random freezes in games

belial8321 · 14 May 2011 at 01:55

Hey guys, rig is the red writing in sig, have been gaming tonight, portal 2, Amnesia and wow, and noticing random game freezes, like gfx crashes, it will unfreeze after i ctrl alt del and go back into game and i can continue, i cant see where this has come from, no heat issues, card is overclocked but has been for ages, could it be driver based? it did it a lot in portal for some reaosn

hybrid572 · 14 May 2011 at 07:19

This is almost certainly a driver issue- update them and see what happens. If that doesn't fix it, there's a chance that your overclock has become unstable- I'd take it down a notch and that should sort it out.

Plec · 14 May 2011 at 11:49

Certainly could be driver related follow above suggestion.

Did you happen to notice your gpu temps? If updating the drivers doesn't help - when it next freezes jump straight to your gpu and cpu temps.

EDIT: or run furmark and monitor temps - if it was GPU heat related that should recreate the problem.

belial8321 · 14 May 2011 at 21:09

cpu isnt buding above 40C on gaming and its clocked at 4.3 atm, and gpu isnt even pushing 65C with furmark, i'll try driver, is it worth sweeping old ones or just updating

belial8321 · 17 May 2011 at 05:41

Driver updated. still getting freezes. have dropped overclock down and it has stopped it, but card has been overclocked for ages why wud it start crashing now?

Surveyor · 17 May 2011 at 06:15

belial8321 said:
Driver updated. still getting freezes. have dropped overclock down and it has stopped it, but card has been overclocked for ages why wud it start crashing now?

The overclock may have caused deterioration in the GPU or VRAM and now it's not stable.

belial8321 · 17 May 2011 at 06:36

Hmm, well at a CCC overclock thats a bit crappy, CCC doesnt normally let you hurt your hardware does it?

Surveyor · 17 May 2011 at 07:15

belial8321 said:
Hmm, well at a CCC overclock thats a bit crappy, CCC doesnt normally let you hurt your hardware does it?

Just a thought.

Maybe someone else has other ideas.

belial8321 · 17 May 2011 at 08:35

i didnt driver sweep my drivers actually, cud try that

belial8321 · 17 May 2011 at 08:36

poo, just checked and noticed im using 11.2, it didnt update to 11.5 for some reason! D:

Blue160 · 17 May 2011 at 08:43

If the drivers don't help check your memory timings and voltage are correct in bios. I had this problem a while back and it turned out the bios had set the wrong RAM voltage. It's also worth running memtest to rule out duff RAM.

belial8321 · 17 May 2011 at 10:59

I cud check ram but its OCCT and Linx stable, didn't think ram affected graphics greatly cause my card is using its dedicated Gddr5?

Jamiman · 17 May 2011 at 11:09

Try putting all back to stock, and use known good drivers

belial8321 · 17 May 2011 at 11:32

even my cpu/nb clock?

Plec · 17 May 2011 at 11:59

You need to rule out an unstable clock - and it's always best to troubleshoot a system at stock.

If you haven't done so already, save your current clocked settings in a profile in the BIOS. Then you will be able to load up you current settings, after troubleshooting, in a couple of clicks...

Blue160 · 17 May 2011 at 15:03

belial8321 said:
I cud check ram but its OCCT and Linx stable, didn't think ram affected graphics greatly cause my card is using its dedicated Gddr5?

I only suggest it because I had unexplained freezes in games just like yours. My problem turned out to be undervolted RAM. The graphics use the vRAM on the card, but the game engine uses the CPU and system RAM. Unless you are getting a specific error message that narrows the problem down you can't rule anything out.

belial8321 · 18 May 2011 at 01:23

Eh i suppose so, will downclock it all tomorrow and see, what if it turns out that its still not fixed it?

faulty card?