Nvidia driver has crashed and recovered out of options

Nailroth

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I bought a GTX 750 ti 1 month ago and it kept crashing, by asking around here we came to the conclusion my PSU was the culprit, I posted a topic here on what PSU of a few i found in my price range would work with my setup and they all worked i decided to buy the Corsair CX430 and i had some problem getting everything to work but eventualy it worked, then i crashed a few times a day so i found a solution online about setting the 3d settings in nvidia control panel to prefer maximum performance and it worked for about 2 days no crashes then it came and it came hard. So i changed the TDR time with microsoft fix it program and nothing changed, Now this morning i did a complete reinstall of windows and installed the newest drivers for everything and i still crash
What else can i do?

My GPU is not overheating today it reached the max temp i have ever seen it on when i was playing the game i usualy play 43C normaly 37-40 under heavy load 23-26 idle temp

The psu is working as it should sends the right amount of volt on the diffrent rails.

Im getting sick of this my old card HD5670 is so much stronger then this piece of shit even under to much graphic it won't crash it will freeze and then work like normal. i even tested this card and put it under a lot heavier load then i have ever put this card through and loggs has no record of a driver crashing and recovering. I have even sent the card back twice and they say it's working perfectly fine,

It is an OC card but MSI have OC'ed it not me,
my card: 1059 MHz, (1137 Mhz Boost Clock)
non OC card: 1020 MHz, (1085 Mhz Boost Clock)
not much of a diffrence in my eyes.


Specs:
Asus m4a77
AMD athlon II x4 635 2,9Ghz
8gb corsair 800Mhz memory
Corsair CX430
MSI GTX 750ti OC
 
Solution
Change power settings in NVIDIA COntrol Panel>Manage 3D settings>power management mode. Change to "Prefer maximum performance". Worked for some

- In Internet explorer, go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced>Check "Use Software rendering instead of GPU rendering". Worked for some


- Change monitor refresh rate from 60 to 50 Hertz. Can do this under standard resolution settings in windows. Worked for some

- Download and use MSI Afterburner (here: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm) and lower both the "Core Clock" and "Memory Clock" options by around 100 (so they say -100). Apply and close.

IF lowering the clock fixes your problem then RMA the card.

Nailroth

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My screen goes black for a second or two then it comes back my other monitor goes complete black if i have anything there until i tab out and it pops up in my second monitor again. When i check event logs i see "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
 

Nailroth

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I even brought the graphic of the game down to what i used with my old card and i still crash if i can't fix this i can just use my old card since it works and take the nvidia card and drive it over with my brother's excavator and save up for a new AMD card.
 
Change power settings in NVIDIA COntrol Panel>Manage 3D settings>power management mode. Change to "Prefer maximum performance". Worked for some

- In Internet explorer, go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced>Check "Use Software rendering instead of GPU rendering". Worked for some


- Change monitor refresh rate from 60 to 50 Hertz. Can do this under standard resolution settings in windows. Worked for some

- Download and use MSI Afterburner (here: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm) and lower both the "Core Clock" and "Memory Clock" options by around 100 (so they say -100). Apply and close.

IF lowering the clock fixes your problem then RMA the card.
 
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Nailroth

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I have tried everything except to lower clock, but i found something when i looked in resolution settings, it says i have 4gb of graphic memory but the card only has 2gb of memory
 

Daniel Harvey

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Hi, I would recomend you follow Prit87's advice and try an underclock, it doesn't have to be permanent so what do you have to lose?

My GTX 750's drivers were crashing daily a few months ago, and I was doing a clean reinstall of the drivers a couple of times per day. i had a thread here
---> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2266152/nvidia-driver-crashing-recovered.html <---

I was also recommended an underclock, so I decided to underclock to the values nvidia state for my card rather than use, in my case, Palit's values. This stopped my drivers from crashing and to be honest I didnt notice the difference performance wise

I have since reverted to Palit's values and all is well now - no more crashes

hope this helped

 

Vegasm

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But the question is, is this problem caused by the drivers or by the graphics card? Let's say I replace my GTX760 with a GTX970, will that fix my problems or is that unlikely?

Sorry for hijacking your thread btw, but we're in the same boat.
 
Your GTX 750 ti has 2GB of VRAM on the card itself. Should the need arise, the computer has allocated another 2GB of system RAM for use as extra VRAM. Which gives you a total of 4GB of available memory for the graphics. This is done automatically, and without any input from the user.
 

Nailroth

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If this fixes it by lowering the clock what should i say when i RMA it? won't changing clock remove warranty? so far i have not crashed once but i need a few days of testing before i can say for certain though by changing 3d settings to max performance fixed it for 2 days but then it started to crash