Geforce gtx 970 drivers crashing?

[Keelan]

Hey guys, 

Keelan here just have a few questions about my 970 and drivers.

 

Pretty much to keep things nice a simple I have a overclock right now that I can run benchmarks for hours and without high temps (never goes over 60)

 

 

But the problem is randomly my drivers can stop working where I get a black screen for a couple of seconds and then it forces me to my desktop as the drivers become recovered. 

 

It's really weird because the benchmark can be left on overnight without any crashes but sometimes I can be playing team fortress 2 and it randomly crashes

 

Any ideas?

 

(I have set power management to prefer maximum performance  and I also set my windows power settings to max performance)

 

Thanks

-Keelan

[IP man]

go back to stock settings and try. i think its the OC

[Oshino Shinobu]

If you disable/back off the OC, does it still do it? An OC can be unstable, even when the temps are fine. 

[Gofspar]

Hey guys, 

Keelan here just have a few questions about my 970 and drivers.

 

Pretty much to keep things nice a simple I have a overclock right now that I can run benchmarks for hours and without high temps (never goes over 60)

 

 

But the problem is randomly my drivers can stop working where I get a black screen for a couple of seconds and then it forces me to my desktop as the drivers become recovered. 

 

It's really weird because the benchmark can be left on overnight without any crashes but sometimes I can be playing team fortress 2 and it randomly crashes

 

Any ideas?

 

(I have set power management to prefer maximum performance  and I also set my windows power settings to max performance)

 

Thanks

-Keelan

Put your GPU under heavy load then screenshot your sensors tab. (heavy load being Crysis 3 or something.)

Also what card? The Strix doesn't take to kind to overclocks unless you hardmod it with a E-power board.

[Castdeath97]

There could be a driver conflict. Last time I had this was because I had installed the graphics drivers along with the boot camp drivers (which include graphic drivers again). Maybe a reinstall will do better?

[Ganz]

Re-installing your drivers is always something to try as well in addition to going to stock and seeing if problems still arise.  If there is no problems on stock, re-OC slowly adding more until it becomes unstable again.

[Keelan]

The problem is that My drivers might now crash for even days so it's hard to tell if it's stable or not

 

I just reinstalled the drivers using DDU so we will see I guess

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Any other recommendations would be great