That would suggest either bad video memory or bad RAM to me.
These don't look like traditional glitches. They look like something is not being parsed correctly.
Run prime-95 on your computer for 30-mins, see if it generates any errors (or if the computer shuts down). Create a boot disc of Memtest86+ and run it for a couple hours, see if it comes up with any errors. Run Furmark for 30 mins, see if you get any graphical errors. Update your graphics card driver.
I could be wrong, there might be nothing wrong with your hardware. But if you want to make sure, that's how you do it.
That's called graphical artifacts, something which is quite common in GPUs that are failing or very close to failing or possibly overheating graphics cards. The alternate reason is corrupted drivers, but that's rarely the case.
A good way to verify this is to run the Furmark GPU stress test, keeping an eye on your temps. If you get artifacts or temps are skyrocketing (or your gpu driver simply stops responding) you know it's not just a wows issue. I'd update/re-install the graphics drivers before running it just to eliminate that option altogether.
this is called artifacting, and it happens when there is a pretty serious failure of the GPU.
It can happen on consoles (in fact, I once worked on a Wii that was doing it) but it typically happens on PCs that are overheating or suffering other effects of overclocking. Other causes can be driver issues including a crash of the driver, some failure of DirectX, or some failure of the 3d program (the game).
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Like anything with computers - sometimes strange things just happen, just restart and don't worry about it too much. But if this keeps happening or is consistent in some way, it's very possible that your GPU is failing.
perhaps you could try running a stress testing tool - furmark is a simple and free program http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
It renders this image at the highest framerate possible, stressing your card to its maximum condition. This is used while overclocking to prove stability after you've raised the clock speeds. You can use it to prove stability too - if furmark fails, then you definitely have a problem.
Be aware though, if your GPU really is failing, furmark might make it finally die. If that happens, then it eventually would have happened anyway.
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But maybe this was just a freak thing, everybody has odd stuff like that. If it doesn't happen again, probably don't worry about it.
So it sounds like your system is overheating. World of warships uses the BigWorld engine which still uses DirectX 9 and is horribly inefficient when it comes to utilising your machine's graphics card and multiple CPU Cores, especially when compared to newer technologies such as DirectX 11/12 which are far better at shifting the load onto graphics cards and multiple CPU cores.
What this means is your CPU/GPU (I am assuming it's got integrated rather than dedicated graphics) is burning away at 100% and reaching it's thermal shutdown limit. i7s run hotter than i5s in general (core number, type such as u, k and generation of chip can cause the odd exception to this rule however)
I would point the finger squarely at Microsoft on this one any laptop should be able to cope with 100% CPU and 100% GPU use without crashing unless the ambient temperature is 40 degrees+ or the fan exhaust ports are blocked.
You can get a number of programs to test CPU and GPU load limits to see if you can simulate a crash. If you can stress the CPU and GPU and then crash the laptop then Microsoft needs to get that sorted under warranty, as either the CPU/GPU chip is faulty or the heatsinks/fans are not working correctly.
Prime95 is the standard program for stressing a CPU, set it to run at 100% for 30 minutes and see if it crashes. Prime95
You can also try Furmark to stress test the GPU. Furmark
To see if this is an issue with your GPU, try running a furmark stability test: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
This looks like a GPU issue, upgrading your PC to even something like this would likely fix it: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125813&cm_re=gtx_750-_-14-125-813-_-Product
Run FurMark, if it gets worse then yes, but you can try a few things:
1-Clean it on a bath of Isopropyl alcohol.
2-Reaply Thermal Paste.
3-If still doesn't work do an under clock.
Try verifying game cache integrity (Right click Civ in Steam Library - Properties - Local files - Verify integrity of game cache).
If that doesn't help, install CPUID HWMonitor (or similar software) and leave it running while you play. Alternatively, install FurMark for GPU stress testing.
If your GPU core temps rise near 100C, it's very likely GPU heat issue. Maximum safe temps vary between different GPUs, though, some low-end graphics card can experience problems even around 85C.
First thing to do when you have graphics card problems is to update your driver.
The next thing to do is check to see if your card is running to hot, a good way to check if your card is overheating is to use a program like CPUID's Hardware Monitor http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html NVIDIA and AMD generally list there cards as o.k. up to ~100C, (my gtx570 is listed as up to 97C, for instance). Generally it should be well short of that unless you are overclocking. You should check your temps after playing the game for a while, or while using a stress test program like FurMark (http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/)
Finally, if you are overclocking you card, dial it back to its baseline specs and see if that helps.
It's highly unlikely that images displayed on a web page are touching the hard drive before the first view. Subsequent views of an image or website when they've had a chance to get cached, sure.
I'd guess more likely that hardware acceleration is on and the VRAM is going kaput, or perhaps the GPU.
I've not tried to specifically test VRAM before but these seem promising:
Otherwise to test GPU stability I'd probably just run Furmark or similar for a bit and see if stuff starts getting weird.
I suggest you test the hard drive with hard disk sentinel (If the health is below 85% or it fails a short test, get a 60$ discount to replace the drive) and see if it crashes on a 15min furmark burn in test.
http://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Check if windows is genuine.
Also, look for signs of physical damage, check if the battery holds a charge.
When your computer restarts while playing games, does the screen go straight to black, or is there a blue screen? Any kind of error message at all?
If it just goes straight to black, it could be that your computer is overheating. To confirm this, I would recommend downloading and running Prime95 and Furmark at the same time while also using a temperature monitoring program such as HWMonitor.
If it does end up being a temperature issue, then I suggest cleaning out your computer. For best results, try to find a vacuum cleaner that can blow and take it outside. You could also use a can of compressed air - they're relatively cheap ($5-$10) and very effective at getting in all the little nooks and crannies of a computer case. If your processor is specifically overheating and dusting out your computer doesn't solve the problem, you may also need to reapply thermal paste on your processor; we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
I have seen this caused by a failed video card and failed memory. Both can be intermittent. I recommend running memtest86+ : http://www.memtest.org/
Let it run for a long time. If you see no errors then move to testing the video card. I recommend furmark: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
If fans turn up nothing, you'll probably have to try re-pasting the GPU. Make sure you check your cards guarantee terms - If you void the warranty or guarantee by disassembling the card then you should try to return it before you do anything yourself.
It's not worth taking the card apart until you've got hold of some new paste and isopropyl alcohol to clean the old stuff off the card.
In the mean time, there are a few tests you can run to try to work out what the problem is. First off, make sure you've got the latest drivers, and if you do, try rolling back to the previous version to see if the problem persists.
Next, turn off the computer for a while and let it cool right down. Then start it back up, and run the game while it's as cold as possible. If artifacting is not immediately present, it's a cooling issue. Try running some stress tests like furmark and use GPUtemp to see how hot the card is running. If it's over 90 degrees Celsius, you're in trouble.
If the artifact is present even when the card is cold, then the VRAM may be failing and all you can do is return the card for a replacement.
This is the long roundabout way of DirectX telling you that your video card driver got stuck (DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG) and it had to kill it (DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED).
This is going to boil down to either a failing video card, bad video driver, or out of date DirectX. Even if you have already updated your video driver I would completely uninstall it and reinstall fresh, rebooting in between (If it's an Nvidia card you can select clean install when you run the installer and it will completely remove everything for you as an extra measure).
If you are using Windows 10 then DirectX is baked into the system updates, not much you can do there. If you are using Windows 7 you can download the latest updater and run it.
Finally if you do both of these and still get this error it may be time to look at your video card itself. You can try stress testing it with something like FurMark. FurMark specifically will let you test with OpenGL so it completely avoids DirectX in case that is the source of your problem.
If you get through all this and you still haven't found the problem I'm pretty much at a loss. I suppose a failure somewhere on your motherboard could cause the pci slot itself to be failing but it seems much less likely than any of the other options I've given. Also as a final note you can always bring issues like this over to /r/techsupport and someone will usually try and help.
The sound comes from display driver failure when the device is reset and loaded again in the OS, but that doesn't mean the issue is software related - after all millions of other people use the same drivers. It's not possible for me to do better than a guess from here, but first I would suspect your VGA failing when it's subject to long term heavy stress, one of the most common faults you can find. I suggest you download FurMark, which is especially useful for burn testing, and run it for a few hours. I would guess the VGA will fail and you will have your answer.
If you're capping at 120 and 150 frames per second on a 60hz monitor, you're going to have screen tearing and unsmooth gameplay. 60hz means that your monitor is capable of displaying 60 frames per second, getting a higher framerate than that creates screen tearing and uneven/unsmooth displaying of frames. That's where you should be capping things, as well as keeping vsync on whenever possible.
As for why vsync isn't really having an effect, how hot is your case/card getting? Download HWMonitor - http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html - and leave it running, start a game, play for 10-20 minutes, then check how hot your components got under load. Alternately, you can run Furmark - http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ - to stress test your GPU, which will give you a graph of how hot your card is getting, along with average fps and other statistics. It also includes a CPU burner [stress test for testing CPU temps under load] which works really well with HWMonitor to see how hot your components are getting. If they're getting too hot, they'll dial back in performance to prevent damage from excessive heat.
edit:: Another thing worth mentioning, I noticed you've got a 6600k and a Z170 board. Begs the question of whether you've been overclocking, and if so, have you tested for stability? An unstable overclock can/will give bad performance.
Might not be your graphics card at all, there could be other processess failing, however download FurMark and test it out, keep an eye on what is doing and how it is performing.
First things first. Press (windows key)+X and run Command Prompt as administrator. From here run the command "sfc /scannow" to ensure your OS itself is not corrupted somehow. As long as you are confident after this test reports back no errors and you've virus scanned all drives, you should proceed with the below steps.
You can run FurMark and see if you have artifact or other errors for starters. If you find no errors in this program after stress testing... I would suggest testing first the RAM in MemTest86 . If that test passes fully I would run a hard disk check
If none of these tests return any kind of error kindly PM me and I will be happy to help you further.
Run Furmark. Monitor the temps and core frequency. You should be seeing around 1400mhz top clock and ~68c temps with a stock 970. If it's not reaching that potential it must be a power throttle aka PSU related issue like everyone else is predicting.
It might be the PSU like you suspected then. It's just my head immediately goes to overheating with those symptoms. A friend suggests trying something like Furmark: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ to stress test your GPU and see what happens.
Also try that driver thing --v--
If your performance is having a drastic decrease over a period where there has been no patches or new DLC released, I'd look more closely at the PC's performance in general.
Do you have issues in any other heavy games? How about Furmark? Try running Furmark for a while and taking note how it runs and how hot your computer gets. I'm thinking perhaps you've been running it so hot for so long that the thermal paste is coming into need of re-application or something.
If your PC is performing as usual aside from DAI then I sadly don't know what to tell you.
Update your drivers to the latest compatible drivers available through your laptop manufacturer's website (often times, NVIDIA will release drivers that can create problems with some older chipsets, even though they're ideally meant to fix them).
After that, download and run FurMark, AKA the Fuzzy Donut.
That program is designed to punish a graphics card, and you should see it bug out and die within a minute if it's actually the card itself.
Also check the temperatures (visible in that program) to make sure you have adequate cooling. If the vents are plugged with dust, the machine will overheat VERY quickly with FurMark.
To take screenshots from Direct3D games, you need special software, e.g. Fraps.
It might not be the game's fault. Your graphics card or some other system component could be unstable. FurMark is a stress test that can be used to check stability. If you graphical artifacts or crashes there, too, then the problem is hardware-related.
Do you have vsync on? That will cap your frames Wouldn't buy a game to stress test a pc. Theres plenty of stuff just for stress testing,
https://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Some new cards also support custom resolution and will downsize it(4k image downscaled to fiit your display etc
It sounds like your GPU is either overheating or has faulty VRAM.
Go download and run Furmark3D (free) if it is a GPU problem it will usually crash within 30 seconds.
Does the sound keep playing?
You can try to stress test the GPU and CPU seperately to see what happens.
First install Open Hardware Monitor to monitor the CPU temperature. The CPU should stay below ~70 C during the next test. Next run IntelBurnTest for a couple of rounds. How hot is the CPU? Does the system malfunction? If it does, the CPU is overheating.
If that's fine, run FurMark to stress test the video card. The GPU (processor on the video card) can withstand much higher temperatures, but it shouldn't exceed ~95 C. Can you get the system to malfunction with furmark? If you can, the video card is overheating.
Because you don't get even close to constant 60FPS? Post benchmark stats with those settings over a period of 5 minutes of average gameplay with your specs, model and the resolution you used and we can continue this. Alternatively, run Furmark on 720p preset for 5 minutes and post the results, but I'd much rather prefer in-game benching as that's what we're talking about right now.
Considering the fact that my other, now previous PC, an E8500 @ 3.9GHz, 4GB DDR2 and a GTX 460 didn't get constant 60FPS in BF3 without any frame drops, let alone on max settings, I'm not that willing to believe you are with much inferior specs, separate graphics or not, as the GTX 460 still blows any MB or MBP-s graphics between that period of time out of the water.
The Mantle API seems to bug out during memory allocation. There's a few things you can try:
1) If you're running the latest beta version of Catalyst, revert to a prior version, preferrably a stable one. The AMD Catalyst Clean Uninstall Utility can help you with that.
2) If you overclocked your card, revert to factory settings.
3) Make sure that your video memory on your GPU is not at fault. You can run Video Memory Stress Test or use Fur Mark to put stress on your GPU. Run them individually and leave them running for a while. If they return any errors, there might be problems with your card.
4) If there's a newer VGA BIOS availlable, it might be worth a shot to update it, the procedure is different for each GPU manufacturer and model. Do not do this if you are not familiar with VGA BIOS updates, since it might break your GPU if it goes wrong!
If nothing resolves the issue, it might be a bug in the Mantle implementation of BF4. Revert to DirectX for now and try again after a BF4 Update or Catalyst Update has come out.
We need more information from you.. provide as much as possible
What GPU is being used, is it overclocked? Ambiental temperature? what version of drivers, what OS, What executable (x64, x32)
Is this glitch also in other games? If you didnt try any other games, please do and let us know if it is the same (download mass effect 3 demo, or grid 2 demo etc and see if it does the same glitching)
Try doing the furmark test
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
as said, provide more info
Mmmyeah, fucking event log. Forgot about that one completely D: and it's being as helpful as ever, with "general fault".
One thing you could try is running Prime95 together with Fuzzy Circle to give it some maximum stressing and see if it goes kaputt, that might give some direction whether it's because of Skyrim, or because of some general hardware/software problem.
I'll keep an eye on this one :) best of luck!
Furmark, go easy though this can melt things http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Unigine Heaven: http://unigine.com/download/#heaven
3dmark http://www.futuremark.com/
Have fun, but especially with furmark ... keep an eye on everything.
Yes there are few options.
If you board has multiple PCI-e slots, then place GPU on it and test again. Next is somewhat advanced task. You have to go back to factory reset and reinstall Windows 10 completely from scratch. Disable any driver updates from Windows updates. Now once you need to install FurMark. Test your GPU for few minutes and monitor. If that test is passed then you are good.
Good luck!
Either of the three causing this:
GPU
Motherboard
Monitor
Steps to follow:
Make sure you have enough cooling in your PC first. Install GPU stress test software FurMark. Let it run for few minutes and monitor the progress. If your GPU survives then you are fine.
Next up is monitor. Double check the cable. Reconnect and test the display. This time play your game. Some different games too. So that we can know if this issue is related to just a particular one or not.
If all above in vain, then only point to motherboard. It is rare for a board to get a hardware damage easily. Remove CMOS battery and Reset settings to default.
Give them all a try. One by one.
Quem compra GPU usada no escuro é louco, eu não compro assim.
Primeira coisa é perguntar pro cara qual era a fonte do PC onde ele rodava a GPU. Se ele responder com uma fonte vagabunda, eu já não compro mais, a fonte deve ter danificado a GPU.
Depois disso, no local, do lado do cara, você tem que rodar o Heaven Unigine e ele tem que bater 99% de uso, e o Furmark tem que ficar abaixo dos 80~90 graus. Isso depois de umas meia hora uma hora rodando.
A GPU desse cara provavelmente iria bater menos de 95% no Heaven, eu ia acabar não levando.
GPU compensa muito comprar assim, você paga uns 30% a menos e não tem muita diferença de uma nova, no geral o cara só ficou usando pra joguinhos de vez em quando, que é coisa que não exige muito.
You can also try Furmark for the graphics card, just to make sure the GPU doesn't have any faults. While it is running, look at the "fur" and make sure there isn't any tearing, that is a bad sign for your graphics card.
I'd test the PSU first. Here's a video on how.
If the PSU works I'd tests the RAM next. Download and run Memtest for 8 hours
http://www.memtest.org - burn it to a bootable disk and boot to it. Run for several hours. If no errors are found your ram is good, if it finds an error you have a ram issue.
If there are no RAM issues I'd run Prime95+ and stress your CPU. If your computer stays on and finishes two tests then move on to testing your GPU. If prime 95 fails make sure your CPU heatsink is clean by using compressed air to clean the heatsink. Also verify that your CPU cooler is sufficient for cooling your CPU w/ your current CPU clocked speed and repeat. If it still fails with sufficient cooling you have a motherboard or CPU problem.
If everything else is fine then I'd run a synthetic load on the GPU using http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
If it fails and shuts down make sure the heat sink is clean by using a can of computer duster and repeat stress test. If it fails again get a new GPU.
Start → eventvwr
Dort dann bei der Uhrzeit des Absturzes schauen, ob irgendwas angezeigt wird.
>Problemdiagnose bei Arbeitsspeicher und Fesplatte hab ich bereits gemacht, hat aber nichts gefunden.
Mit den Windows-internen Tools? Mach' mal nen Burn-In-Test für CPU und RAM mit Prime95 und auch für die Grafikkarte mit den Felldonut – wenn's dann nicht abstürzt, ist es vermutlich nicht die Hardware.
Wie alt ist das Netzteil und welches Modell ist dieses genau? Ist ja auch abgesehen von der Grafikkarte nicht das frischeste System, vielleicht wäre jetzt der Zeitpunkt für ein Upgrade?
Hi, google the code that they provide you at the bottom. Your image is too blurry to make out and assist. Have you tried other games? as in theory the only thing a game does that is bluescreenable is GPU usage and maybe memory/HDD issues.
Some links to stress test
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
https://www.howtogeek.com/260813/how-to-test-your-computers-ram-for-problems/
The mini dump shows the system crashed in the NVIDIA display driver. You could try stress testing your video card with for instance FurMark, and/or stop mining bitcoin with an NVIDIA card (which isn't cost effective AFAIK), etc.
Does it blue screen? [Check the reliability monitor](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748864(v=ws.10\).aspx). We can use information from blue screens to see what's going on.
Also try stress testing that cheap old video card with FurMark. Does it cause the system to malfunction?
Okay, assuming you have a couple of programs open the CPU usage is quite normal.
Try running FurMark to test the GPUs cooling. Also, some cards can enter a throttled mode when the PCIe power isn't hooked up. Did you hook up PCie power connectors from the PSU to the card?
Yeah, sounds like the GPU might be problematic.
You could try running CPUID - a hardware monitoring application - to see if there is a temperature issue involved. You can get that here: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Just looked around a bit and found a tester specific to GPUs that it seems people suggest: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
That's a generic link, copy where it says "permalink" when you're looking at your list.
I'd try furmark and occt, as stresstests. Closely monitor your temps while they run. Also, memtest86 to check your RAM.
If it crashes in any of those, we have a hardware issue. If it doesn't, software, or PSU running out of room when CPU and GPU are taxed. Idle temp looks good.
There are a bunch of stress-testing programs that run under OpenGL - Furmark runs under either openGL 2.1 or 3.2, and it also comes with GPU-Z, which can analyze your GPU, and tell you which version of openGL it supports.
If it has full version 4.5, it should also be fully compatible with 3.2
No problem.
I guarantee, Googling your exact graphics card will yield an overclocking guide.
Just make sure you run extensive tests before just outright gaming, Furmark is a popular "graphics card hell, worst case scenario" that's good to run for a few hours to make sure your clock is stable.
^fuzzy ^donut ^of ^doom
You can run Furmark in addition to Prime95 (run both at the same time) to fully stress your system using maximum power and generating maximum heat. Check both HWMonitor and GPUTemp at the same time for high temperatures.
I would go with what anandtech found on most aftermarket cards. 1030mhz core+ 6.5Ghz memory seems stable on all of those cards. Max out power limit and do not touch voltage. Make sure the card has been cleaned a bit with canned air and run Furmark to stress it to see if the OC is stable and aim for temperatures around 80C or under. Do not go over 90C ever.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6159/the-geforce-gtx-660-ti-review/19
That message indicates unexpected loss of power, not that Windows was shutting down your computer automatically. Try FurMark on your card and see how it does.
Is it just a particular game or all games, it might be that your GPU is not working properly, try pulling it out and popping it back in again, although it really seems that it might be the one causing all of this. Give it a closer inspection. See if FurMark brings it its knees.
Can you take a screenshot of the tearing you see?
What you may be seeing is called artifacting, which usually indicates something wrong with the video card. It can manifest itself in many different ways, from textures being stretched or discolored to models forming odd shapes. To test for actual artifacting, you can run an app such as FurMark using the artifact detection mode.
Otherwise, like the other guy said, the tearing may just be due to V-Sync being disabled. That sort of tearing looks something like this.
Have you looked around at what other people are doing with their 780s? It might need a couple more mV to run stable or something.
Also it's a lot more convenient to test your OC by running Furmark or whatever rather than sitting through GTA V's 12 minute bootup sequence.
What's the wattage on the power supply (supplies?) like?
That could easily explain the shutdown, as the graphics card ramps up and then draws too much on the rail.
I would also suggest you either get a laser temperature gun or open the side and CAREFULLY touch (after grounding yourself) the various heatsinks on the motherboard.
I strongly suspect you'll find one that's thermonuclear hot, if it's not a wattage issue.
Does Furmark (The Fuzzy Donut) work? http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
You need to get yourself a new PC.
At idle (Well, mostly, I'm typing this out with Google Chrome and doing nothing else), my system with an Intel i7-5930K, 64 GB ram, 2 x 256 SSDs and 2 x 1TB spinning drives, and 2 x Nvidia 980 Ti graphics cards driving three screens at 5760 x 1200 is drawing 230 watts, or 0.232 kilowatt hours per hour (the screens are not included in this).
Running Furmark, the wPrime benchmark and four copy operations simultaneously, to peg both the CPU and GPUs, anf get all the drives running at once and all the cooling fans running at maximum (six of those), pushes it up to 600 watts, or 0.323 kilowatt hours per hour.
Edit: I've got the screen's numbers now, add another 155 watts, 0.15 Kw/H/H for the three of them.
First, download FurMark as that will just stress test the GPU.
Next, make sure you are running the latest drivers. If updating the drivers does not fix it then completely uninstall the drivers and load the new ones again.
If you do not have any issues in FurMark then load your game up with the new drivers and see if the issue is gone. If it is still present, look at your CPU usage while playing and see if you are maxing your CPU out. I have seen odd cases where a bottlenecked CPU causes weird spikes with the GPU during games.
Report back.
Okay, do you have a mini dump from the crash?
If you stress only the GPU with FurMark, does it give any problems like artifacts? Does it crash?
Try reseating the card in its slot (be careful with the retention mechanism at the front of the slot) and its PCIe power connectors. Try cleaning up the driver with DDU and (re)installing the latest driver from support.amd.com.
That's a fair question, and it's true - it's hard to know if you're overexpecting, or your machine is underdelivering.
One of the most reliable places on the nedt, when it comes to laptop graphics cards, has made some benchmarks on dual GeForce GTX 860Ms.
Unfortunately, these don't include Skyrim, FO4, or BO3.
Check it out, though, and see if any of the other games they've benchmarked are games you own. That'll let your compare your performance to what it should be.
Another advice is to run something like Furmark, and see what happens to the performance of the computer, as the temperature increases. If there's a sharp drop-off in performance, it might be time to clean your computer's innards.
Your GPU is crashing (an Windows is trying to reset it, but it doesn't work). This can have many causes, but if you've already tried to reinstall the driver, then I recommend taking a look at the card. Try reseating it in its slot (be careful of the retention mechanism at the front of the slot), reseat the PCIe power cables, and inspect the fan and heat sink while you have it out, make sure it's not filled with dust.
Always pull the plug before manipulating your PC's internals.
Test the card's cooling with Furmark. On most cards the GPU shouldn't exceed 85 C.
Absolutely! There are a number of stress testing tools you can use to test performance, for example -
GPU testing- http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ (FURMARK)
CPU testing- https://www.jam-software.com/heavyload/ (Heavyload)
RAM testing- http://hcidesign.com/memtest/download.html (Memtest)
PSU - From memory HeavyLoad can also stress test your PSU as well as your CPU.
It's important to note that if you have any driver updates (such as BIOS, CPU ect) please DO download and apply them, drivers can make massive impacts on certain devices.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Before anything. Check your connections. If your connections are good at the gpu AND monitor check the temps. If the temps are good try running furmark watch the temps but also look for artifacts.
No artifacts and acceptible temps-try a different monitor.
Artifacts- it's dead Jim.
High temps exceeding 85*c shut it down and do some cleaning.
Hopefully this helps any questions just ask
Your PSU should easily handle your PC/GPU.
Are you monitoring your temperatures? I'm afraid it might be a thermal shutdown, PSU would manifest differently.
For a quick test: download Prime95 and FurMark, set up some temperature monitoring software (even HWInfo64 in Sensor Mode will do the trick).
Launch HWInfo in sensor only mode, note your idle temperatures while doing nothing with the system. Then launch Stress Test in Prime95 and at the same time launch FurMark. Keep them running for 10-15 minutes, observe the temperatures constantly (Furmark has a useful GPU temp chart). After 15 minutes elapsed, write down current and max temps of the CPU and GPU, paste them here as well. For now I'm assuming that something's wrong with your cooling.
Use this.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Just use the basic burn in test and keep an eye on your temps while running it. This is a GPU stress tester but if you have a PSU problem it'll also trigger that most likely.
If it was already crashing all the time that doesn't bode well. How does it crash? Do you have the latest driver from AMD installed? Can you trigger a crash by creating a high load with FurMark? How hot does it run with FurMark?
Memory: Memtest86, requires a motherboard capable of boot from USB or sacrificing a blank DVD-R to Gaben.
It can be found here: http://www.memtest86.com/ Let it run overnight for 4 iterations to detect errors.
Graphics: Furmark is the program to use but you dont want to run it for more than 30 or 45 minutes as it will use your graphics card harder than any game out there currently. It can be found here: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
CPU: Prime95. Let it run for 3 or 4 hours doing all iteration tests and allow it to run across all cores/threads. It can be found here: http://www.mersenne.org/download/
Too, during your CPU and GPU tests, watch your temps carefully, any spike above 75C isnt "critiical" level but isnt good for your chip you are testing and can actually decrease performance of said chip and will make it behave as if it were a level below what the mfgr states it is. If you reach this temp level your paste jobs(CPU only) arent all that great and you should halt testing immediately. Redo it. If its your GPU, contact the mfgr as redoing this paste job can void the warranty.
Best of luck to you and happy computing!
Definitely a video card problem. Unfortunately the 0xc000009a in the third parameter is rather worrying, I've found a strong correlation between hardware failures and that value.
Try reseating the card, make sure the heat sink is reasonably clear of dust and the fans are working (note that some GTX 970 stop the fans at idle, so create some load on the GPU). If that's okay, run FurMark and observe the GPU temperature, 85 C is a good maximum. If that doesn't help, you can try cleaning off the driver with Display Driver Uninstaller from safe mode and reinstall the latest NVIDIA driver.
Use https://unigine.com/products/valley/ and http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ to test the GPU again.
Next, download and install SlimDrivers, decline the optional software, and allow all drivers to update.
Lastly, update your BIOS to 1.70 from
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97%20Extreme3/?cat=Download&os=BIOS
It looks like your graphics card might be failing. What make and model is the computer?
You could run a test on the graphics card and if it crashes completely then that's your problem, if it doesn't it could be your ram. Try this: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
The access times are all over the place, but the transfer rate looks okay, except for that 3.5 MB/s section at the end. Usually there isn't any data at the end though, so it seems unlikely that's the problem. Just to be sure you could run it a couple times, sometimes problems like this are related to the HDD's temperature.
Next try testing the video card with FurMark. Does it perform normally? How hot does it get? What's the exact model?
The two prime candidates for this (after the usual driver checks) are heat and power.
I'd suggest checking heat with a strenuous benchmark program, I like FurMark for this task. Also, make sure there is no excess dust and dirt build up around the gpu cooler.
Power is more unusual but still causes this problem, what watt rating is your power supply and which GPU are you using? You should be fine on the power front as long as your power unit meets the manufacturer recommended watt rating.
I don't really stress test my computer but I do know a couple of programs to stress test both your CPU and GPU.
For CPU, you can use AIDA64 Extreme
For GPU, you can use FurMark
AIDA64 Extreme also has a GPU stress test but IIRC, FurMark gives better results.
I suspect your power supply + graphics card is the issue, or possibly something heat-related.
Try running this: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
That will stress the card and allow you to monitor temperatures etc.
Lastly, check your fan setup. You should have air coming in from the front and sides, then exiting the case from the top and back. Any other configuration can and will lead to heat vortexes, which can cause premature failure and crashing under load.
Cpu Test - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/19792/Intel-Processor-Diagnostic-Tool-64-bit-
GPU Test - http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Download MSI afterburner aswell to keep track of temps and control fan speeds of your gpu and such. Also can download the demo version of 3dmark on steam to benchmark your pc at 1080p for free. Also make sure to go through all your components and make sure you have all the drivers installed.
Check if your powersupply is able to deliver enough power to your GPU. The games that crash for you are all more likely to max out the GPU, and the games that don't crash are all more likely to hit a CPU bottleneck.
I had a very similar problem, and it turned out that while my PSU had enough total capacity, the 12Volt section my GPU was connected to just could not deliver enough Ampere.
The HD7970 is a 250 Watt part, so your power supply needs to be capable of delivering 250W / 12V ≈ 21A on the 12 volt rail. If it's not, your pc will turn off, freeze or crash when the GPU is under heavy load.
You can test my theory by running Furmark, a benchmark tool that makes your GPU run at full capacity. If I'm right, your pc will turn off or freeze within a minute.
So your PC bluescreens when launching games?
Try running FurMark to stress test the GPU itself. If that's failing, it could cause a BSOD... although 7b errors are notoriously hard to pin down.
The CPUTIN reading is often just a simple misreading, always go by the core temperatures, those have a (reasonably) well defined format on modern Intel CPUs and are quite accurate.
Try to isolate which part is causing this by running IntelBurnTest and observing the core temperatures. How hot do they get? Do they stay below 85 C? If they get near a 100 C, problems will occur.
If that's all fine, try running FurMark, how hot is the GPU? Does it crash the system?
Also make sure the BIOS is up to date, there are quite a few updates that specifically list video card compatibility and system stability improvements for this board.
Sorry your post is not clear.
What parts have you added to try & FIX this issue?
To check temps:
Its probably NOT overheating.
Just to jump in on what ewolfers said. You'll have to test whether its the card or the PSU. Unless you've got some high end super flower psu, the psu is typically the part of a computer that fails most often.
Download Furmark to do a gpu stress test. Test the old card and watch temps. you don't want to go above 88C (190F). Then test the new card. If it fails each time -> probably your psu.
Refurb stuff is funny. You could have gotten something that had a physical scratch painted over, or it had some serious issues fixed.
Then when you have some extra $ get one of these
While it is the video card that is causing the ultimate fault, the hard drive could have corrupted the video drivers that is the root cause of this issue.
If you have integrated graphics, please attempt to run off of those.
CDI to test the drive SMART data. Be sure to get the standalone zip.
Furmark to test the GPU. Don't run this if you aren't running off the dedicated card.
What happens when the display driver crashes?
Is anything reported in Event Viewer when it crashes?
Use CPU-Z and monitor the temperature while running FurMark GPU stress tester: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
If you're getting a blue screen or the entire computer crashes, try using whocrashed and see if it provides any insight onto what is causing the crash: http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed
Can you play The Crew in Windowed mode? Does that help?
Short of hardware issues (loose cooler on the GTX980?), nothing jumps out at me..
Do yourself a favor, download Furmark and MSI Afterburner, have Afterburner write to a file, record your GPU temps, and let Fur run for 15 minutes in stress mode. See how that turns out, or if your machine locks up.
The two tried and true stress testing programs are Prime 95 for the CPU, and Furmark for the GPU. Is the sound coming from software (through your speakers/headphones) or from your hardware? Could you describe the noise a little more?
Also, you should flair your post as Tech Support or else the mods might get mad at you.
What you are describing is pretty typical of video card failure.
If the card is only 2 years old you may still be under warranty for it.
Try running this test and watch the temps and for artifacts.
Okay, you can monitor the CPU temperature with HWMonitor, or with the free open source tool Open Hardware Monitor. Create a high CPU load with IntelBurnTest. For Intel CPUs the temperature must not exceed 100 C, but anything over 85 C is very hot (for a desktop). For AMD CPUs it depends on the exact CPU type, so report that here if you have an AMD CPU.
You can also test the GPU temperature under a high load with FurMark. FurMark has a built in thermometer display, most GPUs are safe up to 95 C (some slightly higher), however most are able to stay much cooler with a properly working cooling system.
AS 5 is ideal, make sure you apply it as thin as possible, a tube of as5 will do 5+ CPU's.. So apply small amounts and spread it thin and even. I like to use a business card.
Couple other things you can check:
Run Crystal Disks to check you HDD
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html
Run fur mark and check for artifacting or crashes!
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Finally if the chip has serious heat issues, you can look at an IHS mod for it.. but that's more technical!
Make sure the heatsink is very clear/clean. No dust clogging it up.
If everything is plugged in correctly (are the H80i pump and vents spinning?, are you sure you plugged in all the PSU cables, especially the extra one on the GPU and the ones on the motherboard itself?), then I'd say it's the PSU or the temps .
What temps does your BIOS show for the CPU and whatever MoBo components show when booting? Are there any beeps before shutdown? Can you monitor your temps while gaming, or better yet, download prime95 for CPU stress testing and furmark for GPU, run tests sequentially then in parallel, monitor temperatures and voltages.
Try updating your GPU drivers from http://www.amd.com/en-us It seems like you're "blue screening" but have it disabled, so it just cycles the machine instead.
There is still a chance you're overheating when you get to full load on the GPU even though your idle temps seem good. You can try using Furmark (http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/) to stress it, or just your regular games while watching temps.
At first thought, I thought your hardware might be to fault, but your hardware should definitely be able to play Skyrim. I would recommend trying to format your drive. Also, try a graphics stress test like this and see if your system crashes or if there are artifacts. If your system crashes, your graphics card might be dying.
bent cpu socket could do it...
See if it shows up in a screenshot... if it does we can at least rule out the monitor.
If nothing else has changed, I'd have to go with the bent pin being the cause of the problem. Especially if everything else hasn't changed as your GPU temps are fine.
Does the machine freak out if you run something like furmark?
That indicates with reasonable certainty that software isn't at fault here.
Next up, we are going to target that PSU and see if we can rule it out as a suspect.
Download HWMonitor http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Download Furmark http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Load up HWMonitor and have a look at your voltages so you get a feel for their normal values at idle.
Then load up Furmark and run a stress test. Tab back to HWMonitor and watch those voltages.
If the PSU is at fault and we get lucky, you should see some fluctuations in those voltages prior to a restart.
The other possibilities here are a faulty GPU or even a faulty PCI-E port.
But we will go through this from most likely to least likely so start with the PSU first.
I've never seen a card that completely stopped the fan outside of a laptop. Does the fan turn back on when you create a high GPU load (game, other 3d stuff)? If it doesn't, then probably it or the PWM fan controller on the card is broken. Looking around on the internet a few people seem to have this problem with the same GPU. Is the fan largely free of dust?
Inspect the temperature with Furmark, does the fan turn on with furmark running? Is the GPU getting hotter than 85 C? Stop furmark if the card gets above 90 C, it's not safe.
On Tom's hardware the a HD 5770 got up to 84 C with Furmark.
It could be, yes. You can try to run Furmark, it has build-in thermal monitoring you can watch. In professional review GTX 760 based cards appear to run between 80 and 85 C, if your card gets hotter than that you probably have a thermal problem. According to NVIDIA the maximum safe temperature is 97 C, however, I'm not sure whether it will malfunction above that temperature, or actually be damaged.
Yes they are! I don't have as much experience with GPU overclocking but I gather it's very similar to CPU overclocking just you need to use different programs to stress the overclock. Most people use tools like MSI Afterburner to apply the overclock. Furmark is very popular for stress testing. You have a beastly cooler on your card so you should get a decent overclock out of that! Just remember to read a few guides and take it slowly.
A couple things to bear in mind about CPU and GPU overclocking:
I wouldn't mess with the voltages, at least not until you have a lot of experience. It's the easiest way to wreck your processor and your warranty.
There are loads of guides but try to make sure they are from the past few years, a lot has changed and you need to use up to date info.
It's pot luck as to whether you get a good processor for overclocking or not, some may not get much past the default whereas other are incredible.
http://www.futuremark.com/support/downloads (demo versions should be fine)
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ (Caution: Very rigorous. Watch your temps and kill it if it gets too high)
Your benchmark is going to be largely meaningless if you don't have any other data to compare it to. A quick google of [card name] [test type] should get you plenty of results though.
It shouldn't really damage your GPU too much, If you're scared about it constantly being under full-load you can try and use furmark http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ Or just mining, as it's of course a better representation of mining squeal. And see how that goes (watch temps closely, as mentioned above).
I'm a fervent gamer for about 3 years now, and I have never experienced a game using 100% of my GPU (if it did it would most likely be unplayable <15FPS maybe) but it does fully-load my GPU while mining (depending on the I), so yes in that regard it may be a little bit more demanding of your GPU.
Also puttting your screen on or of shouldn't really matter since your GPU will still be rendering everything that's happening on your desktop, since you're only stopping the monitor from displaying, not the GPU card from rendering (unless ofcourse you know a way to stop this).
Not sure if everything is 100% correct but hey here's my 2 doge.