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Yeah you can change the frame rate limit, but not the refresh rate the game runs at.

Well pretty much every game I've ever played allows me to set the refresh rate either in game or in .ini files. Making a custom resolution will not make any difference, as the game is detecting the highest refresh rate available and using that - which is 120hz, which does not use 10bit colour - so the only way to make it work is to force it to run at a lower refresh rate - this works fine in BF5, in Hitman 2, in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, in Forza Horizon 4, in Star Wars Battlefront 2, even in PUBG! I'm just asking if there is a way to change the refresh rate for Final Fantasy XV, or a way to force it.

I don't want to run it at 120, I just want to run it at 96 or 60 so I can have the 10bit colour, but there's no option to reduce the refresh rate in game

My refresh rate in Windows is already 96. Issue is the game has no refresh rate option.

So I'm using the Wasabi Mango UHD430 (4k 120hz HDR etc - it's great btw), but the monitor will only run with 10bit colour (for proper HDR) in 96hz or below. At 120hz it will work in HDR, but will only use 8bit colour. Final Fantasy defaults to 120hz and there doesn't seem to be any way to change it in-game or in .ini files. Any Ideas? Thanks

This'd be a perfect machine for my gaming society! Much easier to move to and from campus than my Fractal R4!

Oh crap sorry, I added a dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggau1sr8lxg3tsp/Untitled.png?dl=0

Out of warranty, especially after I removed the cooler 6 months ago to replace the thermal paste that was completely gone causing my temps to rocket! Yeah of course! GTA obviously didn't kill it, that was just a flashy headline It was fine for 2 years. Which admittedly isn't that long. And after a year and a half the thermal paste went. And it was a shit overclocker. Yeah, no it wasn't the best card...

Ok so this is gonna be quite the long story, so if you don't wanna read the whole thing, the summary is that my 2nd GTX 780 (I have 2 in SLI, and it's the one I don't have monitors plugged into) is dead. Attached is a screenshot of various programs showing how it's fucked. Right now for a story. The other night I was playing GTA, when I noticed my frame-rate was very low. I tabbed out to look at what the issue was, and noticed SLI had been disabled. This was odd, because I hadn't disabled it, nor had I recently updated my drivers or tinkered with it in any way. Regardless, I enabled it and relaunched GTA (which I obviously closed before enabling SLI). I got into the game, joined my friend and started playing at my lovely new actually playable frame-rate for about 2-3 mins. Then, all of a sudden the game crashed. I was fairly certain it was a driver crash, as my PC was still on, the game had frozen, and the audio was doing the usual stuttery/repeating bollocks that it does when a driver crashes. I tried tabbing out, I tried ctrl-alt-delete, and I tried alt-f4 but nothing worked. So, the only thing I could do was hard reboot my PC. I pressed the power button to see if it would safely turn off, but it didn't, so I held it until it manually turned off. Then after a few seconds, I pressed the power button again to reboot the PC. It posted, showing the Asus logo, and then it got to the Asus logo with the spinning windows loading thingy, showing that windows was loading. However, after that screen disappeared rather than the screen going black and then it showing the log-on screen, it went black, my keyboard LEDs turned off, and then it just stuck there. My monitor back-light was on, my PC was on and the fans were at a normal speed for booting up. I waited for a good 2 minutes before having to hard reboot again. I tried loading up the PC a good dozen times, trying turning it off at the plug and waiting, trying booting windows from the UEFI BIOS, but nothing I did worked. I decided to insert my Windows USB and try repairing my install. I tried start-up repair but nothing changed. Then I tried restoring back to a recent date (it was about 1 week prior and it uninstalled a couple of Steam games and a Uplay update), but it failed and still wouldn't load into Windows. I then went to Command Prompt and enabled legacy boot mode using the command "bcdedit /set "{current}" bootmenupolicy legacy". I rebooted and suddenly it worked, even though it never showed the boot menu and I didn't use safe mode. I logged on, and when I got into Windows, it said my system restore had been successful. Strange. Sure enough my Uplay update was gone (in fact Uplay would no longer open which was annoying), but everything else seemed fine. Then when I opened up the Nvidia Control Panel to check if SLI was working, I saw only 1 GPU. Fuck. The I opened Device Manager and saw code 43 on that GPU. Double fuck. I rebooted. Didn't work. I reinstalled the drivers. Didn't work. I took it out and put it back in. Didn't work. I swapped the slots and plugged my monitors into the dead card, and there was no signal. I tried it in my flatmate's PC alone and it booted! Although it was at 640x480 and Nvidia Control Panel wouldn't open. We reinstalled the drivers and the screen went black with purple lines on it before showing no signal again. Put it back in my PC with no second card. Still no signal. Fuck. So then I put it all back the the original state of things and booted into Windows. I downloaded nvFlash and a bios from the techpowerup database (the one for my exact card). I flashed it and rebooted but nothing changed. I tried again with a different version for the same card and still nothing changed. Then, I downloaded one for a different card (an EVGA one) and flashed it with that. I rebooted and suddenly both device manager and Nvidia Control Panel showed the card just fine, except in Nvidia Control Panel, I couldn't enable SLI. I went through the previous bout of testing again, and still the same results even with this seemingly working BIOS. Anyway, after a lot of flashing backwards and forwards I removed the card and replaced the thermal paste. Then 2 days later put it back in for another go. Still the same story. And now here we are. Attached is a screenshot of GPU-Z, Nvidia Control Panel and Device Manager, all with the problems highlighted. That is with the proper BIOS on the card, and everything in its original configuration. Any suggestions are more than welcome, but I realise that the card is most likely dead. Here are my full system specs: ZOTAC GTX 780 AMP Edition @ Stock - Working MSI GTX 780 Gaming OC @ Stock - Dead Intel i5 2500k @4.5ghz and 1.45v (yes I know that's a lot of volts but the temps are fine and it's been at it for nearly 3 years so it's pretty stable) Asus P8Z77-V Pro Motherboard 16GB of Corsair Vengence 1600mhz memory Samsung 840 SSD 250GB 2TB WD Black HDD Corsair AX760 PSU (Yes I realise that's on the limit but it's been fine for a year and I don't get any problems unless I OC the GPUs. Could be the cause conceivably?) Asus Xonar DG Soundcard AverMedia Live Gamer HD Lite TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 (Newest component - only a week old) Windows 10 upgraded from a clean install of Windows 8.1. Latest Nvidia drivers. All up to date and un-fucked with. Anyway, that's my story, and I hope you enjoyed. I guess what I really want is someone to come up with a cause so I (and other people) can avoid it. Thanks, Joe P.S. Attachment didn't work so here's a dropbox link to the screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggau1sr8lxg3tsp/Untitled.png?dl=0

I could be insane, but I could swear GTA 5 performs a ton better on windows 10 than on windows 7! Either that, or it inexplicably looks better (maybe dx11.1 features?) because myself and a bunch of friends have all commented on it looking "sharper" on windows 10. We could be going insane, however.

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Just a quick post for anyone interested in replacing the thermal compound on an MSI Gaming GTX 780 or a Zotac GTX 780. I completely forgot to take any pictures, but Linus uploaded a video a few weeks back showing how to do it on a different card, and for these two 780s it was exactly the same method. Remove the 4 screws around the GPU, lift the cooler off, unplug the fan, remove the old compound, put your own on and screw it all back together. It was super easy to do and took me about 15 minutes in total. One thing to remember is to not put too much compound on your GPU. I accidently put too much on my Zotac card, and ended up with slowly rising temperatures seemingly ad-infinitum, so if you see the same thing after doing yours, try putting slightly less on. The results after testing in Battlefield 4, Crysis 3 and Assassin's Creed Unity are absolutely brilliant. The Zotac card has, as expected, improved by about 4-6 degrees C under load, and idle temps have stayed the same. The MSI card, however has seen a massive improvement. I was noticing very high temperatures recently on this card (thermal throttling at either 80 or 90 degrees depending on the limit I set), which is why I decided to replace the thermal compound. Load temperatures are now down to around 74 degrees C under load, and there is no thermal throttling, and idle temperatures have gone down about the same amount, from 40 to 25-30 degrees C! When I took the MSI card apart to replace the compound, I saw that it had either been poorly applied, or it had eroded over time, as there was barely any thermal compound left on the GPU, and it didn't cover the whole GPU at all. I have had the card for over a year, and have been running it at stock clocks, so this must be a fault on MSI's part. I recommend doing this if you also have higher load temps on a card you've had for a while as it has massively improved my temperatures for my whole system as well as my GPUs. My rig: Fractal Design Define R4 2500k @4.5ghz Noctua NH-U12P SE2 CPU Cooler 2x SLI GTX 780 (MSI and Zotac) @ Stock 16gb 1600mhz Corsair Vengeance RAM Fans: 2x140mm in front of case, 1x 140mm in back (Top and side panels closed as default)

I never use the overlay of Afterburner. I fucks with everything! Just reinstall it and uncheck "RivaTuner server" or whatever it says, that way you don't have the overlay and can have afterburner running despite any other overlays you might have. If i wanna check resource usage I just tab out and look at the graphs.

CPU overclock is super stable, and GPUs aren't overclocked.

It's common knowledge now that AC Unity performs like ass on PC, but its performance doesn't really make any sense! Turning down the detail settings doesn't always affect the framerate, or the stuttering, and even changing the resolution doesn't always help! I opened up MSI afterburner whilst playing it to have a look at what it was using, and got some pretty odd results! (All settings at max, AA disabled, 2560x1440. SLI 780s and 2500k@ 4.5Ghz) The GPU usage is really inconsistent, and the VRAM usage is too! (Ignore the VRAM usage on GPU2, sometimes Afterburner breaks and shows stupid values for this.\ Just thought it was quite interesting. I wonder what is causing this! Are they using any brand new tech, or do they just suck at using DX11?