Graphic Card Fails, Screen Goes Black, and then Recovers.

[Scooternutz]

Hello all,

 

I have had this problem twice now with 1.0.2:

I will be flying and all of the sudden I go black on both screens. The game doesn't shutdown and it does recover. I get a little notice from Windows stating my graphics adapter has shut down and windows recovered it. I am attaching my system specs. Has anyone had this problem?

 

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 05/21/2010 07:38:29

System name: NOEY-PC2

 

[Display]

Processor: Intel® Core i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (2666 MHz)

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)

DirectX version: 10.1

GPU processor: GeForce GTS 250

Driver version: 197.45

CUDA Cores: 128

Core clock: 750 MHz

Shader clock: 1836 MHz

Memory clock: 1120 MHz (2240 MHz data rate)

Memory interface: 256-bit

Total available graphics memory: 2299 MB

Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB

System video memory: 0 MB

Shared system memory: 1275 MB

Video BIOS version: 62.92.7D.00.11

IRQ: 24

Bus: PCI Express x4 Gen2

 

[Components]

 

nvCplUI.exe 2.8.313.10 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvWSS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Workstation Server

nvViTvS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Video Server

nvMoblS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Mobile Server

NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.11.9745 NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision

NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.11.9745 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application

NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.11.9745 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module (0)

NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA Media Center Library

nvDispS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Display Server

NVCPL.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA Compatible Windows7 Display driver, Version 197.45

PhysX 09.10.0129 NVIDIA PhysX

NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA CUDA 3.0.1 driver

nvGameS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

[71st_Mastiff]

Scooter its the NVIDA drivers I get the same issue and usually its heat related..

 

Its because of all those monitors your running.. Isnt Vista 64bit on SP2? you might want to upgrade that too.

 

you can try a clean install of your video drivers use guru3d.com and down load the latest driver sweeper in the utility section.

 

Also EVGA has a nice tool for keeping your Nvidia fan running faster to cool off your card, the one NVIDIA use's doesn't work. Temps on my card hit 100c. that's almost 200f.

 

I also took the card apart and re-thermaled the GPU with tuniq TX-2 that helped

need to sign up at this site for the EVGA fan tool.

 

http://www.evga.com/precision/ works on all nvidia based cards.

 

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Driver-Sweeper-(Setup)-download-1655.html

Edited May 21, 2010 by Mastiff

[Scooternutz]

I think this will do the trick.