Display Drivers keep crashing while playing games.

luniiz

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I've recently gotten a new computer and I've been playing games for about 1-2weeks no problem but just recently after about 20mins-2hrs of playing RUST my screen freezes and goes black for 3seconds and then recovers with this/or a similar message "Display driver NVIDIA windows kernel mode driver stopped responding and successfully recovered"

It's not a overheating problem it goes to about 60-68 degrees while gaming.
I have overclocked my graphics card if that has anything todo with it, it's possible i am new to overclocking and i might have messed up my card i'm not sure.
I've also limited the games fps to 60, it usually plays at 100, not sure if that's an issue with a 60hz screen

Things I've tried:
Giving my game more dedicated ram
Changing Physx default from GPU to CPU
Increase power limit on the Overclock
Change GPU fans speed to cool down faster when it gets to 50-55 degrees

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Specs:
GPU: GeForce GTX 980
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 16.00 GB RAM
Current resolution: 1920 x 1080, 60hz
Driver version 359.06
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
 
Solution
Have you tested with stock clocks (+ power limit)? Play that way for a week or two and see if the crashes go away or become less frequent.

If it's completely stable, up the clocks little by little (every few days, maybe), until you start to get crashes again. Then dial back.

Gillerer

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Have you tested with stock clocks (+ power limit)? Play that way for a week or two and see if the crashes go away or become less frequent.

If it's completely stable, up the clocks little by little (every few days, maybe), until you start to get crashes again. Then dial back.
 
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luniiz

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I'll try this, but please keep suggesting more solutions everyone ;)
I'll update this post with the solution once I fix it.
 

luniiz

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How would i figure that out, I'm not sure i just kept increasing it by 50 then doing 3DMark benchmark, if i didn't see any tearing
I'd know that it was a stable overclock. i stopped at 450 because it was using 3954MBS of its 4GB ram. where as it would use 3500MBS without the overclock

I've turned it down to 50 for now. see how that works out
 

luniiz

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I've turned down everything expect power limit, and i haven't had a crash yet.
Thanks ;)