Soldato
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It depends who you ask, not everyone as suffered from it. A few factors can cause it.
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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**
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Caporegime
I have had that happen to me in Cryengine, screen went off and then came back with DX errors and a Driver restart, i put that down to Shodow Play, it did this with Cryengine on my R9 290 with the Gaming Evolved App running.
When it did come back Shadow Play was disabled, like the Driver knew what the problem was, its never done it in any game. touch wood.
I have had that happen to me in Cryengine, screen went off and then came back with DX errors and a Driver restart, i put that down to Shodow Play, it did this with Cryengine on my R9 290 with the Gaming Evolved App running.
When it did come back Shadow Play was disabled, like the Driver knew what the problem was, its never done it in any game. touch wood.
I can't say with absolute certaintity but I believe at the time I tried to disable shadowplay and it still happened but i'll bear it in mind when I do upgrade.
It's just frustrating because I KNOW its a driver issue as my 2014 drivers I got with the card are fine but I really want to upgrade them now for the benefits.
Yeah my stock boost was supposed to be 1367.
However I can run at a good OC 1540 for Fire strike and 1570 for Heaven for bench marking and run at 1500 for GTA all day as long as I don't have a driver crash because of voltage. Hence why I might Mod the Bios.
Elite and GTA are the only games I have issues with, with regards to driver crashes and always when the GPU winds down (cut scenes and menu's) and then goes back to full power. If I down clock to 1200 base then all is well.
Seems to be the same for many people though.
Caporegime
Does it do that when not overclocked? or not so high? i mean christ the difference in performance between 1450Mhz and 1550Mhz is practically nothing. its 7% in clock terms and about 4% in FPS... is that really worth it?
Just find where its comfortable and stick to it, use your instinct, electronic sympathy and all that...
Ah I have similar dimms, though mine are hyperx beasts, similar stock timings though, iirc with some voltage adjustments I can go 24/7 with 2400-10-12-12-30-96-1T or 2133-9-11-11-28-81-1T, I found system agent voltage to be the most helpful. May be called I/o depends what platform you're on.
Benching they'll do 2400 8-10-10, but only just stable enough for a pi32m run
Do love a good memory tweak
Mine sit happily at 2133-9-10-10-21 1T all day long which is a good happy medium of latency and bandwidth though in most cases talking 1-2% over other RAM settings.
Does it do that when not overclocked? or not so high? i mean christ the difference in performance between 1450Mhz and 1550Mhz is practically nothing. its 7% in clock terms and about 4% in FPS... is that really worth it?
Just find where its comfortable and stick to it, use your instinct, electronic sympathy and all that...
I stick to 1400 now, only bench at the higher clocks. As you say there is not much difference. However regardless of what clock I use, it will still driver crash at anything over 1200 base if the voltage drops below 0.8
It is an issue with voltage, It drops to 0.8 volts and then back to 1.2 when it spikes and that causes a driver crash. Hence why I want to fix the voltage and am using K Boost or I down clock. The Elite Dangerous dev's have reproduced it but have not been able to fix it (jump to hyperspace) R* just don't care.... TBF to all, it's a Nvidia issue and not a game issue. Many 970 and 980 (Maxwell users) have been forced to down clock their factory clocked cards as a sort of fix. However for me that is not acceptable. It's a card Lottery and most have no issues at all.
Brilliant, getting the bios modified to stay at those volts in 3D applications has fixed my problems. Just putting it to Adaptive in Windows means that I don't get those volts while using browsers or watching videos for example. If you want to stop volt drops under load or gaming, it's the only way
( Kboost or Bios )Brilliant, getting the bios modified to stay at those volts in 3D applications has fixed my problems. Just putting it to Adaptive in Windows means that I don't get those volts while using browsers or watching videos for example. If you want to stop volt drops under load or gaming, it's the only way
Yeah, I have been putting it off as I am not confident as I can not afford to brick my card.
I also don't want to have to run K Boost for ever more for certain games.
I am giving GTA a rest atm and moved back to ED. Which was the catalyst for all these issues and of course crashed first time before switching on K Boost LOL
Drivers do make a difference for other things, desktop etc and I had issue with the early 353 drivers but now I am on Win 10 353.62 are fine for everything.
Caporegime
Ah ok, i will keep an eye out for that, not had the card long.
Soldato
Anyone else getting crashes running w10 and sli on bf4 and Hardline?
Loads of people. Its all over the nvidia forums.
Brilliant, getting the bios modified to stay at those volts in 3D applications has fixed my problems. Just putting it to Adaptive in Windows means that I don't get those volts while using browsers or watching videos for example. If you want to stop volt drops under load or gaming, it's the only way
Glad to see its working out for ya
Glad to see its working out for ya
Thanks MrMD, if you ever live local I owe you a beer!
Caporegime
Yes, and a couple of other things, its random, reading around it seems Nvidia's Drivers are a little unstable in windows 10 at the moment.
AMD's Drivers were fine, ha....
Nvidia said they are working on Fixing Windows 10 Drivers, i'm sure it will get sorted.
How unstable must be dependant on gaming habits, not had a single crash, lock up, black out, bug or any other issue since moving to w10 and 353.63, more so then I was on 352.xx on w8.1.
Generally everything is silky smooth for me at the moment, though admittedly I no longer play any of the current bf games if those have outstanding issues.
Generally everything is silky smooth for me at the moment, though admittedly I no longer play any of the current bf games if those have outstanding issues.
Soldato
I'm running with the Win8 driver (GTA release one) and BF4 is working fine now, won't be touching the Win10 drivers until its confirmed fixed.
I do get random bits of pixelated fuzziness every so often but it goes away after 30 seconds.
the main person in the film is fine but the back groud is jumpy???