video driver help

daTS · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:20 am Post subject: video driver help

so I just upgraded my video card from a GTX 460 to a GTX 770 as well as adding another 16gb of RAM to my system. Now, every time I play any 3D-based game, about five minutes in my video card's drivers crash then recover, kicking me out of the game. I attempted updating drivers, rolling back to old drivers, and making sure my computer is optimized for high performance.

Any idea how to solve this? absolutely none of my games that are fully 3d will work for more than five minutes because of this.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Check the temperature! When under full load, it can overheat and this 5min duration sounds a lot like that.

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found this. First hit with google and keywords "gtx770 crash" Wink

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Did you make sure you completely removed the ATI drivers prior to installing the Nvidia drivers? If not, uninstall both ATI and Nvidia drivers, reboot and reinstall Nvidia. Do a custom install and only install graphics & PhysX. Nothing else. Make sure to put a check mark in "clean" install. Then do some testing to see how that works out.

Uninstalled all drivers, rebooted, reinstalled the Nvidia drivers as you said, rebooted, just ran FurMark for 10 minutes and it capped at 80 degrees the whole time, no crashes. Will play some games to make sure this has fixed the issue and update, but its looking promising - thanks.

you don't had an ATI, but maybe your old drivers still linger in the system and make it unstable.

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daTS · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:13 pm Post subject:

I already removed the old drivers. I also tested my RAM as well, however this started before I upgraded RAM, when I had just installed the 770.

I only ran FurMark for a few minutes before closing it because I didn't want to stress the card out too much, but it seemed to cap around 85 degrees for the most part. I'll run it a little longer just to test.

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FurryQueen · General **Joined**: 24 Jul 2010 **Location**: Liyue

Find a driver remover. The old drivers are likely still there and need to be completely removed. If nvidia's uninstaller is anything like Symantec's, you hardly remove anything substantial. If that doesn't work, put your old card back in and see what happens. If it crashes, it's software. If it doesn't, that 770 might be faulty.

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daTS · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:32 pm Post subject:

Well, DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller, formerly DriverSweeper) found my old 460 drivers so i swept everthing and installed some rolled-back drivers (320.49 are the ones that came with the 770 when it first came out) then I'll sweep and update accordingly if the problem persists. Here's to it working.

//EDIT: well, it didn't work. X Rebirth will freeze up, and I have to alt+tab away then back in to play, and Titanfall throws up this error:

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Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: TitanFall.exe
  Application Version: 1.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp: 530b9c18
  Fault Module Name: materialsystem_dx11.dll
  Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp: 530d6142
  Exception Code: c0000005
  Exception Offset: 00000000000f1890
  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Locale ID: 1033
  Additional Information 1: 9666
  Additional Information 2: 966672b34d887ab80222efb80fc89bf1
  Additional Information 3: 95c3
  Additional Information 4: 95c3ebdaf79b79e93287848ae6dfc52d

Going to re-install Titanfall (and DX11) to see if that fixes it. If it doesn't, I'll go pick up my 460 from my brother, try it then, and if that does it, I'll return the 770 and get an exchange/refund.

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daTS · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:57 pm Post subject:

Double post. zero f*cks given!

Turns out it was a faulty card combined with a red-lined power supply. My PSU was rated for it, but just barely. During situations of high use, the PSU fluctuated, causing the card to go faulty. Got a full refund on both, and upgraded from a 1050 watt power supply to a 1200 watt PSU (Thermaltake toughpower grand) and got myself another 770. I've had no troubles so far since installing it. Very Happy

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FurryQueen · General **Joined**: 24 Jul 2010 **Location**: Liyue

Figured it was hardware somewhere. Didn't think PSU. A 1050W wasn't enough for a 770? What the ztype else do you have in that son of a bitch?

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daTS · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:20 pm Post subject:

I'm overclocking the hell out of my CPU (close to 4.2GHz), with liquid cooling on both the CPU and GPU. Coupled with the four HDD's, blu-ray burner, multimedia card slots, and fans out the ass, I was red-lining it in terms of amperage. It wasn't a high-end PSU by any means.

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