Hi,
Over the past month a few things have happened in and out of game. It started with Blur, after a little while of playing it would pause then CTD and say my driver crashed and it successfully recovered. Annoying but not terrible. Then in Battlefield Bad Company 2 it would artifact and crash, or CTD and recover from driver, or the game would freeze but other apps would run(such as skype, thats how I knew it worked) but couldn't alt-tab are ctrlaltdelete. Now it's happening in Starcraft 2, I either get a freeze, artifact crash, or the CTD with driver recover. I am using Riva Tuner to keep my fan above 70% and the temps say they don't go higher then 70 during game. Also I took out my 3d card and canned air'd it. I also updated drivers to 257.21 windows 7 64bit. But still it happens.
Two things I have noticed though. I only started to use Riva recently, and I did notice before that sometimes those crashes I would feel the backside vent and it would be scorching hot. Also my computer doesn't seem to like installing the nvidia drivers, sometimes after a crash the driver would disappear, using default windows video drivers, and it would take a couple restarts and installs for it to catch. Have I solved the temp problem but not the drivers? Oh my computer is 2 years old btw~ Thanks~~
Small update: I tried using an older driver that I remember working but I have the same problem. Also using ATI Tool artifact tester, I get errors within 10 seconds, but they don't crash the computer just a slow down and then the drivers crash. And all games are crashing within getting to the menu screen. Anyone know a good Vram tester, tried to google but didn't find anything awesome.
Temps
in Centigrade)
CPU: 30 min ~ 50 max (idle maybe games too not sure)
GPU
(without Riva): 65 degrees Idle - 80+ gaming
(with Riva): 50 Idle - 65/70 gaming
System Specs:
Mobo: BIOSTAR TP43D2-A7
CPU: Intel Core Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz
Mem: Corsair CM2X2048 x2
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce9800 GTX+ (I forget who made it though)
Over the past month a few things have happened in and out of game. It started with Blur, after a little while of playing it would pause then CTD and say my driver crashed and it successfully recovered. Annoying but not terrible. Then in Battlefield Bad Company 2 it would artifact and crash, or CTD and recover from driver, or the game would freeze but other apps would run(such as skype, thats how I knew it worked) but couldn't alt-tab are ctrlaltdelete. Now it's happening in Starcraft 2, I either get a freeze, artifact crash, or the CTD with driver recover. I am using Riva Tuner to keep my fan above 70% and the temps say they don't go higher then 70 during game. Also I took out my 3d card and canned air'd it. I also updated drivers to 257.21 windows 7 64bit. But still it happens.
Two things I have noticed though. I only started to use Riva recently, and I did notice before that sometimes those crashes I would feel the backside vent and it would be scorching hot. Also my computer doesn't seem to like installing the nvidia drivers, sometimes after a crash the driver would disappear, using default windows video drivers, and it would take a couple restarts and installs for it to catch. Have I solved the temp problem but not the drivers? Oh my computer is 2 years old btw~ Thanks~~
Small update: I tried using an older driver that I remember working but I have the same problem. Also using ATI Tool artifact tester, I get errors within 10 seconds, but they don't crash the computer just a slow down and then the drivers crash. And all games are crashing within getting to the menu screen. Anyone know a good Vram tester, tried to google but didn't find anything awesome.
Temps
in Centigrade)CPU: 30 min ~ 50 max (idle maybe games too not sure)
GPU
(without Riva): 65 degrees Idle - 80+ gaming
(with Riva): 50 Idle - 65/70 gaming
System Specs:
Mobo: BIOSTAR TP43D2-A7
CPU: Intel Core Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz
Mem: Corsair CM2X2048 x2
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce9800 GTX+ (I forget who made it though)
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