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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

Strudders said:
That is my understanding and what I have been testing.

I hold a constant 1266 clock speed now (shadow play on) and I don't get any crashes in GTA
If I remove the constant clock and the GPU is allowed to fluctuate with load, it will crash when recovering from a high low utilisation dip eg: 1266 MHz to 135 MHz to 1266 MHz in the game. My Volts go from 1.2 to .856 to 1.2 and that is when it crashes.
Holding a constant 1266 MHz clock mean there is no voltage drop.

I have 10 hours of GTA game play with a 1497 MHz OC and the games is fine as long as the clock does not drop below 1266. If I remove that and the card clocks as it should, the game will crash pretty soon with that high OC.

This will go for Elite as well and I will test at some point.

Of interest I have an ASCI of 69
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How do you force a constant clock and voltage? so I can test this theory.

With the 2 latest sets of drivers I've been getting numerous "stopped and recovered" errors so it would be interesting to test this myself to see if I can replicate your findings
 
I'm gonna try the fix to the latest drivers as the windowed gsync option interferes with far too many different things, including webcams, shadowplay, monitor brightness (seemingly switched between ulmb and gsync) and a few other annoying game related issues.
 
Just a quick warning, I installed the hotfix drivers and vsync was forced on in the global settings, seen others on guru3d report it as well.
 
ljt said:
How do you force a constant clock and voltage? so I can test this theory.

With the 2 latest sets of drivers I've been getting numerous "stopped and recovered" errors so it would be interesting to test this myself to see if I can replicate your findings
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LOL I tried to post a reply on my iPad but that was a massive fail...

I have a thread about this issue. Thread link

After I reinstalled the 350 driver on Sunday and up dated GE to latest version I noticed that my base clock was not dropping below 1266 MHz
Before I had to down clock to prevent crashes, however it seems that Shadow play was keeping it fixed when enabled.

This effectively prevented the drop in voltage when the game/whatever caused the GPU to idle.

So with that in mind

I have not had a crash since that happened. Over 10 hours of online game play including a 4 hour session last night.

How this all came about. When I had reinstalled the 350 drivers I did a bench mark to check for stability. I applied a modest OC to do this and forgot to take it off when I started playing GTA V.
Before any OC would crash it. So a 1497 boost OC in the past was not a good thing.

But because of the fixed base clock, the voltage never drops below 1 volt.

Hence the stable voltage = no driver crashes.

I am sure there are other ways to fix the clock other than taking the 10% performance hit with shadow play, however I have not found a way outside of this and I am not happy doing a bios flash. (both AB and precision fail to fix the voltage for me)

So yeah, I now have a great running GTA with no crashes....
 
Drivers are getting better for Middle Earth

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Well boys, I went to the new drivers, Witcher 3 performs slightly better I would say. Smoother in areas with lots of foliage and up around 5fps in towns.

This is on 980SLI - 2600k 4.5Ghz

Still getting crashes using Chrome each day without fail though. Every time this happens I have to reboot my machine as it messes with the clocks on the card.

Such a pain as we are forced to use these drivers if we want to play Witcher!
 
BaronVonDuncs said:
oh so the hotfix is not about the chrome crashing but the Gsync stuff. Thanks.
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Chrome is worse then ever for me now since the latest patch, but game performance on my 780 is definitely up in Witcher 3.

Like Supernauts said, only game I'm really interested in playing right now and to get a good and stable experience I've got to put up with restarting my PC fairly regularly if I want to browse the net or do some work.

Firefox also seems to have the same issues as Chrome.
 
I believe they are working on the Chrome fix (or it has been reported to the team anyways), so I don't think that will make any odds if you was having crashing before hand sadly.
 
Strudders said:
LOL I tried to post a reply on my iPad but that was a massive fail...

I have a thread about this issue. Thread link

After I reinstalled the 350 driver on Sunday and up dated GE to latest version I noticed that my base clock was not dropping below 1266 MHz
Before I had to down clock to prevent crashes, however it seems that Shadow play was keeping it fixed when enabled.

This effectively prevented the drop in voltage when the game/whatever caused the GPU to idle.

So with that in mind

I have not had a crash since that happened. Over 10 hours of online game play including a 4 hour session last night.

How this all came about. When I had reinstalled the 350 drivers I did a bench mark to check for stability. I applied a modest OC to do this and forgot to take it off when I started playing GTA V.
Before any OC would crash it. So a 1497 boost OC in the past was not a good thing.

But because of the fixed base clock, the voltage never drops below 1 volt.

Hence the stable voltage = no driver crashes.

I am sure there are other ways to fix the clock other than taking the 10% performance hit with shadow play, however I have not found a way outside of this and I am not happy doing a bios flash. (both AB and precision fail to fix the voltage for me)

So yeah, I now have a great running GTA with no crashes....
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lol sounds a bit convoluted to attempt, i think I'll pass :p I was hoping it was just some 3rd party program with a setting to change :D

I'm back on 347.xx drivers for now and not crashing so I'll stick with them until the issue is sorted!
 
ljt said:
lol sounds a bit convoluted to attempt, i think I'll pass :p I was hoping it was just some 3rd party program with a setting to change :D

I'm back on 347.xx drivers for now and not crashing so I'll stick with them until the issue is sorted!
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You can install EVGA precision and enable K-boost for the same result if you wanna try it yourself.
 
Strudders said:
Can only go on what I find, after I installed it and enabled K boost, the voltage still dropped. Otherwise I would be using it.
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Sucks that it didnt work for you,cant imagine why tho.:confused:

Might be worth trying it again with prefer maximum performance selected in NCP?

Its a very annoying driver bug either way,thats why i ended flashing a custom bios,got fed of random crashes :eek:
 
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