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irkjab   06-20-2009 at 12:40:53 AM

Alright, so whenever I play Fallout 3 or CoD: WaW (or any other game), the game runs fine for a while, often for a few hours.
Eventually though, the game freezes for a minute, and then I get thrown back to the desktop and get a message that a display driver has stopped responding.

I just updated to the latest drivers today, and I'm still experiencing the exact same problem.
According to the nvidia monitor, the GTX 285's temperature is at around 73C, so the card doesn't seem to be overheating.

Does anyone know what the issue could be?

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S2759   06-20-2009 at 01:10:30 AM

Hi Irkjab,

I have a very simular system using a EVGA GTX 285 and my system used to crash like that too. I was using Vista Premium 64 bit. I switched to the new Windows 7 RC 32 bit and now I have no problems whatsoever.
I think your problem may be in the 64 bit OS.

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irkjab   06-20-2009 at 01:32:02 AM

It may be that the 32 bit drivers do not have this issue, but unfortunately switching to a 32 bit os is not an option for me at the moment.

 

edit: also, I did not have this problem using the same drivers on my 8800GTS


Message edited by irkjab on 06-20-2009 at 01:32:59 AM
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irkjab   06-20-2009 at 04:35:13 AM

I forgot to mention that I've also tried completely reinstalling the drivers

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irkjab   06-27-2009 at 09:33:50 PM

I've been talking to tech support from XFX, but they've yet to come up with a solution

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MrPK   11-19-2009 at 06:07:57 PM

irkjab wrote :

I've been talking to tech support from XFX, but they've yet to come up with a solution



Hi, did you solve your problem ? I have similar problems but on Windows 7, and before on windows XP.

I use XFX 285 GTX, befor e8800 GTS, never any problems.
I run on few years old PC, AMD 3200+ CPU, SATA raid, AN8 SLI m/b

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