- Sep 21, 2014
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So, basically like the title says, I get graphics driver crashes when my GPU reaches high temperatures, which sucks because I heard that it's kind of inevitable for a graphics card to run games at high settings without getting hot. I haven't locked down the exact temperature but it generally happens when my GPU get around 67-70*C. I own the GTX 660 Zotac Edition.
I recently had my PC upgraded (CPU, Motherboard and RAM) so I'm wondering if that is doing anything for whatever reason. I upgraded from the AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition to the Intel i7 4770. Obviously I also had to change the motherboard and I got a better set of RAM while I was at it. I checked and it's all compatible.
As for the games crashing it happens a bit different for every game I play for example in ROME 2 I would get a black screen even though the game is still running in the background. As in I can still hear the game sounds when I click buttons in the game and things like that. In Watch_Dogs I get weird stuttering frame rate drop issue. I also played Planetside 2 where I start getting some weird sound distortion and a CTD after. All this happens when the GPU reaches high temperatures.
Convenient enough, I had the opportunity to test this on different graphics drivers as I though the problem was there. First I had this issue on the 340.XX Nvidia Driver and then the recent 344.11 driver but the problem still persists. I even did the clean install when updating but it didn't help. I started using the MSI Afterburner to increase the fan RPM in my GPU although there doesn't seem to be a big temperature drop even if the fan is spinning at 60%. I also re-applied some thermal paste to the GPU but still nothing.
If anybody knows how I could fix this please help and thank you in advance and if you need more details, please ask.
I recently had my PC upgraded (CPU, Motherboard and RAM) so I'm wondering if that is doing anything for whatever reason. I upgraded from the AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition to the Intel i7 4770. Obviously I also had to change the motherboard and I got a better set of RAM while I was at it. I checked and it's all compatible.
As for the games crashing it happens a bit different for every game I play for example in ROME 2 I would get a black screen even though the game is still running in the background. As in I can still hear the game sounds when I click buttons in the game and things like that. In Watch_Dogs I get weird stuttering frame rate drop issue. I also played Planetside 2 where I start getting some weird sound distortion and a CTD after. All this happens when the GPU reaches high temperatures.
Convenient enough, I had the opportunity to test this on different graphics drivers as I though the problem was there. First I had this issue on the 340.XX Nvidia Driver and then the recent 344.11 driver but the problem still persists. I even did the clean install when updating but it didn't help. I started using the MSI Afterburner to increase the fan RPM in my GPU although there doesn't seem to be a big temperature drop even if the fan is spinning at 60%. I also re-applied some thermal paste to the GPU but still nothing.
If anybody knows how I could fix this please help and thank you in advance and if you need more details, please ask.
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