- Jun 13, 2008
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So basically I got a new GPU, a 650 TI, for a new video project, and I've been having some glitches when playing games.
TL;DR: It glitches out in various ways on different games, despite the temps not being that high, and having already tried clean installing the drivers again. Occasionally get "kernel crash" message though the glitches vary quite widely.
I've already tried doing a clean install on the driver, and I've been monitoring my temps and they're not very high at all. the 650 TI is rated to be safe until 100 C and the highest I've been getting is 40 C.
When playing Arkham City, the screen will blink out, the sound will continue to go, on and then the screen will blink back on, sort of like when the computer has to change resolution. From then on, the game will chug heavily, everything will be in slow mo basically.
When playing Borderlands 2, it glitched out hardcore. The game was chugging even at lowest settings, and acting pretty unsmooth. After about 1 hour of playing, the game turned into a psychedelic dubstep rave, all the textures rapidly blinking wack-ass neon colors. If it hadn't been so unsmooth, and almost worrisome, it might have been pretty cool effect. It was getting really janky, and in fear of the computer melting something I got off.
After exiting it was sparkling in the midtones a lot which made me worry that something was really broken. I'd get midtones sparkles sometimes after getting on the computer after it had been in idle for awhile. Thinking it was a temp problem I downloaded HWMonitor. My case had been open because I'd been doing a lot of fiddling with it lately, installing new stuff, and because the big fan on the side of my case broke so I figured it would be better to leave it to air.
HWMonitor did not detect any temp problems. I also took an industrial fan and aimed it into the case as a temporary case measure and that has taken down the temp even further.
Additionally thinking the problem might be my ancient Pentium D cpu running hot (as the Ds are prone to do), I decided to upgrade to a Core 2 Quad. The temp on the CPU went down a little and there's less bottleneckng in the system overall, but I'm still having this problem.
Other game problems have been when loading up Far Cry 2 (an old game that shouldn't tax the system in the least) it will, after a few minutes simply crash the game. Sometimes I get a little "Nvidia Kernel has been recovered" etc, but don't know how to fix that, as the two culprits seem to be overheating, or driver problems.
Also I was playing Civ V for about 2 hours with no problems, when eventually I had the same blink screen, reset resolution, return, problem I had with Arkham City. Except when the screen comes back, it's just black, and I can move the cursor around fine but can't see anything else. Now whenever I load it up, I run into this problem within 5 minutes of it happening.
Once again, checking the temp measurements, this shouldn't be the problem. Everything is medium to cool.
Lastly here's a excerpt from the HWMonitor readout:
Any suggestions?
TL;DR: It glitches out in various ways on different games, despite the temps not being that high, and having already tried clean installing the drivers again. Occasionally get "kernel crash" message though the glitches vary quite widely.
I've already tried doing a clean install on the driver, and I've been monitoring my temps and they're not very high at all. the 650 TI is rated to be safe until 100 C and the highest I've been getting is 40 C.
When playing Arkham City, the screen will blink out, the sound will continue to go, on and then the screen will blink back on, sort of like when the computer has to change resolution. From then on, the game will chug heavily, everything will be in slow mo basically.
When playing Borderlands 2, it glitched out hardcore. The game was chugging even at lowest settings, and acting pretty unsmooth. After about 1 hour of playing, the game turned into a psychedelic dubstep rave, all the textures rapidly blinking wack-ass neon colors. If it hadn't been so unsmooth, and almost worrisome, it might have been pretty cool effect. It was getting really janky, and in fear of the computer melting something I got off.
After exiting it was sparkling in the midtones a lot which made me worry that something was really broken. I'd get midtones sparkles sometimes after getting on the computer after it had been in idle for awhile. Thinking it was a temp problem I downloaded HWMonitor. My case had been open because I'd been doing a lot of fiddling with it lately, installing new stuff, and because the big fan on the side of my case broke so I figured it would be better to leave it to air.
HWMonitor did not detect any temp problems. I also took an industrial fan and aimed it into the case as a temporary case measure and that has taken down the temp even further.
Additionally thinking the problem might be my ancient Pentium D cpu running hot (as the Ds are prone to do), I decided to upgrade to a Core 2 Quad. The temp on the CPU went down a little and there's less bottleneckng in the system overall, but I'm still having this problem.
Other game problems have been when loading up Far Cry 2 (an old game that shouldn't tax the system in the least) it will, after a few minutes simply crash the game. Sometimes I get a little "Nvidia Kernel has been recovered" etc, but don't know how to fix that, as the two culprits seem to be overheating, or driver problems.
Also I was playing Civ V for about 2 hours with no problems, when eventually I had the same blink screen, reset resolution, return, problem I had with Arkham City. Except when the screen comes back, it's just black, and I can move the cursor around fine but can't see anything else. Now whenever I load it up, I run into this problem within 5 minutes of it happening.
Once again, checking the temp measurements, this shouldn't be the problem. Everything is medium to cool.
Lastly here's a excerpt from the HWMonitor readout:
Any suggestions?
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