- Nov 16, 2014
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I'm currently pulling out my hair. I'm having a slew of odd behaviors coming from my PC while gaming:
-Intermittent screen black outs, with the sound remaining. After three seconds, the image comes back.
-Game image staggers, odd stutter sound from my speakers and the screen blacks out. After a few seconds, a return to desktop. The game audio continues to run fine, but the game in question is 'Not Responding' according to task manager.
- GPU clock rate varies at high loads, despite having 'preferred maximum performance' set in Nvidia Control panel (seems to happen mostly in Assassins Creed 4).
This is happening almost all games including AC4:Black Flag, Arkham Origins, Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect 2 & 3. Don't know why, but no crashing issues with Deus Ex: HR or Tomb Raider (2013)... yet.
Here's what I've done to diagnose/remedy the issue:
-Ran memtest86 to verify the integrity of my RAM.
-Ran several benchmarks on my GPU without crashing (crashing on games seems to occur an hour or two in gaming)
-Clean installed my graphics drivers
-Verified the game cache/files for all games being played at the moment.
-Monitored my temperature settings: My card stays no higher than ~70C.
SPECS:
ASUS Z97-AR mobo
i7-4790k
EVGA GTX 780 Classified
16GB DDR3 Dual Channel Crucial RAM
500 GB SSD
1TB HDD
CX750M Corsair PSU
Once a minimize to desktop/crash occurs, it happens more frequently if the game is restarted. Shutting my computer down and letting it 'rest' seems to "fix" the problem temporarily. This sounds like a temperature issue, but all of my temps seem normal. The issues were reduced when games were installed on my SSD, but were not eliminated entirely.
Insight on how I can catch this problem and diagnose it would be most helpful.
-Intermittent screen black outs, with the sound remaining. After three seconds, the image comes back.
-Game image staggers, odd stutter sound from my speakers and the screen blacks out. After a few seconds, a return to desktop. The game audio continues to run fine, but the game in question is 'Not Responding' according to task manager.
- GPU clock rate varies at high loads, despite having 'preferred maximum performance' set in Nvidia Control panel (seems to happen mostly in Assassins Creed 4).
This is happening almost all games including AC4:Black Flag, Arkham Origins, Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect 2 & 3. Don't know why, but no crashing issues with Deus Ex: HR or Tomb Raider (2013)... yet.
Here's what I've done to diagnose/remedy the issue:
-Ran memtest86 to verify the integrity of my RAM.
-Ran several benchmarks on my GPU without crashing (crashing on games seems to occur an hour or two in gaming)
-Clean installed my graphics drivers
-Verified the game cache/files for all games being played at the moment.
-Monitored my temperature settings: My card stays no higher than ~70C.
SPECS:
ASUS Z97-AR mobo
i7-4790k
EVGA GTX 780 Classified
16GB DDR3 Dual Channel Crucial RAM
500 GB SSD
1TB HDD
CX750M Corsair PSU
Once a minimize to desktop/crash occurs, it happens more frequently if the game is restarted. Shutting my computer down and letting it 'rest' seems to "fix" the problem temporarily. This sounds like a temperature issue, but all of my temps seem normal. The issues were reduced when games were installed on my SSD, but were not eliminated entirely.
Insight on how I can catch this problem and diagnose it would be most helpful.
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