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Started by joeyarrowxxl | | 19 answers
Screen goes black while gaming every 10 minutes
Hi,

I've recently upgraded my PC with an SSD and since i re-installed windows, the games i play (such as Tomb Raider and Skyrim) will crash for a few seconds and then come back up, the screen went completely black (and sometimes completely white) during that crash.

However, sometimes when such a crash comes, the game will close itself...

I have the feeling (not sure though) that it's more often happening when the game has to load things, like when i discovered a new place in Skyrim. So i checked my RAM if that could be the problem but while gaming i never get over 6Gig (which i find a disturbing high amount...) and i got 8 Gig so not sure if that's the problem afterall

(i have my games saved on my HDD instead of my SSD, not sure if that makes a difference to my problem)

I got a new GTX660 in my PC,
8Gigs of RAM
AMD FX-8320
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3
WD Blue WD10EZEX, 1TB
SSD 840 EVO 250G Samsung


Got any ideas how to fix it?

EDIT: When my game crashes i get an error message from my friend Windows saying: "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"
My RAM is just at a steady 4Gig while gaming and my resting mode is 3,6 Gig so nothing special there.

EDIT 2: just did some tests with 3Dmark and all the scores were average with similar systems.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4364491
So i think it's something software related and not hardware.
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October 14, 2014 8:10:42 AM

Ah, seriously 8 weeks for your g card to be evaluated? Here in the u.k it's done in about 1 week..
October 14, 2014 4:20:24 AM

Alright then
October 14, 2014 4:03:32 AM

Euhmm, how do i make sure it is my GPU for sure? because i would hate it to send my new GPU off for another 8 weeks and then get it back with the message that everything is working fine...

I am going to install a game on my SSD instead of my HDD, just to make sure that it's not a problem with my HDD
October 14, 2014 3:53:34 AM

joeyarrowxxl said:
k new update. i STILL have the problem, had 3 crashes and the 4th made the game close.

Then i got an error message from my friend Windows saying: "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

Any other ideas ?


Unfortunately, I had this problem and the fix I told you didn't work so I sent off the card and I'm running this computer on motherboard graphics until I get a new card.

October 13, 2014 10:17:50 AM

I've always had that, since i have a lot of progrems open.
October 13, 2014 9:51:55 AM

That's 50% of your memory, when I'm running games I only get 4gigs
October 13, 2014 9:51:19 AM

4 gig? Is that when you're idle?
October 13, 2014 9:16:33 AM

No it is a steady 4Gig

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