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adi9714

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I recently bought a new gpu. Nvidia gt 730. Used driver sweeper and cleanly installed latest drivers. The issue is that all my games are crashing to desktop, not immediately but like after 10-15 minutes of gameplay. They give no error or gives an anygame.exe has stopped working.
I have an intel i3 processor @ 3.7ghz.
450 watt intex ( local brand) Psu.
Running windows 7 (64 bit).
Also note, that i haven't got any bsod, black screens as of now. Songs, movie and other multimedia work is performed without any errors. Photoshop and rendering softwares like blender work fine. It is just with games.
The weird thing is that on my previous card, nvidia gt 630, all games worked fine. P.s all fans are running and i ran furmark and stress tested gpu and it worked fine for 15-20 minutes, no crashes or Bsod's. Memtest gave no errors either.

UPDATE 1 : Just played Wolfenstein: The New Order on medium settings for three hours before it randomly crashed to desktop. So, is it an overheating issue then because there is no way a faulty cpu, ram or gpu can run such a graphic intensive game for three hours straight.
 
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I reinstalled drivers not once but twice after thoroughly cleaning the old drivers of nvidia gt 630. Installed latest drivers of gt 730, even previous version like old version of drivers too just to confirm the drivers are not buggy and same crash i got. I'd rule out driver fault.
Bios settings have been checked and are good. Anyways, bios settings need to be changed or anything after installing this new graphics card because i haven't changed a thing in bios. It has been same since i assembled this computer. Must have been 4-5 years and only now when i bought this new gt 730, these game specific crashes started occurring.
 
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Check for driver updates for your motherboard, chipset and BIOS especially.

You should not have to re-do any driver setup since you switching from an nVidia card to another nVidia card, and both of yours can use the same drivers.

It may be a bad card, bad power supply or just your card and your motherboard don't like each other. Try the card in another system if you can, if issue follows card, bad card. If not, you can try a clean Windows setup, maybe use a spare hard drive so you don't mess with your current installation during a test, install drivers, test thing on that. If that also crashes, replace the power supply with a better one and try again.
 
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adi9714

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If it was a bad power supply i don't think my computer would've worked normally after game crashes. So, do you think i can rule bad psu out? I have updated bios and chipset and problem still persists. I have checked the compatibility of my motherboard with my current new graphics card and both are perfectly compatible with each other. My motherboard is a asus p7h55 m lx. So, motherboard compatibility issues can be ruled out too i guess? I haven't changed any bios settings after installing new gpu. Do i have to change any particular bios settings?
And, if my graphics card was faulty how could it possibly run a game on high settings for 3 hrs straight?
could it be an overheating issue?

 
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Yes can be a heat issue, you can also test things with a clean Windows setup since it may be a driver issue or something with Windows. Bad power supply can cause issues when there are periods of higher power use, so it may crash during a game, then be fine. Many crashing issues have been narrowed down to bad power supplies. Easy way to find out though, test the card in another system that can run it, if it is stable there, you can rule out the card and look at your system for what may be going on there.
 
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adi9714

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okay, i think it may be a power supply issue. Also, it's unbelievable, i plugged in my old gt630 nvidia card and downloaded latest drivers for it and ran a game and surprisingly the game ran for like an hour and crashed to desktop then and afterwards everything worked normally. So, with old card as well as new card same issue is occurring and this never happened before, so, i really don't know what to do at the moment, what the actual issue with what piece of hardware is but i'm sure the graphic cards are not faulty then, so, i'll try with a new psu, can you please suggest me a good power supply which will be good enough to run my nvidia gt 730 stably without resulting in any random game crashes. My other hardware involves an asus p7h55 m lx motherboard, 8 gb ddr3 ram, intel i3 processor @ 3.7ghz and i think that's it. Please check the photo i have attached, those are temps of my gpu/cpu when i play fifa 16, are those normal. PHOTO

BY THE WAY, THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR TRYING TO HELP ME OUT WITH MY ISSUE.
 
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A GT730 does not need much of a power supply but did you try a clean Windows setup? That may be worth trying before buying new hardware? Or test with one RAM stick at a time or with spare RAM if you have some? You can grab an older spare hard drive and install Windows on that (no need to activate it so don't worry about the license key for this), install drivers and the games, and see how things run. If it runs good, then you can re-install for real on the drive you want and activate it.
 
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