Nvidia GTX 580 hits 100% usage and shuts down for a few seconds.

eXcelletrix

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My GTX 580 started causing problems, such as green squared artifacts after a while and it's not caused by heat. It happened while I played BF3, WoW, LoL, Dota2, once it happen during a movie but it restored really fast.
I started monitoring the temperatures and stuff, whenever I get those green artifacts, I saw that the GPU Usage went from (example) 40 to 100%, causing my game to freeze and the only solution is to ALT F4 and restart the game.
Sometimes I don't get the green artifacts, but the game still freezes and it says that a driver has stopped responding and has recovered, but that also makes me restart the game, else it just stays there frozen.
Some people from my guild thought I was over-clocking it, it was running on stock which is:

Core Voltage (mV): 1013
Core Clock (MHz): 772
Memory Clock (MHz): 2004

One guy sent me a private message asking me to try and under clock it with these numbers:

Core Voltage (mV): 963
Core Clock (MHz): 650
Memory Clock (MHz): 1500

I did that over MSI Afterburner, saved the profile and applied, since then I never had a single artifact appear or the display driver stop responding, only results when playing BF3 after this change was that the temp went a bit up and the fan speed.

Max temp never went over 78c
Driver version is 340.52, rolled back to it because I thought the newer versions were causing the artifacts.

Does anyone know what was causing it and why? I don't really have the $ to upgrade right now with the upcoming holidays and Xmas.

Any tip or suggestion is welcome, if you need more info, don't hesitate to ask!
Thanks in advance!
 
Solution
yes this is a common issue all i have to say is unistall the current drivers and install them again and if that does not work than underlock the card just a little so it does not affect gameplay

eXcelletrix

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I am already doing that, also I only manually increase the fan speed if and when I play Battlefield.
I still want to know what could possibly be the issue causing this if I play @ stock numbers.
 

eXcelletrix

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The problem with GPU usage I have, as I mentioned before, is that it jumps from say 40% to a 100% for 1 second, then it goes back down, which makes the driver stop working or gives green artifacts. It happens in every single game I played so far, be it Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne which is a game from 90's or Battlefied, unless I underclock it as I mentioned, then I have no problems.