About a month ago, I bought a new ASUS GTX660 TI to upgrade from my old Radeon 5770.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121656
Current Specs:
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz (not overclocked)
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Intel Corporation DZ68BC (CPU 1)
Acer G235H (1920x1080@60Hz)
SAPPHIRE ATI Radeon HD 5770 Series (ATI AIB) (not overclocked)
932GB Western Digital WDC WD10EALX-009BA0 ATA Device (SATA)
I've had this setup since the middle of June 2012. The graphics card is a little under 2 years old.
After installing everything for my new graphics card, there were problems I experienced while playing Planetside 2. After approximately playing 1 and a half hours, my computer froze in place without any warning at all and I had to do a manual shutdown. Since Planetside 2 was a relatively unstable game, I just pushed it aside because I sort of expected something like that to happen, yet I never recall something like this happening with my old 5770.
When the Natural selection 2 free weekend arrived on steam, I decided to play it with a few buddies who were also interested in playing it. This is where the problem presented itself quickly, and often. I could not complete a single match without the entire computer freezing. This would take 15 to 25 minutes, but it would always freeze no matter what preparations I did, nor what graphics settings I had it at. At first, I thought the game wasn't very compatable with my new 660TI, so I replaced the 660 with the older 5770. No problems occured after using my older card. I looked on their forums to see if anyone else was having any similar problems, but I couldn't find any conclusive evidence to my problem.
After a few other games, I realize this is happening accross the board, not just to a few games. No matter what game I played, it eventually froze to the point where I had to manually shutdown my computer. It usually freezes in about an hour, but sometimes in as little as 15 minutes, to as long as a couple of hours. What would happen is the screen would freeze to the most recent screen the monitor was displaying and would sometimes replay the last sound in a constant loop. The longest time I waited for this to fix itself on the frozen screen was half an hour, but nothing happened outside of what happened half an hour beforehand.
I've looked across the board to find a solution to the problem similar to mine, but all I ever found was solutions that didn't work for me, or problems just like mine that were never resolved. I have completely uninstalled the old AMD drivers, and even with it on when I kept it by accident, the freezing still occurred at the same rate. I updated the Video cards BIOS from the ASUS site, and updated the BIOS for my computer. I even under clocked the graphics card to see if the PSU wasn't giving it enough power, but that didn't help. I've switched out the power supply cables connecting it to the 660 in case the one for my 5770 was going bad. None of these helped to stop the crashing.
I submitted an RMA and got another 660 TI about a week later. Same problems, nothing different about them, so I doubt it's the card, but I could be wrong. When there was a new NVIDIA driver, I downloaded it thinking there was something wrong with that particular driver with a 660 TI, but that didn't help with the crashing as it still continued.
To prevent this from being any longer, I'm going to stop here. Does anyone have any possible solutions that could possibly make this work without the crashing occuring? Thanks in advance.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121656
Current Specs:
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz (not overclocked)
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Intel Corporation DZ68BC (CPU 1)
Acer G235H (1920x1080@60Hz)
SAPPHIRE ATI Radeon HD 5770 Series (ATI AIB) (not overclocked)
932GB Western Digital WDC WD10EALX-009BA0 ATA Device (SATA)
I've had this setup since the middle of June 2012. The graphics card is a little under 2 years old.
After installing everything for my new graphics card, there were problems I experienced while playing Planetside 2. After approximately playing 1 and a half hours, my computer froze in place without any warning at all and I had to do a manual shutdown. Since Planetside 2 was a relatively unstable game, I just pushed it aside because I sort of expected something like that to happen, yet I never recall something like this happening with my old 5770.
When the Natural selection 2 free weekend arrived on steam, I decided to play it with a few buddies who were also interested in playing it. This is where the problem presented itself quickly, and often. I could not complete a single match without the entire computer freezing. This would take 15 to 25 minutes, but it would always freeze no matter what preparations I did, nor what graphics settings I had it at. At first, I thought the game wasn't very compatable with my new 660TI, so I replaced the 660 with the older 5770. No problems occured after using my older card. I looked on their forums to see if anyone else was having any similar problems, but I couldn't find any conclusive evidence to my problem.
After a few other games, I realize this is happening accross the board, not just to a few games. No matter what game I played, it eventually froze to the point where I had to manually shutdown my computer. It usually freezes in about an hour, but sometimes in as little as 15 minutes, to as long as a couple of hours. What would happen is the screen would freeze to the most recent screen the monitor was displaying and would sometimes replay the last sound in a constant loop. The longest time I waited for this to fix itself on the frozen screen was half an hour, but nothing happened outside of what happened half an hour beforehand.
I've looked across the board to find a solution to the problem similar to mine, but all I ever found was solutions that didn't work for me, or problems just like mine that were never resolved. I have completely uninstalled the old AMD drivers, and even with it on when I kept it by accident, the freezing still occurred at the same rate. I updated the Video cards BIOS from the ASUS site, and updated the BIOS for my computer. I even under clocked the graphics card to see if the PSU wasn't giving it enough power, but that didn't help. I've switched out the power supply cables connecting it to the 660 in case the one for my 5770 was going bad. None of these helped to stop the crashing.
I submitted an RMA and got another 660 TI about a week later. Same problems, nothing different about them, so I doubt it's the card, but I could be wrong. When there was a new NVIDIA driver, I downloaded it thinking there was something wrong with that particular driver with a 660 TI, but that didn't help with the crashing as it still continued.
To prevent this from being any longer, I'm going to stop here. Does anyone have any possible solutions that could possibly make this work without the crashing occuring? Thanks in advance.
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