Consistent Graphics Card Driver Failure

sean1ucc

Hey, been having consistent problems with my gfx drivers, got an 8800GTX running vista premium 32bit and AMD dual core 6000+. Its only in certain games that I seem to get these crashes usually after about 40 mins game play at the most:mad: I run crysis at high settings no probs at all as well as UT2007 and Lost Planet, but in COD4 and Ghost Recon it will just freeze then the pc will just restart with the windows error msg of failed gfx card drivers have the most recent release and it has made no difference Anyone have any idea why this may be happening??

RoyalMarine

what type of temps are you getting on it?

papu

sean1ucc wrote: »

UT2007

what game is that?

Grim.

unreal tournament

papu

theres no ut2007 , only ut3

maybe playing a game that doesnt exist is the problem , :P

anywhoos , see if the card is overheating , dont overclock it , try rolling back drivers .

sean1ucc

Yea dats wat I meant same ting:p, tried rolling bac drivers and all dat craic didnt really help the situation. Its not overheating have a full coverage waterblock on it though I have no real way of measuring in game temps

PogMoThoin

sean1ucc wrote: »

I have no real way of measuring in game temps

Easy, use the monitor utility on rivatuner & click enable background monitoring. You'll then get a nice graph

yoyo

Failing that you could try uninstalling the current drivers, boot into safe mode (Hit F8 repeatedly once bios logo dissapears), and run a scan with Driver Sweeper, something like this could be older driver bits still there causing trouble, Then after running driver sweeper boot into normal windows and download the drivers again from Nvidia and check that, of course do this once you know the video card isnt overheating (Although its always a good idea to totally clean drivers every now and then )

Nick

sean1ucc

cool il try dat now n c wat happens:D

sean1ucc

Ok got a log from rivatuner max core temp i got was 66c and max ambient temp of 45c, removed drivers ran that program reinstalled fresh drivers and still no change

yoyo

sean1ucc wrote: »

Ok got a log from rivatuner max core temp i got was 66c and max ambient temp of 45c, removed drivers ran that program reinstalled fresh drivers and still no change

66 Degrees is fine for a 8800GTX to reach under load man, not sure what the problem might be so . Just on the offchance it could be RAM, it could be an idea to run MemTest 86 on the system, RAM can do funny things and could if faulty cause other components to display error messages or crash if no consistency

Nick

TheThreeDegrees

have you overclocked?
had the same problem with a 680i board even though its saying GFX driver error it was the overclock causing problems.
Do as yoyo says and run memtest on your ram.

sean1ucc

ran memtest so RAM is ok, gfx card came factory overclocked from EVGA! System is stable though done tests for dat. It seems to only be some games which is wat is puzzling me?

yoyo

sean1ucc wrote: »

ran memtest so RAM is ok, gfx card came factory overclocked from EVGA! System is stable though done tests for dat. It seems to only be some games which is wat is puzzling me?

Have you overclocked the CPU? Or even memory lol, a factory overclocked card would be fine unless faulty...

Nick

sean1ucc

nope havnt touched anythin at all!!

yoyo

Could be video card thats faulty, might be worth RMAing? Could be Video RAM or something like that thats the culprit, Dont think EVGA mind if you remove stock heatsink covers, I'd say its worth a try at this stage!

Nick

sean1ucc

Yea I mite have to finished COD4 now anyways eventually!!

sean1ucc

Fixed the problem basically went through systematically all the programs that were not critical and ended them one by one, found it was something to do with anti virus/firewall that was cutting in and stalling the game!!

yoyo

sean1ucc wrote: »

Fixed the problem basically went through systematically all the programs that were not critical and ended them one by one, found it was something to do with anti virus/firewall that was cutting in and stalling the game!!

Glad ya sorted it, sometimes the simplest of things . I just use Windows built in firewall btw... Dont have any issiues, and NOD32 av

Nick