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Hey man, don't know if you've heard about this yet or not but underclocking your gtx980 by 51 MHz fixes the random Elite Dangerous crashes. I was having the exact same issue since 1.3 but now I use: http://www.evga.com/precision/ to offset the clock by -51 MHz before I start up Elite and haven't had a crash since. Still shouldn't have to do it but its a solid work-around.
Edit: corrected Hz to MHz
It's pretty straight forward, but I can understand if it's not something he'd like to do:
Download EVGA Precision from here: http://www.evga.com/precision/
Type -100 MHz in the GPU Clock Offset like here: http://i.imgur.com/W3LxRfT.jpg
Click apply and Start up on windows. (Or just apply before starting Elite)
So far as I'm aware EVGA are also looking into fixing this as there is some evidence that it's not limited to Elite: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/784294/geforce-900-series/boost-feature-causes-gtx-970-980-instability-in-low-utilisation-situations/1/ but they do also state that FD could do with looking at their code as the incidence of this error in Elite have been increasing since 1.3.
Yep, that is the exact same card I had. EVGA has a utility program, http://www.evga.com/precision/, that will allow you to set the clock speed and fan speed. I dropped the clock speed , the RAM speed, and raised the fan speed. I had to manually do it each time I launched FFXIV though, and you will notice a MUCH louder fan. Good luck!
Is it factory overclocked EVGA card? Run KBoost in EVGA Precision X16. http://www.evga.com/precision/ Fixed it for me. People say downclock but you shouldn't have to do that.. It happens sometimes when the voltage goes from idle to full on during jumps or just when the graphics demand goes up. Kboost keeps it chugging away at full throttle so the game doesn't drop out.
See here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=198437
"Apparently, Frostbite 3 has issues playing nice with overclocked GPUs (even factory overclocks). Try looking up the base clock for the reference model of your card and downclocking to that. I use EVGA Precision, but there are several different programs that do the same thing."
Try that.
Ripped from another thread since automod is being bitchy.
EVGA Precision X16 is pretty popular for this. http://www.evga.com/precision/
It also goes well with GPUZ for setting validation. http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Just because Precision says a card has a particular clock speed does not mean it actually stuck. If both see it, there is a good chance it is actually working.
I would still recommend you watch a few videos about how to use the software, just in case. Along with bumping up other things, you can try 100MHz first and if that does not work jump down 10MHz or so and keep testing each time. If 100MHz is steady, bump it up some from there.
Keep in mind that is super over simplified and every value from voltage, to memory clock speeds to core clock speeds will be different for every single card as every card has different limits.
Eeeep, don't want to run it that hot for long. Even though GPU's are rated for "max temps", that really just means the temp it can go to before it starts crashing. But really running it that hot consistently takes time off of it's lifetime.
Quickest, but worst solution, is make sure V-sync is on. Running that hot I'm assuming you're putting out more frames than your monitor can even show. But v-sync can cause input lag if you're the kind of person sensitive to that kind of thing.
If you already had that on and it's still that hot, you need to clean out the dust from your GPU's fan. That dust is a GPU killer. It's the leading cause of "Welp, I guess I need a new graphics card..."
2nd best solution if the gpu fan is totally clean and there's no dust in sight in your case is to get a monitoring tool like http://www.evga.com/precision/ It can automatically ramp up the fan speed in your graphics card based on how hot it's getting. You don't want to run it at 100% for long periods of time and burn out it's wee motor, but could put it to ramp up to 70% or so if it goes past 84C and that should help.
Last but not least if all of that has failed to work for who knows why, and the best and most advanced solution. Is download Nvidia's Inspector http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/nvidia-inspector-download.html A tool that opens up EVERY driver-level customization you can possibly ever want to configure. Note: only mess with settings you understand, you can seriously break your hardwear with this. But you can make a profile for a game and have it throttle your frames based on how hot your GPU is getting. Say you have a game that gets hot, but you don't want v-sync on, you can set it to max out at 85 degrees and it will never go past that.
Or if where you live is always really hot, can open up the side of your comp-u-tor and put a big ol' desk fan blowing through it. :P
Yep, okay. Sounds like what I had. Lucky you.
Best I can tell, this whole mess comes as a result of your card in particular, manufactured by EVGA, having a bit of a defect. The card doesn't like certain particle effects (If you look around the room when the finale starts, you'll notice a bunch of little white particles floating around), and crashes. Best as I can tell, the card is attempting to draw more power than it is actually being given access to; when it can't find this power, it kills itself and your PC crashes.
Here's how I fixed it. Download EVGA Precision (http://www.evga.com/precision/), it can also be found on steam, and crank up the power to about 110% and feel free to set the fan speed to a more aggressive setting if you don't mind the noise. After you do this, your card should work perfectly without any further errors.
Hope it works. I'm not responsible if it doesn't :)
okay here is how I fixed this issue and its very dumb but very simple: download: http://www.evga.com/precision/ and underclock your card so its below 1200mhz so 1199 and you should be good!
Once you do this it will NEVER ever happen again. Thank me later
<3 enjoy Elite Dangerous
If you don't have any software to monitor your graphic card, download MSI Afterburner or Evga Precision.
Then tell us your temps at idle. Also, search in the setting for the fan curve, maybe it's high even if the gpu is cool.
I'm assuming you read none of my post or watched the part of the video where he gets kicked for the falsely triggered aimbot violation, correct? An occurrence that can replicated with ease.
But if you want further proof that precision X falsely triggers this violation, just go download precision x here and turn the overlay on. Double down and play on a pbbans streaming server if your sure I'm wrong.
Edit: The overlay doesn't even have to be on, just the evga server has to be on. You can see it the notification area of your taskbar by where the clock is.
Is your GPU factory overclocked or did you overclock it yourself? This game seems to have no tolerance for slightly unstable OCs. I had to downclock my GPU's core clock by 22 Mhz to fix this crashing problem myself. Went from 1 crash an hour to zero crashes in 40 hours.
Download Precision X, install it, and reduce the core clock offset slider to -20 Mhz and click apply. Test that for a awhile. If you still crash try -40 Mhz just to determine if it's your OC causing the problem. Just be sure to remember to start precision X and load your settings after restarting your computer and before starting the game.
I had crashing problem too with my GTX 670. Fixed my problem by using Precision X to downclock my core clock by 20 Mhz. There's something strange about W3 that causes seemingly stable overclocks to fail. My OC has been 'stable' for 3 years through dozens of different games but will crash constantly in W3. Even if you haven't manually overclocked your GPU the factory OC might be unstable so i'd still recommend reducing the core clock by 20mhz and testing that for a few hours to see if it helps. I was crashing hourly before doing this, haven't crashed once since doing this even after 20 hours of play.
All you need to do is install this program and move the slider for the 'core clock offset' to -20 mhz and hit apply.
You don't need to open up your case and start swapping fans around. Just download EVGA Precision X or some other GPU overclocking/monitoring program and check the temp readout after playing the game for about 30 minutes. If it's over 75C then your case has some airflow problems. If it's over 80C then your card is definitely overheating which can cause performance problems and crashing (though typically not display driver crashes, I'm talking about hardlock green/brown screens).
RivaTuner Statistic Server (RTSS) the same thing MSi Afterburner and EVGA Precision X use to display FPS and more stats from your GPU
The power and voltage sliders are already maxed out. I was referring to the meter on the left of the all the sliders.
Here's a picture: http://www.evga.com/precision/images/precisionXOC_image.jpg
The card being used is different in the image, but similar to it, I have the Power and Temp targets maxed, I'm not worried about them. What I am asking about is the little yellow bar you can see in the picture to the left of the sliders. I'm unsure how to use it.
+120 was just an example. My current stable one is actually +100 after doing increments of 10, similar to what the sidebar GPU guide suggests. What I'd like to do is try and push it up at +110 or +120 and whether or not increasing that yellow voltage bar will help me do it, at the cost of higher temperatures.
If you're using the latest drivers (368.22), they might be the issue. I had this exact problem last night (20fps in R6: Siege). Rebooting seemed to fix it for me, but my card was seemingly 'locked' at base clock.
EVGA PrecisionX might be able to help you out. The Kboost feature locks your GPU at its highest core & memory clock - it's not a permanent or effective fix, but it worked for me.
Just download MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X and you're ready to go. You can overclock laptop GPUs with these programs but I really wouldn't recommend it.
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I know this isn't the answer you are looking for, but you don't really need Precision X. Your graphics card is more than capable of maintaining safe temperatures all on it's own. Actually you might be better off just letting your card handle fan speed itself, overwriting hardware assembly code can greatly reduce the life span of your card. In fact EVGA provides a warning on it's website that states it is not liable for damages Precision X might cause.
Okay, so you want to overclock your monitor. Great! You can simply do this through EVGA Precision. Just follow these instructions.
Now, is there any point of doing this? That really depends on your monitor. I did this about 2 years ago, and I was able to go from 60hz to 61hz... Anything over that and it would spasm out, like /u/glennoo mentioned.
Let me know how it goes ;)
I know this is a very old thread, I'm sorry if I'm breaking any rules but an alternative fix is to upgrade your evga precision. It appears they have fixed the problem. It worked for me, at least.
I downloaded from mirror 1 here
You can downclock the card using a program like Precision, which lets you adjust the settings with just a few clicks. We usually recommend dropping the speed by around 100mhz, which usually gives solid results. :)
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Depending on which brand of 960 you got (and therefore the fans they installed), you might be able to get a big boost in cooling by grabbing EVGA PrecisionX and setting the fan cooling curve to something crazy aggressive (e.g., as soon as it's 4 degrees above idle temps, ramp those fans up quick). I've yet to hit a temperature that'd lead to throttling, even without PrecisionX, but aggressive fans can help if the stock cooling has a really shallow curve.
What exact 770 gtx do you have? Is it factory overclocked? Have you overclocked it yourself? Most of the time when a display driver frequently stops working it means the graphic card is unstable, either because it's not receiving enough power or the core clock is set too high.
You can try manually downclocking the core speed just to see if it fixes the problem. Download a program such as EVGA Precision X and then set the core clock offset to -50 and hit apply. Try that for a few hours and see if it resolves the issue. If it does then you can go back and try to figure out how much you need to downclock it to prevent the crashes (typically around -20 or so). If it doesn't then it might be an issue with your power supply (unlikely if you have no other issues) or something faulty with the graphics card preventing it from getting adequate power or you might have conflicting/corrupted drivers installed (likely) and doing a clean install of your graphic drivers might resolve the issue as well.
Need permission to view. But anyways. Abuot MSI afterburning not working. That sucks. I don't know of any other free programs that would work with AMD cards. You can try EVGA Precision, but you have to have an account to use that. Are you sure your fans blowing air in the right directions? Front takes in air (Or out), back and top fans blow air out (Or in).
I had the same issue with mine. From what I can understand the fan of the EVGA wont even turn on until the card hits 60. I installed EVGA precision X and changed the fan curve to Aggresive and it fixed the problem for me. I now Idle at around 32-35. Hope this helps! Only issue is you have to leave the program open and minimized for it to work.
Edit: Saw you mentioned that you messed with the fan curve. I would also like to add that I read that you can fix this issue by using Nvidia inspector and enabling the power saving features
From either the 600 or 700 series on Nvidia included a "Temp Limit" that restricts the card to a certain temperature point, you can bump that up when OCing. I haven't used MSI Afterburner but there's a blurb on changing the temp limit using the tool.
In EVGA's Precision X it is called "TempTarget" and included with the "Power Target"(Which is used for increasing the wattage available to the card when OCing.)
I prefer Precision but I don't know if it'll work with non-EVGA cards(it should) and it requires you to be registered on EVGA's site.
All this really does is buy you some more headroom in OC if you get there, and possibly reduces the severity of the fan curve.
The MSI Afterburner is known to cause problems and shut downs. I used it too for a while until my computer started to close by itself from fatal errors. After digging deep I found it was Afterburner and uninstalled it, and with it went the problems.
I know some people recommend the EVGA software instead, it works with other brands too: EVGA X Precision.
For newer cards I would use the newer Precision X or you could give Afterburner a shot. If you want a working OSD, use Afterburner. If you are simply overclocking, use the newest Precision X.
Here are the links.
http://www.evga.com/precision/
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html
msi afterburner, it's ookk.
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html
there's also evga precision x, same kinda thing but still being updated. on screen display is way different though and doesn't work sometimes for me. http://www.evga.com/precision/
I can't provide step-by-step instructions, but I'd imagine any other GPU control software would work. Another suggested software was http://www.evga.com/precision/ but I tried nVidiaInspector first. I'd give it a shot at very least!
Coil whine can occur on any card if you're running a FPS count over 60/120, especially in menus. It can also occur if your PSU has bad rails. It's bad to have your video card render too many frames (like in a menu) as it can generate additional heat and introduce other stresses to the graphics card.
Try using a frame limiter (nvidia inspector), 60 fps is usually good for most people, 120 for higher refresh rate (120hz) monitors. You can use EVGA Precision's frame target, which can work as a frame limit as well.
http://www.evga.com/precision/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8589/anandtech-guide-to-video-card-overclocking-software/5 (Ctrl + F and look for frame target)
While in a menu, most games do not limit the FPS so it can shoot up to 200+ fps rendering text, which is why you'll hear it during the intro animation.
I have a few 780 Classifieds as well, I don't get coil whine but once in a while the heat sinks on the cards will actually resonate. It sounds like coil whine but it only occurs when the fan RPMs hit a certain figure. Using a custom fan rpm ramp helps. Something to think about!
Hope this puts you in the right track!
What card do you have? Asus has GPU Tweak, MSI has MSI Afterburner, EVGA has Precision X
Hmm, I'd start by checking the System / Application logs in Computer Manager, see if there are any hardware errors reported or applications crashing when the screen(s) go black. (Nvidia kernel driver, maybe) Also, you can try to uninstall all of the Nvidia products/drivers, reboot and let Windows load it's built-in drivers. See if they're more stable or not.
Lastly, if you have an eVGA account and your 570 is registered, go download eVGA PrecisionX. Run it when Windows loads and keep an eye on the temperature. If the GPU goes above 80-85c, it will lock your machine up. It's possible that the cooler on your card has lifted off the GPU a bit, and is no longer cooling as well as it used to. Or, maybe the fans are dusty. Have a look at the card while the machine is on and running for any physical issues.
Good luck!
All it really takes, is the correct installation of the latest video drivers from nvidia and an OC program and monitoring software.
For an OC program I'd recommend MSI Afterburner (what I use) or EVGA's own Precision
Then for monitoring run GPU-Z off to the side to display accurate clocks, voltages, temps.. etc.
Once you have all that done, I'd max the voltage and TDP (nvidia imposes their own safeties here that can only be circumvented by a bios flash) then find the max core and mem clock you can hold steady by slowly increasing them, then testing heaven or some other testing software.
As a side note. You really shouldn't need to flash the card's bios, which is somewhat risky and uncalled for if you don't know the limitations your card is reaching. It can cause your card to be bricked, but I knew going into mine that it had a backup bios in the event of failure.
In all honesty you can use a piece of software that can increase the speeds of the one you got to superclocked speeds and beyond with ease in a matter of minutes.
It's called overclocking and it's a fun hobby in itself.
eVGA makes a version of this software themselves that's meant to be easy to use.
http://www.evga.com/precision/
Probably even comes on the disc in the box.
People have used d3doverdrive to force triple buffering and said it worked.
But nothing ever worked for me so i just used EVGA precision to limit the framerate to 45fps (you can set it to what ever you want). It's not 60 but it's better than the constantly fluctuating framerate.
so on windows all you need is a program like evga precision
http://www.evga.com/precision/
then you load it up move the sliders, apply, and play!
the caution is the limit that you can push, so the end of the bar represents 100 and the middle is 50 and the begining is 0, so play with it but stay below 50 for the processor