief joy of rolling back the drivers.
We've placed his old PSU unit into my PC now, and going to run that for a few days. But it appears things has got much worse. GTA V is almost unplayable now, the graphics have been toned right down now. But the game just keeps lagging/jumping, despite the GPU absolutely being able to deal with it, and I'm sure it's not a connection issue.
I think it the CPU.
Some stats from MSI during gaming (all max figures it got to):
GPU temp = 83
GPU usage % = 99
Max FPS = 270
CPU1 temp = 57
CPU2 temp = 56
CPU3 temp = 54
CPU4 temp = 53
CPU1 usage = 100
CPU2 usage = 100
CPU3 usage = 100
CPU4 usage = 100
Last thing I was wanting was to have to replace MOBO, CPU and RAM
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You running the latest motherboard BIOS? Anyway to try a fresh windows install?
Checked BIOS and it's not the latest
I can do a fresh windows install, and fresh install of GTA V. This would be last resort (well before buying new components anyway)
Get the BIOS updated on that motherboard first. Also make sure to clear the BIOS to defaults then only add in the ACHI and boot order for your OS. Then try the system at auto settings. If it does not fail and just loose power, try setting up your XMP profile of your RAM, then test again, if again no shut downs, set your overclock back up on your CPU. If it fails then make sure your OC is stable.
After you said the BIOS is not latest that removed the main problem I thought it was a PSU that has a intermittent fault, causing it to shut down.
Also have you made sure there is nothing shorting out and tripping the PSU too, have you had a good clean of your system and under the motherboard, sometimes you get dust build up under the board and have seen that sometimes cause intermittent faults to appear (Office pc's that have never been cleaned).
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Try the latest bios then. A bios update can fix a gpu/motherboard incompatibility. It's worth a try anyway. Download the latest and stick it on a usb stick and then use the EZ-Flash tool in the bios. Do not use the windows bios flash tool.
It will be Gen2 he is running at as he's using a i5-2500K. Only IvyBridge and up offer Gen3.