First, I am not very technically educated so I need the most detailed responses please.
A little bit of background. I use to use an Nvidia Gtx 560, and I couldn't play games such as Counterstrike GO, Saints Row 3, or Darksiders 2 (All requiring DirectX 11). These games would crash on launch, my monitor will go to sleep and i'd get a blue screen.
Today I have purchased and Evga Nvidia Gtx 660 Super Clock graphics card. This was my first time putting in a new graphics card. I got everything managed and it went fine. I booted up my PC, I installed the latest driver via Nvidia. I went to play Red Orchestra 2, i got into servers fine, I went into selecting my team and my game froze, i timed out, I selected another server and my computer rebooted itself without turning off, the screen went black and starting loading up again as if i turned it off but the computer did not turn off it was still running while this was happening. I took out the Gtx 660, dusted everything in my computer because frankly it was a little dirty. Put the graphics card back in. I went in to play some DayZ Stand Alone, after about 15 minutes my computer restarted like it did before. I also tried playing Saints Row 3 again, selecting "DirectX 10/11), and the same issue occurs, although I haven't received a blue screen yet.
So my final attempt to fix this thing was uninstalling the Nvidia Drivers, took out the graphics card, put the graphics card back in, reinstalled the drivers, and i played some DayZ Stand Alone, and instead of restarting, my computer just freezes instead of going black. This happened twice. I have no idea why this is happening.
What confuses me is that all my games worked with my 560 except those few requiring DirectX (which i dont know why that doesn't work either) and now with my 660 none of the games last without crashing and at this point as far as I know, they freeze.
Here are my specs.
AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor 3.3 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Dedicated Memory 2.0 GB
Total Memory 3.9 GB
Memory 8.2 GB
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
Display Maximum Resolution 1440 x 900
Thanks for reading, I could really use the help, its a downer spending money on a computer I can't play games on.
A little bit of background. I use to use an Nvidia Gtx 560, and I couldn't play games such as Counterstrike GO, Saints Row 3, or Darksiders 2 (All requiring DirectX 11). These games would crash on launch, my monitor will go to sleep and i'd get a blue screen.
Today I have purchased and Evga Nvidia Gtx 660 Super Clock graphics card. This was my first time putting in a new graphics card. I got everything managed and it went fine. I booted up my PC, I installed the latest driver via Nvidia. I went to play Red Orchestra 2, i got into servers fine, I went into selecting my team and my game froze, i timed out, I selected another server and my computer rebooted itself without turning off, the screen went black and starting loading up again as if i turned it off but the computer did not turn off it was still running while this was happening. I took out the Gtx 660, dusted everything in my computer because frankly it was a little dirty. Put the graphics card back in. I went in to play some DayZ Stand Alone, after about 15 minutes my computer restarted like it did before. I also tried playing Saints Row 3 again, selecting "DirectX 10/11), and the same issue occurs, although I haven't received a blue screen yet.
So my final attempt to fix this thing was uninstalling the Nvidia Drivers, took out the graphics card, put the graphics card back in, reinstalled the drivers, and i played some DayZ Stand Alone, and instead of restarting, my computer just freezes instead of going black. This happened twice. I have no idea why this is happening.
What confuses me is that all my games worked with my 560 except those few requiring DirectX (which i dont know why that doesn't work either) and now with my 660 none of the games last without crashing and at this point as far as I know, they freeze.
Here are my specs.
AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor 3.3 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Dedicated Memory 2.0 GB
Total Memory 3.9 GB
Memory 8.2 GB
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
Display Maximum Resolution 1440 x 900
Thanks for reading, I could really use the help, its a downer spending money on a computer I can't play games on.
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