Games crashing to desktop after a short amount of time.

buzzpunk

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Jun 29, 2012
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I'm having a problem with intensive games crashing after a short amount of time.

I recently installed a GTX 980 and after that I've not been able to play intensive games for more than about 15-20 minutes.

I've ran the computer through prime95, 3DMARK (even the 4K test), Furmark, and memtest. None of these have been able to cause the computer to crash, however if I boot games such as GTA V, Farcry 4, Lords of the Fallen, Dying Light (these are the games I've been having the most problems with) the games will consistently crash after a short amount of time. It never gives me a error message either, just a standard CTD error pop-up.

I've tried lowering all my overclocks back to stock, but this hasn't helped.

It might be worth noting that when benchmarking GTA V on max setting it will always crash, however if I run it on all lowest (including resolution) it doesn't.

In MSI Afterburner it's saying my pagefile usage is 10GB when playing GTA V, is this normal?

My setup is;

CPU: i5 3570K (3.4GHz)
GPU: GTX 980 (Inno3D x3 Hercules)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB (1600 mHz)
PSU: OCZ ModXtreme 600 Watt (semi-modular)
MoBo: Asrock x77 extreme4-M
HDD: 1x Seagate Barracuda 1TB, 1x WD Black 1TB
 

buzzpunk

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Jun 29, 2012
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Yeah, I've always kept up to date with my GPU drivers.

I've been wondering if it was my CPU overheating as my CPU cooler was having problems fitting in the case alongside the massive GPU, it was a ridiculously tight squeeze (with the GPU backplate pretty much touching the CPU cooler heatsink.. Although I've almost ruled that out now after running so many different tests without being able to recreate the CTD.

I genuinely have no idea any more, it could be anything.

 

buzzpunk

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Both CPU and GPU idle at around 30-35 celc. The CPU goes up around 70 celc under full load, and the GPU goes up to around 60-70 celc depending on how intensive the application is.