Maverick-X Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Hey Guys, a friend of mine has freezing screens in Games. He already has been to 3 Shops but they didn't find anything. Now I'm sitting here with his computer and I'm starting to get confused. I tested the behavior with DCS and BF3, screen freezes after a quite short gametime, sometimes blackens. Bluescreen didn't occur. Funny thing is: testprograms (prime95&furmark) run normal, even for very long testperiods. Guess that's why the shops said everything was fine. I've replaced his GTX 580 with my old 8800GT and the system seems to run fine (in games) that way. Furmark with the 580 runs fine also... Just the games hanging it. I've got some ideas left to test, but I'd like to get some opinions on propable error sources first, so thanks for brainstorming! Sysspecs: -i7-920 -Gigabyte EX58-UD3R -Asus GTX 580 -8GB Ram in 4x 2GB PC1333 DDR3 DIMMS, Corsair -Thermaltake Toughpower 750W -Crucial SSD (currently no other Drives connected) Everything stock-clocked, drivers up2date
_Dredd Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Testing an earlier set of nvidia drivers would be the first step.. Current Flight Rig i7 4960X @ 4.6Ghz ASUS Rampage IV Formula G.SKILL TridentX 2400Mhz 32GB DDR3 Crucial 1TB MX300 SSD MSI Gaming X 1080Ti Samsung 55" JS8000 SUHD 4K Windows 10 x64 TrackIR 5, Warthog HOTAS Saitek Pro Flight Combat Pedals Custom Akers-Barnes, MkI eyeball.
BavarianPilot Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 I have the same GTX580. Screen Freeze and after the freeze a short black screen with a following reloading of the engine. My workaround ist to set up the fan speed higher to 75%. Had tested many nvidia drivers. It´s time for a new hardware. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] http://www.spare-time-pilots.de Twitch BavarianPilot Youtube BavarianPilot
Gerg Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 What sort of temps does it get when running furmark? If the computer is a few years old it could be the heatsinks are loaded with dust. What sort of fan arrangement is in the case?
Maverick-X Posted February 16, 2014 Author Posted February 16, 2014 The case is overloaded with fans, max temp on furmark is 74°C. Driverversion has already been downgraded, no effect
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